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Domain
industry veteran Ken Hansen,
who is Dot Trademark's Senior
Advisor, International, told me,
"Chinese
brands and consumers view .商标 as an online trademark symbol, and a means
of easily finding authentic trusted
brands online. 7,000+
brands including global
companies like Amazon, Microsoft,
Rolex, Facebook, Lacoste
and Yahoo have registered
their .商标
domain name."
Dot
Trademark President Walter
Wu (based in Beijing) and
Head of Policy Dennis Cai
(based in Hong Kong) joined
Ken at INTA. In addition to the work
they did on behalf of their TLD
throughout the week, they invited
some 85 guests to a private
tour and dinner at the Kennedy
Space Center last night
(Tuesday, May 24, 2016). My
wife Diana and I were among their
guests so I took the opportunity to
take some photos to share with
you.
(L
to R): Dot Trademark TLD Holdings
executives Dennis Cai, Walter Wu and
Ken Hansen welcomed guests to
dinner at the Kennedy Space
Center in Florida Tuesday night.
Below:
A scene from the Dot Trademark
dinner where Walter, Dennis and
Ken
filled their guests in on the
background and benefits of the new
.商标 (.trademark)
TLD.
Above:
Guests at the Dot Trademark
dinner and tour of the
Kennedy Space Center came
from all over the world (with an
especially large representation from
China). Familiar faces from
our industry included Howard Neu
(attorney and Co-Founder of THE
Domain Conference) at left, and
101Domain's Joe Alagna
(center) with Greg Shatan
(McCarter & English, LLP).
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The
dinner capped an evening
that had begun with an awe
inspiring private tour
of the Kennedy Space
Center that began shortly
after our buses arrived
about 6pm (it was a one-hour trip from the
Convention Center in Orlando
to the Space Center, located
on Florida's East
Coast). It was my first
visit there in well over 20
years and the Center has
grown dramatically
since then. A series of
expansions has produced a world
of space wonder that
could easily keep you busy
and enthralled for an entire
day.
The
star of the show is the Space
Shuttle Atlantis, the
amazing craft that flew 33
missions - the last in July
2011. Those trips comprised 4,844
orbits of the earth which
works out to over 126
million miles! The first
thing we saw when we arrived
were the giant booster
rockets and fuel tank at the
entrance to the Atlantis
building. Our group must
have snapped 126 million
photos there alone! |
Massive
booster rockets and fuel
tank at the entrance to the
Atlantis Space Shuttle
exhibit at Kennedy Space
Center. |
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Above:
Dot Trademark guests get their
first look at the
Space Shuttle Atlantis that now
resides at the Kennedy Space Center.
Below:
A view from the opposite end of
Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Above:
Among the many interactive
exhibits at the Kennedy Space Center
is this scale model of the Space
Station (adjacent to the
Atlantis) that you can crawl through
yourself (as many in our group did).
This model is 3/8ths the size of the
real thing.
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The
Dot Trademark guests,
especially those visiting
the Kennedy Space Center for
the first time, were
completely awestruck.
There is so much more to see
and do there that is beyond
the scope of this article
but if you have a chance to
go, by all means do it.
While
everyone appreciated the
special evening they were
treated to, I was especially
impressed to see Misters
Wu, Cai and Hansen visit
every table after
dinner to personally
thank their guests for
coming. It's the kind of
gesture the Chinese are
known for but it is still
very moving to see
hosts honor their guests in
such a respectful way.
Speaking
of thoughtful people, Barbara
Neu (Co-Founder of THE
Domain Conference) wanted to
give Ken (who invited most
of the U.S. guests) a
special thank you in return.
She learned that the Space
Center Gift Shop had only one
set of NASA cufflinks
left - the pair in the
display case - so she bought
them and gave to Ken after
dinner. |
Barbara
Neu gives Ken Hansen a special
set of cufflinks
after dinner at the Kennedy
Space Center. |
Ken
Hansen's new NASA cufflinks.
Barbara hopes they will remind him
of how
appreciative Dot Trademark's guests
were for their evening at the Kennedy
Space Center.
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