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Five
Shows in 14 Days! With the Addition of Two MeetDomainers
Events in August Next Month's Domain Conference Schedule
Will Be The Busiest Ever
Things
supposedly slow down in the summerbut that certainly won't be the case for the
domain conference circuit next month. In
fact August will end up being the busiest
show month ever with no less than five
majorconferences scheduled between the U.S.
and Europe. The calendar is actually even
more jam-packed than it looks at first glance
because the five events will be shoehorned into
a period of just two weeks in the latter
half of the month!
In
recent weeks I have already told you
about three of those shows (DOMAINfest
New York, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin
and the SedoPro Forum in Boston)
and today I have details on two more
events that have been added to the
August mix.In
an effort to keep things straight,
let's
run through all five of them in chronological
order and in the process I will give you
some extra details that I just received
today about twoMeetDomainers shows coming up in
Europe next month.
The
one-day DOMAINfest
New York Power Networking
event will kick off the summer
conference marathon on Wednesday
August 18 at the Grand Hyatt
Hotel in Manhattan.
The
very next day, Poland's third
annual MeetDomainers
conference will get underway
at the Sofitel Grand Hotel in Sopot,
Poland where it will continue
through August 21.
TheMeetDomainers show was founded
by Daniel Dryzek two
years ago and debuted with a show in Krakow,
Poland.The
event's 2009 sophomore outing was held
in Warsaw,
Poland. Dryzek dropped me a
note today and said this year's show
will advise attendees using tax
havens to pay lower taxes, how to find
and develop profitable domains and how
to run a
successful
internet business. Speakers will include
"Man of the Year in the Polish
Internet" and Ernst & Young
"Entrepreneur of the Year" award
winner Michal Branski as well as
Andrzej Paczuski - voted the best
tax advisor providing services to the
financial sector in Poland.
There
will also be extensive networking opportunities
and for those who want to combine pleasure with
business, the conference schedule also includes
a full day of beach activities in Sopot.
More information about the show is available here.
Three
days after the MeetDomainers show
concludes, T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Dublin will get underway in Ireland
at the Shelbourne Hotel (a
national treasure built in 1824).
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Dublin will run August
24-26, then, just a day after
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. ends, the spotlight
shifts back to
MeetDomainers
and that group's first
ever UK show. That event
will be held at
the Hilton Deansgate Hotel in
Manchester August 27-28.
DDfund.eu
and NameDrive joined forces with
Dryzek to bring the MeetDomainers
conference to the UK. They promise to
bring together top domain investors,
entrepreneurs, developers & SEO
experts from around the world for this
event.
Though
NameDrive is best known for their domain
parking service, the organizers say the
focus of this show will be domain
development. Lesley Cowley
of Nominet and Bryan Lip
of
Expedia are
among the confirmed panelists and our
friend Morgan
Linton has also reportedly
agreed to attend and speak. The 1st day
of the conference will feature
panellists and parties with the
following day highlighted by Paintballing
with the idea that working in teams will
encourage networking.
On August
31, three days after MeetDomainers
Manchester ends, Sedo will welcome invited
guests to their U.S. home base in Boston
for a SedoPro
Forumevent - the first of several
meetings on a SedoPro
World Tour. If past SedoPro events
(the most recent having been held in Key
West, Floridalast
October) are any indication, the
Boston meeting (a two-day event ending
Sept. 1) will be a real treat.
There
will also be plenty of show activity in
September and October but we will save that for
another day. However, for those who really like
to plan ahead, I have to add that Domain
Roundtable announced on their Twitterfeed last night that they will be
returning to the conference fray March 1-4,
2011 at the Atlantis
Resort on Paradise Island in
the Bahamas. No other details were
released but a conference
site is up and details will be
posted there when they become available.
Domain
Roundtable is staged by Thought Convergence
(parent company of TrafficZ). Their last
show was held in Washington,
D.C. in June 2009. Several weeks
back Thought Convergence CEO Ammar Kubba
told me the company had decided to give Domain
Roundtable this year off while they
considered how they wanted to position the
conference going forward.
At
that time Ammar told me the idea was to go upscale
and make it a truly memorable event that would
stand out from the pack (when we spoke, show
producer Laura Schmidt was
already out
scouting locations around the world). The
spectacular 2011 venue shows they are going full
steam ahead with their new vision for Domain
Roundtable.
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