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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Announces New Miami Beach Venue for 2014 and
Hints of a New Conference Role for DNForum Owner
Adam Dicker
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T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
traditional fall show in Florida
will end a three-year run at the Ritz Carlton
on Fort Lauderdale Beach with the next
show that opens there October 20, 2013.
This morning, show co-founder Rick Schwartz
announced that beginning in the fall of 2014,
T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
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eastern
show will move to the historic Fontainebleau
Hotel on Miami Beach (it will
follow the western show, that will return to the
Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in
late spring 2014). If
you read Rick's blog
you know that he has become increasingly
bullish on the prospects for the domain
business over the next few years (in a post
Monday he predicted "the next 3 years are
going to be fantastic.)" That
view apparently played a role in the decision
to move the Florida show to the
Fontainebleau for at least the next two years.
In a letter to those on the T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
mailing list this morning Schwartz said the new
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venue will allow
the conference to "handle the volume and size of what is coming," and
added "T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
is setting the stage for great expansion
that is coming to the Domain Industry."
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Schwartz
also had something to say about ICANN's
impending release of hundreds of new
gTLDs and the role T.R.A.F.F.I.C.'s
clientele (professional domain investors)
will play in their success (or lack
thereof) of new gTLDs noting "Those gTLD's that think they can survive and thrive without the
support of the domain investing
community are going to find out
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DNForum
owner Adam Dicker
slated for larger role with T.R.A.F.F.I.C. |
quick how hard it is to sell one domain at a time to end
users and all the overhead. I
have no doubt that several of the 1,900
new gTLDs will break out - but those that
do will be the ones that the domain
investment community and attendees of
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. embrace."
There
was another intriguing bit of information
in Schwartz's letter today. He wrote,
"We
will have some more exciting news over the
summer as we gear up and expand. New faces
joining and helping T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
including Adam Dicker that I will
tell you about soon."
Schwartz didn't add any details about what
role industry veteran Dicker, the owner of
DNForum.com,
would have with T.R.A.F.F.I.C. The
well-known Canadian entrepreneur made well
received appearances on stage
at each of the past two T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conferences (in Las Vegas last
spring and at Fort Lauderdale
Beach last
fall), in which he detailed
the many ways he has learned to make money
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A
couple of other notes today. If you enjoyed our current
Cover Story on how
Bill Karamouzis plans to change the
world with a big Idea and a bold domain buy
(MathGames.com at $725,000), you
might want to check out an excellent video
interview with Bill that Michael Cyger
has just posted at DomainSherpa.com.
...and,
in
a follow-up to another recent DN Journal story,
our
coverage of domain
attorney/entrepreneur Ari Goldberger's
Hollywood worthy bar mitzvah for his son Josh
in June, there is a great video
recap of the event now available on YouTube
that manages to boil the entire
extravaganza down to less than four minutes
of non-stop highlights.
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(Posted August
6, 2013)
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