Biggest domain name conference tweaks formula and adds famous author to agenda.
The biggest annual conference geared to domain name investors is less than three months away.
DOMAINfest Global 2011 will take place February 1-4 in Santa Monica, California. Last year’s event brought together over 600 internet and domain name professionals.
Yesterday DOMAINfest organizer DomainSponsor announced a fireside chat/keynote with Ben Mezrich, Author of “The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal” — the book the popular “The Social Network” movie is based on. While a number of people have called into question Mezrich’s portrayal of the founding of Facebook in the book, Mezrich has no doubt researched a lot about the founding of successful companies. Perhaps this conference will stoke enough intrigue in Mezrich that he’ll consider writing a book about the domain name industry (similar to this one.)
Here are a few changes compared to last year’s main DOMAINfest Global event:
1. Shorter live auctions. The low/no reserve auction will be just one hour on Tuesday and the main auction will last only 1 1/2 hours on Thursday.
2. A new format for PITCHfest. At PITCHfest companies get to pitch their company or new product to the audience for 5 minutes. Last year they then faced questioning from an expert panel. This year there will be no follow up questions; the panel will vote on a winner and the audience will get to choose one, too.
3. Interactive workshops. These workshops will be aimed at beginning and intermediate domain investors and take place in a structured setting. These workshops will feature experts that can expand knowledge and give the kinds of tips and tools to increase the learning curve of people that have more recently discovered the potential of domain names as an asset class. Buying and selling, monetization options and website buildouts will be covered.
And in case you’re wondering: yes, the Playboy Mansion party is on again this year.
Oversee.net shave all Moniker & Snapnames affiliates says
Correct title should be: Oversee has new SHILL BIDDING winning formula.
Greedy bastards.
Just search DNforum for “halvarez scandal” and you’ll see how fair they are to affiliates.
I can’t put direct link here as it will ban my comment as owner of this blog is on Oversee payroll.
Andrew Allemann says
@ anonymous commenter – please be advised that if you a) continue to use an invalid email b) engage in libel then your comments will be deleted.
I'm ShuwiX says
Andrew, you’ve banned several comments due to that DNforum link.
Oversee is your sponsor, so you protect them instead of people reading your blog. It’s your choice.
Andrew Allemann says
Here’s what happened. You submitted a comment that went into moderation. Then you immediately submitted another comment saying I was banning your comments because yours didn’t show up even though it was just in moderation. Because your future comments falsely said I was blocking your comments, I deleted some of those.
I'm ShuwiX says
Andrew: First comment was published without moderation. You’ve just manually deleted it after 1 or 2 days after which any comment with that DNforum link went directly to moderation without ever being approved by you.
Still wanna play fair guy? Then publish my THREAD or part of vids & screenshots from DNforum. (just search “halvarez scandal” at DNforum and it’s latest result).
You have chance to prove you’re on noones payroll and people here means for you more then several $$$
I'm ShuwiX says
Suddenly no reply. Nice.
In law, not acting is also act of will.
You’ve just proved you’re not fair guy, you’re just on someones payroll and you don’t give a f*ck about people comming here.
It’s your choice if you want to protect sc*m business of s*am*ers like Monte Cahn and Jeff Kupietzky.
Andrew Allemann says
It’s possible that I deleted a comment like that. If it had a really long title about Moniker or SnapNames and some long diatribe unrelated to the post, then it may have been deleted. This isn’t a forum. Comments must be related to the post.
I'm ShuwiX says
It was related to blogpost, it linked to huge evidence with tons of affilate account screenshot in timeline, with complete e-mail communication between me, Snapnames & Moniker employees, Monte Cahn and Jeff Kupietzky. Also I’ve put several videos and had more stuff on my blog then, but soon after somebody (probably Oversee-buddy) somehow hijacked it and put huge amount of different malware there.
I think it’s important to point out who s*ammers are. But not for you Andrew.
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