After more than 160 individuals or companies were nominated for THE Domain Conference Awards, run off balloting was conducted last week to choose the finalists in each of 9 categories. Those finalists were announced this morning when the last round of voting to pick the winners also opened. The polling will close at 5PM U.S. Eastern Pacific Daylight Time (8PM EDT) tomorrow (Tuesday, September 1, 2015) with all votes being tabulated by Escrow.com.

The inaugural edition of THE Domain Conference runs September 26-29 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The award winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Tuesday, September 29. 

Conference organizers said no one candidate in any category received more than 50% of the votes. The final ballot (below) was narrowed down to each person or company that received at least 10% of the votes cast in that category. You can vote for 1 person or company in each category (except the Hall of Fame were two names may be selected). In order to be counted, your ballot must be submitted to [email protected] on this official form (which you can coy and paste) no later than 5PM PDT Tuesday (September 1).  You will need to send a complete ballot because organizers, in an effort to prevent ballot box stuffing, will not count ballots that name only one person or company.

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR –VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] ADAM DICKER

  [  ] MERLIN KAUFFMAN
 

BLOGGER OF THE YEAR – VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] ANDREW ALLEMAN

  [  ] ELLIOT SILVER

  [  ] GIUSEPPE GRAZIANO

  [  ] MICHAEL BERKENS

  [  ] MICHAEL CYGER
 

BROKER OF THE YEAR – VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] ANDREW ROSENER

  [  ] DAVE EVANSON

  [  ] NEGAR HADJIKHANI
 

THE BEST REGISTRY – 2015 – VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] .CLUB

  [  ] DONUTS.CO

  [  ] UNIREGISTRY

  [  ] VERISIGN
 

THE BEST REGISTRAR – 2015 – VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] GODADDY

  [  ] UNIREGISTRY
 

DOMAIN INVESTOR OF THE YEAR – VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] ALI ZANDI

  [  ] ELLIOT SILVER  

THE BEST COMPANY IN THE DOMAIN INDUSTRY – 2015 – VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] AFTERNIC

  [  ] .CLUB

  [  ] ESCROW.COM (RECUSING THEMSELVES BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT)

GOODWILL AMBASSADOR OF THE YEAR –VOTE FOR 1  

  [  ] MICHAEL CYGER

  [  ] NAT COHEN

  [  ] RON JACKSON
 

DOMAIN INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME – VOTE FOR 2  

  [  ] ANDREW ROSENER

  [  ] BOB PARSONS

  [  ] BRADEN POLLOCK

  [  ] COLIN CAMPBELL

  [  ] GARY CHERNOFF

  [  ] LAWRENCE FISCHER

  [  ] RICHARD LAU

  [  ] VERN JUROVICH