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This article continues directly on from Part 12 and Part 13 in the series on the domain industry.

This brings up the most important point that we need to never forget, traffic really is king. It's the one unique resource that everyone needs and they're prepared to pay for it….

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This article continues directly on from Part 12 in the series on the domain industry.

Stick SedDrive with DarkName and you would end up with an organization that has both Google and Yahoo contracts, an auction platform, state of the art parking, international exposure, and the…

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Once again I want to follow the fictitious game of poker that I wrote about in a number of pervious articles. This is the game with Google, Yahoo and parking companies all sitting around the table. Google has managed to carve out the enviable position of perfect information resulting in…

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In the mail I received a letter from a lawyer indicating that I was infringing on their clients trademark for a generic com.au domain. It just so happened that this particular domain has personal and historical importance to me and my wider family. I'd only parked the domain as a…

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Jetlag, the bane of my life. Since arriving back from Paris and Domainermeeting I've been laid flat by huge volumes of work, tests for my pilots license and family commitments. These have all been neatly wrapped up with the worst case of jetlag that I've ever experienced.

I've been feeling…

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I can't believe that I'm doing this again. Yep, I'm sitting in the airline lounge while I await QF6 to Singapore and then onward to Melbourne. The lounge is packed and yet there isn't a sound as everyone stares completely wrapped at the TV while Spain and Russia battle it…

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Domainer meeting in Paris has finished and ICANN is in full swing but I find myself on the TGV fast train to Luxembourg. The day started with a group of domainers including Jay Suzanne from Domain Intelligence (ie. TrafficZ), Dan from Fabulous, Roland from Domain News plus a…

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Tomorrow I'm off to Domainermeeting in Paris. It's another long flight but being from Australia you get pretty used to those! It will be great to catch up with all of my friends again and also get to know a lot of new European friends while I'm there.

In a…

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I've just received a skype message from Dan Kimball of dnZoom. He's a great friend and one of the guys who are constantly trying to get me to move to Louisville, Kentucky. One of the really nice things about our industry is meeting great people like Dan and Sean (also…

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We had the Queen's birthday long weekend in Australia last weekend and my family and I went south east of Melbourne to Phillip Island with some friends. If you make it to TRAFFIC Downunder in November you'll have to make the trek down to Phillip Island and take in some…

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