Conferences & Tradeshows

Pinky Brand wrote an article geared towards American readers covering the upcoming Global Domain Summit. The China-based domain industry conference will take place in Xiamen, China from July 7-9.

If you are thinking about attending, you should definitely read Pinky’s article. You should also have a look at the video Pinky created (embedded below) after last year’s inaugural Global Domain Summit conference. It seems like the conference was well attended.

The conference website appears to only have Chinese text, so Pinky’s article is probably the best way to learn about the conference at this point. Hopefully conference organizers will add an English translation for the website. On the bottom of the home page, it shows some of the (invited but not necessarily confirmed) conference attendees, and there are some familiar faces. Among them

Michael Cyger, founder of Domain Sherpa, announced that this year’s DNSeattle  domain industry networking event will take place on Thursday, May 25, 2017. The event will be held at a venue called The Living Room, which is located in Amazon’s Van Vorst building in Seattle.

According to Michael, “DNSeattle will focus on domain name  buying, selling, monetizing, due diligence and legal issues, success stories from Seattle-based entrepreneurs and investors, and much more.” Because of space limitations, only 100 tickets to the event are being sold. This sounds like the perfect sized event for networking.

One of the cool aspects of the event is that all proceeds from ticket sales are being donated to  Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, an organization I am happy to help support. To that end, I bought

I was sent an email earlier this week  with some information about a domain investing event scheduled to take place  in Paris, France this  June. David Chelly, organizer of NDDCamp, told me the event is scheduled for June 26th, 2017 and will be held at the Paris School of Business.

I had not heard of the event prior to this morning’s email (nor do I know David), so here’s how it is described on the event website:

“NDDCamp is an event that bring together registrars, lawyers, domain names investors, SEO consultants and more generally professionals dealing with domain names. Its purpose is to promote the domain name best practices and apprehend the current key topics of the sector.”

The website also states that