Tag Archives: DomainFest

Thu 27th January 2011
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Are You Going to DOMAINfest? - Biggest domain conference of the year starts next week. DOMAINfest officially kicks off next Tuesday, February 1 in Santa Monica. Organizers expect to meet or beat last year’s attendance of 650 people. So far attendees are from 28 countries. Registration is still open at a discount rate of $1,295 until Sunday. The conference has a record 37 sponsors (including BigJumbo, which I’ll be representing in addition to covering the event for Domain Name Wire). The ... read more ...
Sun 23rd January 2011
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Dine With an Expert during DOMAINfest, But Frank Schilling is Booked - Hurry if you want to “dine with an expert” at DOMAINfest. DOMAINfest is trying something new at its conference the first week of February: Dine With An Expert. Attendees can reserve a spot at the breakfast or lunch table with a handful of the event’s speakers. So who are the hottest tickets? Frank Schilling and SEO expert Bruce Clay. All 9 of their seats have already been reserved. You also need to hurry if you’d like to sit with Sedo’s Kathy Nielson ... read more ...
Tue 18th January 2011
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The Biggest Party, err, Domain Conference, is Just a Couple Weeks Away - DOMAINfest quickly approaching. The biggest domain name conference and domainer party of the year is just around the corner. DOMAINfest Global 2011 kicks off Tuesday, February 1 at the Fairmont Hotel in Santa Monica, California. And although you’ll certainly learn a lot at the event, you have to admit a big draw happens each evening. On Tuesday night .Co Internet will host a Polynesian Paradise Party at the hotel’s Pool Terrace and Miramar Gardens. .Co tried ... read more ...
Tue 28th December 2010
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Two Smart Financial Moves for DOMAINfest Conference - Conference cost increases next week. The domain business’ biggest conference of 2011 is a month away. But you can make two smart financial moves by buying your DOMAINfest conference pass by the end of this week: 1. The price goes up $100 on January 1, so you can save $100 by getting your pass this week. 2. By purchasing in 2010 you can record your expense on this year’s taxes, thus lowering your current tax liability. (You can also do well by purchasing your ... read more ...
Wed 8th December 2010
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Like Fantasy Football? Try Fantasy Domaining. - Fantasy domaining contest runs through January 15. Oversee.net’s DOMAINfest conference has an innovative contest going on right now: fantasy domaining. It works similar to fantasy football. But instead of drafting players and watching their Sunday afternoon performance, you draft domain names and watch their pay-per-click performance. Here’s how it works: 1. Select 35 domain names out of 1,000 owned by Oversee.net 2. Pick 25 of these to be your “in game” ... read more ...
Thu 2nd December 2010
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Brilliant: Bob Parsons to Keynote DOMAINfest - Go Daddy founder to give keynote presentation at DOMAINfest. I didn’t see this coming, but it’s brilliant: Go Daddy founder Bob Parsons will keynote February’s DOMAINfest Global conference in Santa Monica. DOMAINfest is run by Oversee.net, which owns Moniker. Go Daddy is certainly its #1 competitor for domain registration. Go Daddy is the biggest domain name registrar and manages perhaps 20 times as many domains as Moniker. But DOMAINfest is an industry ... read more ...
Fri 19th November 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces Keynote and Improves on Winning Formula - Biggest domain name conference tweaks formula and adds famous author to agenda. The biggest annual conference geared to domain name investors is less than three months away. DOMAINfest Global 2011 will take place February 1-4 in Santa Monica, California. Last year’s event brought together over 600 internet and domain name professionals. Yesterday DOMAINfest organizer DomainSponsor announced a fireside chat/keynote with Ben Mezrich, Author of “The Accidental Billionaires: ... read more ...
Wed 6th October 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces Shows in Barcelona, Las Vegas - DOMAINfest plans four shows for 2011. This morning at the DOMAINfest show in Prague, Oversee.net General Manager Peter Celeste announced locations for the franchise’s shows in 2010. Next year will kick off with the previously-announced main event in Santa Monica in February. Celeste said the party at the Playboy Mansion will return for the third year. In June 2011 DOMAINfest will return to Europe with an event in Barcelona. Barcelona was the site of the first ... read more ...
Mon 27th September 2010
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Your Guide to Prague for DOMAINfest - by Jan Barta [Jan Barta is Chairman of Elephant Orchestra, a fast-growing media company focused on direct navigation and lead generation based in Prague. One the company’s domain products is Elephant Traffic, a direct navigation monetization solution.] Andrew asked me if I could write a short guide to Prague with some tips what you can do here during DOMAINFest or if you decide to prolong your stay afterwards. Since Prague is my hometown, I obviously had to accept ... read more ...
Thu 23rd September 2010
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Hotel Sold Out (and Other Things to Know About DOMAINfest Prague) - DOMAINfest heads to Prague. Here’s what you need to know. Heading to Prague for DOMAINfest in two weeks? I hope you’ve booked your hotel since the Intercontinental is sold out. But if not, we’re here to help. Read on for alternative hotels and more information about your trip to Prague. I caught up with Oversee.net to get answers to some common questions: Is the hotel sold out or are just the discounted rooms sold out? Where should people look for alternative ... read more ...
Tue 21st September 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces Prague Party Locations - Networking and partying gets underway in a couple weeks in Czech Republic. DOMAINfest has announced that it will hold networking events and parties at two exclusive locations during October’s event in Prague. On October 6, Moniker and SnapNames have obtained exclusive use of the National Museum in Prague’s Vaclavske Square for a dinner party. It’s the oldest and largest museum in the Czech Republic. On October 7, DomainSponsor will host a dinner and party at ... read more ...
 
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HP Puts Digital.com Domain Name on a Auction Block - Digital.com goes up for sale. Technology giant HP is offering the domain name Digital.com for sale, but it’s going to cost you. The domain name has been listed in Moniker’s upcoming live domain name auction taking place in Prague October 6. Reserve price: somewhere between $1 million and $5 million. HP got the domain name when it acquired Compaq. Moniker will auction off 80 other domain names during its DOMAINfest conference live domain name auction. Among ... read more ...
Wed 18th August 2010
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DOMAINfest NYC Wrap Up - DOMAINfest draws a large crowd. DOMAINfest’s Power Networking day in New York City attracted more than 200 people for the all-day event. The morning started with Oversee.net CEO Jeff Kupietzky delivering a strong talk on five myths of the domain name industry, which you can read here. Next, Naresh Rekhi of comScore gave an overview of trends in internet usage that are applicable to domainers, especially as they choose which domains to build out. Rekhi was followed ... read more ...
Thu 12th August 2010
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Moniker’s Live Auction Catalog is Its Best Ever - Auction will be huge if those with big pockets show up. Next week Moniker will hold an auction at DOMAINfest New York. The list of domain names is by far the best Moniker has ever put together for a live auction. Just look at this sample: BabySitting.com ByOwner.com Cable.com Disco.com Grant.com Hamburgers.com Koran.com Patents.com Physicians.com Quotes.com Ravioli.com Stocks.com StockQuotes.com xxx.com It’s a fantastic list. That doesn’t guarantee success, ... read more ...
Mon 9th August 2010
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Are we going to DOMAINfest NYC Next Week? - DOMAINfest gears up for Manhattan. Are you heading to DOMAINfest in New York City next week? If so, leave a comment on this post to help with networking. The “Power Networking Day” will take place August 18 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Admission is still available for $175. I have a feeling this will be one of the larger domain name events of the year. The agenda has shaped up nicely. For the first time in a long time at a domain event, there ... read more ...
Fri 2nd July 2010
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DOMAINfest NYC Should Draw a Big Crowd - Next month’s one day conference will be big; October’s will be even bigger. It’s technically only a one day event, but I suspect next month’s DOMAINfest Power Networking Day in New York City will draw a very sizable crowd. The event is being held right after Affiliate Summit, and both events are cross promoting each other. This, along with being in New York City, should result in big numbers. I caught up with Oversee.net Head of Marketing Aaron Kvitek yesterday ... read more ...
Tue 22nd June 2010
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DOMAINfest Global Moves to Feb for 2011 - Largest domain conference sets date for 2011. Oversee.net’s flagship DOMAINfest Global conference is moving back a week this year to the first week of February. The conference will take place February 1-3, 2011 and will again be held at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California. Hotel reservations for the event are already available. If it’s anything like last year, the hotel will sell out in a hurry even though the entire hotel is reserved for ... read more ...
Thu 27th May 2010
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DOMAINfest Europe to Mix Business and Fun - DOMAINfest sets preliminary agenda for Prague show and opens registration. DOMAINfest has opened registration for its European show taking place Wednesday and Thursday, October 6 and 7, 2010, at the Hotel InterContinental in Prague, Czech Republic. The agenda looks very different from most of the company’s previous events, as the second day is dedicated to fun networking and social events. Wednesday will include a number of session geared to the European audience ... read more ...
Thu 20th May 2010
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DOMAINfest Extended Auction Bombs - Extended auction fails to live up to success of live auction. Last week DOMAINfest had a successful live domain name auction. Unfortunately, the extended auction didn’t perform too well. Only 8 out of 797 domain names sold, or a sell through rate of only 1%. It’s disappointing, but I’m not terribly surprised. I only came up with five domain names to mention in my preview post a couple days ago. (Mind you, none of the five I chose sold. But it goes to show ... read more ...
Sun 9th May 2010
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My 12 Picks for Thursday’s DOMAINfest Auction - Here are a dozen domains worth watching at Thursday’s domain auction. DomainSponsor’s first DOMAINfest Power Networking day is this Thursday in Fort Lauderdale. The day concludes with a live domain name auction featuring 120 domain names. Several of the domains in the auction are tied to Rob Monster’s Domain Strategies. Karate.com, a partnership between Domain Strategies and Live Current Media, is on the block for $500,000-$750,000. Wifi.com, an early partnership ... read more ...
Fri 30th April 2010
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Oversee Responds to Feedback, Expands Agenda for DOMAINfest Event - Next month’s event just got more interesting. I’ll say this about Oversee.net and its DOMAINfest conferences: it always responds to feedback. The company just announced that it’s beefing up its one day event to be held on May 13 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Some of the rumblings on blogs and message boards when the company first announced its “Power Networking” days was that it seemed more like an excuse to hold an auction. But the new agenda has more ... read more ...
Thu 25th March 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces Two Single Day Events in U.S. - Oversee announces two “mini shows” for 2010. DOMAINfest, a conference organized by Oversee.net and DomainSponsor, has announced two one day events taking place in the U.S. this year. The first will be May 13, 2010 at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale and the second on August 18, 2010 at the Grand Hyatt in midtown Manhattan, immediately following the Affiliate Summit East conference. Each event will including networking and programming and a Moniker live domain name ... read more ...
Tue 2nd March 2010
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DOMAINfest Announces European Show - Second DOMAINfest conference to take place in Prague. We now have the details about the second DOMAINfest conference for 2010, something the company foreshadowed back in July. Oversee.net announced today that it will hold the second conference in Prague, Czech Republic. It will be a two day event, October 6 and 7, 2010 at Hotel Intercontinental. Conference details will be released in June. Registration is not yet open, but hotel reservations are available for 159 ... read more ...
Thu 18th February 2010
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Survey: DOMAINfest is Best Domain Name Conference - A move at the top for ‘best conference’. For the first time ever, DOMAINfest has been selected as the top domain name industry conference by respondents in the annual Domain Name Wire Survey. DOMAINfest received 45% of the vote, knocking TRAFFIC off its perch. Here’s how they stacked up: 1. DOMAINfest 45% 2. TRAFFIC 36% 3. Domain Roundtable 7% 4. Domainer Mardi Gras 6% GEOdomain Expo 6% DOMAINfest carries an even bigger lead when it comes to the percentage ... read more ...
Thu 4th February 2010
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Two Domain Auctions End Today, KZ.com Snags 6 Figure Bid - Extended online domain name auctions from TRAFFIC and DOMAINfest end today. [Update: Apparently the bids on Kz.com were errant, as the they were removed and the domain didn’t sell.] Two extended online domain name auctions from recent conferences end today. First, the extended auction from TRAFFIC concludes on Proxibid at 1 PM EST. With less than 3 hours to go, a few domains have bids but haven’t met their reserves. This may indicate there are some buying opportunities ... read more ...