We have many ccTLD registries coming to T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan but one I'm particularly excited about is the .ru extension. The Russian organization is sending Sergey Gorbunov, Stanislav Brik and Marina Brik to our event. I love the country and I'm a big fan of their long-term potential. The people are very tech savvy and use [...]

Many domain bloggers and even more domainers on the various industry message boards have written about how domainers need to stop selling to each other and focus on selling to end-users. They compare flipping domains to other domainers like trading baseball cards, like that is a bad thing. This article isn't an attempt to say [...]

After talking with various .eu portfolio owners, we have decided to throw a .eu only no reserve auction on Tuesday the 27th of April, the opening day of our T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan show. We will only be running the best 50 names that get submitted. We are hoping to get thousands of submissions so they should [...]

Think T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Milan like a vacation in Italy at a 40% discount. When else do you get a chance to make a tax deductible trip to beautiful places like Lake Como (pictured here)? This famous lake, home to the real Belagio, is a short drive from Milan. Milan itself has much to offer. The city is [...]

As much as I want to get our live auction platform at Latonas.com out the door and being productive, we have decided to delay it further and use Proxibid.com in Milan for both our live and extended auction. We've done a great deal of enhancements on our own system and have lowered the lag time [...]

Domainers who focus on the ccTLD market will be happy to know that our T.R.A.F.F.I.C. schedule for Milan is once again focused on their market. Amsterdam in 2009 was a great success and we want to carry on that momentum with our annual event about country-code domain names. Like Amsterdam, we are getting commitments from [...]

I realize that I've been silent for the last couple of weeks. Between Kilimanjaro and the kids' Spring Breaks it has been a very busy time for me. I apologize for the lack of communication. Please don't take it as a sign that little is happening from our camp. My team has been hard at [...]

Rick asked me to shoot out an update today.  There are three things that I wanted to cover: 1) It is Day 3 of the Mount Kilimanjaro climb.  Since the group is taking the Machame route, they should be at Shira Camp now.  Tomorrow, they will pass through Lava Tower and hit Barranco Camp (3950m).  [...]