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year
but the conference will conclude
with Stefitz handing the reigns over
to NamesCon for all future events.
This
2018 edition, that is being held at
the Sercotel Hotel Sorolla Palace,
will run through Saturday. It
started with a bang today with a
busy schedule of business sessions
(nine in all) that were followed by
a gala dinner tonight at the Marina
Beach Club. I wasn't able to
make it over to Spain for this
year's show but have been following
it on NamesCon's
Twitter feed and their Facebook
posts. Unless noted otherwise, all
of the photos below are from
NamesCon's social media posts
today.
Above:
The day began with a 9:30am
Keynote speech from
Akram Atallah, the Global
Domains Division President at ICANN.
Below:
At 10am, DomainMarket.com CEO and
veteran domain investor Michael Mann
spoke to the audience via a Skype
feed. His talk centered on the
standards he uses to value .com domains
for resale.
Above:
Next up Thursday morning (June 7)
was .CLUB Chief Marketing Officer
Jeff Sass who talked about the
relative merits of
"brandable" domains vs.
keyword domains. His company's Names.club
marketplace specializes in the
latter category.
Below:
The CEO of another new gTLD registry
operator, .GLOBAL's Rolf Larsen,
followed with a talk on how to
value premium domains in new gTLDs.
Above:
In the final morning session, Donuts
Inc. Senior Broker Jebediah Burnett
(right) was interviewed by moderator
Braden Pollock. Donuts has
logged several six-figure new gTLD
domain sales and Burnett talked
about how they were able to put some
of those high-end sales together.
Below:
After a coffee break the afternoon
session got underway at 1pm with a
session about the effects of the new
General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and
what it means for those in the
domain business. The participants
were (left to right) Michele
Neylon (CEO & Founder,
Blacknight), Thomas Rickert (Rickert
Law Firm) and moderator Kevin
Murphy (DomainIncite.com).
Photo courtesy of Lars Steffen.
Above:
After the lunch break it was back to
business with NameMotion.com CEO
Antonio Villamarin providing a
non-technical talk on how to apply Artificial
Intelligence to high frequency
domain name investments using public
data, private data and investing in
data science and mathematics.
Below:
The next session was devoted to Domain
Portfolio Valuation and featured
(left to right): moderator Braden
Pollock, Antonio Villamarin
(Namemotion.com), Alan Shiflett (Senior
Manager Aftermarket, GoDaddy),
Ana Paula Vazquez (Country
Manager, Sedo) and Adam Wagner
(Account Manager, Team Internet).
Above:
A 5:30pm Coffee Break gave
attendees a chance to get a caffeine
boost to carry them through the
closing business session and the
evening's gala dinner.
Below:
The final opening day business
session was all about Domain
Monetization. It featured (left
to right) moderator Braden
Pollock, Michael Bereslavsky
(Domain Magnate), Freddy Schiwek
(CEO, Zonat S.A.), Yancy
Naughton (Founder, HasTraffic), Joel
Ghebaly (Head of Product
Management, Sedo) and James
Tuplin (Director of Business
Development, Bodis).
NamesCon
Europe will resume Friday morning at
9:30am (local time in Valencia) with
another full round of daytime
business sessions and evening social
events on tap. The event will
conclude with a leisure day Saturday
that will feature a Tour of Valencia
and a paella lunch.
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