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Away! Domain Conferences on Land and at Sea Will Bring
Domainers From Around the World Together Over the Next
10 Days
The
Carnival Imagination will host DNCruise
- the
first floating domain conference - this
week.
A
pair of extraordinarydomain
conferences will be held over the next ten days
with domain investors and service providers
getting together on both land and sea. The first
half of this tropical twin bill - DNCruise
- the first domain conference ever held on a
cruise ship - gets underway Monday (Oct.
11) when the Carnival Imagination leaves Florida's
Port of Miami for a round trip that will
include stops in Key West and Cozumel,
Mexico.
I
will be among those on board and that
means I won't have another Lowdown post
until after the ship returns Friday (Oct
15). Internet access is very costly on
cruise ships (the base rate is 75¢ a minute)
so I will likely limit my online
activity to checking email while we are
at sea. However, I will have
conference photos and highlights for you
in this column when we return to Miami
at the end of the week (that post should
be up either late Friday or Saturday
morning).
I'll
be staying in Miami for the
second half of what promises to
be a unique doubleheader - T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Miami - which gets
underway at the Loews Hotel
on South BeachSunday
night (Oct. 17) with a
welcoming cocktail party. That
event will run through Wednesday
morning (Oct. 20).
I've
written
a lot about this show
over the past few weeks, so by
now you know that this will be
the only T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
conference this year that is
being staged by the show's
co-founders, Rick Schwartz
and Howard Neu. They are pulling
out all the stops to make
this show one to remember.
After already landing a U.S.
Congressman - Cliff
Stearns (R - Florida) - as a
featured
Loews
Hotel - Miami Beach
will host T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Miami Oct 17-20, 2010
speaker
(the first Congressman to appear
at a domain conference),
Schwartz, who is known as the Domain
King, announced
Friday that flamboyant boxing
promoter Don
King (who is a Miami
resident) will also be there to
speak.
Putting
the colorful and controversial
King, who made millions
promoting championship bouts
involving Muhammad Ali, Mike
Tyson and countless others,
in the same room with this
industry's colorful and
controversial conference
promoter, who made millions
selling domains names, is the
kind of match King would surely
appreciate.
I
look forward to seeing all of
you who will be at one (or both)
of these events. For those who
can't make it, I'll try to bring
you the next best thing to
being there - photos and a
play by play account covering
both events, starting with my
next post Lowdown after DNCruise
returns to Miami at the end of
this week.
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