Tomorrow night is the Domainfest Meetup in New York. Part of the Meetup is a online domain name auction which starts tomorrow and concludes on September 20th at 3:15pm EST. SnapNames.com has just put up the 400 domain names that will be part of the auction. End.com, Hot.com and Customs.com are the domains that caught my eye. The Meetup will be held Tuesday night from 7-10Pm EST at … [Read more...]
TRAFFIC Chats About Its Live Domain Name Auction & Changing The Game Up
The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference just sent out A notice regarding the live domain auction that will be held at the October Conference. They are definitely trying to change things up including: "The only domains that we will accept directly are the ones that have a flat fee paid in advance for the listing or prime domains with a $25,000 minimum value...We expect more than 50% of the … [Read more...]
.XXX To Be The Diamond Overall Sponsor of TRAFFIC
According to a Press Release out tonight the ICM Registry, the company who is running the .XXX TLD today announced it had signed to be the Diamond Overall Sponsor of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2011, to be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida from October 16 to October 19, 2011. "The event will be the first opportunity for ICM to unveil its long-term plans for the .xxx TLD to the … [Read more...]
GEOPUBLISHERS.COM Announces The 2011 EXPO for The GeoDomain Industry
GeoPublishers.com the new trade association for the geodomain industry will be holding its inaugural Expo in Chicago, from September 30- October 1, 2011. The Expo starts with the President's reception on Friday September 30th, followed by a day-and-a-half program of keynotes and panels, and a sponsored dinner on Saturday 1 October. The line up of Speakers is impressive. These are the … [Read more...]
iBreakfast & Smart TLD To Put On New gTLD Conference In New York On August 3rd
iBreakfast, the leading forum for Digital Media Companies and Smart TLDs are co-hosting the first conference on the opening up of the new Domains since ratification at ICANN Singapore on June 20, 2011. The one day conference in New York will be held on August 3rd on the new gTLD program. The event is going to be Sponsored by Verisign, Afilias, Neustar, Dot Green, Definition6, and Herrick … [Read more...]
Bill Kara Of HallPass Media To Be The KeyNote Speaker At TRAFFIC
Rich Schwartz has just tweeted that Bill Kara will be the keynote speaker at TRAFFIC. Bill Kara (Bill Karamouzis) is someone who should be known to everyone in the domain industry. Bill is head of HallPass Media, Inc., and was featured in a DNJournal.com cover story back in 2010 shortly after he purchased CookingGames.com for $350,000 In the DNJournal Story, Bill said he had spent over … [Read more...]
UPDATED: DomainFest Live Auction Cancelled & Moved To Next Week
I just received notice from someone attending the Live DomainFest auction in Barcelona that the auction for today has been cancelled due to technical issues and rescheduled for next week. We wrote earlier that SnapNames.com the remote bidding system has been down for hours and Moniker.com is also down. While we await some official word I'm told the domain name auction will be held next … [Read more...]