Hosting conference also attracts domain name companies.
WHD.usa (World Hosting Days) kicked off yesterday at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass outside of Phoenix.
Now in its second year in the U.S. (but many more globally), WHD.usa attracts a number of hosting companies and those that partner with them. Among these are a number of domain name companies.
Some of the domain name companies in attendance are Rightside, GoDaddy, Tucows, InterNetX, ParkLogic, Uniregistry, Radix and .Club.
At noon local time today, five new TLD companies will take part in a panel called “Delivering On The Not-Com Revolution”.
This year’s event has a different vibe than the one last year, which was held at a ski resort a couple hours from Pittsburgh. Last year’s event was built around social and entertainment events; this year is more about programming.
John says
What is the point of calling it “.usa” when “.usa” does not even exist? They couldn’t just call it “.us”? They want to maintain the obscurity and failure of .us? They couldn’t get the WHD.us domain, even though it apparently was available for registration as recently as 07/25/2015?
What about “WHD” in other countries? Do they use the proper “.whatever” country code for them, or also a designation that does not correspond to the normal two-character country code?
Andrew Allemann says
They put a lot of dots in their branding here. It’s cute, but with new TLDs it can be confusing.
Their main web address is WHD.global
Stefano Burattini says
We (ASCIO) were exhibiting there Andrew, don’t forget us 🙂
Andrew Allemann says
Sorry about that. I wrote the post before going into the exhibit hall 🙂