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Above:
The many familiar faces at Domain Days Dubai
included (left to right) Robert Jacobi
(Founder, RobertJacobi.com), Team Internet CEO Michael
Riedl and Domain Days CMO Jason Nickerson,
who was one of many U.S. residents at the
event. Below:
After a busy opening day, capped by a networking
dinner at Bal Harbour Beach, attendees
filed back into the main hall Thursday morning (November
2) to get ready for another big day featuring 10
business sessions and a fabulous conference closing
yacht cruise.
Above:
Domain Days Founder Munir Badr welcomed
attendees back for another round of informative
presentations and panel discussions that
included three sessions before the mid-morning
coffee break. Below:
After an opening session that provided advice on
setting up a business in the UAE and the taxation
system for digital firms, Patrick Swoboda and
Kamel Al Tawil took the stage for an Exploration
of Local Cloud, Data Centers, and Connectivity.
They were followed by Monarx CTO Rob Seger
who shared A Hacker's Story.
Above:
After a coffee break, it was back to business withy
moderator Tess Diaz (far right) getting Transformative
Tales of Website Builders, Control Panels, and
Automation from Site.pro CEO Filip Borcov
and BaseKit CEO Simon Best. A pair of Fireside
Chats (below) followed to complete a highly
productive first half of the closing day schedule.
Above: At
12 Noon, Extendify Co-Founder Arthur Grabowski sat
down with Robert Jacobi to discuss how Web
hosts are leaving money on the table with WordPress
and what steps they can take to stop wasting that
opportunity for significant additional revenue. Below:
The next Fireside Chat at 12:30 shared the story of How
Miss Group became Europe’s fastest growing digital
solutions. Tess Diaz welcomed Basekit
CEO Simon Best and Miss
Group’s Fredrik Björklund to the stage to
fill attendees on how it was done with tips they
could employ to grow their own enterprises.
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The one hour
lunch break provided another opportunity to
networking and catching up with old friends.
These two faces are familiar to almost
everyone in the domain investment community.
LegalBrandMarketing.com's Braden Pollock
(at left) flew in from California to serve as
both a moderator and speaker at Domain Days.
Braden, who has one of the world's best domain
portfolios, also took advantage of the
opportunity to re-connect with one of the most
successful domain brokers in the business, James
Booth (DomainBooth.com) who currently
makes his home in Dubai.
After the lunch
break, a final round of sessions began with a
panel discussion devoted to Navigating
DNS: Policies, Intellectual Property, and
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That
session (below) featured (left to right) Leonid
Todorov (General Manager, APLTD), Domgate CEO Philippe
Boos and, at far right, Internet
Commerce Association General Counsel Zak
Muscovitch.
In the
next session, Fahd Batayneh (ICANN
Stakeholder Engagement Director - Middle East)
covered ICANN’s Multifaceted Approach to
Mitigating Domain Name System (DNS) Abuse.
Above: At
3pm, London Domain Name Summit Forum Helmuts
Meskonis talked about The Power of
Influence: How Businesses can Lead and Guide Domain
Name Investor Communities. Helmuts explained
how how businesses can foster unity, facilitate
knowledge sharing, and create platforms for
collaborative decision-making that empower domain
name investor communities. Filip
Borcov then returned the stage to complete the
business agenda of Domain Days Dubai with a Keynote
on Growth hacking, hosting & website
builder. For
the grand finale, Domain Days treated attendee to an
evening VIP Event - a four-hour mega Yacht
Cruise aboard the Desert Rose I (below),
sponsored by Monarx and Team Internet.
Above: The
harbor cruise gave guests a chance to enjoy quality
time with old and new friends from around the world
with Dubai's fabulous skyline providing a
stunning backdrop for the networking event. Photo:
Jack Dai.
Above: Domain
Days Founder Munir Badr thanks DN.com owner
Jack Dai for making the journey to Dubai from
his home in China to support the conference. They
say you only get one chance to make a good first
impression and Domain Days certainly succeeded
on that count! With the strong roots planted this
year, this looks like an event headed for a
permanent placed on the global industry calendar.
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