Conferences & Tradeshows

Nominations Open for THE Domain Conference Awards

I received an email from Howard Neu announcing that nominations for THE Domain Conference Awards will open today at 9am. After the nomination period closes, the final award voting will be managed by Escrow.com. The awards will be announced and handed out at the September 29th award luncheon held during THE Domain Conference.

To nominate a person or a company for one of the award categories, you need to send the following nomination information to Nominations@THEDomainConference.com. The nomination period ends on Thursday, August 20, 2015, so your nominations need to be received by then or they will not be counted.

Here are the categories and nomination format:

All Booked for THE Domain Conference

The first edition of THE Domain Conference is coming up in about a month and a half, and I am all booked. The conference is being organized by Howard, Barbara, and Ray Neu, and I think it is taking the place of the annual TRAFFIC conference that has been retired.

THE Domain Conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six hotel in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The conference is scheduled to run from September 26-29. The first day of the conference is September 27, and pre-show networking will take place on September 26. The conference agenda has been posted, and it looks like there are some good speakers and panels lined up.

The round

Sedo to Attend dmexco to Promote Domain Names

For the second year in a row, Sedo will be  attending the dmexco conference in Cologne, Germany on September 16 and 17. The dmexco conference is billed as the largest digital marketing conference in Europe. Over 32,000 people from more than  100 countries are expected to attend. Attendees range from marketers to communications professionals from agencies as well as independent companies of all sizes.

The special promotion that Sedo is undertaking is an opportunity for the company to connect with prospective domain name buyers and companies that work with domain names. According to Sedo’s Carolyn Rodon, “dmexco is the perfect opportunity to converge on a unique target audience and share expertise on domains as well as what’s to come with new gTLDs and the future of the internet.” With many of Sedo’s partners being headquartered in North America, this event offers exposure to people and companies who likely wouldn’t cross paths with the company at other events.

Here is some additional information about Sedo’s promotion at dmexico that was shared with me:

Submit Domain Names for DomainFest Macau Auction

The DomainFest conference in Macau is coming up in just under a month from now, and I received an email seeking out domain name submissions for an auction that will take place during the event. The auction is being conducted by Right of the Dot, and it will take place on the 4.cn domain name marketplace. The auction will be held online from September 2nd – 10th.

As you can probably imagine, it looks like the auction organizers are only seeking out high quality domain names that would appeal to the market. The types of domain names they suggested are high value liquid domain names, particularly short names, numeric domain names, and possibly some short one word domain names.

For your convenience, I have published the email I received below. Before you submit your list of domain names, you should probably carefully review the types of domain names they are seeking.

DomainX 2015 is Sold Out

DomainX is taking place in Bangalore, India next week. The first DomainX event was held last year, and over 400 people attended. Deepak Daftari shared quite a bit of information in his conference recap, and it was clear that the event was a major success.

This year, the event was announced far in advance, and I heard that there was going to be a big audience. It seems that DomainX benefitted from the advanced notice, and the event has sold out, according to a tweet just posted by organizers.

From what I understand

TLD Operator Webinar Announced

In an article published on CircleID this afternoon, Tony Kirsch, Head of Global Consulting at ARI Registry Services, announced the TLD Operator Webinar. According to the webinar website, the purpose of the webinar is to “provide all new TLD applicants with an opportunity to share their experiences, learn from each other and focus on the commercial realities of operating a TLD – away from the confines of ICANN, policy or technical discussions.”

I think this is a great concept. All of the companies that operate new gTLD domain names need to ensure that the general public knows about the new domain names. Many of the companies have learnings that could help other companies, and they could work in coopetition for the most part. The exception would be companies operating very similar strings, but for the most part, a company selling .pizza domain names isn’t really competing with a company selling .christmas domain names.

Announced speakers/presenters include the following:

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