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The
2013 Domaining
Spain conference
opened yesterday
(Thursday, April 25) at the Hotel Sorolla
Palace in Valencia, the beautiful
Mediterranean seaside city that is the 3rd
largest in Spain. I had some more opening day
photos come in overnight and appropriately one
of them featured paella, the famous
Spanish dish that actually originated in Valencia.
In the photo below conference co-promoter Jodi
Chamberlain prepares to dig into one of the
huge pans of paella show goers were treated to
at lunch.
Incidentally,
at tonight's dinner Jodi will have those long
brown tresses shaved off in a fund
raising effort for the Water
School. A $3,000 donation
from RookMedia
yesterday pushed the pledges past the $21,000
mark and donations
are still coming in!
(Left
to right) Simon Pupo (RookMedia), show
moderator Braden Pollock
and conference co-promoters Jodi Chamberlain
and Dietmar Stefitz. A
half-dozen business sessions (panel discussions,
talks and presentations) were held opening day
with new gTLDs being a a recurring
theme.
(Left
to right): Gregg McNair (PPX
International), Andee Hill (Escrow.com)
and Paul Keating (Law.es) participating
in a Thursday afternoon discussion of how the
domain industry is changing. The
opening day of business closed with a panel
that covered how registrars, service
providers and domain brokers are preparing for
the hundreds of new gTLDs
that are due to begin arriving this year.
(Left
to right): Moderator Braden Pollock (LegalBrandMarketing.com),
James Morfopoulos (DomainTools.com), Claus
Barche (InterNetX) and Daniel Eisenhut
(EuroDNS) answer questions in the final
business session of day 1 at Domaining
Spain 2013. As
I write this, day 2 at Domaining Spain
2013 is underway with a slate of seven
business sessions scheduled to address some of
the hottest industry topics.
Just before registrants headed to the ballroom
for today's opening session, many of them were
rounded up and directed to the steps in front of the Hotel Sorolla Palace
for the Domaining Spain 2013 "Family
Photo" below.
Domaining
Spain 2013 Family Photo
(Photo courtesy of Daniel Dryzek)
Domaining
Spain 2013 will close tomorrow (Saturday, April
27) with a social day highlighted by a visit
to the Roman Theatre and Museums of Sagunt
followed by paella at Puerto de Sagunto Beach.
More to come in my next post.
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