NamesCon to Host Party During ICANN Barcelona

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September 4, 2018

NamesCon will be hosting a party during the ICANN 63 meeting that will be held in Barcelona in October. The ICANN meeting is scheduled for October 20-25, 2018. The NamesCon party will be held Tuesday, October 23 from 7pm to 10pm.

For those of you who are planning to attend the meeting but are not on the NamesCon email list, here are the details from the party invitation I received:

Interested in joining one of the hottest parties taking place in Barcelona during ICANN63?

Well, this it.

Your hosts include:
Soeren von Varchmin, CEO of NamesCon/CloudFest, who also happens to call Barcelona his home

Rolf Larsen and the crew from .GLOBAL who will be showcasing their spin-off company RegistryOffice

The board of directors of the non-profit organization ID4me.org, who are set to establish a whole new open standard for identity management using domains
This must-attend event will feature paella prepared right on-site, lots of drinks and a cool DJ spinning the latest tunes.

The NamesCon Fiesta party will be held at

NamesCon Announces NamesCon Europe 2019 will be in Lisbon

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Elliot Silver

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June 21, 2018

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One of the neat things about Domaining Europe was that the conference regularly changed locations in Europe. The conference, which was founded by Dietmar Stefitz, rebranded as NamesCon Europe, but the tradition of changing locations seems to have stuck. Last night, NamesCon announced the 2019 NamesCon Europe conference will be held in Lisbon, Portugal:

NamesCon Europe 2019 will be taking place in Lisbon, Portugal! Ticket sales for the event starts tomorrow. Make sure you keep an eye out for the announcement. #namescon #nceurope19 pic.twitter.com/gQEzybruUT

— NamesCon (@NamesCon) June 21, 2018

I reached out to NamesCon organizers to get more information, and although the dates have not yet been set, conferences tickets are now on sale. NamesCon’s Terri Potratz told me “tickets are refundable up to 30 days before the event.” I was also told that the event will be held in June of 2019, although the exact date and location in Lisbon have not been finalized just yet. The ticket pre-sale

Great.com: Why Erik Bergman Spent $900,000 to Buy It

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Elliot Silver

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May 1, 2018

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The second largest domain name sale of 2018 (to date) is the $900,000 sale of Great.com. The domain name was bought by a tech entrepreneur named Erik Bergman at this year’s NamesCon live domain name auction on NameJet. Erik reached out to me discuss why he spent nearly seven figures on Great.com and to let me know how Great.com will be used by him.

Erik is an online entrepreneur who built a large business with a focus on affiliate marketing. His specialty has been SEO, conversion optimization, and email marketing, all of which help make someone make money through the affiliate channel. He co-founded a company called Catena Media, and Erik told me he and his partner took the company public in 2015. Erik did very well financially from the public offering, and this is what spurred him to think about charity and helping others. It is with this in mind that Erik acquired Great.com.

According to Erik, Great.com will be a commercial endeavor with the goal of giving away all of the proceeds to charitable causes. Here’s what Erik told me about how Great.com will be used:

2018 NamesCon Auction “Remix” on NameJet

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Elliot Silver

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April 11, 2018

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The other day, I realized that NameJet still had the NamesCon link in its header, and now I know why. NameJet is re-auctioning a large group of domain names that did not sell during the NamesCon live or silent auction.

According to an email I received from NameJet announcing this “NamesCon 2018 Remix,” there is a secondary auction made up of unsold NamesCon auction domain names. Many of the reserve prices have been lowered by their owners to help induce a sale. People who kept their backorders for auctions likely noticed the domain names coming up for sale again, but others may wish to take another look to see if the reduced reserve prices make some of the domain names more interesting.

Some of the better domain names that are coming up for auction again include the following:

CloudFest and NamesCon India 2018 Scheduled for May

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Elliot Silver

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March 13, 2018

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.@CloudFest and #NamesCon India are returning to Mumbai on May 23 and 24! Registration will open later this month. In the meantime, learn about our partnership opportunities. https://t.co/zrcDQfgvyB pic.twitter.com/rZBccCWh10

— NamesCon (@NamesCon) March 9, 2018

The 2018 CloudFest and NamesCon India joint conference is scheduled for May 24-25, 2018 in Mumbai, India. The event will draw a large audience of people working in the hosting and domain name industries. These two events will share keynote speeches, entertainment, and an exposition hall, but like NamesCon Global, they will have two different tracks for people with differing interests.

In 2017, over a thousand

NamesCon Europe: Domaining Europe Now Part of NamesCon

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Elliot Silver

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March 2, 2018

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In the wake of a successful NamesCon Global conference in Las Vegas last month, NamesCon organizers just announced that Domaining Europe is becoming NamesCon Europe. Domaining Europe founder Dietmar Stefitz will be retiring from producing the conference after this year’s show, and it will become a NamesCon event going forward.

NamesCon will now have three domain name specific events held annually throughout the world. NamesCon Global will continue to be held in the United States (Las Vegas) at the end of January, NamesCon India (which is a part of Cloudfest India) will be held in Mumbai, India in May, and NamesCon Europe will be held in June.

This year’s Domaining Europe conference will be held

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NamesCon to Host Party During ICANN Barcelona

NamesCon Announces NamesCon Europe 2019 will be in Lisbon

Great.com: Why Erik Bergman Spent $900,000 to Buy It

2018 NamesCon Auction “Remix” on NameJet

CloudFest and NamesCon India 2018 Scheduled for May

NamesCon Europe: Domaining Europe Now Part of NamesCon

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