Tag Archives: DomainFest

Sat 7th November 2015
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RightoftheDot/ 4.CN Auction Sells Over $871K in Domains - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction on the 4.cn platform as part of the Domainfest.asia conference generated over $871,000 in sales. All sales were led by a three number .com, 586.com which sold for $416,000 The two next highest sales, zhou.com and 8.xyz were both listed at no reserve. Several of the domain name sales occurred, as they often do after the domain auction concluded which is why it took RightoftheDot.com some time to wind up the auction and first publish the results. To note, the ... read more ...
Wed 9th September 2015
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Over 200 LLLL.com Low Priced Domains Are in a 4.CN/ROTD Auction Closing Tomorrow - The RightoftheDot.com/4.CN auction starts to close tomorrow morning Thursday September 10, at 8AM EST or 8PM Hong Kong time, over a staggered 4 hour time period with around 115 domain name closing each hour. We have looked at some great LL.com, NN.com, LLL.com, NNN.com domain names which has bids into the five, six and even seven figures and the 6 million in bids placed in domain names at auction but there are also over 200 LLLL.com domain names that have a reserve price of no more than $1,500 and ... read more ...
Tue 1st September 2015
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4.CN/RightoftheDot Auction Gets A 7 Figure Bid & 7 More Domains Have Bids Over $100K - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction that is running on 4.CN that is part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference has gotten a seven figure bid and seven more domain names have bids in the 6 figures. You can see all the domain names in the auction here The domain name 73.com has a currently high bid of $1,260,315 with 11 bidders. The domain names with 6 figure bids are: YJ.com    $629,922 with 12 bidders 922.com  $362,363 with 8 bidders 735.com  $260,158 with 7 bidders 639.com  $220,630 with ... read more ...
Thu 27th August 2015
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RightoftheDot/4.CN Domain Auction from DOMAINfest.asia is Live & Over 30% Have Bids - The online auction that RightoftheDot.com along with 4.CN are holding, in conjunction with DOMAINfest.asia, went live yesterday  afternoon and out of the 531 domain names in the auction, as of publication 165 of them have  bids which over 30% of the domains in the auction. Moreover 50 of the 165 domain names with bids have more than one bid. There are 14 days to go to auction starts to end. The auction will close over a 4 hour staggered period in blocks of domain names starting on September 10th ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
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Breaking: 8.xyz Hits a DOMAINfest .asia Auction during No Reserve -     The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th. RightoftheDot.com in conjunction with 4.CN will be holding an online domain name auction of around 150+ domains from September 2nd-September 9th. The auction will be in English and Chinese and bids will be show in US dollars and Chinese Yuan. All transactions will be cleared through DN.Cn which is the leading escrow service in China. The number 8 ... read more ...
Tue 28th July 2015
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RightoftheDot.com Opens Submission For Auction At Domainfest.Asia With 4.CN - RightoftheDot.com (ROTD) will be conducting a Premium Online Domain Auction in cooperation with the leading Chinese Domain auction company 4.CN and in association with DomainFest.asia which will be held in Macau China, September 4th through 7th, 2015. ROTD has officially opened up submissions for the auction which will run from September 2 through September 10th catered to the Chinese and Western end user, corporate and domain investor markets. The Auction will be online only since the Domainfest.asia ... read more ...
Mon 22nd June 2015
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DOMAINfest.Asia to be hold in Macau in September - Domain name conference heads to China in a few months. I’ve been a bit confused by NamesCon’s strategy with DOMAINfest after acquiring the brand. The one day add-ons to existing domain name conferences haven’t made much sense to me. But now DOMAINfest is hosting a complete conference, this time in Macau, China. DOMAINfest.Asia is being staged by the NamesCon, Simon Cousins’ Allegravita and .Asia. Allegravita has been staging events in Macau for over ten years, and Cousins tells me he hopes ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2015
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DOMAINfest Is Back; Returns To Europe in June -                           Introducing DOMAINfest 2015 Sofia! The teams at NamesCon and DomainForum are happy to announce DomainForum and DOMAINfest Sofia, which will be held June 1-3, 2015, marking the exciting return of DOMAINfest to Europe. Having already operated a number of widely attended European DOMAINfest events in Amsterdam, Barcelona (x2), Paris, and Prague, the people who bring you NamesCon are proud to announce DOMAINfest Sofia, Bulgaria for 2015 to coincide with the 2015 ... read more ...
Tue 1st April 2014
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Gary Vaynerchuk during DomainFest: domain values headed downward - Vaynerchuk makes a prediction about domain name values during talk at DomainFest in Hollywood. Yesterday Gary Vaynerchuk gave a spirited keynote at DomainFest, with an even more spirited QA session. It got interesting when Vaynerchuk predicted that the value of a good domain name will go down over the next decade or two as the importance of having a good domain name goes down. Vaynerchuk thinks that the importance of domain names is being eroded by other platforms ... read more ...
Wed 5th March 2014
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DomainFest is reduction than a month away. Here’s because I’m going. - DomainSponsor’s annual domain name conference is just a few weeks away. This year’s date-shifted DomainFest conference is less than a month away, kicking off on March 31. I just booked my travel for the event, which is one of many domain conferences I plan to go to this year. With a very busy conference circuit, I’m being selective about which events I attend. Ultimately I included DomainFest as one of them for five reasons: 1. The show has a long history of ... read more ...
Fri 14th February 2014
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Stone Temple Pilots to play DomainFest - STP on the bill for DomainFest 2014. DomainSponsor’s DomainFest conference is always known for legendary entertainment. The Playboy Mansion comes to mind. Renting our Universal Studios. In other words, over-the-top events when compared to other domain conferences. This year the conference has another great event, but in an entirely different category: Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington will play Tuesday, April 2 at a private event. The location will be ... read more ...
Thu 13th February 2014
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.Club Is The Platinum Sponsor For Domainfest & Will Launch the Landrush during The Conference - DomainSponsor®, the organizer of DOMAINFest®  announced that .CLUB will be the Platinum Sponsor for DOMAINFest Hollywood, which will be held from March 31 to April 2, 2014 at the luxurious Loews Hotel in Hollywood, California. The .CLUB gTLD will sponsor the welcome party and reception at DOMAINFest. During the conference .CLUB will launch its Land Rush period with thousands of premium quality names included at Land Rush prices. Over 60 registrars have already signed on, including Network Solutions, ... read more ...
Thu 23rd January 2014
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DomainFest earnings to Hollywood, skeleton discussion for finish of March - Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor announces plans for 2014 conference. DomainSponsor’s annual DomainFest conference is changing its branding back to DomainFest and has set its dates for 2014. The nine year old conference changed its name last year to WebFest Global because the agenda had expanded beyond domain names into search, mobile, and web development. Although it appears this year’s event will also focus on these expanded topics, the company is reverting its ... read more ...
Thu 18th October 2012
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DOMAINfest rebrands as Webfest Global - DOMAINfest gets a new name as it branches out from domains. It was only a matter of time. Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest has new name beginning with next year’s show: Webfest Global. This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Although the conference is run by Oversee.net’s DomainSponsor division, the subject matter has shifted in recent years. It’s not all about domains any more; it’s about lead gen, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, mobile and web ... read more ...
Wed 19th September 2012
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Moniker usurpation auction submissions for DOMAINfest 2013 - Moniker and SnapNames will run an auction in conjunction with DOMAINfest next year. It looks like Moniker and SnapNames will hold an auction in conjunction with Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest Global 2013 conference next year. SnapNames.com has a submission form for the auction. It’s currently listed as an online auction. Both Moniker and SnapNames were owned by Oversee.net until their sale earlier this year to KeyDrive. They provided the auction platform at DOMAINfest ... read more ...
 
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DOMAINfest set for Feb 5-8, 2013 - Dates finally set for big domain industry conference. Oversee.net has set the dates for its annual DOMAINfest Global conference. Next year’s shindig will take place February 5-8. The show will return to the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica. The entire hotel will be reserved for DOMAINfest guests. Moniker will be holding an auction in conjunction with the event. DOMAINfest is typically the domain investing community’s largest event in terms of attendance. ... read more ...
Wed 28th September 2011
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DOMAINfest Announces Party Venues for Next Year’s L.A. Conference - A trip to an automotive museum and House of Blues. Social events for next year’s DOMAINfest Global event in Los Angeles will be held at differenct locations than years’ past. The Wednesday dinner networking event will be at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The museum has a large collections of race cars, classic cars, hot rods, motorcycles, and celebrity cars. After three years at the Playboy Mansion, the farewell party will move to the House of Blues. This is ... read more ...
Thu 11th August 2011
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DOMAINfest Sets Dates for 2012 Show - The big show returns, but I bet the final party will have a new location. Mark your calendars, folks. Next year’s DOMAINfest Global conference will take place January 31 to February 2. The event will again take place at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Registration begins in September for a discounted rate of $995. Rates jump October 1. If you think you might go, I recommend reserving a hotel room soon as they always sell out early. DOMAINfest ... read more ...
Tue 21st June 2011
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My Picks for a Moniker Extended Auction Ending Wednesday - The good and the bad in auction ending tomorrow. The DOMAINfest Barcelona extended Moniker domain auction on SnapNames with nearly 500 domain names concludes Wednesday. Domains range in price from no reserve to nearly $6.5 million for WorkatHome.com. Intriguingly missing from the auction is Social.com, which received a $2.5 million bid during the live auction. Some of the notable low six figure domains include Invites.com, Frame.com, Skills.com, Dorms.com There are ... read more ...
Mon 13th June 2011
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DOMAINfest Changes NYC Show Format to Meetup, Nixes Las Vegas - New York show changed to a meetup and Las Vegas show canceled. Oversee.net has made some changes to its remaining DOMAINfest shows for 2011. First, the New York show planned for August will now be an evening meetup instead of a one day “Power Networking” day. The event will take place August 23 from 7-10 pm at the Mad46 Rooftop Lounge. Registration isn’t open yet but the web site notes it will be $150. I’m a bit disappointed in this change because the ... read more ...
Wed 1st June 2011
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DOMAINfest Gets Ready to Return to Its Roots - Five years later, DOMAINfest returns to Barcelona. DOMAINfest returns to Barcelona next week, the home of its first ever conference in 2006. But the conference running June 7-9 will look very different from five years ago. After a series of successful conferences and a return to Europe last summer, DOMAINfest has grown into the most attended conference on the domain circuit. Its main event in L.A. each year draws 600-700 attendees. The European shows are a smaller, ... read more ...
Fri 27th May 2011
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DOMAINfest Brings Back “Dine with an Expert” - Opportunity to get domain name advice during DOMAINfest Barcelona. DOMAINfest is offering “Dine with an Expert” at next month’s conference in Barcelona. This program allows attendees to reserve a spot at the lunch table with a domain name expert during the conference. The conference offered this program during its February show in Santa Monica and it was a big hit. Numerous tables — including Frank Schilling’s — filled up quickly. As of right now all ... read more ...
Wed 23rd February 2011
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Survey: DOMAINfest Best Domain Industry Conference - DOMAINfest takes top honors again. DOMAINfest is the best domain name conference, according to survey respondents in the Sixth Annual Domain Name Wire Survey. 42% of those that have attended a domain conference said DOMAINfest is best. 39% said TRAFFIC was best. Of the people who answered this question, more had attended a TRAFFIC conference than DOMAINfest. 67% of those that have attended a DOMAINfest show say it’s the best conference and 50% of those who have ... read more ...
Mon 7th February 2011
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Domain Name Wire’s DOMAINfest Recap - Recapping DOMAINfest 2011. DOMAINfest Global 2011 attracted nearly 700 people affiliated with the domain name industry. There was a lot of business and a lot of fun. Here’s my recap. Monday I arrived in Santa Monica Monday afternoon and traveled to the Fairmont. Shortly after arriving I headed over to lunch with a few domain investors. Then it was time to set up the BigJumbo exhibition booth. Monday evening I attended the Southern California Domainers’ meetup ... read more ...
Tue 1st February 2011
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Record Crowd Gathers for DOMAINfest in Santa Monica - Biggest crowd ever packs house for DOMAINfest 2011. DOMAINfest just kicked off today in Santa Monica and new registrations are still coming in. Yet the crowd has already surpassed last year’s record and is quickly approaching 700 people. And while the rest of the country braces for a severe cold spell it’s a beautiful 62 degrees in Santa Monica. At 2 PM local time Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky will take the stage to talk about the state of the industry and where ... read more ...