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The
2nd annual edition
of the London
Domain Name Summit began its two-day
run Tuesday (August 22) with attendees from the
UK, Europe, the United States, the Middle East and
Asia converging at the Hilton London Metropole
Hotel for the event. Prior
obligations prevented us from being there in
person but we've gathered some photos posted on
social media by attendees to give you a glimpse
into a conference that founder Helmuts Meskonis
and his team have been hard at work on since
the day their inaugural event ended last
summer. The
show's official kickoff was at 11am local time but
the audience was treated to a special pre-show
session at 10 featuring BrandForce.com
Co-Founder Louis Pickthall who was able to
speak with authority on the topic of How
to Sell a Domain Name for $10 million because
BrandForce handled the sale of Connect.com
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Photo
credit: Yue Dai
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At
11am, Helmuts Meskonis, seen here (at far
right) visiting the Sedo booth today,
formally got things underway with his
Founder's Message. Also seen above, left to
right, are Sedo CMO Christian Voss, Sedo
Senior Broker Dave Evanson and MrPremium.com
Founder Mark Ghoriafi.
Above
& Below: CentralNic CEO Micheal Riedl
followed Helmuts on stage at 11:15 with a keynote
talk that included a call for other industry
executives to join him in setting up a meeting to
formulate a coordinated industry response to climate
change. DomainIncite.com's
Kevin Murphy, who was at this session, posted
more about that on his site today. Photo credits: Mark
Ghoriafi (above and Andrew Bennett (below).
AEServer.com
Founder Munir Badr kicked off the afternoon
sessions with a Keynote Presentation on the State
of DNS & Domain Names in MENA region.
Munir is also the Founder of the new Domain
Days Dubai conference that will make its
debut in November.
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The five sessions that
followed were punctuated by a 2pm lunch break. The last of
those, a 6pm panel discussion on Domain Monetization,
was still underway as we were writing this. It featured Ryan
Ewen (Digital Candy), Christian Voss (Sedo), Claus
Barche (InterNetX) and Adam Wagner (InterNetX).
Earlier in the day, Claus,
InterNetX's Head of Sales (3rd from left in adjacent
photo) was busy welcoming visitors to the InterNetX booth.
Those included Joe Alagna, representing the show's
title sponsor, IT.com (3rd from right) and
DN.com Founder Yue Dai (2nd from right). Yue Dai was
also a featured opening day speaker with a well-received
5pm Keynote Presentation on the Secondary
Market of Premium Domain Names in China. InterNetX
Marketing Team Leader Michael Piotrowski (far
right) also helped hold down the fort at their booth. |
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An
evening social event is going on at the Metropole
this evening. Wednesday morning at 10, attendees
will be back in the conference hall for another
full day of sessions that are scheduled to run
all the way to 7pm Wednesday evening. We'll have
more on that in our next post. Photo Credit: ShortDot.
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