Today in The Lowdown: Speak now or forever hold your peace! Monday is the last day you can lodge a protest that may keep over-reaching trademark interests from helping themselves to your domains in the future. Also, for your holiday weekend enjoyment, hundreds of previously unseen photos from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Amsterdam and Silicon Valley.

Coming Out Party for Country Code Domains: ccTLDs Get Their Turn on Center Stage

Everything about the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ccTLDs conference in Amsterdam June 1-4 was fresh - fresh faces, fresh content and a fresh venue. As closely as I have followed this industry for the past seven years there was still a lot about ccTLDs that I didn't know. So, like everyone else who made the trip to the Netherlands, I got a valuable education and came back with a much greater appreciation for the mind share country codes have among Internet users outside the U.S. (a group that is growing much faster than the user base in the mature American market). 

Here's is the definitive review of the first T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference ever held in Europe, the first with a program centered entirely around country codes domains and the first staged (under a special licensing agreement) by new show promoter Rick Latona.    

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2009 Domain Roundtable Provides Rousing Conclusion to the Amazing Conference Race 

By Ron Jackson

When I walked onto the National Mall in Washington D.C. a few days ago, I felt like I had just finished competing in The Amazing Race. I was in the nation's capital for the 2009 Domain Roundtable conference at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C. (held June 14-16) - my sixth major domain conference in six months. Since mid-April I had averaged one show every two weeks. 

Could there possibly be anything new left to talk about at Roundtable after so many shows had preceded it? Would there be any new faces left to see that I hadn't seen in the previous five shows? Could Roundtable's new owner, Thought Convergence, come up with any surprises that would make them stand out in a very large conference crowd? The answers to all three questions would turn out to be an emphatic yes.   Click Here for Full Story

Washington D.C. hosted the
2009 Domain Roundtable

Return to Silicon Valley: Three Years After A Landmark Show in Santa Clara T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Came Back for an Encore

By Ron Jackson

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference returned to the site of one of its greatest triumphs April 27-30 when the 2009 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Silicon Valley show was staged in Santa Clara, California. Three years before, in the same location, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Co-Founders Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu produced an event that played a key role in launching a phenomenal boom in the domain business.  

That left them with a tough act to follow this time, especially since the overall economy is now mired in a severe slump. Attendance took a hit as a result but as has always been the case at T.R.A.F.F.I.C., quality trumps quantity. Here is our blow by blow account of what went down in the Valley.  Click Here for Full Story

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