Regards,

Yes, can see your point if your doing the agent networking thing. But there are only going to be so many “agents” in the market that can successfully make a go of it, so unless those conferences gain appeal to a wider cross section then they will either have to become smaller (as may domainers migrate away (I think domains have had their “appeal maximised” and continual growth in “domainers” will not continue) or less of them.

The value of decent domains has also increased to a point where it

Anyway, most domain conferences, from my experience, are run by people at the top who sometimes act as if they are from another world. This forces them to ask for help at the very last minute so that their “otherworldly” manifestations don’t reveal themselves because they haven’t been able to connect with humans. heh

It’s like the sheep herder who thinks of himself as the guy in power, but needs his dog to do the work. The sheep herder controls the food and knows how to whistle for a command, but the dog rounds up the sheep and brings them home. Then the dog eats dinner, goes to sleep, dreaming about how the hell he got into working for the ‘dumb guy”.

Of course, this is all allegory and again, has nothing really to do with domain conferences… *ahem*

Good example is right now I am at the Sedo Pro conference in Nice, and have already closed up a deal and brought on a couple more brokers for some name sales I am doing that I would have otherwise never met.. it is good for me because I get access to a whole European crowd that is new and different…

Too many just thins the market too much, but as I said, if it

Its entertainment value alone, allowing me to zip around the net and basically beam down superfluous cr*p is reason enough to own it.

Guess one day I’ll have to level my amateur site that I tested my beginner html on… plenty of latent marketing potential in the URL that

Your secrecy has me out every night staring at the night sky, looking for tasty .org extensions flying in from meteor showers (or ARE they meteors???). I’d buy UFO.org right now for $20,000.

I’m not talking about “marketing agencies” which are different from ad agencies. The marketing director at a corporation works directly with the ad agencies to educate them on what mood and demographic the company wants to follow with their ads. If P&G wanted to buy a domain called “supermouthwash.com” and have an ad created around it, I guarantee the ad agency would hop to it and build several campaign ideas around a “super mouthwash”, and try their best to avoid buying the domain name “supermouthwash.com”. The ad agency would try to get the domain “SupercleaningwithSupermouthwash.com”. They wouldn’t pay money to get a memorable keyword phrase that quickly brands their client’s product, nor their key campaign push. As I’ve said thousands of times before:

AD AGENCIES DO NOT WANT TO GIVE THEIR CLIENTS MARKETING ASSETS THAT WILL REMOVE THE AD AGENCY’S POWER TO CHARGE THEIR CLIENT MORE MONEY TO BRING IN EYEBALLS TO THE CLIENT’S PRODSERV. BUYING A KEYWORD DESCRIPTIVE DOMAIN NAME THAT WRAPS UP THE CLIENT’S PRODSERV IN A MEMORABLE LITTLE PACKAGE FOR A MILLION OR TWO (OR LESS) IS NOT ON THE AD AGENCY’S AGENDA. They lose money from anything that cheaply continues to promote their client’s prodserv. A great generic descriptive domain will do this.

Okay, I’ve said enough on this subject. Learn it, Love it, Live it.