Day three schedule: (final day)
10am – Inside the Candy.com deal.
Greg Belestrieri and Joe Melville, buyers of Candy.com, talked about their acquisition and view as the end user. No picture of this session, I didn’t show for this.
11am – 2009 TRAFFIC Awards and Brunch
The award winners are:
Parked.com – Sponsor Of The Year
Michael Berkens – Domainer Of The Year
Sedo.com – Best Overall Domain Soultion
Above.com – Best New Monetizing Solution
Candy.com – The “We Get It” Award
Shaun Pilford – Best Developer Of The Year
Ron Jackson – Best Domain News Blog
Michael Berkens, Michael and David Castello – Domainer Hall Of Fame
1pm – Man On The Street
Howard asked people on the street and domain bloggers about computers, Twitter, Facebook and websites. Video was recorded before the event in Florida.
From left to right: Rick Latona, Elliot Silver, Michael Berkens, Owen Frager, Ron Jackson, Rick Schwartz, Howard Neu
2pm – Meeting Of The Chiefs
Discussion of current and future PPC situation, alternatives, developing and the pros and cons of Google and Yahoo.
From left to right: Dr. Jeff Reynolds, Greg McNair, Ron Jackson, Lonnie Borck
From left to right: Divyank Turakhia, Sean Moriarty, Ammar Kubba, (not sure), Kevin Ham, (not sure), Donny Simonton
4pm – Moniker Domain Auction
Top domain sale was MultiVitamins.com for $45,000. To view a full list of sales visit DomainNameNews.com.
THE END – I’ll post something over the next few days with my overall experiences at the conference.
No offense to Michael Berkens – no question he deserves the hall of fame nod for example – but I’m curious what the reasoning was for being the domainer of the year this particular year. What did I miss?
Michael Berkens is a domain genius! He has an amazing portfolio of domain names.
Check out his cover story on DNJournal.com, http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2009/july.htm.
Oh, there’s no doubt about anything that you said… and I think the Hall of Fame award was perfectly fitting, but my question was regarding “Domainer of the year“. Besides blogging, what did he do this year that they pointed to as deserving the award or was it simply “look at that portfolio”?
You’d honestly have to ask the domain community. They are the ones that voted him as domainer of the year.
Thanks for the great coverage of the event.
Thanks Chef,
Cook up a great re-cap for us.
thanks
Ed – Michigan
Where’s the New Comer Award? and where’s Aaron?
How were the vost cast?
Newcomer award was not on the list. Guess they figured there were no newcomers worth mentioning
Votes were cast by emailing Rick Schwartz.