Web hosting conference kicks off in Austin, Texas.
The annual HostingCon conference kicked off in Austin this morning, with organizers expecting 1,500 or more attendees. I count over 115 vendors who will be showing their wares on Tuesday and Wednesday. A number of exhibitors are domain name companies who want to get hosting companies to sell their products including domain name registrations. Among the domain name companies are:
Afilias
DotMobi (which is running the official HostingCon mobile site at hostingcon.mobi)
eNom
ResellerClub and Logic Boxes
VeriSign
Yexa (new product from Dark Blue Sea)
OpenSRS/Tucows
Of course there are bunch more domain companies here that aren’t exhibiting, including DomainSponsor.
There are a number of parallels between a web hosting conference and a domain name conference. It’s primarily men and primarily tech geeks.
You can follow the conference at #hostingcon.
Mike says
“There are a number of parallels between a web hosting conference and a domain name conference. It’s primarily men and primarily tech geeks.”
not to mention a lot of parties, free food and booze 🙂
sorry that I didnt see you there, but i had a laugh at the opening reception i was talking to Candice from WHIR, and she says “you have a twin around here” and it ends up she was referring to you! never knew we looked that alike but i think its the second time, at DMG someone also thought i was you from your picture in the show schedule. 🙂