Promoter Don King addresses TRAFFIC Conference in Miami.
Don King addressed the audience at the TRAFFIC conference in Miami. King said he came to promote what he’s calling the “People’s Internet”. It was difficult to understand exactly what it is, but he said it’s a way for people to broadcast instantly on the internet. He has two “First Amendment” trucks to capture video and man on the street interviews.
King acknowledged the audience has the the name – “domain name is the name, now you must have the content…you have to have something sound on the ground when you’re around.”
King is also promoting an event in Miami at American Airlines Arena on On December 17. It’s a festival/boxing match/something else.
To be completely honest, I couldn’t understand much of what King was trying to communicate. So anyone else in the audience that wants to chime in let me know.
don king is the greatest guy ever!
Don King is an idiot.
Andrew, I EARNESLY think i can help to translate what “The DON” meant when he said the “People’s Internet”
He said that he is going to take some “raw street footage shots” from his “First Amendment Truck” and ask Senator Patrick Leahy if it will be okay to instantly broadcast it on the Internet.
Senator (good ole boy) Orin Hatch
co-sponsor of the….
“Domain-Blocking BILL” said fine, and he
will go along with anything that has a
dead presidents picture attached to it. 🙂
HUFFINGTONPOST SAYS:
WE SHOULD BLOCK THIS BILL FIRST…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/lqw/demint-has-placed-a-stand_n_742175_61966519.html
>>> To be completely honest, I couldn’t understand much of what King was trying to communicate. <<<
Andrew, what is the topic ?
as predicted this 80 year old fruitcake was a waste of time
Rick, eat humble pie.
won’t hold my breath
ok, all that matters, the auction. is there a live online video feed anywhere?
thanks
auction,
Did you pay to attend?
I assume not since you are asking about
a live auction feed.
If you are attending the meeting, tell Rick to
his face.
“King said he came to promote what he’s calling the “People’s Internet”.”
and they paid him to come? guy must be a genius then, i guess. he’s got people paying him for the right to hear him promote himself. maybe this is the greatest lesson of all. he must be teaching through action, not merely words alone. like a great master. 🙂 .. or has he actually dropped any science yet?
I believe Howard Neu said that he was not
a paid speaker but just a guest speaker.
Who’s the genius that thought it would be a good idea to have someone who nearly destroyed his own industry (boxing) speak at a major domain conference?
To top it off…the guy is a convicted murderer!
Other than that…Don King’s a great choice. ;^)
#FAIL!
Don King got to speak because Rick Schwartz wanted to meet him and found some handy rationalization.
Sometimes there’s a thin line between fame and infamy — from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_King_(boxing_promoter)–
Don King was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After dropping out of Kent State University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation, and was charged for killing two men in separate incidents 13 years apart. The first was determined to be justifiable homicide after it was found that King shot Hillary Brown in the back and killed him while he was attempting to rob one of King’s gambling houses. King was convicted of second degree murder for the second killing in 1966 after he was found guilty of stomping to death an employee, Sam Garrett, who owed him $600. In an ex parte meeting with King’s attorney, the judge reduced King’s conviction to nonnegligent manslaughter for which King served just under four years in prison…Don King has been investigated for possible connections with organized crime. During a 1992 Senate investigation, King pleaded the Fifth Amendment when questioned about his connection to mobster John Gotti. In public, however, he has responded to mob allegations by calling them racist.
Mike Tyson, the former undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion says of his former manager, King: “(King is) a wretched, slimy, reptilian motherf–. This is supposed to be my ‘black brother’ right? He’s just a bad man, a real bad man. He would kill his own mother for a dollar. He’s ruthless, he’s deplorable, and he doesn’t know how to love anybody.”…King has been involved in several litigation cases with boxers that were focused on fraud. They include a 1980 trial in which Muhammad Ali sued King for underpaying him $1.2 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. Ali settled for $50,000. Tim Witherspoon sued King and won $900,000. Mike Tyson sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.
Not surprisingly, not a mention of any of this at his own website –http://www.donking.com/aboutdk.php
Not to say he’s done nothing good since he murdered two men — and he’s received lots of honors over the years — but definitely what used to be called a “checkered past”.
I thought Don King was gonna give some hair styling tips.
http://tinyurl.com/2cv9pes
SMELL THE COFFEE
…………Some don’t just get it?
Don King self made millionaire,
Selling Nothing!
He was the perfect speaker!
ABOUT SELLING DOMAINS
his presence beautifully said it all,
you got’a hustle
Got it now?
More proof that the TRAFFIC show is becoming irrelevant.
@ Hal Meyer
Sorry Hal,
I cant give you any more proof
the TRAFFIC show was a success,
you will have to just take my word on it! 😉
Landon – are you here at the show? would love to meet you.
@ Ryan who said “Who’s the genius that thought it would be a good idea to have someone who nearly destroyed his own industry (boxing) speak at a major domain conference?”
Unfortunately zuccarrini and the guys from ireit were unavailable!
Beware of any man who refers to himself as a “KING”
@Kong
Elvis included ?
@Landon, seems so simplistic it is no wonder these comments are so childlike. One dumb tomato above (PC)wrote a book about kings past. Freaks with a keyboard need to get smart and see the hate.
Ignoring the “dumb tomato” aspersion, the intended point of my comment above (which mostly quotes King’s Wikipedia entry) is the irony in the Internet age of having an official biography that in no way addresses the less praiseworthy aspects of your own long life.
(I also thought the quote from Mike Tyson was further irony, given that the source derailed his own career with a rape conviction, and may be best remembered for biting off a chunk of Evander Holyfield’s ear in their 1997 Championship rematch.)
By no means was I implying that it was inappropriate to invite Don King to speak at TRAFFIC — he’s a highly successful promoter, a patriot, and has been a featured guest at many venues including the 2004 Republican Convention.
As to the quality and value of his remarks, I didn’t hear them so can’t venture an opinion. Based on what I’ve read, the speakers and discussions at the meeting appear to have been of commendable quality overall.
Is it any wonder that the UFC & MMA is now the worlds’premiere combat sport?
First he was not being paid to attend. He was there looking for domain names, traffic and sponsors for his new direct to domain broadcasting venture.
He was there because everything he did was at the mercy of Showtime and HBO. Just like everything we do is at the mercy of Yahoo and Google. Tired of them taking an 80% rev share when he owned the “big names” that made them money, he decided to start his own network to help them realize that without his big name fighters there would be no traffic or audience for HBO or Showtime to lure subscribers.
There are a lot of parallels. And the offline one-on-one conversations after the speech were the more valuable gains. The people who were talking to him Ari Goldberger, Larry Fisher, Ron Jackson, Steve K, Sahar Sarid, Chris Hartnet can give you a better idea than the people posting above who did not attend the conference, hear him speak or just have nothing nice to report about themselves so they spend time knocking down everyone else. btw, I spent an hour with his representatives and we are having lunch next week to discuss some domain names I either have or have been authorized to broker in which they are very interested.
It all seems a bit like the emperor who has no clothes to me.
Yes, he’s a celebrity and people wanted to meet him. But even as he admitted when he took to the stage, he knows nothing about the web. Much of what he said was babbling and incoherent.
First of all, I did not attend, and I apologize for insinuating that Mr. King was a paid speaker. I just thought that is the way these things worked. I didn’t mean for it to touch any nerves.
Secondly, regarding the jocular nature of my comment, I certainly didn’t say it with any malicious intentions toward any one, though again I apologize to anyone who took offense to my words in particular.
However, given the nature of Andrew’s post, I don’t see where what I said was that unwarranted. To be clear, all I got from this post was: He was there to promote something; he was difficult to understand; something about first amendment trucks (???); some trite jingo about “sound, ground, around”; he was promoting another of his speaking engagements in Miami; and Andrew didn’t understand much of anything he was trying to communicate.
Andrew also asked for others to chime in and clarify what Mr King was talking about, to which I seconded, “has he dropped any science yet?” I simply wanted to know whether he talked about anything that was remotely applicable to people in attendance, which it was not immediately clear that he had.
In any case, it sounds like from what few people have reported from the field here that folks got value from the event and appearance of Mr. King, though yes, from the nature of Andrew’s post it was quite easy to be skeptical about that fact.
I guess I will keep my mouth shut next time, since sarcasm rarely comes off as intended on the interwebs. I should know better. Its easier when you talk face to face since you can immediately correct any misperceptions that arise. That’s all I wanted to say
Don King is a criminal, actually a Criminal, in every sense of the word, and was like that long before he started ripping off boxers.
If he was given free admission to TRAFFIC then he WAS paid.
i wasn’t there but it seems some don’t see the potential of Don King being at Traffic
you have to remember that this is the same man who brought Ali and Foreman to Africa to fight in 1974!
if any of you have never watched the making of that fight and what it took to put it together….then you better ask somebody
that i think is the relevance in his appearance, what he can do vs what he did in his past
here’s a link to the tv episode
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0894118/