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When
founder Helmuts Meskonis
staged his 2nd annual London
Domain Name Summit (LDNS) in August,
he didn't know that would be his last event under
that name. The conference, that has been using the
Summit.London domain name, wound up drawing
people from not just London, the UK and Europe,
but both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.
That prompted Helmuts to start thinking more seriously about a rebrand that would
accurately describe the global reach of his show.
It was an idea that had been on the back
burner but turned into a boiling pot when he went to the ICANN
meeting in Hamburg, Germany a couple of
weeks ago. That
trip set off a chain of events that led to Helmuts
acquiring the DomainSummit.com domain from
industry pioneer Mike Mann for $17,500.
With the domain in hand, Meskonis just announced
that LDNS has officially been renamed Domain Summit
and will run under that flag when the conference
returns to London August 19-21, 2024. To
find out how this all came about so quickly I got
in touch with Helmuts this morning and caught him
while he was still in Dubai after attending
last week's inaugural Domain
Days conference there. Meskonis will
be flying home to London tomorrow and being up
in the clouds this week seems apropos for him
because he has been over the moon since
acquiring the new domain. "I
went to ICANN78 in Hamburg after the 2nd
London Domain Summit in order to network and
promote next year's conference," Helmuts
began. "I discovered that some larger
organizations associated the Summit with being a UK
specific event. I found that many of our current
exhibitors had the same view. While they were
polite about my use of a .London domain,
they suggested I should move to a .com
name."
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