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The
founders and producers are all domain
industry veterans but with
NameSummit they wanted to expand
their horizons beyond domains to
also include all aspects of
starting and operating a business
online, including domain
acquisition, website development,
SEO, social media, marketing,
management and more.
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Despite being a first year show,
NameSummit was able to attract A
list speakers from all of the
fields the conference set out to
cover. A perfect example of
that came right off the bat Tuesday
morning when conference Co-Founder Jason
Schaeffer (left) kicked off Day
2 by bringing Sedo
CEO Tobias Flaitz on stage
for a Fireside Chat in which
the leader of the domain industry
powerhouse discussed The
Evolution of the Domain Industry and
Branding Trends.
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A view from the audience as
the closing day of NameSummit
2017 got underway Tuesday
morning (August 8).
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The second Tuesday session on Influencer
Branding and Social Currency
featured two stars from that
category - Greg Yuna (at
left), who is widely known as Mr.
Flawless after being given that
nickname by boxing champion Floyd
Mayweather, and Gerard Adams
(The Millennial Mentor) who founded
popular social impact startup
accelerator FOWNDERS.
Gerard became a self-made
millionaire at age 24. Yuna is an Instagram
star who is known for selling custom
medallions, watches, diamond and
gold pieces to heavyweights in the
music and sports world.
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Next up was Tony Kirsch, the
Head of Professional Services and
Evangelist for Neustar, who
covered .BRANDS - TLDs and the
Evolution of Digital Super Brands.
Neustar administers or provides
backend services for many top level
domain extensions including many
owned by corporate brands, as well
as generic and geocentric extensions
like .co, .biz, .us
and the new .nyc, to name a
few.
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In a special lunch hour coaching
session, the audience learned about
the Body of Power - Branding
Through Body Language from
Stacee Mandeville of Red Leaf
Coaching. Stacee provided proven
strategies for building your
personal brand through physical
communication skills.
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After lunch the hot topic of Blockchain
was tackled by an expert panel is a
session titled Disruption in
Digital Advertising and Marketing
and the Wolk
Exchange. The
session featured (left to right) Peter
Borovykh (Blockchain Solution
Architect at Blockchain Driven), Harish
Thimmappa (SVP of Revenue at
Wolk.com), Alex Mashinsky
(Founder & Managing Director at
Governing Dynamics) and Rob
Monster (DigitalTown.com).
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Attendees KW Boswell and Lyra
Simmonds pay close attention to
the advice being offered from the
experts on stage during the Tuesday
business sessions at NameSummit.
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The Tuesday schedule continued with New
Domain Usage Case Studies: Three
Leading New TLD Registries Share
Insights and Real World Examples.
Those registries were represented by
(left to right) Matt Bamonte
(Donuts), Jeff Sass (.CLUB)
and Victor Pitts (MMX.co).
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Legal matters were also well
covered at NameSummit. This
session, featuring five highly
experienced Internet/IP attorneys,
was titled Starting Up and
More - Protecting You and Your
Business - From TMs to Social Media
Law. It featured (left to
right): Jason Schaeffer (NameSummit
Co-Founder and IP Attorney at
ESQwire.com), Brett Lewis
(Lewis & Lin LLC), Daliah
Saper (Saper Law), Stevan
Lieberman (Partner, APLegal.com)
and Ari Goldberger (Founder,
ESQwire.com).
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The next session featured another
quintet - this one detailing a Marketing
Strategy Holistic Approach for
Clients to Maximize ROI. It
featured (left to right -
participating in a group photo at
the end of their discussion)
Moderator Braden Pollock (LegalBrandMarketing.com),
Alex Melen (Co-Founder &
CEO, Smart Sites), Roberto Blake
(RobertoBlake.com), Michael
Mahler (Senior Strategist, Ajax
Union) and Michael Suarez
(Senior Strategist, Ajax Union).
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At 4pm it was time for the final
business session of NameSummit
2017: Name Selection -
Identifying Great Names for Branding
- How Domains Can Propel Your
Business. The session
featured moderator Jason
Schaeffer (standing at left) and
(seated left to right on
stage) Amanda Waltz
(Executive Director, North America,
BrandIT), Dave Evanson (Senior
Broker at Sedo), Loren Stocker (TollFreeMarket.com),
Larry Fischer (GetYourDomain.com)
and Joseph Peterson (Director
of Operations, Epik.com).
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With NameSummit business now
officially concluded attendees
started filing from the ballroom to
an adjacent hall where a Farewell
Cocktail Party was just getting
underway.
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Time to Say Goodbye (until next
time)! (left to right) Jodi
Chamberlain (32Events.com), Karen
Bernstein (KarenBernsteinLaw.com)
and Ilze Kaulins-Plaskacz (ExcellentDomains.ca).
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Some of the guys formed a trio of
their own (also arranged by height -
purely coincidental though, as none
of us has the organizational skill
to plan something like that!). Left
to right are Jeff Sass
(.CLUB), Ron Jackson
(DNJournal.com) and Larry Fischer
(GetYourDomain.com).
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On her way out Karen Bernstein
(who lives in New York) was asked by
George Verdugo (VisitSpace.com)
for her opinion of the show. Karen
gave it a big thumb's up!
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Finally, a big Thank You to NameSummit's
Co-Founders - Steven Kaziyev
(left) and Jason Schaeffer -
for being such great hosts and for
putting on a wonderful debut event
that helped all of their guests
expand their horizons (in both the
virtual world and the real one). The
same goes for NameSummit
Co-Producers Ari Goldberger
and Andrew Rosener as well as
Show Director Jodi Chamberlain who
teamed with Steven and Jason to make
it all happen!
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