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Though our group rate has sold out, we have secured a few last minute rooms at great rates. Use the online booking engine to secure your rooms before they sellout!
The 2007 GeoDomain Expo, presented by Associated Cities, will be held November 16 to November 17 in San Francisco, CA.
The GeoDomain Expo is the only time of the year to meet and greet with the owners of more than 85 U.S. major city and destination sites including NewYorkCity.com, LosAngeles.com, Chicago.com, Dallas.com, SanFrancisco.com, Nashville.com and Atlanta.com as well as international strategic leaders of the GeoDomain industry such as Acapulco.com and BuenosAires.com. It will be the largest and most important gathering to date of the owners of the most lucrative properties on the Web.
Contact Information
For more information, contact Patrick Carleton at patrick@associatedcities.com and 877-244-0686 or Brad Spirrison at brad@midwestbusiness.com and 312-804-9844.
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Friday, November 16
8 to 9 a.m.: Kick-Off Breakfast – Presented by iBegin
 Get your day started early as Associated Cities members and other attendees of the 2007 GeoDomain Expo share professional tales and industry expertise during a breakfast buffet. An exhibitor fair will also showcase cutting-edge products and services provided by our sponsors.
9 to 9:30 a.m.: State of the Industry Address
Dan Pulcrano, Chairman of Associated Cities and CEO of Boulevards New Media, will kick off the day’s programming with a 2007 state of the industry address. Boulevards is the largest owner of major U.S. city GeoDomains with 20 of the top 30 DMA’s including SanFrancisco.com, Dallas.com, Denver.com and Philadelphia.com, Pulcrano will report on the industry’s evolution to date and preview things to come that will impact GeoDomain owners in the future. You will also hear about tomorrow afternoons GeoDomain Auction from Moniker CEO Monte Cahn and be amazed by Fabulous.com CTO Jackson Hopkins’ phenomenal GeoDomain statistics.
9:30 to 10:15 a.m.: Building a GeoDomain From Scratch
What are the first steps involved in developing a GeoDomain? How should dollars and resources be allocated? What are the most cost-effective ways to bring visitors to a GeoDomain once a site has been developed? Associated Cities members collectively have many hundreds of years of experience developing GeoDomains. This is an opportunity to learn from their lessons and discover recent innovations in the space. Michael Castello of the Castello Cities Internet Network and other GeoDomain owners share their experiences.
10:15 to 10:30 a.m.: Meet Our Sponsors Coffee Break – Presented by Fabulous.com
10:30 to 11:15 a.m.: Cracking the Content Code
The economics and aspirations for producing content for GeoDomains differ than what is seen in other traditional and interactive media industries. In this session, we will learn best practices in outsourcing content production from Rick Latona of Offshoring.com, view innovations in featuring video and localized video content from Brad Shapiro of City Buzz and explore multiple approaches to stimulating relevant user-generated content.
11:15 to noon: The Bucks Start Here: Advertising Sales & GeoDomain Monetization
David Castello of the Castello Cities Internet Network (PalmSprings.com, LagunaBeach.com, Nashville.com and Acapulco.com) shares his secrets of maximizing revenue for GeoDomains through aggressively creative sales and marketing strategies. He will explain how GeoDomain owners and sales executives can better understand the leverage they have so they can exploit each and every revenue opportunities.
Noon to 1:30 p.m.: Lunch Keynote: Ron Jackson of Domain Name Journal
Ron Jackson, the dean of the domain name industry and editor and publisher of Domain Name Journal, delivers the keynote address at the 2007 GeoDomain Expo. Jackson said: “Owning a single city domain puts the owner in a position to build a property that can be more important than any of that city’s newspapers, magazines, radio stations or TV stations. The domain can offer everything the traditional outlets offer – print, audio and video – and they can deliver it all over the globe at a minimal cost.” The lunch keynote will also include a special presentation by Phil Corwin (a law partner with Butera & Andrews) on the threat posed to GeoDomains by potential changes in the DRP by ICANN.
1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Mapping Out Search Engine Optimization Strategies
There are many nuances to search engine optimization specific to GeoDomain Web sites. Tracy Sabattis from Mannix Marketing and Albany.com and Truman Hedding from Boulevards City Guides and LosAngeles.com will share their insight into how GeoDomains can be best optimized within this continually fluctuating sector of the Internet. This presentation, moderated by Sean Miller from NewYorkCity.com, promises to make a world of difference.
2:30 to 3:15 p.m.: Positioning GeoDomains For Local Search
GeoDomains have a natural place within the infrastructure of local search, the fastest-growing category in Internet advertising. This panel showcases ways to unlock this potential. Learn insight from Malcolm Lewis from Local.com, Ahmed Farooq from iBegin and James Chubb from eDirectory. Colby Atwood, President of Borrell & Associates will moderate.
3:15 to 3:30 p.m.: Meet Our Sponsors Coffee Break – Presented by Hotels.com
3:30 to 4:15 p.m.: Making the Most of Third-Party Booking Engines
Virtually every GeoDomain uses a third-party booking engine to fulfill hotel reservations and other relevant services. How can GeoDomains best incorporate these engines within the site to maximize revenue and user experience? Learn from Rick Schneider of Travelocity and John Nelson of Hotels.com as they discuss industry best practices.
4:15 to 5 p.m.: Incorporating New Technologies, Innovation
While GeoDomains have natural and distinct advantages in generating relevant traffic, no Web site (not even Google or Facebook) can rest on its laurels and ignore new innovations. A panel conversation featuring inC2 webcom CEO Raz Caro, Advanced Reservation Systems vice president Rob Kazmierski and CallSource vice president Geoffrey Infeld will showcase new technologies you wish you had heard of sooner.
5 to 5:45 p.m.: PPC Parking, GeoDomains
Though pay-per-click parking practices are not unique to GeoDomains, city dot-coms and other regional Web sites should pay attention to special opportunities and practices. A panel including from TrafficZ COO Ammar Kubba, Parked.com CEO Sigmund J. Solares, Fabulous.com business development manager Michael Robertson and Sedo.com chief strategy officer Matt Bentley will share their industry expertise.
6 to 7 p.m.: Structured Speed Networking
GeoDomain owners and the best and brightest Internet entrepreneurs, investors and executives from throughout the world will be under one roof at the 2007 GeoDomain Expo. This speed networking session presented by Extreme Networking will not only allow you to meet multiple people in a short period of time but you can choose in advance the types of individuals you will meet during these sessions. Remember to eat your Wheaties!
7:30 to 9 p.m.: Dinner
Lavish five star dining and drink featuring five chefs preparing world class cuisine courtesy of Associated Cities!
9 p.m. to midnight: TrafficZ Presents the GeoDomain Expo Party
Now that your brains are filled with GeoDomain industry knowledge and expertise, it’s time to let loose and party with new friends and old. You will have earned it. Join your GeoDomain contemporaries at Roe, one of San Francisco’s hottest clubs for an evening you won’t want to miss. Stock up on business cards for this networking nightcap!
Saturday, November 17
8 to 9:30 a.m.: Going Once, Going Twice Breakfast – Presented by Local.com
On a day that is action packed with educational sessions for any kind of domain owner as well as a GeoDomain auction produced by Moniker, it’s safe to say you’re going to need some energy.
9:30 to 10:15 a.m.: Dot-Coms vs. Other TLDs: A Battle Royal?
In an age when new top-level domains are assigned seemingly every month, how is the value of dot-coms and other TLD mainstays affected? A panel conversation with leaders including Sedo chief strategy officer Matt Bentley, DomainSponsor director of industry relations Jothan Frakes and ICANN IDN program director Tina Dam will compare the benefits of the mighty dot-com versus its dot-net, dot-org and dot-info cousins and explore which younger upstarts have staying power.
10:15 to 11 a.m.: The True Value of Your Domain
In anticipation of the afternoon auction, Monte Cahn of Moniker and Ari Bayme, a domain name specialist and managing director of M&A advisory firm Modern Capital Group, will offer insight about how to appraise and value a domain name. Bayme recently advised in the transactions of DigitalVentures.biz and ClickDiario.com.
11 a.m. to noon: Raising Capital For Your Domain
The venture capital and private equity industries are increasingly paying attention to the intrinsic and potential value of blue-chip domain names and the businesses built on top of them. Domain Capital President Robert Alfano will participate in a panel conversation that will explore the benefits and potential pitfalls of raising outside capital to fund a domain name.
Noon to 5 p.m.: Lunch, Domain Name Auction
Moniker will be presenting a special GeoDomain edition of its live auction. More than 250 premium GeoDomain names will be up for bid in the live auction and an additional 3,000 GeoDomains will be available during the silent auction. Attendees will be able to purchase the domains they’ve been seeking to build their businesses during this GeoDomain auction. While the live domain auction will feature premium and high-value domains, the silent auction inventory has a much broader range and includes additional premier GeoDomains not selected during the live auction.
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Speaker Information
Ron Jackson
Ron Jackson, editor of DNJournal.com will be giving the keynote speech on Friday, November 16.
Ron Jackson began his media career as News Director of an Ohio radio station then moved on to TV where he spent 17 years as a news and sports anchor/reporter at ABC and CBS TV stations in Florida. An entrepreneur at heart, Ron started his own business in 1989 when he opened a successful record store with a worldwide music mail order division. During this time he discovered the power of the Internet when he was able to replace expensive magazine ads with a website in 1997. Business exploded while his advertising costs dropped to a fraction of what they had been before.
A few years later, when file sharing and downloading began wiping out independent music retailers, Jackson saw a new opportunity in the medium that was making his business obsolete - the Internet. He entered the domain business in 2002 and as he began acquiring domains he was surprised to find that this fascinating industry did not have it’s own trade magazine. Ron filled that void by debuting DNJournal.com on New Year’s Day 2003. The unique combination of professional writing with his insider’s perspective resulted in a widely read publication that is now regarded as one of the institutions in the domain industry. When mainstream media outlets want to know what is happening in the domain business, they call DN Journal. The online magazine has been featured in Forbes and Newsweek magazines, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Times and many other publications. Ron is also an active domain owner himself. With a portfolio of more than 7,000 domains he is the only professional journalist who has intimate knowledge of how this industry works as well as direct contacts with many of the pioneers who built it.
Bob Alfano
President, Domain Capital
Raising Capital For Your Domain
Robert Alfano is a recognized visionary in domain name financing. As founder and President of Domain Capital, he focuses on all facets of the company’s business including solidifying strategic partnerships, attracting additional working capital, branding and marketing the company’s services and maintaining relationships with its larger clientele. Alfano is also a co-founder of JTA Leasing, which is a technology and equipment leasing company. JTA was recently acquired by one of the largest privately held leasing companies in the United States.
Colby Atwood
President, Borrell & Associates
Positioning GeoDomains For Local Search
Based in Seattle, Colby entered the interactive media space as vice president of sales for an ASCII videotex system vendor in 1983 to introduce the technology to banks and newspapers. Colby then spent nine years with Brite Voice Systems selling audiotex systems and services to newspapers, television stations and directory companies. He founded two companies that provided interactive telephone information services through local media partners. Colby also was the Director of Business Development for Pantheon, which is a provider of online content automation software to newspapers.
He helped negotiate its acquisition by Zip2, which is an online yellow pages and portal firm serving the newspaper and directory industries. At Zip2, he was director of channel and strategic marketing. He was involved in a variety of sales, marketing, product development and account management projects. Colby received a bachelor’s degree in communications from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from UCLA.
Ari Bayme
Managing Direct, Modern Capital Group
The True Value of Your Domain
Ari Bayme grew up in Brooklyn and now lives in Manhattan. Formerly a Vice President at Milbank Roy & Co., he is currently the Managing Director of the Modern Capital Group, which is an M&A advisory firm focused on the information technology industry. Bayme has been involved in numerous M&A and private equity transactions within the information technology industry and is particularly focused on cross-border deals within the Internet marketing and infrastructure verticals.
Bayme was previously employed by the Zanett Group where he was involved in many technology start-ups (primarily in peer-to-peer and wireless applications). Prior to that, he was a New York state attorney for Ferne Goldstein. Bayme holds degrees from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Matt Bentley
Chief Strategy Officer, Sedo
Dot-Coms vs. Other TLDs: A Battle Royal?
Matt Bentley is Chief Strategy Officer at Sedo, which is the leading online marketplace for the buying and selling of domain names. In this role, he is responsible for mapping out market and product strategy for the entire Sedo organization.
Bentley’s previous role at Sedo was as CEO of Sedo.com, which is Sedo’s U.S. subsidiary. Under his leadership, Sedo.com became established as the leading brand in the domain secondary market and the U.S. team blossomed to 20 employees. In addition to his leadership role with Sedo, Bentley has brokered some of the highest-value sales in the domain industry, served as an expert witness in the area of domain valuation and has been quoted on domain topics in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and CNET.
Bentley holds a bachelor’s in management science and engineering from Stanford University and a master’s in international business from the Euromed-Marseille Graduate School of Business in France.
Monte Cahn
CEO, Moniker
State of the Industry Address, GeoDomain Auction, The True Value of Your Domain
Monte Cahn is the founder and CEO of DomainSystems, which is the parent company of the domain traffic monetization solution TrafficClub.com along with nine ICANN-accredited registrars including industry-leading registrar Moniker.com. DomainSystems and Moniker.com have been pioneering domain name and online identity after-market services since 1999 with an extraordinary focus on delivering customer satisfaction through specializing in domain name security, customer service and value-added products and services.
Cahn has 18 years of experience in the health care, high-tech and Internet fields. He is an aggressive and successful sales and management professional with experience in marketing and selling Internet services, intellectual property, domain names as well as other online information systems and services. Cahn started investing in intellectual property and domain names in 1996 and helped start the first online domain brokerage business on the Internet in 1996.
Raz Caro
CEO, inC2 webcom
Incorporating New Technologies & Innovation
Raz Caro is CEO of inC2 webcom, which is a provider of innovative solutions for the local search industry. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the yellow pages and Internet yellow pages business. Before co-founding inC2 webcom, he served in a number of positions at Amdocs most recently as vice president of the advertising and media division. Caro has in-depth knowledge of the challenges facing the industry and is committed to helping local search companies to increase their competitive advantage through technology innovation.
David Castello
COO, Castello Cities Internet Network (CCIN) and Traveler.com
The Bucks Start Here: Advertising Sales & GeoDomain Monetization
CCIN’s impressive portfolio includes Cost.com, Nashville.com, Daycare.com, Acapulco.com, Rate.com, PalmSprings.com, Sample.com, LagunaBeach.com, Whisky.com, WestPalmBeach.com, Bullion.com, LongBeach.com, Kennel.com, Driven.com, Bootleg.com, Banana.com, Manicure.com, Grape.com, GolfClub.com, Pear.com, Adopt.com, Chili.com, Dust.com and Traveler.com.
David and his brother Michael Castello first made their mark developing GeoDomains such as PalmSprings.com, LagunaBeach.com, Nashville.com and Acapulco.com. In 1998, David’s revolutionary sales and marketing strategies turned PalmSprings.com into one of the most successful GeoDomains in the world. The front page of PalmSprings.com alone generates almost $1 million a year in static advertising revenue.
Recent CCIN projects include Kennel.com, Whisky.com (the largest site about Scotch whisky), Daycare.com (with more than 12,000 facility members) and partnering with TrafficZ to develop Cost.com into the world’s most extensive Internet shopping emporium.
Michael Castello
CEO, Castello Cities Internet Network (CCIN) and Traveler.com
Building a GeoDomain From Scratch
Foreseeing the Web’s global potential early in 1994, Michael Castello is one of the early pioneers of the Internet. He is president and CEO of Castello Cities Internet Network and Traveler.com, which owns and operates such sites as PalmSprings.com, Nashville.com, Acapulco.com, GolfClub.com and Cost.com. A frequent speaker and consultant within the domain name industry, Michael and his brother David recently spoke at the 2007 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East conference in Miami where Steve Forbes was the keynote speaker.
James Chubb
Founder/President, eDirectory
Positioning GeoDomains For Local Search
James Chubb leads eDirectory’s product development and overall strategy. He brings more than nine years of experience building Web applications and leading software development teams.
Chubb founded eDirectory’s parent company, Arca Solutions, to provide development services and applications for media and technology companies. Prior to eDirectory, he was a software engineer with Logictier, which is a managed service provider with customers including Sony and the 2002 winter Olympics. Chubb has a bachelor’s in computer engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
Phil Corwin
Partner, Butera & Andrews
Special Presentation During Nov. 16 Lunch Keynote
Philip Corwin is a partner at Butera & Andrews, which is a Washington, D.C. law and lobbying firm. With more than 30 years of federal legislative experience, his practice is focused on the dynamically evolving law of electronic commerce and intellectual property. Prior to joining Butera & Andrews, Corwin was a government relations director at the American Bankers Association and a member of the U.S. Senate professional staff.
Corwin has been a guest on numerous television and radio public affairs and business programs. He has also discussed and debated copyright and other legal issues affecting digital media delivery at law and technology conferences and has lectured on technology-related legislative and regulatory initiatives. In Dec. 2006, he participated as a speaker at a workshop on domain name “tasting” at ICANN’s Sao Paulo, Brazil meeting.
Tina Dam
ICANN, IDN Program Director
Dot-Coms vs. Other TLDs: A Battle Royal?
Dam joined ICANN in 2003 as Chief gTLD Registry Liaison where she was responsible for developing ICANN’s gTLD registry functions including defining and managing processes in accordance with consensus policies and ICANN agreements for servicing the gTLD registries. In Jan. 2006, she was appointed director of ICANN’s IDN program. In this capacity, she develops and manages all IDN-related projects at ICANN focused on the deployment of internationalized TLDs.
Ahmed Farooq
Director, iBegin
Positioning GeoDomains For Local Search
As a Director at iBegin, Ahmed Farooq has been immersed in the online local market since 2003. Since 2005 with the release of iBegin, Farooq has built a formidable presence in the local space. From the humble beginnings of a purely hyper-local site, iBegin today receives more than 500,000 unique monthly visitors while targeting only a few cities.
Staging growth carefully, he has been able to remain self-funded and free of venture capital investments. Farooq’s latest local directive is iBegin Source, which offers business listings data for commercial usage. With more than 11 million listings, a wiki-driven system and more than 50 paying customers, iBegin Source is changing the market of business listings.
Jothan Frakes
Director of Strategic Accounts, Oversee.net
Dot-Coms vs. Other TLDs: A Battle Royal?
Jothan Frakes is Director of Strategic Accounts at Oversee.net in the domain sponsor division. He also works with the corporate development team at Oversee.net in the area of domain portfolio acquisitions and industry relations. A public speaker on the domain marketplace, Frakes has spoken and moderated in multiple domain name trade shows.
Truman Hedding
Vice President of Internet Marketing, Boulevards New Media
Mapping Out Search Engine Optimization Strategies
Truman Hedding is the Vice President of Internet marketing for Boulevards New Media. He directs all aspects of search engine marketing for Boulevards and its affiliate marketing campaigns.
Prior to joining Boulevards in 2006, Truman held managerial positions at various public and private search marketing firms. His expertise spans geo-targeted search, evaluative analytics, content creation and optimization. As a recognized expert in the search marketing community, he has consulted for Fortune 1000 companies and small businesses across the nation and has been quoted in such publications as the Los Angeles Times and BusinessWeek.
Jackson Hopkins
CTO, Fabulous.com
State of the Industry Address
Jackson Hopkins is the CTO at Fabulous.com and Dark Blue Sea Limited. He has extensive experience in domain monetization, localization, registrar technology and dynamic Web development. Hopkins oversees product development for Fabulous.com, its ICANN-certified registrar and the Domain Distribution Network. He joined the Dark Blue Sea group in 2001 and has been the principal technical architect for Fabulous.com and its suite of products. His credentials include degrees in information technology and mathematics from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
Geoffrey Infeld
Vice President, CallSource
Incorporating New Technologies & Innovation
Geoffrey Infeld brings 14 years of experience in the development of online and offline marketplaces, lead generation and business analytics. In 1992, he was one of the first to expand car sales beyond traditional media by helping to pioneer the introduction of electronic automotive classifieds through 1-800-CAR-SEARCH.
In 1995, Infeld took online car buying to the Internet as co-founder and CEO of Autoscape.com, which is one of the Internet’s first online car-buying services. Autoscape.com was purchased by Autoweb.com in Jan. 1997. He went on to head up all business development activities at Autoweb.com. In 2001, Infeld co-founded Reply, Inc., which is a leading online lead generator and consumer portal. As vice president of business development, he was in charge of all planning and development of all new business channels including structuring key strategic partnerships and alliances.
Rob Kazmierski
Vice President of Business Development, Advanced Reservation Systems (ARES)
Incorporating New Technologies & Innovation
Rob Kazmierski is responsible for the development of strategic partnerships with GeoDomains and destination marketing organizations. He is instrumental in demonstrating the value and versatility of the ARES booking engine to these organizations as well as the integration of new travel reservations technology into their destination-specific Web sites.
Ammar Kubba
COO, TrafficZ
PPC Parking & GeoDomains
Ammar Kubba is a Principal and the COO of TrafficZ, which is the industry’s oldest and most experienced domain parking and traffic monetization service. He is also a co-founder of LeaseThis.com, which is a global leader in domain leasing solutions, and Idea.net, which is an incubator for the development of avant-garde Internet sites, services and technology. Kubba is a leading authority on Internet domain and traffic monetization.
His determination, passion and vision have helped propel TrafficZ to the forefront of the domain industry (with annual triple-digit growth since inception) while the company’s proprietary technology and service have garnered the attention and praise of the most influential players in the domain community as well as several of the world’s leading Internet companies.
A serial entrepreneur, Kubba has also been integrally involved as both a principal and an advisor in the acquisition, development and/or sale of such high-profile Internet properties as BusinessDevelopment.com, BizDev.com, LA.com, Hawaii.com, Illinois.com, NewJersey.com, Vegas.com, LasVegas.net, Cost.com, Trainer.com and others.
Malcolm Lewis
Vice President/General Manager, Local.com
Positioning GeoDomains For Local Search
Malcolm Lewis has 19 years of strategic marketing and general management experience with public and private companies. Prior to Local.com, he was the CEO of PremierGuide, which is a company he founded in 2003 and built into the leading provider of private-label local search solutions. He sold it to Local.com in 2007.
Prior to PremierGuide, he was Vice President of Industry Communications for Vitria Technology where he helped grow the company from an early stage start-up to a public company with annual sales of $150 million. Prior to Vitria, Lewis was the Director of Marketing for Interweave Software, which is an Internet start-up that was acquired by Cognos in 1997. Prior to Interweave, he held various product marketing positions at Oracle. Lewis holds a master’s in computer science from Sheffield Hallam University in England.
John Nelson
Affiliate Marketing Executive, IAN/Hotels.com
Making the Most of Third-Party Booking Engines
John Nelson has more than seven years of Internet marketing experience with IAN/Hotels.com. His job responsibilities include developing relationships with suppliers and strategic distribution partners seeking to expand their product offerings.
Dan Pulcrano
CEO, Boulevards New Media
State of the Industry Address
Dan Pulcrano is the CEO of Boulevards New Media, which operates an international network of city guides. Based in Silicon Valley, Boulevards owns the dot-com domain names for the majority of the largest cities in the U.S. He has been an operator of Internet companies since 1993 and has invested in city names since 1996. Pulcrano is a founder and owner of a group of three regional weekly newspapers in northern California. He also serves as CEO of Associated Cities in an unpaid capacity.
Mike Robertson
Business Development Manager, Fabulous.com
PPC Parking & GeoDomains
Mike Robertson is the Business Development Manager at Fabulous.com and Dark Blue Sea Limited. Originally a sales representative for Roar.com (a PPC contextual advertising network), he has experience managing PPC advertising campaigns for various advertisers.
For the past three years as a Senior Account Manager for Fabulous.com, Robertson assisted customers with the monetization of their domains. He is now focused on strengthening his relationships with large portfolio owners and developing the Fabulous.com parking program. Robertson joined the Dark Blue Sea group in 2002 after graduating with a bachelor’s in business marketing from Central Queensland University in Rockhampton, Australia.
Tracy Sabattis
Director of Internet Marketing, Mannix Marketing
Mapping Out Search Engine Optimization Strategies
Tracy Sabattis was one of the original employees of Mannix Marketing. She has been in the Internet marketing field since 1998. Sabattis works with clients to develop individualized marketing plans that include SEO, PPC, SMO and PR while helping execute the company’s vision for GeoDomains and destination guides. She also manages a team of writers and SEO specialists responsible for gaining traffic and placements for a diverse group of client Web sites nationwide.
Rick Schneider
Vice President of Global Business Development, WCT/Travelocity Partner Network
Making the Most of Third-Party Booking Engines
Rick Schneider founded the WCT/Travelocity affiliate program in the 1990s. He works closely with many leading destination sites including Associated Cities members as well as 75 official convention and visitor’s bureaus. Schneider has extensive experience and accomplishments in travel and broadcasting. He held executive positions at the world’s largest home-based travel company as well as Carlson Wagonlit Travel.
Schneider was president and CEO of his own highly successful travel management company (Media Travel USA). Travel Weekly magazine and CNN are just a few of the media outlets that have recognized him for his marketing and public relations accomplishments in the travel industry. Schneider is also a veteran of the broadcasting industry with more than 15 years of experience as a TV anchorman, news director and executive producer.
Brad Shapiro
Online Strategist, Vidicom
Cracking the Content Code
Brad Shapiro has more than 15 years of marketing management experience, focused primarily in direct and online marketing. Brad has held a variety of senior marketing management positions at Fortune 500 and medium and smaller organizations such as Intel, Columbia House, Mail.com, ActiveNames and Date.com. After leaving Date.com in 2004, Brad started 3GM, an online marketing strategy firm focused on helping clients attract and maintain relationships with their customers as well as grow their businesses using the Internet. Brad is representing his client, Vidicom, at this conference. Vidicom is a multimedia marketing and production company that owns Stylewiz.com and Citybuzz, a video travel destination guide that is distrubuted on the web, in hotels and in airports. Brad received his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Management and BA from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sigmund J. Solares
CEO, Parked.com
PPC Parking & GeoDomains
Sigmund Solares is a founder and serves as CEO of the Intercosmos Media Group (the operator of directNIC.com) and Parked.com. The company directNIC.com has sold more than 5 million domain names since inception. The companies also provide other domain name services such as hosting and e-mail. Parked.com provides domain portfolio management services and manages more than 1.5 million domains for customers.
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Though our group rate has sold out, we have secured a few last minute rooms at great rates. Secure your rooms before they sellout!
Hotel Information
We have secured a low nightly rate of $209 per night at the W Hotel where the 2007 Geodomain Expo will be held. This low rate is available on the nights of Wed. Nov. 14th through Monday night, Nov. 19th.
Should lower rates be found prior to November 15 for the same length of stay over these exact dates, whether the rate be found through an online booking company such as Hotels.com or directly through the W hotel, all room prices booked under the Associated Cities code and pricing structure will be lowered to $20 below the lowest nightly rate available.
To get our $209/night low rate when booking, call 1-877-W-Hotels, reference Geodomain Expo, and let them know your arrival and departure dates. Or, visit the online booking engine.
Our group rate is only availabe to October 31st
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TrafficZ
Founded in 2001, TrafficZ is one of the oldest and most experienced domain parking and traffic monetization services in business today. Since its inception, TrafficZ has remained at the forefront of the domain industry. It is driven by an unyielding dedication to provide innovative products, cutting-edge technology, unparalleled service and best-in-class monetization. Widely regarded as a pioneering force, TrafficZ continually strives to maximize the potential of each and every domain asset by identifying its highest and best use and extracting maximum value for its clients.
TrafficZ partners enjoy unsurpassed customer service, a renowned templating system, near-limitless customization options, dynamic and flexible content management solutions, SEO functionality, advanced auto-optimization technology, a comprehensive suite of domain analytics and industry-leading payouts. With world-class properties such as Cost.com and BizDev.com currently in development, TrafficZ’s Idea.net division is revolutionizing the industry and evolving domain innovation to a whole new level.
Advanced Reservation Systems
Founded in 1995 and based in San Diego, Advanced Reservation Systems (ARES) provides industry-leading reservations and ticketing technology to destination marketing organizations, major attractions, travel marketers and hotels. In addition to technology solutions, ARES provides these same organizations with travel product and fulfillment services. These products are sold to the public via the Web and through an in-sourced call center. The company also offers comprehensive meeting planning and convention housing services.
CallSource
CallSource provides call-tracking technologies and advisory services that enable companies to increase their marketing effectiveness, capture additional sales opportunities and improve customer service. CallSource can help you track valuable phone leads and capture information about every caller, measure customer response and ROI for each advertisement or campaign, respond effectively to your calls and improve sales technique and attract new business and convert more callers to customers. CallSource introduced call-tracking technology to the business world more than a decade ago.
Domain Capital
Domain Capital is the first and only financial services company to offer financing to businesses based on the inherent and recognized value of premium domain names. Domain Capital has innovated exciting new financial services designed to enable entrepreneurs to exploit new business models.
Domain Capital’s ability to introduce a bold new form of asset-based financing is a natural extension of its history of providing technology leasing to Fortune 500 companies. Domain Capital’s experience in providing financial services to organizations in highly competitive, fast-paced industries and to forge close, working partnerships with its customers is the foundation for its reputation of quality, trust, integrity and market leadership.
Domain Name Journal
Domain Name Journal is an Internet Edge, Inc. company. Internet Edge is a Florida corporation involved in Web publishing and domain monetization through several subsidiary companies including ThinkDomains.com, IdealRegistry.com and NameNewbie.com.
eDirectory
eDirectory is a leading provider of software and development services for online city guides and opinion sites. The eDirectory platform provides directory listings, classifieds, events, articles, banners and more in an easily customizable and SEO-friendly framework. With hundreds of customers in more than 20 countries, eDirectory is the fastest way to take advantage of the $14 billion local yellow page advertising market.
After setup, the eDirectory platform is completely automated to allow advertisers to provision and pay for their listings, stream videos, display photos and user ratings. Users can search, bookmark and share their favorites. eDirectory is fully customizable and it seamlessly integrates with existing Web sites. eDirectory is the fastest way to generate revenue for your local guide.
Fabulous.com
Fabulous.com is one of the largest dot-com portfolio owners with approximately 100,000 location-specific domains in its portfolio. The company realizes the value and potential GeoDomains have within the industry as a revenue stream from both a PPC parking and after-market sales perspective.
Its new premium parking program is ideal for generating revenue from GeoDomains not yet developed. A dynamic generator tool allows users to optimize and customize domains with greater detail. By combining page layout, color and selecting relevant images from an image library, users can now create unique landing pages for each domain in a portfolio.
Grassroots.org
Grassroots.org is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to help non-profits become more sustainable. The organization is the brainchild of Internet entrepreneur Michael Mann (founder of BuyDomains.com and the president of investment firm WashingtonVC). Bringing a fresh perspective to the field of philanthropy, Mann founded Grassroots.org with the goal of leveraging his Internet, marketing and personal networking knowledge to provide for people in need.
Its ultimate goal is to adopt 10,000 charities and to provide each of them with an average of $10,000 per year in free and essential services (for a total savings of $100 million per year for the non-profit community). Current services include development of high-level domains as charity portals and the following to non-religious, non-political charities: free Web hosting, free first-year domain registration, volunteer Web design, M.B.A. student business mentoring and free SEO advice.
Hotels.com
For more than 15 years, Hotels.com has been providing travelers great prices on the places you want to stay for both leisure and business travel. The company makes planning and booking a trip easy through the Hotels.com expert lodging Web site and through certified hotel experts.
Hotels.com knows the hotel experience is an important part of any trip. That’s why the company wants you to know before you go with its easy-to-use booking tools like side-by-side comparisons, virtual tours and unbiased customer reviews from people just like you who have stayed at the property. Hotels.com offers more than 70,000 properties worldwide.
iBegin
iBegin started off as a simple idea to allow users to not only search for local businesses but give them the power to shape what businesses others choose. The company launched in its hometown of Toronto. As it planned to expand into the U.S., iBegin realized the entire local market was not only messy but stuck behind. The companies that provided local business data had started off as direct-marketing companies. They had some archaic rules, high pricing and obtuse usage rules.
The company set out to build its own source from scratch. iBegin contacted dozens of database providers to build up its list of businesses in the U.S. iBegin is a site that does all things local.
Local.com
Local.com is a top U.S. Web site that attracts about 10 million visitors each month seeking information on local businesses, products and services. The company also owns and operates a United Kingdom version of the Local.com site. Powered by the company’s patented local Web indexing and keyword technologies, Local.com provides users with targeted, relevant local search results including special offers from local businesses, user reviews, local business links, maps and driving directions.
Businesses can advertise on Local.com with subscription, pay-per-click, banner and pay-per-call ad products. The site’s mobile service (Local MobileT) provides local search results via mobile phones and devices. Local.com claims U.S. patent numbers 7,231,405 and 7,200,413.
Modern Domainer
Modern Domainer was founded in 2006 by highly successful domain name and parked advertising entrepreneurs. The independent voice for domainers the world over, the magazine publishes six times a year and offers fresh perspectives, in-depth analyses and emerging trends. The third issue of the magazine will ship in early December.
Managing editor Ezra James, ad director Seth Coman and business development manager Dan St. Pierre oversee the planning and day-to-day operations of this cutting-edge industry trade journal.
Moniker
Moniker is a leading provider of domain name registration, management and monetization services for individuals and businesses that wish to have a unique address and branded identity on the Internet. Domain names serve as part of the infrastructure for Internet communications including Web sites, e-mail, audio, video and telephony.
As one of the fastest-growing ICANN-accredited registrars in the domain registration market, Moniker has one of the highest growth rates and a large number of new and existing customers as a result of its outstanding service and industry-leading domain registration security features.
OpenVision
OpenVision is a premier Web development and Internet marketing company with small to Fortune 500 clients across the globe. The company offers a wide range of products and services including Web site and graphic design, Web and Windows programming, interactive marketing, search engine optimization, video production, hosting and consultation.
One of the areas that OpenVision excels in is its Web optimization. The company is careful to design a Web site that can be optimized easily and with minimal cost to clients. Its programmers are Microsoft-certified professionals who can incorporate components such as a contact form or a database-driven system for an online store and develop aspects that clients can update without having any prior knowledge of Web design or programming.
Parked.com
Parked.com is focused exclusively on domain name monetization. Founded by the owners of directNIC.com, Parked.com is built upon the experience of parking domain names since 1999. Using its proprietary “domain magic” technology, the company optimizes landing and search result pages on each domain name to provide surfers with the results they want. By combining this with the company’s ever-expanding selection of customizable templates, it achieve unparalleled returns to partners.
Sedo
With more than 500,000 members around the world trading domains in more than 21 languages, Sedo stands alone as the world’s only global domain marketplace. While it may be close to impossible to directly register good domains these days, the Sedo domain marketplace offers the world’s largest selection of premium domains with more than 8 million available.
Sedo offers users all the tools needed to buy and sell domains among a community of users stretching around the world including domain appraisals, brokerage services, promotion and Sedo’s popular domain parking program. More than 3 million domains use Sedo’s parking programs to earn revenue while promoting its sale.
WCT-Travelocity Partner Network
The WCT-Travelocity Partner Network has been private branding online booking engines for a decade. A wholly owned division of Travelocity.com, the company operates one of the world’s most respected travel affiliate programs. TPN provides online booking engines to thousands of privately branded travel affiliate Web sites in 40 countries including many Associated Cities Web sites, 75 convention and visitor’s bureaus, leading airlines and consumer shopping Web sites.
The company’s hotel technology features more than 63,000 hotels and resorts worldwide with negotiated merchant rates at 33,000 properties in 12 languages and 160 multiple currencies. Other products include exclusive last-minute deals, dynamic vacation packages, airline tickets, rental cars, cruises and travel extras. Added-value services include real-time reporting and sales management, e-marketing tools, RSS feeds and more.
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GeoDomain Auction
The live GeoDomain auction will take place for four hours on the last day of the 2007 GeoDomain Expo, which is Nov. 17. Approximately 250 domains will be up for bid. Absentee bidding and telephone bidding will correspond with the auction.
A silent auction will run concurrent with the live auction and will feature more than 1,000 additional available domains. While the live domain auction will feature premium and high-value domains, the silent auction inventory has a much broader range and includes additional premier domains not selected for the live auction.
To review the full Live Auction list, visit the Geo Domain Auction page.
To help your auction research go more smoothly, Moniker has added key statistics to the download list for many of the domains. More than a dozen new criteria have been added, including key indicators, such as traffic predictions, several internet rankings and link popularity from major search engines.
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Online Auction dates extended due to Thanksgiving Holiday
Some of the best values in the Geo Domain inventory are available in the Online "Silent" Auction. In most auction settings, Moniker runs the online portion of the auction for an additional 5-7 days past the original Live Auction date. Since that occurs over the Thanksgiving weekend, Moniker is extending the online auction until Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Now you have an even greater opportunity to look through the inventory and find valuable domains at reasonable prices.
Top inventory includes:
Africa.info
Antilles.com
Auckland.com
BajaCalifornia.com
Baltimore.net
BeverlyHillsEstates.com
Brussels.net
CalcuttaIndia.com
CapeVerdeIslands.com
ChristmasIsland.com
Europe.info
Gambia.com
Guatemala.com
Holland.net
Iran.com
Iraq.com
Kuwait.com
MalibuCalifornia.com
ManhattanNY.com
OklahomaCity.com
Perth.com
SanFrancisco.us
SanPablo.com
SanSalvador.com
Somalia.com
SonomaCalifornia.com
Stockholm.net
TheDominicanRepublic.com
TheHamptons.com
Tijuana.com.mx
Tourist.com
Union.com
Wallstreet.com
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