In under a month, DOMAINfest Global will happen in Hollywood, California, and there is a lot of excitement brewing over this. So Hollywood “Gets” the Domain Industry — as in for a few days the Domain Industry will gather there. January 21-23 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel at Hollywood...

While attending the Associated Cities‘ GeoDomain Expo in San Francisco, Oracle World was happening across the street at the Moscone Center. Our venue hotel had a lot of spillover crowd from the Oracle World conference, and so thre were mixed crowds socially.  Mash-up a who’s who of alpha...

The Domain Marketplace converged on New York this week for the Sedo User conference and T.R.A.F.F.I.C., with other events like the DomainJamNYC happening in the midst of it all. Lots to report, though I am not there. Oversee.net completed the acquisition of Snapnames (which is like peanut butter and...

I’ll be part of a panel at HostingCon in July to talk about domain monetization and internet advertising. The hosting industry is somewhat aware of this, but I think that there are some shifts coming in how they can turn customer loss or abandonment into opportunity, especially in a climate of...

Released today, an announcement of a 35% increase in Internet Advertising by the IAB. The announcement marks the total at $17B annual spends in 2006, which is a remarkable number, as most projections placed the number at $15B for 2006.

Rick Schwartz, Howard Neu, and the team at WADND put on an AWESOME conference yet again. Great speakers, great food, great networking. The Targeted Traffic conference pulls together an amazing collection of people from all over the world and many different occupations and industries.

This was a great show that brought together the most impressive groups of domain industry and domain owners. More to follow!