{"id":1078,"date":"2010-08-25T17:36:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T21:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2010-08-25T21:50:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T01:50:26","slug":"go-easy-on-the-traffic-guys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/go-easy-on-the-traffic-guys\/","title":{"rendered":"Go easy on the TRAFFIC guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, domain sales at TRAFFIC Dublin weren&#8217;t that great. Objectively speaking, compared to DomainFest&#8217;s recent record sales, the TRAFFIC Dublin auction results were pitiful.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But really, who cares?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s important for the conference organizers to make money from auctioning domains, TRAFFIC &#8211; or any other conference big or small &#8211; isn&#8217;t all about the auction sales.<\/p>\n<p>TRAFFIC is my favorite conference due to both the style and the type of its attendants.<\/p>\n<p>I witnessed the organizational style of the two Ricks, and they are doing a great job gathering the important members of the domain community, allowing them to share a physical common ground to establish new business relationships.<\/p>\n<p>A domain that can be sold outside of an auction does not make or break a conference&#8217;s quality or status. 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