NamesCon organizers sent out an email this morning with a warning for people regarding a “hotel scam alert.” To my knowledge, I have not received any type of cold calls or emails from third parties about booking my hotel room or other travel arrangements, but I appreciate the head’s up that was given.
Here is an excerpt from the email I received this morning:
Richard Lau and I have been emailing about NamesCon, and he told me that over 100 people have already registered for the 2016 conference. I presume the discounted $199 rate incentivized people to register early, and the reduced rate is still available until Sunday, March 1. The rate will continue to increase until the conference begins.
Richard shared a quote from Frank Schilling about attending and exhibiting at the upcoming NamesCon:
I published an interview with Howard Lefkowitz, who recently launched a new venture using new gTLD domain names. Yesterday, Tech Cocktail published an article about Lefkowitz and his new company, and it’s worth a read.
Lefkowitz gave an animated keynote speech during NamesCon last month, and the video of his speech was uploaded to YouTube. When you have half an hour, I think you’ll enjoy watching the video I embedded below.
I don’t regularly attend the keynote speeches at domain conferences, but I think this one is worth your time. I think Lefkowitz’s new venture is fascinating, and it will be fun to see how things work out and how the company grows. Lefkowitz’s company, One Degree World, is building websites on new gTLD extensions including .Vegas, .Buzz, .Ninja, .Club, and perhaps others.
Here’s the Howard Lefkowitz NamesCon keynote speech video:
Water Night was held last night during NamesCon, and according to an email from organizers, the event raised $138,000 in pledges to the non-profit Water School. This amount raised was based on pledges of $46,000 from Water Night attendees and a generous match from Namecheap and NamesCon.
Specifically, here’s what the email said about the fundraising effort:
Between pledges at the door, and pledges made specifically for the WaterShave inside, over $46k was committed to by you, the NamesCon attendees! With dollar for dollar matching by BOTH namecheap and NamesCon, that transforms into over $138,000 in donations raised by the industry for clean water projects. The WaterSchool charity will be following up with everyone over the coming weeks and we trust everyone will be quick to follow through knowing that every dollar collected becomes $3 to charity! Find out more about WaterSchool at www.waterschool.com
Prior to entry to the party, attendees
NamesCon is a big sponsor of The Water School, “a global non-profit organization with a mission to provide simple, safe, strategic, and sustainable clean water and sanitation solutions to the developing world.” In fact, many people that are in the domain investment business have been supporters of this 501(c)3 charity for a number of years.
Water Night is a NamesCon party that raises funds for The Water School. Water Night will be held tonight (Monday, January 12) from 9pm – 1am at the Havana Club in the Tropicana Hotel. There is no additional cost for NamesCon registrants to attend the party.
According to the event website, “WaterNight continues in 2015 with donations being matched by both NameCheap and NamesCon. This means that a total of $3 for every $1 raised from the crowd at WaterNight goes to fund clean water projects!” Conference organizers are hoping to raise $75,000 for The Water School from this event.
If you aren’t attending NamesCon and you will be in the area, you are
At NamesCon we love our Sponsors and we want you to be prepared before you meet them in person next week. That’s why we’ve been running a “Spotlight On…” series on the DomainInvesting.com blog. As an example, we want you to get to know React2Media. Here’s our Spotlight on: React2Media
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What made you think of attending NamesCon?
First of all, thanks for taking the time to interview me–much appreciated. I can’t wait to meet with as many of the attendees as possible next week!
While this is my second
