T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Registration is open from 8:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Location: Entrance to Fleur de Lis
A first-class presentation, complete with all the trimmings. Another chance to break bread with your fellow domain investors and prepare for big things to come! Then presentations of this year's T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards.
Location: Fontaine Ballroom
One of the most popular events is when folks tell you about new tools and ways to make money or create new opportunity. Worth the price of admission!
Location: Fontaine Ballroom
One of the most highly-anticipated industry updates, Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com brings us up to date on the sales trends in the industry, capping a year in which gTLD's raced onto the scene and became a focus of investors. How have the gTLDs shaped the 2014 sales landscape, and has their release pared the aftermarket for .com and other "traditional" TLDs?
Location: Fontaine Ballroom
The oldest and most coveted awards of the domain industry are presented at the 11th Annual T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Awards. This year's event features the presentation of new awards in new categories, including Best New gTLD and Best Marketing Of A gTLD, among others. Below are the 2014 Nominees. Congrats and good luck to all!
DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
Michael Cyger, Adam Dicker, Alan Dunn, Morgan Linton, David Roth, Tia Wood.
BROKER OF THE YEAR
Ryan Colby, Mark Daniel, Domain Guardians, Dave Evanson, Tracy Fogarty, Alan Hack, George Hong, Andrew Rosener, Amanda Waltz
BLOGGER OF THE YEAR
Andrew Alleman, Michael Berkens, Shane Cultra, Michael Cyger, DomainerIncome, Ron Jackson, Elliot Silver
MOST PROMISING NEW gTLD
.CLUB, Dot Chinese Online, .EMAIL, .GURU, .LINK, .NYC, .WEB, .XYZ
BEST MARKETING OF NEW gTLD
.CLUB, Donuts, TLD Marketing, .XYZ
BEST OVERALL DOMAIN SOLUTION
Bidtellect, Domain Name Holdings, DomainNameSales.com, Escrow.com, GoDaddy.com, IPNeighborhood.com, ParkLogic.com, RookMedia.net, Uniregistry
SPONSOR OF THE YEAR
Above.com, .CLUB, Escrow.com, EscrowHill.com, Guta.com, InternetTraffic.com, NamesCon, RookMedia.net, TrafficZ.com, Uniregistry
DOMAINER OF THE YEAR
Adam Dicker, Michael Gilmour, Simon Johnson, Ilze Kaulins-Plazkacs, Rick Schwartz (declined), Adam Strong
BANDIT BERKENS GOODWILL AMBASSADOR
Michael Castello, Michael Cyger, Adam Dicker, Michael Gilmour, Ron Jackson, Vern Jurevich, Richard Lau, Gregg McNair, Barbara Neu
DOMAIN HALL OF FAME
John Berryhill, Gary Chernoff, Michael Cyger, Alan Dunn, John Ferber, Michael Gilmour, Rob Grant, Simon Johnson, Ilze Kaulins-Plazkacs, Ammar Kubba, Roy Messer
Who will win? You must be there to find out in real time!
Location: Fontaine Ballroom
11:30AM -1:00PM Join the newly crowned Broker of the Year for 2014 and the other most talented and well known domain name brokers in the industry. This elite group will get on stage and discuss current trends in the market, the changes in the past year, what to expect in 2015, how to price a domain to sell and the different styles and results they and their company bring to the table to get you the desired results. More important and timely than ever.
All nominees for "Broker of the Year" and others are invited to join this panel of movers and shakers. Dave Evanson, Alan Hack, Tessa Holcomb, George Hong, Andrew Rosener, James Wester
Location: Fleur de Lis
Networking Power Lunch TRAFFIC/South Beach Style. We will do it right with all the trimmings.
Location: Fontaine Ballroom
Demystify Chinese Domain Name Market. The Chinese market is huge and driving domain prices up. Why? What do they know that we don't? Why are NNN.com domains in such demand? How do you take advantage of the single biggest market on earth? Guoliang (George) Hong of Guta.com, Simon Cousins of TLD Registry and Jeremy Marx of Beyond the Dot will tell you. You may not want to ignore billions of people in emerging markets when there are only 7 billion people to begin with.
Location: Fleur de Lis
The leaders of our industry have done this for a decade now. Get up on the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. stage and give attendees a perspective as where we have been and where we are going. Priceless!
Dave Evanson of Sedo, Michael Castello of CCIN.com, Adam Dicker of DNForum.com, Bill McClure of Coffee.org, John Ferber of DomainHoldings, Gregg McNair if Igloo.com and representatives from GoDaddy, TrafficPartner.com, Above.com and Verisign
Location: Fleur de Lis
Join your fellow investors and entrepreneurs to celebrate another successful T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Verisign is our sponsor for the closing party.
Location: Fontaine Ballroom
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