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The
busy closing day schedule Tuesday
began at 9am with a panel discussion
covering the latest developments in
Internet Governance featuring (left
to right in the photo below) Jorg
Schweiger, Michele Neylon,
Erika Mann, moderator Thomas
Rickert and Professor Wolfgang
Kleinwachter.
Above:
At 10am .CLUB's energetic Chief
Marketing Officer Jeff Sass explained
why ".CLUB is Still the Best
at Marketing a New gTLD".
By the way, Jeff has a new book out
- Everything I Know About
Marketing I Learned from the Toxic
Avenger that is available on
Amazon.
Below:
At 10:30 Guillaume Pahud took
the stage to give attendees the
latest information on What
.Brands Do With Their TLDs."
Above:
Four members of the Internet
Commerce Association,
Jackson Elsegood (Escrow.com), Braden
Pollock (Legal Brand Marketing),
Andee Hill (Donuts.co) and Jothan
Frakes (Merge!), took the floor
before the final morning session to
tell the audience about the ICA's
critical role in protecting
domain owner rights and to
encourage them to join the many
other industry leaders who have
banded together in the non-profit
organization for the good of all.
Below:
At 11:30am Verisign's Will
Shorter gave attendees his
unique "Insight on .CC and .TV",
the giant registry operator's two
long established re-purposed ccTLDs.
Above:
Jose Vicente Gomar (Amix
Network) who holds
one of the world's best portfolios of new gTLDs was
on stage next to give a progress
report called "3 Years
Investing in New gTLDs With a 5-Year
Plan." In short, Jose is
pleased with the assets he has
assembled and remains confident they
will grow in value over time. The
slide you see in his presentation
was a photo we ran when he attended
his first domain conference (THE
Domain Conference in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida in 2014).
Below:
NamesCon Co-Founder Jothan
Frakes came over from the U.S.
to join Braden Pollock as
co-moderators for Domaining
Europe. Just before the 1pm
lunch break Jothan told attendees
about the new Merge!
conference that he and
new partner Ray Dillman Neu
will be staging in Orlando,
Florida October 14-18, 2017. Domains will be just one of
several related fields running on
parallel tracks (for the price of
one ticket) in an event that is
designed to bring together people
who are likely to find synergies
that create new relationships and
expand the enterprises of those who
attend.
Above:
After a lunch break attendees
returned to the conference hall for
a session on .Brands and a Future
New Round, covering what
corporations are likely to do when ICANN
opens a second round of new
gTLD applications. Panelists
(from left to right) were Martin
Sutton (Brand Registry Group), Martin Kuechenthal
(LEMARIT GmbH, Denic eG), moderator Jothan Frakes, Katrin
Ohlmer (DOTZON) and Guillaume Pahud.
Below:
Multi-tasking attendees made every
minute at Domaining Europe
count.
Above:
In a popular 3pm panel discussion
the topic was how to Develop a
Domain and Sell a Business. The
panelists (left to right) were David
Seelos (HasTraffic.com), Michael
Gilmour (ParkLogic), moderator Braden
Pollock, Rob Monster (Epik.com)
and Alex Melen (T35 Hosting).
Below:
There were two daily coffee and
snack breaks at Domaining Europe
- one in the morning and one in the
afternoon. Attendees used the one at
4pm Tuesday to refuel for the
run down the show's final stretch.
Above:
At 4:30pm Mark Kychma
(MAKTIG) took
the stage with some great advice of Domain
Name Leasing, Valuation and
Structuring.
Below:
At 5pm CentralNic's Stuart Fuller (left)
and Martin Kuechenthal (center)
joined moderator Jothan Frakes
to provide some insight into Corporate
Domain Management.
Above:
In the final business session of Domaining
Europe 2017, ParkLogic's Michael
Gilmour detailed New Way for
Registrars and Registries to Earn
Revenue. Below:
While the educational portion of Domaining
Europe was over, the charitable
effort was not. Several
attendees donated domains that were
auctioned off by Undeveloped.com
Founder Reza Sardeha with the
proceeds going to the Hope
Children's Centre.
We encourage you to visit the Hope
link in the previous sentence to learn
more about the
organization that needs donations year
round to
provide educational opportunities
for underprivileged children in Kenya
who would otherwise have none. Also,
keep in mind that Undeveloped's
regular Domaining Europe online
auction is continuing until May
25th with some marquee domains
available in that sale.
Above:
With the final day's work done, Domaining
Europe moderators Braden Pollock and
Jothan Frakes led a
well-deserved round of applause for
conference Founder Dietmar
Stefitz. Below:
I said work was done - not pleasure!
There was still an evening social networking
celebration to mark the end of a
rewarding visit to Berlin. Mark
Ghoriafi (.CLUB) and Sanja
Lazovic (.ME) were among those
toasting Domaining Europe.
Above
(left to right): Domaining Europe
Founder Dietmar Stefitz, Bruno
Calzaverini, Ron Jackson (DNJournal.com),
Antonio Villamarin, Jose
Vicente Gomar and Shaun
Wilkinson (Nidoma.com) at the
closing party Tuesday evening at Domaining
Europe in Berlin. Below:
While chatting with Dietmar
near the end of the evening I
mentioned that Domaining Europe
had a tradition of gathering as many
attendees together as possible for a
"class photo" but in the
hustle and bustle surrounding this
year's bigger show it hadn't been
done. He decided to round up those
who were still on hand (about a
third of the week's total attendees) for
this shot I took from a nearby
stairway. If you click on the
picture a much larger version
will come up so you can more readily
identify the faces in the
crowd.
One
final note. We want to thank our
friend, show founder Dietmar Stefitz for being such a wonderful host (as he always is).
He produced another outstanding event that attracted people from all over the world for a gathering that
sent guests home with great memories and priceless new friendships. We appreciate
all of the work he has done over the past 9 years to make this a better industry
for everyone fortunate enough to be involved
in it, not only in Europe but
far
beyond it as well.
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