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Just
a few days after acquiring
the UK's oldest and largest domain investor's
forum - AcornDomains.co.uk,
the founder of Host
Maria and the London
Domain Name Summit conference, Helmuts
Meskonis, has acquired the oldest
domain forum in the U.S., DNForum.com.
The purchase was first announced last night in a
new episode of the YouTube series Domain
Name Talk, followed by a press
release published at DNForum.com this
morning. Meskonis
said, "The main mission of this
acquisition is to guarantee the success of the
annual B2B convention, London Domain Summit,
for the global and European domain name industry.
This year's London Domain Summit will take place August
22-23 at Hilton London Metropole."
Since being established by Dan Gessler in
2001, DNForum has gone through a series of
ownership changes, including one just a few months
ago when British domain name investor Ryan
De Corsie Ewen bought it from
financially distressed registrar Epik.com. As
to why he decided to take on the task of
stabilizing DNForum after its long history of ups
and downs, Meskonis said, "I simply couldn't
pass up this offer. I cannot disclose the price,
apart from that it was in GBP and 5 digits. I am
grateful to Ryan that he came to me first with
this amazing opportunity, and also gave me a great
price for it. I want to emphasize that as the new
owner, I have no intention of selling DNForum
as this acquisition serves a higher purpose. We
will be working on strategic partnerships and the
first partnership has already been signed with the
London-based Intis
Telecom." Intis
Telecom is a global communications company that
entered the domain industry after purchasing
IT.com for $3.8 million in the closing
quarter of 2021. The company used the domain to
open the new IT.com
registry that sells third level
domains under .it.com through a global
network of registrar partners. |
