It's showtime again! The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York conference gets underway one week from today at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott where the event will run Sept. 23-26. This is shaping 

Moniker CEO Monte Cahn makes a point 
at the company's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. live auction 
at Disney World in Orlando last May.

up to be an especially interesting conference as show organizers Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu take things in a new direction (they talked at length about this in an exclusive interview that we published in our latest monthly newsletter that was sent out to opt-in subscribers at no charge).

The most talked about change is the scheduling of multiple live auctions, with Moniker.com staging two (a brief one on opening night, Sept. 23, and their main event on Sept. 25) that will compete with sales presented on Sept. 24 by both Aftermarket.com and RickLatona.com. Moniker's Sept. 25 sale will include several high profile domains from the .me registry including Buy.me, Rent.me, Date.me and Love.me among others.

Aftermarket.com called on 

DomainConsultant.com to help them fashion a a tight list that the DC folks say "will be fast, focused and full of value, full of ‘deals’, full of excitement...This is not your grandma’s domain auction!" Rick Latona is bringing in a world champion auctioneer to run his event and to undrescore that he is in the live auction business to stay, Latona has already signed on to stage another sale at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under conference coming up in Australia November 18-20.

Another highlight of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York will be a keynote speech from real estate expert Barbara Corcoran, a frequent guest on NBC's Today Show. Corcoran is going to talk about the links between real world and virtual property. A major end user, Brad Geisen, will also be there to talk about his purchase of Foreclosure.com and how that led him to buy Property.com in what the parties involved say is one of the most valuable domain deals on record. Many details of that deal will reportedly be discussed and disclosed for the first time. Wall Street Journal Online reporter David Kesmodel will also be on hand to sign copies of his book, The Domain Game.