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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
For the past few articles I've been using poker as the analogy to explore the options for parking companies when negotiating with Google. As we have seen the balancing act that Google has established between themselves and the parking companies is critical and it just so happens that the easiest…
We've been exploring Google's role in the domain industry and have used the analogy of a poker game to gain further insight into how to beat Google at the informational game. The poker game consisting of parking companies and Google continues to unfold….
Now let's explore the extreme scenario where…
After a brief sabbatical from writing for a few days I decided to continue the series on the domain industry and explore the concept of negotiating against someone that has perfect information. You can view the earlier articles in the domain industry series by clicking here (index.php/Table/Domain-Analytics/).
As we have…
Once again I find myself sitting at my desk reflecting on what has recently transpired in the domain name industry. It's almost hard to believe that almost a week ago I was still in Orlando…..the wonders of modern travel!
In a few weeks I'll be heading towards Paris to attend…
While attending the Orlando TRAFFIC conference I had the privilage of participating in two of the sessions. The first panel was on the future of parking and the second an industry debate with senior executives from the domain industry. Please find links to my presentations below:
Industry Debate (images/stories/presentations/traffic%20orlando%202008_industry%20debate.ppt)
Please…