list
of speakers
from around the world will be on
hand for the two-day event that
opens Saturday morning.
Tickets can be purchased online here.
The
significance of the event has caught
the attention of media outlets in
Dubai and throughout the UAE.
Representatives from newspapers and
TV stations turned out for a press
conference that show organizers
held late last week to introduce the
debut event.
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Above
and below: Scenes from the Domainers
Meet Press Conference in Dubai
that set
the stage for this weekend's
inaugural conference - the first
event of its kind in the Middle
East.
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Above:
DomainersMeet Director of
Business Development Anilkumar
(at right) with Adam Wagner (Founder
& CEO at GCCinternet) who will
be one of the featured speakers this
weekend.
While
DomainersMeet is making
final preparations for their
maiden voyage, the 8th
edition of the Domaining
Europe
conference, coming up May
29-31 in The Hague,
Netherlands is making
final additions to their show
agenda. In the latest major
development DE has tabbed |
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Verisign's
Senior Vice
President of Naming
Services, Pat Kane,
as their keynote speaker.
Pat, who will appear May 30,
will speak on the Past
and Future of .COM.
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Verisign
Senior VP Pat Kane will
be the keynote speaker at
Domaining Europe next
month.
Kane
is responsible for the policy
and operational management of
all top-level domains (TLDs)
operated by Verisign,
including .COM and .NET,
as well as the development of
additional tools and services
created to support
Verisign’s channel partners.
Kane, who has been with
Verisign since 1999, has
also been instrumental in the
development and deployment of
Internationalized Domain Names
(IDNs).
Another
major event - one that
is held only once
every three years
- is coming to China
this summer. The World
Domain Conference/Wuzhen
Summit
(previously known as
Traffic China) will be
staged for the 4th
time July 6-9, 2016
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The
conference host, Yumi.com,
describes the event as
"a worldwide
domain grand meeting
that focuses on
building an international
domain industry
platform for
communication, sharing
new ideas and
innovation patterns,
gathering the leading
figures of the
industry, which will
advance cooperation
and create a win-win
situation."
They
added, "Domain
name registration and
management
institutions, domain
name registrars,
domain name
transaction service
providers, online
advertising service
providers, search
engine service
providers, and web portals
from dozens of
countries, and more
than 200 senior domain
name investors will
come together,
studying, sharing and
discussing the
questions of domain
security, application
and development trend,
which aims to
promoting the
sustainable
development of the
domain name industry."
With
the Dubai, Europe and
China conferences alll
being staged over the
next 90 days and DomainX
to follow in India in
August, then Florida's
THE
Domain Conference
in early
September, the global
domain industry has a
very busy spring and
summer ahead. |
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