TRAFFIC

For the past few years, the TRAFFIC conference has been held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The conference is coming up in a few months, and it will again be held at the Ritz Carlton October 20-23.

This morning, Rick Schwartz announced that the conference venue is changing beginning with the October 2014 conference. Citing an increase in business and activity in the domain space (both current and expected), the conference will be held at the  Fontainebleau Hotel, located in Miami Beach, Florida. The  Fontainebleau is a cool hotel with a ton of ballroom space, good restaurants, and nightlife venues.

Here’s part of what Rick had to say about the venue change in this morning’s email:

“Howard and I are positioning T.R.A.F.F.I.C., the show that MEANS
B.U.S.I.N.E.S.S., as the Intersection of all the domain-related shows to come. The
shift will be moving away from ICANN meetings as they become less relevant and towards the entrepreneur. The focus then becomes marketing and sales and not legislative.

This will spawn all types of splintered meetings, self promoting events and small groups and that makes doing business expensive and time consuming.

So with that in mind and hundreds of gTLD’s coming into existence that will require extreme marketing, Howard and I are proud to announce our 2014 and 2015 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. shows will be in a hotel that can handle the volume and size of what is coming.”

TRAFFIC will also be held at the Bellagio, presumably around the same time as this year’s conference, which was held in June.

It’s good to see Rick’s optimism about the domain space, and hopefully the busy summer will continue into the fall.

Here’s the full email Rick sent to TRAFFIC newsletter subscribers: