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until
the first 100 registrants sign up, whichever
comes first). Hotel
rooms at the Loew's show venue can
also be booked now at the group rate of $249
a night. The
Miami show opens four months from today, but
Schwartz and Neu, thanks to having a full year
to work on this one event, have already posted a
pretty well fleshed out agenda
for the conference. A quick look at it shows all
of the hallmarks of the first class
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. events they have staged in the
past, including a popular opening night cocktail
party and parties every other show night at
local hotspots (when it comes to South Beach -
hotspots are everywhere so those nights
out should be something special). Pre-show
events are also in the works to entertain people
who want to arrive a day or two early to enjoy
the beach and Florida sunshine before the
conference begins. Schwartz had a lot more to
say about the South Beach event in a post on his
blog
today, so check that out for more background. I
know that he and Howard have been working non-stop
on this show so it is a safe bet that no one is
going to leave T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Miami
disappointed.
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Elsewhere
today - you have to hand it to George
Kirikos for continually turning up
important issues to the welfare of
domainers that would have otherwise been
lost in the |
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paper
shuffle. In April
Kirikos discovered that some NAF arbitration
panelists in UDRP proceedings
where "cutting and pasting"
completely irrelevant material
into the decisions they are paid to
render (supposedly after careful
consideration) in domain name disputes. |
Now, in a new
article he posted at CircleID
Wednesday, Kirikos showed that someone, in what
appears to be an effort to cover their tracks,
went back in and edited out an embarrassing
passage in one of those adulterated decisions.
This is not supposed to happen. As attorney Paul
Keating noted in a reply to George's
article, "On prior occasions I have asked
for corrections in NAF decisions and have
been told that it was not possible, that
they would not request panelists to do so and
they objected to any attempt on my part to raise
the issue directly with the panelists - even if
copying the other side in any
correspondence." Apparently it is
possible to edit published decisions when
panelists are caught doing something wrong
though.
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