Last week I spoke about SEO, Search, and Domain Names at the TRAFFIC domain name conference, held in Hollywood, Florida. The highlight of the conference was the live internet domain name auction on Friday, October 12th, at 2pm, hosted by Moniker. One of the domain names that was up for sale was Cowboys.com, a great domain name. The Dallas Cowboys apparently was amongst the many bidders for this name and ultimately won the auction for $275,000. Now, about a week later, they want to give it back. [Read more…]

Do domainers know where to draw the line? “There is no question that the TM laws and how they are applied online are NOT consistent with the decision making for offline enterprise. Someday there will be hundreds of reversals as domains taken wrongly from domainers that were not actually violating a trademark. [Read more…]

CEOs and Presidents from the top companies in the domain and traffic space discuss the state of our industry. Also covered will be the future direction of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. shows, plus why the industry is increasingly important to Wall St. while getting the cold shoulder from Madison Ave, and how that translates to Main St and the Vertical markets found there. Divyank Turakhia President of Skenzo, Monte Cahn, CEO Moniker.com/DomainSystems.com, Ammar Kubba CEO TrafficZ.com, Tim Schumacher, CEO Sedo, Jeff Bennett COO NameMedia, Sigmund Solares CEO Parked.com, Dan Warner COO Fabulous.com and Jerry Nolte CEO Domainer’s Magazine [Read more…]

Moniker, one of the world’s best full service domain name registrars, will continue their incredible “live” domain name auctions in conjunction with the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Domain Name Conference in Hollywood Beach at the Westin Diplomat Resort on October 12, 2007 at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. [Read more…]

Steve Forbes, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Forbes and the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine, will be the keynote speaker of the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C. internet domain name conference being held in Hollywood, Florida. The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 show will be held from October 9th to October 13, 2007.

Mr. Forbes, in his keynote address, will talk about the parallels between historical investment and “entrepreneurial epochs in American history — such as the Gold Rush, the advent of the oil and railway industries at the turn of the century, real estate and the information technology revolution — and current opportunities in Internet traffic.” He will also discuss the domain name and internet traffic market and how it’s maturing, as well the economic opportunities.

The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 conference is the domain name industry’s leading industry event. It brings domain owners, domain registrars, pay-per-click aggregators, sponsors, Wall Street investors, and financial and advertising executives together with analysts and industry experts.

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East 2007 is resented by the World Association of Domain Name Developers, Inc. (WADND). There will be a lot of other prominent speakers other than Steve Forbes, including:

James F. Haft, Mg. Dir.r Milbank Roy LLC, Co-founder of Condo.com
Ari Bayme, VP, Mikbank, Roy, Zanett & Co.
Mathew Bentley, CEO, Sedo
Jonathan Boswell, CEO, LeaseThis.com
Monte Cahn, CEO, Moniker.com/DomainSystems.com
Philip S. Corwin, Partner, Butera & Andrews
Eytan Elbaz, Head of Domain Channel, Google
Ari Goldberger, Esq., Esqwire.com
Robert Hoult, InterSearch Group, Inc
Ron Jackson, Editor & Founder, DNJournal.com
Jeremiah Johnston, COO / General Counsel Sedo.com
Ammar Kubba, TrafficZ.com
Howard Neu, Co-Founder & VP, Sec., Treas., T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Jordan Rohan, Mg. Dir., RBC Capital Markets
Tim Schumacher, CEO, Sedo.com
Rick Schwartz, CEO Pres. & Co-Fndr., TRAFFIC and eRealEstate.com
Ron Sheridan, Director of Business Development, Domain Sponsor
Steve Sturgeon, Attorney, DomainNameLawyers.com
Brian S. Taff, VP of Corp. Development, NameMedia, Inc.
Bhavin Turakhia, CEO & Chairman, Directi.com/Skenzo.com
Dan Warner, COO, Fabulous.com
Brian Carr, VP NameMedia’s Direct Search Services
David and Michael Castello, Castello Cities Internet Network
Joe Alagna, GM, Sales & Marketing of CentralNic, Ltd.
Rick Latona, CEO of Dollars.com
Frederick Schiwek, EVP, Int’l Bus. Development, EuroDNS.com
Howard Hoffman, PPCIncome.com [Read more…]

GoDaddy.com(R), largest world’s largest registrar, is now offering the new Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates. You can use GoDaddy now to purchase them and install them immediately. [Read more…]