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Domain
Industry Legend Frank Schilling Returns to His
Roots in Another Coup for NamesCon Global
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With
just a week to go
until NamesCon
Global returns to an in-person format
for the first time in over two-and-a-half-years,
the conference continues to add star power
to its agenda.
When the big event returns to the Omni Hotel in Austin,
Texas August 31 through September 3, 2022,
attendees will get to see legendary domain
investor and entrepreneur Frank Schilling
on stage September 1st fielding questions from
fellow industry giant Gregg
McNair, Chairman of the Premium
Traffic Limited Group. In
February 2020, just days after the last
edition of NamesCon Global,
Schilling put the finishing touch on his
astonishing run in the domain
world with a stunning
sale of his domain portfolio |
Above:
Gregg McNair (left) and Frank Schilling.
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and
the company he founded, Uniregistry, to GoDaddy.
With that happening just as the global pandemic
was about to upend face to face gatherings around
the world, many of Schilling's friends never had
the opportunity to congratulate him in person or
thank him for how much Uniregistry's services made
it easier and more profitable to run their own
businesses.
That
will be rectified in Austin where, in addition to
interviewing Schilling, McNair will host a party
to celebrate Frank's achievements at 9:45pm,
August 31 that will be open to all NamesCon
attendees. That will set the stage for the
interview that will follow the next afternoon
during a special hour-long session (starting at
2pm) that will lead into Right of the Dot's
big live Digital
Assets Auction at 3pm.
ROTD
President Monte Cahn (left) and World
Champion Auctioneer Wayne Wheat will
run the NamesCob ROTD Live Digital Assets
Auction September 1. |
The
live auction, of course, has long been a NamesCon show stopper
of its own and the latest one promises to be no different,
especially with the new twist of top tier premium domains
being sold along side new NFT digital assets. In their 13th
year of working together to conduct the world's biggest live
domain auctions, ROTD President Monte Cahn and World
Champion Auctioneer Wayne Wheat will be back to put an
extraordinary catalog of digital assets on the block.
Domains
including ComicBooks.com,
Likes.com, PayPerClick.com,
Mysterious.com, Virus.com, 5GWireless.com
and Sims.com, to name just a few, could ignite
some very spirited bidding wars. Approximately 100 lots
will be selected (from more than 700 submitted) for the live
event with others part of the accompanying online auction
(auction submissions are now closed).
Bidders
may bid in person or by registering to bid online at |
https://rotd.hibid.com.
Bidders will need to provide a
government-issued photo ID to place bids
above $2000. As I noted above, NFTs
will also be made available in auction for
the first time at NamesCon.
Complimentary food and beverages will be
served during the event. |
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(Posted
August 23, 2022)
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