The organizers of the TRAFFIC conference announced this morning that nominations for the 2013 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS are now open.
Nominations will remain open until Friday. August 2nd at 6 P.M. EDT.
All those that are eligible to vote should have received an email this morning containing the ballot and some new rules:
“We have added a few new guidelines this year to maintain the integrity of the voting process as the last 2 years were record breakers for voting.”
“1. Nominations must be made by a 3rd party – you cannot nominate yourself.”
“2. We reserve the right to limit the amount of nominees in any category.”
“The T.R.A.F.F.I.C. AWARDS have become the most sought-after and prestigious Domain Industry awards presented annually. This year marks the 10th Annual Awards. The Awards Ceremony is scheduled to take place at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. 2013, to be held at the Ft. Lauderdale Beach Ritz-Carlton Resort on Tuesday, October 22 2013.”
“You may nominate one person in each category”
“All Previous Award winners can be found here as only a few are listed in each category below.”
The AWARDS are:
BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTION (the NEW company with best monetizing results) Previous Winners = Sendori.com, InternetTraffic.com, DomainPower.com
BEST OVERALL DOMAIN SOLUTION (this includes Revenues, Sales, Development, etc.) Previous Winners = Moniker.com, Fabulous.com, Sedo.com
THE “WE GET IT” AWARD ( this goes to the brick and mortar company that understands the value of a good domain) Previous Winners = Steve Forbes, Russian Standard Vodka, Foreclosure.com, Melville Candy Co., Citrix
DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR (self-explanatory) Previous winners = Kevin Ham, Shawn Pilfold, Rob Grant, Alan Dunne
DOMAIN BROKER OF THE YEAR (the person or company that is the most successful in brokering the sale of domains) Previous winner, Dave Evanson
BEST DOMAIN BLOG (the one that you can’t miss) Previous Winners = DNJournal, TheDomains.com, DomainSherpa
SPONSOR OF THE YEAR (the company that really gives the best customer service) PREVIOUS WINNERS = TrafficZ, Parked.com, InternetTraffic.com, Escrow.com
DOMAINER OF THE YEAR ( the person who stands above the rest in the domaining industry) Previous Winners = Kevin Ham, Mike Berkens, Frank Schilling
BANDIT BERKENS GOODWILL AMBASSADOR ( the person who stands above the rest in the domaining industry spreading Goodwill) Previous Winners = Mike and Judy Berkens
DOMAIN HALL OF FAME (two people are inducted each year, but only nominate one)
The following have already been inducted to the DOMAIN HALL OF FAME: MONTE CAHN, RICK LATONA, RON JACKSON, MIKE BERKENS, RICK SCHWARTZ, DAVID CASTILLO, MICHAEL CASTILLO, FRANK SCHILLING, YUN YE, SCOTT DAY, SAHAR SARID, HOWARD NEU, ADAM DICKER, MIKE MANN, CHAD FOLKENING
Nominations will remain open until Friday. August 2nd at 6 P.M. EDT.
There is only one award that pertains to Domain Blogs and with competition every year from theDomains, Sherpa, Elliot etc…..and the person that will probably never be recognized should be. Rick needs to come up with a new award category for Raymond Hackney of Hybrid Domainer. He writes his own blog with great content, writes for Morgan Linton, works with Adam Dicker, and moderates the forums. He deserves some recognition.
Todd
What other awards would you suggest?
There should be more emphasis placed on the information we as domainers receive. Think about where would we be without the Domaining.com feed but there is no category for Francois to every get any recognition. Having only one award for Domain blog of the year is to generalized. There should be more categories for blogs because without the blogs Domaining as a business or hobby would be non existent in my opinion.
Todd
I have no problem with that I will pass your message over to Rick
Rick said Domaining was give a special TRAFFIC award last year.
I didn’t know that. Good to hear.
Previous winners: http://targetedtraffic.com/history/award-winners.php
1. I would need a title for the award that would be competitive among many.
2. Anythng we add will have to be for 2014.
3. There may already be a classification that could fit and you could nominate somebody for this year.
Possibly some type of readers choice award. There are thousands of readers and I think it would be cool to see what the mass would choose. Probably hard to regulate the votes but interesting none the less.
Todd isn’t blog of the year a readers choice award?
“All those that are eligible to vote should have received an email this morning containing the ballot and some new rules:”
I’m a reader and I didn’t get to vote so my answer would be No its not a readers choice award.
“Best writer” or “Best (content) contributor” or something else along those lines maybe.
Not sure I would be in favor of best writer
Wouldn’t win that one
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