With TRAFFIC 2012 in Ft. Lauderdale underway, now it’s the time to remember 10 funny incidents that might have happened at previous TRAFFIC events! 😀
TRAFFIC 2012 in Ft. Lauderdale opens up!
- In 2004, in Delray Beach, FL: TRAFFIC partner, Howard Neu, was cast for a rendition of ‘Platoon’ and showed up in Vietnam-era fatigues. He took no prisoners at the auction.
- In 2005, in Las Vegas, NV: Rick Schwartz broke his own “no gambling” rule and won $450,000 dollars at the blackjack table, which he later invested in real estate.
- In 2006, in Santa Clara, CA: Ammar Kubba of TrafficZ appeared for the last time without his now trademark shaved head.
- In 2007, in Las Vegas, NV: Michael Bahlitzanakis of City.com won the award for the hardest to pronounce domainer name. He still retains that title.
- In 2008, in Orlando, FL: Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire was mistaken for his doppelganger, Ted Olson of NameMedia, a minimum of 455 times during the event. For those of you that still confuse the two, Ted is taller – but not as tall as then Sedo executive, Matt Bentley.
- That same year, it was the last time that Rob Grant was more famous than his daughter Elizabeth, or Lana Del Rey as she’s now known.
- In 2009, in New York City, NY: Chef Patrick baked a giant cake for Rick Schwartz, who had just sold Candy.com for a few cool millions.
- In 2010, in Las Vegas, NV: Event manager, Rick Latona sold hundreds of gold watches during the recess of the domain auction; the biggest non-domain sale of the decade.
- In 2011, in Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Michael Gilmour of ParkLogic, racked an official 1,000,000 frequent flyer miles during his latest flight from Australia.
- That same year, Sedo celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a photo cake bearing the overly pixelated image of Helga-Alice von Susteren.
Onto TRAFFIC 2012! 😀
Wait till you see what happens THIS year!