Oversee announces two “mini shows” for 2010.
DOMAINfest, a conference organized by Oversee.net and DomainSponsor, has announced two one day events taking place in the U.S. this year.
The first will be May 13, 2010 at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale and the second on August 18, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in midtown Manhattan, immediately following the Affiliate Summit East conference. Each event will including networking and programming and a Moniker live domain name auction. Admission will be $175.
Oversee’s move makes sense for a number of reasons:
1. TRAFFIC inked an exclusive deal with Rick Latona for auctions this year. Without these one day events, Moniker would only have two major domain conferences this year at which to run auctions (its own DOMAINfest conferences). The company just added two more auction events to the calendar.
2. It allows Oversee to reach out to its regional customers, and new potential customers attending other conferences in the cities at the same time.
3. The entry fee of only $175 opens up networking opportunities to people that don’t want to spend more money to attend one of the major domain name conferences.
Registration for the events will be open starting April 12 at DOMAINfest.com.
That is a brilliant idea.
I’m surprised they hadn’t thought of this before.
Probably over the next couple years they will move it around to –
Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Atlanta, Cleveland and Washington,DC
And, the different european and asian countries.
This will definitely rob attendance away from the other domain meetings.
Chicago is underserved as far as domain conferences. Yet its the third largest city in the country.
@ Tim Davids – agreed. The only conference I recall being held in Chicago was GeoDomain Expo a couple years ago.
The one day event should be schedule for Thursday or Friday to maximize long weekend for add-on activities as optional.
Remember, most of the domainers are part-time only, and some hobbyist.
EM @ KING.NET