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The
2009 Domain Roundtable
conference
(staged by Thought
Convergence) got underway last night in Washington,
D.C. with a welcoming cocktail party at the Grand
Hyatt Hotel. In addition to a great networking
session than extended over an hour past the scheduled
close, attendees were treated to a lavish buffet laid
out by a chef who was honored as the best one in the
Hyatt's U.S. system. 
(Left
to right): Andrew Allemann (Domain Name Wire), Simonetta
Batteiger (Sedo),
Tessa Holcomb (Sedo), Brian Carr
(NameMedia) and Monte White (Parked.com)
chat
during the opening night cocktail party at Domain
Roundtable in Washington, D.C. The
first full day of business opened this morning with
Thought Convergence CEO
Kevin Vo and CSO Ammar Kubba welcoming
attendees to the fifth annual Roundtable conference. One
of today's three seminar sessions is underway as I write
this with an estimated 150-200 registants in the
ballroom. 
Scene
from the opening seminar at the Domain Roundtable
conference this morning. Today's
schedule will include a keynote address from Jonathan
Zuck (President of the Association for Competitive
Technology) and a late afternoon session in which
experts will answer audience questions on multiple
topics . Several
dozen domainers who arrived in town early enough were
invited to a pre-show party at the Bethesda, Maryland
home of Michael Mann Sunday afternoon. Mann
founded BuyDomains.com and later sold the company
for a reported $80 million to NameMedia. He was
als a featured speaker at one of the opening day
sessions at Roundtable. 
Above:
Scene from the pre-show pool party Michael Mann hosted
Sunday afternoon.
Below: (L to R) Ammar Kubba, Michael Mann
and Divyank Turakhia (Directi) at the party.
(these two photos courtesy of Richard Meyer) 
I'll
have more photos and highlights from today's activity at
Roundtable in our next post tomorrow. Check the Lowdown
daily this week to stay up to date on all of the key
events at the conference. |
