Schilling files trademark application related to domain conferences.
Is Frank Schilling planning to hold domain name conferences in the future?
The thought has at least crossed his mind – if not gone further.
George Kirikos spotted that Schilling filed an intent-to-use trademark application (pdf) for iNEX back in April. Here’s the class of goods listed on the application:
Educational services, namely, arranging and organizing conferences in the field of internet domain names
Given that Schilling has made the move from managing just his portfolio to offering services via DomainNameSales.com, and soon offering top level domains to the public, a “user conference” would be a smart move. I suspect it would be highly attended, even if it’s held down in Cayman.
But here’s the perplexing thing: inex.com is not among Schilling’s hundreds of thousands of domain names.
I reached out to Schilling for comment and will update this story when I hear back.
UPDATE: here’s what Frank had to say:
Filed some time ago on behalf of an ICANN subgroup dedicated to creating a new Domain Name Industry related conference. Name adopted by the group at the suggestion of group member Richard Lau.
Frank Michlick says
Interesting that Frank would pick a conference name where he does not own the corresponding .COM 😉
Andrew Allemann says
With all those good .coms, it is surprising. Maybe he plans to use one if the new tlds for it.
George Kirikos says
In totally unrelated news, Rick Schwartz revoked Schilling’s “Domain Hall of Fame” membership. 🙂 (just kidding!)
todd says
Would love to be a fly on the wall when Rick reads this.
Bird On The Wall says
maybe he is buying domainfest
gratefully. bird on the wall
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Shammy Does It Better says
Maybe this conference will actually be affordable.
David says
@Shammy
Maybe this conference will be exclusive.
Jay says
Might I suggest DomainNameConference.com? Recently placed up for sale at DNS 😉