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Cloudfest/NamesCon
CEO Soeren Von Varchmin onstage
at their latest event at the
Grand Hyatt Hotel in Mumbai,
India this week.
NamesCon
has two more conferences
coming up next month alone! They
will run the 10th anniversary
edition of the Domaining Europe conference
(that has been rechristened NamesCon
Europe) with show
founder Dietmar Stefitz in Valencia,
Spain June 7-9, then will
go half way around the globe for the
annual NamesCon
China conference coming
up June 28-29 in Shanghai.
Befitting
its status as a global domain
industry powerhouse, China has multiple
high level conferences now,
including the annual Global
Domain Summit coming up
next week - running June 1-2
at the Swiss Grand Hotel in
Xiamen. GDS is co-organized by Ali
Cloud, Baidu Cloud, Bizcn,
Blockchain Planet and other
well-known companies. Our friend George
Hong (from popular brokerage Guta.com),
who is well-known on both sides of
the Pacific, will be there and will
fill us in on how this year's event
unfolds.
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yet another option for
European show goers next
month the 4th edition of the
NDDCamp
will be held in Paris,
France June 21. Show
Co-Founder David Chelly
told us, "Our event has
a unique atmosphere. We
don't ask for any fee to the
participants and the
speakers are not paid, nor
they can promote their business
during the conferences. So,
in practice people that come
mostly do it for the
pleasure to share knowledge
and spend a nice time with
their peers. This year,
we are of course going to
discuss about GDPR,
new gTLDs, the ICANN evolution,
etc. but our main focus will
be the French domain name
market. It has
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the
last 2 or 3 years and there
are new ways of
monetization for domainers,
which involve SEO
consultants and web
agencies." |
If
you need another good reason to go
Chelly added, "We've chose June
21 as the date because it's one of
the best days of the year in Paris
thanks to the Music Fest (Fête
de la Musique) that will be
going on. All day and night long,
thousands of musicians play their
instruments and sing in the streets,
bars, concert halls and other
venues."
After
a brief respite in July, the
conference circuit heats back up in
August with the 5th annual DomainX
conference in India the first
one out of the gate that month. They
will run August 4-5, 2018 in New
Delhi. We attended this event
when it was held in Bangalore
in 2015
and Co-Founders Manmeet Pal Singh
and Gaurav Kohli and their
team put on an excellent show that
has continued to grow each year,
helping boost the industry in one of
the world's fastest growing domain
markets.
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Back
on this side of the pond,
the 2nd annual NameSummit
conference is coming up August
6-7 at the Westin
Times Square Hotel in New
York City. The digital
branding conference had a
successful debut in
Manhattan last
summer and
promises to be even bigger
this year. One major
development is the addition
of Pitchfest Global
to this year's agenda - and
event that provides
coaching, advice and the
chance to pitch your new
business or marketing
concept to a panel of
influencers and business
leaders. It will be a
great opportunity to learn
how to bring a business to
market, select and find the
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for your project, increase
customer engagement, and
connect with your digital
audience. |
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The
focus moves south to sunny Florida
in September for the 2nd
annual MERGE!
Conference at
the Hilton
Lake Buena Vista Hotel
right next to Disney
World in Orlando.
MERGE! moves up a month with
their September 15-18,
2018 dates after
debuting last
October. The
unique event covers domains,
of course, but also many
other related fields
including digital branding,
website development,
end user experience, new
business startups, IP technology,
SEO design, security,
hosting, blockchain,
cryptocurrency and more, as
well as networking
opportunities with
leaders in those fields. |
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Norm
Farrar |
While
MERGE! 2018 is still
nearly four months
away Co-Founders
Ray Neu and
Jothan Frakes
have already lined
up some top notch
speakers including
eCommerce expert Norm
Farrar (AKA The
Amazon Growth Guy)
who will be one of
the keynoters.
In
addition to running
his own profitable
ventures including AMZ.Club
and prReach.com
(the world's first
video press release
company) Farrar
focuses on guiding
individual sellers,
brands, and
manufacturers to
grow their private
label businesses on
Amazon, so they can
expand
internationally,
build their business
assets, and optimize
their net worth.
Norman has
worked with many big
brands including
Mercedes, COKE,
Microsoft, Hershey,
20th Century Fox,
Molson's, and
Cadbury. |
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MERGE!
will also present
talks from Michael Palage of
Phaoros Global,
a former ICANN board member and IETF Blockchain Steering Committee
Member, Martin
Kuechenthal, CEO and founder of
Lemarit Brand
Registrar and Mike Demopolous of
BoldGrid, to
name just a few.
The
summer/fall show
calendar ends (at
least as far as we
know at this point)
with a brand
new event
- Domaining
Americas
- scheduled to debut
in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
October 6-7, 2018.
The conference is
being organized by
veteran domain
investor Abner
Duarte, who is
based in Boston
but is a native of
Brazil. It is
great to see a show
like this on the
horizon that will
give investors and
developers in South
America a place
to make personal
contacts and learn
more about the
industry.
There
will obviously be a
lot going on in our
business all over
the world in the
months immediately
ahead (and these are
just the major
events that have
been brought to our attention).
This industry has
changed dramatically
over the years -
some would say for
the better and some
would say for the
worse (with those
opinions largely dependent
on what sector the
people commenting
operate in). In any
case, all of this
activity in a sure
sign that there is
still a lot of
life left in this
business. If you
want to make most of
it I can't think of
a better to do that
than attend one of
these events, or any
of the many local
and regional ones,
when they reach your
neck of the woods. |
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