Mashable.com just posted 100+ tech shows upcoming in 2010, but unfortunately not one upcoming domain show was included in the lengthy list.
If we are going to expand the domain industry we are going to have to get some of our major shows and conferences to be recognized.
How are we ever going to get the coverage you ask?
Well maybe some of the show organizers just have to let sources like Mashable know about our shows:
“”Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.””
I bet Rick’s new affiliate program for Traffic is going to help bring greater awareness to shows from non-domainers. Nothing like a little financial incentive for other companies and websites to promote conferences.
The very last people who understand the value of domain names are techies. Therefore, it is no surprise to me that we would not be included along with a list of tech shows.
Domain names are among the best investments out there. We’ve become so jaded that if a domain name only doubles in value we yawn. We need to target the financial world and be recognized for what we’ve become. In other words, we should be included in a list of investment/financial conferences and target that market with press releases.
Castello Brothers/CCIN already does this.
I think it goes both ways. We need to do a better job of getting out into other sectors and engaging/speaking from an educational standpoint, not just a self-serving sales standpoint.
“The Techies” are the people who are building the internet.
“Domainers” are a relatively tiny group of people who are speculating on ‘potential’ of one similarly tiny aspect of it.
In terms of relevance, one group is profoundly more important than the other.
If you’re out to ‘woo’ the broader internet world as to the significance of domains, the tech guys aren’t your concern. Castillo is right; they usually don’t ‘get it’. “Getting domains” is an intellectual function that comes from a brain-hemisphere that is the opposite of where ‘code’ comes from…
Marketers generally ‘get it’, upstarts usually ‘get it’, SEO is starting to get it for technical reasons. The last SEO meetup I attended, domains were the buzz.
As much as I personally believe that domainers are apt to severely overvalue their own importance, I do agree that the broader internet is just as likely to undervalue the value of a cogent domain name.
In contrast, the very last people who understand modern technology are domainers.
Shaun
Not true I have an iPad.
“Rick’s new affiliate program for Traffic”
Which Rick?
🙂
Meyer
Latona
http://www.ricklatona.com/2010/08/09/t-r-a-f-f-i-c-now-has-an-affiliate-program-better-late-than-never/
I’m hitting the Mashable meetup in Chicago this week… I’ll spread some domain love.
On the net, info and ideas want to be free. Thats the opposite of the domainer ethos and why we are seen as trolls, dont wait for that to change. Besides domaining is based on a relatively limited number of meaningful names in dot-com, so that’s no growth industry to steer people to. There’s more to the net than domaining like LS says above, like there’s more to the dictionary than trademarks. There cannot be public acceptance of domaining because the public doesnt embrace the few property holders in any asset class, not willingly:)
“Not True I have an iPad”
and I just loled… Domainers DON’T have a clue about the tech industry. My MOM has an iPad kthnx. Having an iPad means absolutely nothing. Running a blog means nothing. 4 years ago were you building iphone apps? 2 years ago were you building facebook apps? Were you a member of twitter before Oprah told you to be?
That was seriously, the dumbest statement ever made. “I am tech-savvy because I have the most conformist piece of tech hardware.” DUMB DUMB DUMB.