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A
week from today
we'll
be heading west for the big DOMAINfest
Global 2012 conference that runs Jan.
31 through Feb. 2 at the Fairmont
Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California.
Over the past couple of weeks I've posted about
some of the business highlights on the show
agenda, but one of the biggest
changes will involve the evening social
events. After a three year run, the Playboy
Mansion is out and three new venues
are in. Monsoon,
a Santa Monica restaurant that features gourmet,
Pan-Asian cuisine and Balinese décor will be
the site of the Opening Night Networking
Reception and Dinner (Tuesday, Jan. 31)
sponsored by Sedo. There will be traditional
Balinese live musical performances throughout
the evening as well as special remarks from
Sedo's Tim Schumacher, a long time
industry leader who will be serving his
final day as the company's CEO that
day.
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The
next night (Wednesday, Feb. 1), DOMAINfest has
reserved the entire Petersen
Automotive Museum for a Super
Cars Dinner Networking Party sponsored by
the .CO Registry. The museum has one of
the world's largest collections of race cars,
classic cars, hot rods, motorcycles, and
celebrity cars. Attendees will have special
access to an exclusive “Super Cars” exhibit
featuring Bugatti Veyron, Lamborghini,
Ferrari, Porsche and other exotic
cars. Though there will not be a visit to
the Playboy Mansion this year, several
Playboy Playmates will be joining guests
at the Petersen Museum for photo
opportunities.
The
closing night (Thursday, February 2) will
feature a Barbarella
Chamber of Dreams themed farewell party,
sponsored by DomainSponsor, at the House
of Blues on Hollywood's Sunset Strip.
Edgy, interactive entertainment will be provided
by the performance artist group, Lucent
Dossier, and guests will have
exclusive access to the entire club, including
the VIP Foundation Room that features art
and artifacts from around the world. A
silent auction fundraiser with rock and roll and
sports memorabilia will also be held during this
event to support Jenny McCarthy's Generation
Rescue Foundation. It will clearly
be a very busy week and we look forward
to bringing you daily photos and highlights in
this column.
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One other
note today - we have just published a
new home page feature
article: Industry
Heavyweights Find New Domain
Monetization Gold in Old Vein: Why
@Identity's Founders See Big Bucks in
Email Addresses - that I think will
be a real eye opener. Industry veterans Josh
Metnick and Ammar Kubba have
launched a new company (with a great
deal of help from |
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NYC.com's
Sean Miller) that is taking
advantage of a new domain monetization
opportunity that Metnick accidentally
discovered.
It is based
on selling email addresses tied to
premier .com domain names. As
most of you know, selling email
addresses has been tried, without much
success, by many other companies in the
past, but the @Identity
founders say massive changes in
technology are creating new value
(in some cases remarkably high value)
for email addresses associated with
great geo and generic domain names. Check
it out and see if you are as
surprised as I was to hear what kind of
money some people have been paying for a
prestigious email address. |
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