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Organisation
CEO Edmon Chung and Allegravita
CEO Simon Cousins. Mr.
Cousins was kind enough to share
some photos with us that were
snapped during the course of the
event by Allegravita and .ASIA
photographers. There is nothing like
being at a conference is person but
these shots will give you a peak at
what proved to be a very productive
four-day weekend in Macau.
Above:
DOMAINfest Asia got underway Friday
evening (Sept. 4, 2015) with a
welcoming Cocktail Reception
at the Grand Hyatt Macau.
Below
(left to right): Ray King
(Top Level Design, LLC), Edmon
Chung (DotAsia CEO and
DOMAINfest Asia Co-Host) with fellow
attendees Yannis Li and James
Wolf at the opening night
reception.
Above:
At left, Crystal Peterson
(.CO/Neustar Head of Global Sales
and Channel Marketing, Registry
Services) with Leona Chen-Birkner
(DotAsia Vice President of Registrar
Relations and DOMAINFest Asia
Co-Host).
Below
(left to right): Angie Graves
(WEB Group, Inc. Founder and one of
the the show's featured speakers), Anshul
Goyal (Email.biz Founder) and Jothan
Frakes (DOMAINfest/NamesCon
Co-Founder and Producer).
Above:
Also among those on hand for the
opening night reception were
conference speakers Michael
Gilmour (ParkLogic.com Founder)
and Tessa Holcomb (Igloo.com
Co-Founder & CEO).
Below
(left to right) Raymond Li (Allegravita
CTO), Colin Campbell (.CLUB
Founder, Chairman & CEO) and Manmeet
Pal Singh (DomainX Conference
Founder).
Above:
At 9:45am Saturday morning
(Sept. 5, 2015) it was time to get
down to business with DOMAINfest
Asia Co-Hosts (left to right)
Edmon Chung, Jothan Frakes
and Simon Cousins welcoming
their guests to the big event.
Above
& Below: Views from the
audience at DOMAINfest Asia
Saturday.
Above:
The first business session of DOMAINfest
Asia 2015 was a keynote
talk with Dr.
Gregg McNair (at far
right) conducted by Jothan Frakes
(center). Dr. McNair is Chairman of
the Hong Kong based PPX
International Group and is also
Chairman and Co-Founder of Igloo.com.
Gregg is also well known for his
charitable work on behalf of The
Water School.
Below:
In a later session Saturday morning,
Lie Yue (Internet Researcher and Vice Area Chair,
Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology)
talked about Bridging East and West.
Above
& below: DOMAINfest Asia
attendees getting to know each other
better during the lunch break
Saturday afternoon.
After
lunch the China experts from
Allegravita, Simon Cousins
and Raymond Li, drew an
appreciative crowd to their China
Boot Camp for Registrars. The
rich agenda brought many more top
speakers to the stage throughout the
weekend to cover topics including
The Value Promise of New gTLDs,
Appraisal of Domain Names, Trading
& Negotiation of Domain Names
Around the World and The Future of
Domains (IDN and Universal
Acceptance), to name just a
few.
Above:
The main event on the final day of DOMAINfest
Asia in Macau Monday
(September 7, 2015) was an Executive
Roundtable discussion moderated
by Jothan Frakes (standing at
far right). Seated (left to right)
are Dr. Gregg McNair, Simon
Cousins, Jeff Sass (.CLUB
CMO), Monte Cahn (RightOfTheDot,
LLC President), Edmon Chung
and Ray King.
Below:
.CLUB's Jeff Sass, who also
delivered a keynote talk Sunday
morning, answers a question during
Monday's Executive Roundtable discussion
while Simon Cousins (left)
and Monte Cahn (right) listen
in.
With
another edition of the decade-long DOMAINfest
series - and its first foray to Asia
- now in the books, you might think
Producer Jothan Frakes could
now kick back and relax for a few
months - but no chance. In addition
to just having been named the new CEO
at registrar Moniker.com
(news that came out at DOMAINfest
Asia) Jothan will be
bringing a one-day DOMAINfest event
to South Florida less than
three weeks from now as a lead in
to the first edition of THE
Domain Conference at the
Hyatt Regency Pier 66 Hotel
in Fort Lauderdale.
DOMAINfest will run there with a
full day of business sessions on Sunday,
September 27, 2015 (admission to
DOMAINfest is included in THE Domain
Conference registration
fee). If
you want to look further out, DOMAINfest
Asia has already announced a return
engagement for 2016. That
show is to be held September
19-22, 2016 in Hong Kong
with the venue still to be
named.
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