Barbara Corcoran’s credentials include straight "D’s" in high school and college and twenty jobs by the time she turned twenty-three. It was her next job, however, that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country, when she borrowed $1,000 from her boyfriend and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City.

Over the next twenty-five years, she’d parlay that $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate business named The Corcoran Group. She sold the business in 2001 for seventy million dollars.

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Vaibhav is a veteran of the Internet industry, having been at the helm of several large complex projects in the internet space for over 10 years.

Prior to Skenzo, he was the CEO of a successful internet product development and consulting company. In that role he created business enabling applications for many Fortune 100 companies in the areas of lead generation , online marketing , data warehousing and customer relationship management for household brands.

Over the years he has conceived and been fully responsible for the creation of many successful web products. His content management product was widely considered the market leader during the early internet boom era and used by many startups in India including for the launch of MTV 's India site; he was also the creator of one of the first mobile instant messaging products during the time.

He has been regularly quoted in publications such as Business World, Financial Express, Business Standard , etc and also featured on television networks like CNN and Star TV. He also serves as a judge for IIT-Bombay's annual Business Plan Competition . Vaibhav has a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

 

As senior SEO Manager at iCrossing, Richard Chavez has been highly successful in developing wire-line and mobile search strategies for Fortune 500 clients in financial services, publishing, CPG and pharmaceutical sectors. His search campaigns have made major impacts nationally and globally.

His thorough understanding of clients' business goals and expertise in keyword research, page optimization, technical consulting, and competitive analysis have achieved a tremendous ROI for the clients he serves.

He has been fortunate to have worked in several countries around the globe and speaks four languages. Richard earned a Bachelor's degree in International Business from San Diego State University .

Most recently, he presented a panel on mobile search ranking tactics at SMX in San Francisco.

 

Peter is the VP of Marketing for TinBu and is responsible for the direction of sales and marketing for the company's  interactive content platform that features patent-pending technology and instant revenue generation for Web site publishers. 

In his role with TinBu, Peter has positioned thousands of web sites around the world to effectively increase their site traffic, user satisfaction, repeat site visits, and revenue generation.  Prior to 9/11, Peter was a commercial airline pilot licensed in both helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, working with a number of major airlines around the world.

He flew globally on the Boeing 747-400 based in Hong Kong and Sydney, Australia with Cathay Pacific, as well as flying in the US with Atlas Air and Delta Airlines.

 

Lonnie Borck Lonnie Borck first became involved in the domain industry ten years ago. For the past five, he divided his time between domaining and owning and operating two upscale restaurants. He recently sold his restaurants to focus solely on developing his portfolio. In 2007, Lonnie's sale of Scores.com for $1.2 million was the fifth highest recorded sale of the year.

Lonnie is a co-founder of a web development company which recently launched its first startup, NetRocket.com , a bookmark scheduling service. NetRocket has been showered with industry accolades and continues to gain a loyal following. They recently purchased Bookmarks.com to add to their portfolio of names for development in conjunction with NetRocket.

Lonnie has become a recognized leader in the domain industry, whose advice and opinion is regularly sought by his colleagues.

 

Monte Cahn is Founder and CEO of DomainSystems, Inc., which is the parent company of the domain traffic monetization solution www.TrafficClub.com, and 12 ICANN Accredited Registrars including industry leading registrar - www.Moniker.com. DomainSystems and Moniker.com have been pioneering domain name & online identity after-market services since 1999 with an extraordinary focus on delivering customer satisfaction through specializing in domain name sales & monetization, domain name security, customer service, and value added products and services. Monte has more than eighteen years of experience in the healthcare, high-technology, and Internet fields.

Monte is an aggressive and successful sales and management professional with experience in marketing & selling Internet services, intellectual property, domain names as well as other online information systems and services. He started investing in domain names in 1996 and helped start the first online domain brokerage business on the internet in 1996.   Monte is also responsible for creating the first and only live domain auction process which first debuted at the TRAFFIC East Conference in 2005 and takes place several times a year.

 

Ron Jackson is the founder, editor and publisher of Domain Name Journal, the domain industry's trade magazine at www.DNJournal.com. When mainstream media outlets want to know what is happening in the domain business, they call Ron.

He and DN Journal have been featured in Newsweek Magazine, USA Today, the New York Times, MSNBC and in many local and regional newspapers such as the Boston Herald and Arizona Republic.

Ron is also an active domain owner himself. With a portfolio of more than 6,000 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.

Ron began his media career as News Director of an Ohio radio station before moving on to TV. He spent 17 years as a news and sports anchor/reporter at ABC and CBS television stations in Tampa, Florida.

An entrepreneur at heart, Ron decided to open his own business in 1989 when he rolled out the first in a series of successful record stores. His mail order division became known worldwide as a leading source for music memorabilia.

During this time he discovered the power of the Internet when he was able to replace his expensive national magazine ads with a website in 1997. Business exploded while his advertising costs dropped to a fraction of what they had been before.

Just a few years later, when file sharing and downloading started causing problems for music retailers, he recognized that the Internet would permanently change his industry and most others forever. Sensing a new opportunity that dwarfed everything he had seen before, Ron walked away from the music business and entered the domain industry in 2002.

As he began acquiring domains (the key components of the most important communications medium of all time) he was surprised to find that this vital 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 publication that has been embraced by individuals and companies operating in the space. DN Journal is now regarded as one of the "institutions" in this dynamic young industry.

 

Ammar Kubba is Chief Operating Officer and Director of Business Development for TrafficZ, the industry's oldest and most established domain parking and traffic monetization service. Mr. Kubba is (at least in his own mind) the world's leading authority on Internet domain and traffic monetization. His determination, passion and vision have helped propel TrafficZ to the forefront of the industry, while the company's cutting-edge proprietary technology and unparalleled 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.

Kubba has also been integrally involved, as both a principal and an advisor, in the acquisition, development and sale of such high-profile Internet properties as LA.com, Hawaii.com, Illinois.com, NewJersey.com, Vegas.com, LasVegas.net and countless others. He has been interviewed for features in Business 2.0, The Wall Street Journal Online, BusinessWeek, the DN Journal, as well as various other media outlets and industry publications.

Prior to joining TrafficZ, Kubba honed his entrepreneurial and business development talents as in-house counsel for two public companies in the technology sector. Mr. Kubba has counseled countless private and public clients, ranging in status from the Pink Sheets to NASDAQ, and has been intimately involved in dozens of public offerings and mergers and acquisitions, both domestic and international. Mr. Kubba holds a Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where he was a writer and editor for the school's Law Review journal, and a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of California at Los Angeles.

 

With a Bachelor of Science in Strategic Marketing Relations from Central Washington University, Mark has the ultimate responsibility of making sure the EVO user-experience is as smooth as a slightly-chilled glass of Cristal on a warm summer night.

Mark enjoys the finer things in life but is a business brut, having handled over 120 corporate clients over 8 years while heading operations at Synapse Corporate Solutions.

He also worked with Geoff and Daniel on down2night, SynapseLife, and BuyersVine. Mark is the diesel engine behind the EVO movement.

 

Howard Neu has been practicing law since 1968, and, prior to that time, was a practicing Certified Public Accountant. As a former Municipal Judge and Mayor and Councilman of the City of North Miami, Florida, Past President of the North Dade Bar Association, the Dade County League of Cities, Gold Coast League of Cities and lecturer for the Florida Bar, he is well-known and well-respected in the South Florida legal, judicial and governmental communities.

Mr Neu is a member of the Florida Bar, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third, Fourth and Eleventh Circuits, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and has practiced in U.S. District Courts around the United States as well as the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the National Arbitration Association (NAF).

Howard also hosted his own TV show in south Florida for many years. He has appeared in several movies and is a well know local personality. As moderator of TRAFFIC he keeps things professional, interesting, flowing and fast moving. His good nature sets the tone and friendliness even as competitors duke it out in a most respectful and good hearted manner.

He currently represents domainers all over the world in Domain Defense Litigation, escrows funds and prepares contracts for the transfer of domains.

Additionally, Mr. Neu is proficient in Real Estate transactions, Probate and Estate Planning Defamation and First Amendment Rights Litigation.

 

Ofer Ronen is the co-founder and CEO of Sendori, a Company whose patent-pending technology has created an automated marketplace for redirecting domain traffic to advertiser sites.

Ofer previously worked as a fund manager at Big Red Ventures, a seed round venture fund, where he oversaw the due diligence of promising startups. In addition, he founded a software company, named Karanga, a demand aggregation e-commerce service, and worked as a technology manager at Time Warner. At Time Warner he was in charge of online magazine subscriptions for major titles such as Fortune, Time, and People.

Ofer graduated from the accelerated MBA program at Cornell with distinction, and earned a MS/BS in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.

 

In that role, John managed the distribution of Tribal Fusion's direct response and lead generation campaigns . At time of his departure, John oversaw the optimization and distribution of direct response campaigns totaling $24MM/year.

John Nguyen 's education consists of a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and 6 years of leadership training in the United States Marine Corps . John is an optimization enthusiast, a student of efficiency, and avid traveller.

 

Rick Schwartz, aka "Domain King" and "Webfather", is the CEO and Cofounder of T.R.A.F.F.I.C. As one of the early domain pioneers dating back to 1995, Rick has a knack for predicting big trends and getting it right. He may have been the first to recognize the value of "Type in" traffic which is now commonly referred to as "direct navigation" - the most potent and targeted traffic on the net.

Rick has a prime portfolio of one and two word domains, and is considered by many to be among the leading experts on domain names, traffic, website flow and valuation. Besides eRealEstate.com and domains like Candy.com, Properties.com, Tradeshows.com, ChristmasCarols.com and some 5000 others, Rick is also an accomplished businessman in several other industries including furniture, lighting and advertising.

He ran one of the most profitable and efficient home based businesses with no employees back in the early 1990's out of a 10 x 10 bedroom. He sold it for over 7 figures freeing his time to devote exclusively to the internet in 1998. Rick also sold men.com for $1.3 million in a cash deal that was finalized in May 2004. A domain name that he bought for $15,000 in 1997.

Many attribute that sale to jump starting the domain space at a time considered the lowest point the domain business has seen. It also cemented his main theory that "Domains would go up faster in value than any commodity ever know to mankind." Laughed at in 1995 and 1996 it is FACT today. No stock, no land, no gold, no jewel has ever gone up faster and further in value.

Rick has a string of 6 figure domain sales back to the 1999 sale of eScore.com to Kaplan Educational Services, eCruise.com to iCruise.com and the sale of "PartnerCash.com in 2006 for $110,000. All purchased for $35-$100.. He sold iReport.com to CNN in 2008 for $750,000. This domain may become one of the most advertised domains ever as CNN deploys their new weapon in the media war of survival. Another domain he bought for registration fees. His domain 236.com sold in 2007 is now being used as a production between IAC, and The Huffington Post. So it is evident that Rick has tapped into something that corporate America is interested in.

In 2005 he bought Property.com for $750,000 as well as many other 6 figure purchases throughout the years. He estimates his portfolio to be worth well in excess of $100 Million and took about $5 million to acquire all his holdings.

Rick also runs the premiere domain forum on the net in which the top domainers and sponsors in the world are invited to participate and join. His members read like the Who's-Who of the domain channel. It is known as the hardest website on the net to get into. While others beg for traffic, Rick and his members screens every applicant before they are accepted.

Thus, the basis for TRAFFIC being a tradeshow that is by invitation only. Attendees agree that this is one of the most important features of the show as it guarantees a productive investment of their valuable time as they break bread with the "Biggest and the Best" in a warm and cordial environment.

Last but certainly not least, Rick is a Founding Member of the ICA. The ICA is a Non-Profit group looking out for the best interests of domain owners and investors.

Rick's thoughts about things can be found on his blog at Ricksblog.com. Though it is closed, the 75 or so posts he made during the year may be the most comprehensive writings of the domain industry and the importance domain anes have in relation to increasing sales and transforming your businesses and lives.

 

Divyank is the President of Skenzo and co-founder of the Directi Group (the parent company of Skenzo). He has been chiefly responsible for transforming Skenzo from a fledgling startup within the Directi Group, to one of the world's leading companies in the traffic monetization business.

Divyank started his career at the age of 14 through internet consulting for large businesses. In 1998, at the age of 16, he co-founded the Directi Group. Deloitte & Touche has ranked his companies amongst the Top 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies in India and Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies in Asia consecutively for 2005, 2006 & 2007. His company, Skenzo, was featured by Red Herring in the list of the Top 200 Private Companies in Asia for 2007. In Jan 2008, Financial Express featured Divyank as one of India 's "New Business Leaders". Divyank was featured in the list of Asia 's Top Young Entrepreneurs for 2006 by BusinessWeek Magazine, and in the Young Achievers List for 2007 by Society Magazine.  In addition to all this, he has also been featured by several other leading global & regional news channels and media publications such as CNBC, DD Metro, Economic Times, Education Times, ToI, Rediff.com, Express Computers etc.

Divyank has a very strong technology background. He is respected as an innovator in the field of web services, and has contributed articles to both technical journals and industry magazines. He has been instrumental in architecting and successfully creating, some of the most advanced products and solutions in the field of traffic monetization, web & email hosting, anti-spam, and data security. His patent-pending traffic optimization algorithms are being used as the primary base for powering the Skenzo System, and have assisted significantly in making Skenzo the #1 fastest growing domain parking company worldwide for 2006.

 

Loren Stocker is Managing Partner of Vanity International, an identity design firm that creates brands with complementary domain addressing and vanity phone numbers; like the old Roman Strategy except, "All Roads Lead to You."

Since 1993, Vanity has developed compelling brands and response strategies for Fortune 500 companies , large consumer businesses, and even several major telephone companies.

Loren controls a portfolio of 4,000 domains and is an ardent believer in domain trading - with a purpose. Akin to collecting property groups in the game of Monopoly , domain trading is all about creating synergy within a domain space.

Yet, if there's any truth to the eastern adage, "Find a job you love, and you'll never work a day in your life," then the goal here is to trade up to a portfolio focused on business you love.

 

Matt Lowery is an award-winning auctioneer with Rick Latona Auctions, LLC of Georgia, USA, who will be hosting one of the several domain auctions taking place at TRAFFIC New York 2008 this year. Lowery's renown has earned him over a dozen auction awards and runner-up awards, and he was recently named the 2008 World Livestock Champion Auctioneer for his rapid, concise speaking skills and his ability to accurately spot bidders.

Lowery has been in professional auctioning competitions for 10 years, and his position as 2008 World Champion Livestock Auctioneer is only the latest in a lengthy history of cutting-edge auction competitions and industry citations.

Lowery hails from Nebraska, USA and only recently joined Rick Latona Auctions, LLC, telling his fellows in the industry he was joining a company he believed would enable him to work at a new, high level of auctioning.

Lowery will be conducting a live auction at TRAFFIC New York 2008 on September 24 before an estimated live and web audience of nearly 3,000 people.

 

Rick Latona, president of three companies related to the domain business, DigiPawn.com, Offshoring.com and Domains A & D, has years of experience in various Internet businesses. He also owns tens of thousands of domains.

DigiPawn, Inc was the first company to loan money on domains. Offshoring, Inc offers inexpensive labor from the Philippines to those wishing to develop their names.

Domains A & D is the company he has used to acquire high-profile names like Baja.com, Iran.com, Raise.com, Manufacture.com, Dollars.com, Locals.com, Eject.com and thousands more, some of which are in the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. auction.

 

Mike "Zappy" Zapolin is Co-Founder of Music.com . He is also the co-founder and CEO of Internet Real Estate Group LLC.

The creator of a Harvard Business School elective course on e-business, he has spoken at Inc. magazine's CEO Symposium and The Economist Branding Conference in Shanghai . He is responsible for such Internet brands as Beer.com, Computer.com, Debt.com, Creditcards.com, Diamond.com, Software.com, Sweepstakes.com, Phone.com, Podcast.com, and Chocolate.com.

Zapolin fashioned direct-response campaigns for clients such as Time Warner , Diana Ross and VH1. With Deepak Chopra , he co-authored Ask the Kabala (2006).

Zapolin began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert , later joining Bear Stearns , where he became one of the youngest vice presidents in the 85-year history of the investment bank.

He has been featured on NBC's "Today Show"; on television networks ABC, CBS , CNBC and CNN; and in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , USA Today , BusinessWeek and Success .

He is a graduate of the Owner/President Management Program at Harvard Business School.

 

Jamie is responsible for expanding LinkShare's performance based Search Advantage solution. Search Advantage combines expert management and optimization of a client's paid search campaigns with an integrated approach to the client's affiliate marketing initiatives. Jamie joined LinkShare in 2006. Prior to LinkShare, Jamie was the Director of Sales for NewGate Internet, a search agency based in Sausalito , California . He had a similar role with eTranslate in both Europe and the USA and previously worked in the caviar industry in the Russian Far East.

LinkShare Corporation provides ecommerce businesses with a vast, high quality pay-per-action marketing network, along with expert consultative services and patented technology. LinkShare's cost-efficient pay per action (PPA) affiliate, search and lead generation campaigns acquire new customers, increase revenue and drive results.

 

TJ is an Aspen, Colorado-based investor who became fascinated with the domain industry as much as he is enthralled with the world of mathematics. His domain E8.com is named after the complex math solution that studied and resolved the inner structure of symmetry. The solution of the E8 is so large the formula takes up 60 Gigabytes of hard-drive space.

TJ attended his first TRAFFIC show at TRAFFIC New York 2007, and since then he has been on a buying spree that recently included nine numberical domain names, plus two others, for nearly $1.5 million.

Some of the names include 11.com, 888.com and YourWorld.com.

TJ also seems to have a particular fascination with the number 11, since two of his recent domain purchases - 242.com and 252.com, were made for $111,111.11.

 

Gregg McNair is Director of Domain Holdings Group - Mauritius. Gregg is a relatively new participant in the domain industry after a long background in stock broking, investment banking and CEO business education.

Just 2 years ago Gregg was introduced to domains by much younger tech savvy domainers with whom he now partners. In applying proven investment related skills to the domain industry Gregg has, with his partners, rapidly grown Domain Holdings Group to be respected among the major players in the domain space worldwide.

Today the Group has internet related and diverse operations in more than nine countries, defying the claims of many that late comers cannot be really successful in domains.

Gregg regards attending TRAFFIC as being pivotal in the success of DHG.

 

Sahar Sarid was an early pioneer in the domain industry, known to many as "Shepherd". His visionary, intuitive, and foresight in the emerging domain niche earned him the respect of many in and out of the domain industry.

Sahar is a co-founder of Recall Media Group, who is leading the charge in developing profitable internet businesses with FuneralHomes.com, FuneralJobs.com, FlowChart.com, and some other revolutionary projects in the pipeline.

 

Page got his start in domains buying BlueHorseshoe.com for his hedge fund in 1998.  After purchasing and flipping expired names in 1999,  he applied for the .kids domain in the 2000 new TLD round and funded the registry operator Basic Fusion.  

Page also tested a totally new concept, selling domains in person at a mall kiosk during the 2000 christmas season.  The worst rainy season in 20 years and the oncoming burst of the dotcom bubble soured plans for a national rollout, but now JoeDomains.com is back, able to offer better domains, paired with hosted software solutions and financing. 

Page is  authoring the upcoming Domain Name Investing Handbook: How to Make Money in Internet Real Estate due to be published in July.   Page placed two names in last years DnJournal.com top ten realized sales list, including the successful sale of Seniors.com at the TRAFFIC Moniker Auction in June 2007 for $1,800,000. 

 

Telepathy has been investing in domain names and Internet businesses for ten years and holds an extensive domain portfolio with a focus on brandable, generic domains.

StateVentures develops its holdings of geo-domains which include Pennsylvania.com, Maryland.com, Virginia.com, NorthCarolina.com, Missouri.com and Minnesota.com. Its current focus is OceanCity.com, a destination guide to the popular vacation spot, and the development of its online-reservation system, RezEZ.com.
Nat has an MBA in finance from the University of Maryland.

 

Craig Rowe

Aram has been featured or quoted in leading media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal , Forbes, The Financial Times, NBC and Businessweek.

He has been a consultant for LabMorgan, the ebusiness incubator for J.P. Morgan. He was a Guest Lecturer at the Wharton School of Business, E-Business Fellowship program and a judge at the Columbia University Business Plan Competition.

 

Brad Geisen is the Founder, President and CEO of Foreclosure.com . He is a successful real estate investor, developer, broker and property asset manager who has launched multiple businesses in the real estate, banking and Internet technology sectors throughout a career that spans more than two decades.

Throughout his prestigious career Brad has also acquired countless domains, building a virtual portfolio empire that includes several of the stickiest online real estate destinations available.

He made his first foray into the Internet fray with the purchase of ForeclosureFreeSearch.com in 1998, which quickly emerged as the premiere distressed real estate listings site on the Web. Brad then purchased Foreclosure.com in 2003 and shifted his core distressed real estate listings business to the new and improved URL.

Foreclosure.com now dominates the Internet search engine landscape as a leading industry authority.

 

John Moran

Kindha Gorman is the President of MightyThink and brain behind its brawn. MightyThink is a cooperative group of writers who specialize in crafting the right message for web projects, using the most appropriate medium.

Throughout her varied career, she has learned a thing or two about good writing. Just ask her. She has bored many of her friends with lectures about the proper use of commas, hyphens, and semi-colons.

With over 10 years of experience in writing, marketing, and strategic planning, Kindha has written for magazines, newspapers, web sites, large retail chains, healthcare organizations, financial institutions, and high tech outfits.

Kindha was previously the marketing manager for domain registrars Rebel.com, Domainsatcost.ca, and Internic.com, as well as domain drop-catcher Pool.com.

 

Larry Fischer is a domain expert who specializes in top-level generic domains. He has participated in some of the largest domain purchases to date, including Home.com, Autoparts.com, Stocks.com, Gadgets.com, and Nursing.com.

Larry was a partner in SmartName.com , one of the first domain name parking companies. SmartName was purchased by industry leader NameMedia, and Larry continues to be a consultant for Name Media.

Larry operates a popular domain blog at DirectNavigation.com

 

Michael  is president of Worldwide Media, Inc. which owns over 70,000 domains and operates a retail site, MostWantedDomains.com .

Worldwide Media, Inc. started registering domains in 1997. Michael publishes a widely read domain blog, thedomains.com

Michael's background is in law, and he practiced on the west coast of Florida for over 10 years before getting into the domain business.

 

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