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There
won't be as many domain conferences
in
2011 as there have been in years past, but you
wouldn't know it from the number of shows packed
into the five weeks between February 1 and the
first week of March. DOMAINfest
Global got it started with their
big show February 1-3, then the
first .nxt
conference, devoted to new gTLDs
was held in San Francisco Feb. 8-10. The action
then shifted across the Atlantic to Vienna,
Austria where the 8th Domain
Pulse conference was staged by Nic.at
Feb. 17-18.
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Things get even busier starting tomorrow
(Feb. 23) when the 3rd International Internet Marketing & Domaining Conference gets underway in
Punta del Este, Uruguay. The Castello
Brothers, Michael and
David, will be the keynote
speakers there. This event,
South America's biggest domain
conference, will run through Friday
(Feb. 25).
The next
day, Saturday, Feb. 26, the first
Rocky
Mountain |
Michael
Castello & David Castello
Castello Cities Internet Network, Inc. |
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Domain
Conference will be held in
downtown Denver at the Russian
American Chamber of Commerce Building on
Pennsylvania Street. Show promoter Mike
Law has lined up Name.com
CEO and Founder Bill Mushkin and DomainHoldings.com
CEO Jason Boshoff as keynote
speakers for the event. Those who want to
stay over for an extra day can enjoy a
domainer's ski/snowboarding excursion to Copper
Mountain resort. |
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Monday
(Feb. 28) will be a travel day that a
number of industry people will use to
make their way to the Bahamas
where one of the year's big events - the
Domain
Roundtable conference - will
get underway one week from today (on Tuesday,
March 1) at the Atlantis Resort.
Roundtable took 2010 off to retool the
event and they plan to make a big splash
in their return to the conference fray
next week.
Featured
speakers and workshop leaders will
include Michael Berkens, Andries de
Villiers, Gregg McNair, Braden
Pollock, Robert Moore, Monte
Cahn, Ammar Kubba, Craig
Snyder and Morgan Linton.
The show highlights will also include Aftermarket.com's
Live Domain Auction Thursday, March
3 from 2:00-6:00pm (U.S. Eastern
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One other
note today - Sedo
just announced that the November sale of
Sex.com for $13 million (£8.2
million) has won recognition as a Guinness
World Record™ for “most
expensive internet address domain name.”
Sedo, who is celebrating the company's 10th
anniversary this month, brokered the
landmark sale - one of many
high-profile, seven-figure premium
domain transactions they have handled,
including Vodka.com, Pizza.com
and Russia.com. The company
said it has brokered over £240
million worth of domain names over
the years.
Kathy
Nielsen, director of sales at Sedo,
said "the
sale of Sex.com was truly a team effort.
We spent about two years with the
domain, establishing the relationship,
researching and finding the right buyer
and managing the domain’s transfer.
We’re honoured that Sedo was trusted
with such a high-value and high-profile
sale, and we’re ecstatic that it is
now being recognized by Guinness World
Records as a record-breaking deal.” |
Kathy
Nielsen
Sedo Director of Sales |
(Posted Feb.
22, 2011)
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