Here are two ways to make sure you don't miss great content at NamesCon next week. NamesCon is just five days away! There are a lot of concurrent sessions during NamesCon, so you will definitely want to plan ahead of time. Here are two tools to help ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Monte Cahn – DNW Podcast #117
· PodcastsViews on the domain industry from someone with 21 years' experience. Monte Cahn has been in the domain name business for 21 years. On today's show he discusses what he sees happening with both new TLDs and .com, as well has his upcoming auction during ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
NamesCon acquired by WorldHostingDays
· ServicesLarge hosting conference now owns biggest domain name conference. World Hosting Days, a conference for the webhosting industry, has acquired the domain name industry's flagship conference NamesCon. Soeren von Varchmin, GM for World Hosting Days, ... Continue Reading21 Comments
Jothan Frakes on Hong Kong, NamesCon – DNW Podcast #93
· PodcastsJothan Frakes discusses the upcoming DOMAINfest in Hong Kong as well as January's NamesCon show. NamesCon co-founder Jothan Frakes explains changes being made to January's upcoming NamesCon conference. He also discusses DOMAINfest Asia, which takes ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Mark your calendars for…NamesCon?
· ServicesYou just got home from NamesCon 2016 and you can now register for NamesCon 2017. Just a week after the final curtain closed on NamesCon 2016, show organizers have already opened registration for the January 2017 show. Next year's event will take ... Continue Reading4 Comments
The DNW NamesCon recap
· ServicesHere are my takeaways from last week's event in Las Vegas. What a way to kick off the year in the domain name business. Last week's NamesCon conference in Las Vegas attracted over 1,000 people. Enthusiasm, driven in part by a strong finish to 2015 ... Continue Reading3 Comments
NamesCon auction was a coming out party for new TLDs
· Domain SalesOver 30 domains under nTLDs sold last week, and some for high prices. The live portion of last week's Right of the Dot domain name auction at NamesCon delivered about $1.5 million of sales. New top level domain names accounted for just over 20% of this ... Continue Reading8 Comments
This is what it looks like when Frank Schilling throws a party in Vegas
· Domain RegistrarsFrank Schilling and Uniregistry hosted a party at Hakkasan in Las Vegas last night for NamesCon 2016 attendees. Sandeep Ramchandani of Radix and Statton Hammock of Rightside were guest DJs. There's another big party for conference goers tonight, as ... Continue Reading4 Comments
NamesCon registrations top 1,100
· ServicesNamesCon will top its own record for attendance at a domain business conference. Next week's NamesCon conference in Las Vegas will be the biggest yet, by far. As of last Saturday morning, registrations crossed the 1,100 mark. I bet a lot more people ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Make your NamesCon scheduling easy with Sched
· ServicesTool makes it easy to sync session calendar with personal calendar. Sched, a nifty tool for planning your schedule during NamesCon, is back this year. You can use Sched to plan which sessions you want to attend and then easily import them into your ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment