Just a quick note to thank all of you our readers; the commentators; and all of you that voted TheDomains.com as the Best Domain Blog at TRAFFIC yesterday.
Both Judi and I are quite touched to receive the honor.
Special thanks to the organizers of the TRAFFIC show Rick, Howard and to Barbara and Alina, Ray and Kim without whose very hard work the TRAFFIC show would not be possible.
Also a special shout out to Adam Matuzich and Ray Neu, who keep the blog up and running and all of our advertisers who support us.
Finally we want to congratulate all the bloggers who received a nomination.
Publishing a material daily for 330 out of 365 days a years, is as you would image a huge amount of work as is moderating the tens of thousands of comments our readers generously contribute, but as Adam Dicker, one of the Domain Hall of Fame inductees this year stated so eloquently “If you love what you do you never will work a day in your life.”
You can see a list of all the nominee’s and winners of the TRAFFIC award on Ricksblog.com.
Congratulations Michael – well deserved!! Your blog has been a consistent daily read for me for years and I couldn’t think of a better winner for this award!!
Congrats Michael, TheDomains is a true authority in the industry.
good blog policy = good results 🙂
Congrats, you deserve it Mike !
I was happy you won and was proud to present your award especially with the tough competition.
Congrats! Well deserved and thanks from all domainers that appreciate your research efforts to bring us interesting and timely news.
Congrats Michael! As always, it was great seeing you and Judi 🙂
You deserved it. Great job and well earned
Congrats on the well deserved recognition in a field with many other worthy contenders. Thanks for all the hard work you put into TheDomains.com.
Congrats
Congratulations on important honor. It is well deserved.
And thanks for all the hard work and high quality information you publish.
You are the “Best”.
Mike,
Congratulations…And thanks for continually pushing the Domain industry in the right direction with your topical industry news…Well deserved!!
p.s. Hopefully Bandit isn’t pissed off for not being recognized…Ha! Ha!
You deserve it, its the Bees Knees
Congrats 🙂
Mike,
A BIG Congrats! You deserved it!!
Mike,Thank you !!!
Congrats MHB, definitely well deserved as yours is hands down the premier domain industry blog. Insightful and informative and even the comments are interesting 🙂
Extremely well deserved Mike. Your blog is truly superior.
INSTANT REPLAY!!!!
Congratulations Michael – glad Judi was able to be a part of the presentation to you while hearing the theme from “Smokey and Bandit” playing in the background 🙂
Congrats! theDomains is a great resource for study of domain related topics with comments from the top people. Thanx for the years of dedication.
While I would be quick to agree that your blog is one of the most popular and one of my personal favorites and that you are very deserving of the award … the awards themselves are nothing but a hollow gesture the organizers of the show conceived to give them and the honorees an air of self importance. They mean absolutely nothing to anyone outside of the same circle jerk of participants that you see year after year, after year, ad nauseam at these shows.
Next years awards will be the same exact names (nominees) and award winners only the categories and names will be re-shuffled around. Same monkeys, same barrel. I hope as has been promised for years now, that the industry will widen it’s scope and truly come up with something more innovative, the boys club mentality and approach is getting tiresome.
@Dean
I agree with you. While I think Mike’s blog would have won regardless of the nominee list, I’m not sure why they included FragerFractor (whose feed is the most blocked according to Domaining.com) and not, for example, DomainShane.com, DomainIncite.com or new blogs like DomainSherpa.com.
Further proof that Bucs fans are superior in every way.
Sincerely
A Bucs Fan
(and a Rays Fan, and a Bolts Fan)
@Joe
It’s the classic tale of “The Emperors New Clothes” only in this case it’s The Kings New Clothes..
Dean
My understanding is all it takes is one person to nominate a blog or a company or a person for a TRAFFIC award when nominations open up (other than the nominee)
If a blog or company or person you think is deserving of an award doesn’t get nominated for a particular category or award, then you didn’t spend the 30 seconds it would have taken to nominate someone by sending an email in when the nominations were opened.
@MHB
“If a blog or company or person you think is deserving of an award doesn’t get nominated for a particular category or award, then you didn’t spend the 30 seconds it would have taken to nominate someone by sending an email in when the nominations were opened.”
I don’t think most of us readers have been made aware of the chance to submit a nominee.
Joe
Anyone who has ever attended a TRAFFIC show gets an email when nominations open and many blogs write about it as well.
The period for nominations is pretty short usually only 2-3 days.
Mike,
Irregardless of my take on the show and the organizers, I don’t wan it to detract from the luster of the award. As stated previously, I think you are well deserving of the award and I enjoy your blog immensely. Keep it coming.
Congratulations Michael – as I have told you several times, I thought that award should be sitting on your desk for the great work you have been doing for several years now. Justice has been served – thanks for all you do.
Congrats. I think it was well deserved.
Brad
Yep good job, award well deserved. Thanks for keeping a close eye on a lot of stuff that matters and really you are like an integral part of the domain industry early warning system! 🙂
Congrats to MHB and all those who were nominated.
Good job. 🙂
Good Work Michael.
Actually – a lot of good work you put into your publication
Thanks and congrats