The 2008 Domain Roundtable conference got underway with a welcoming cocktail party at the elegant Palace Hotel in San Francisco last night. This fourth edition of Roundtable is the first to be held outside of the Seattle area where show sponsor Name Intelligence (parent of DomainTools.com) is based. The 2008 venue, a historic hotel originally built in 1875 then reconstructed after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires is truly magnificent.

Part of the crowd at the Domain Roundtable welcoming cocktail party
at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco Friday night (April 18).

The first full day of conference activity gets underway today with a CEO Roundtable, followed by five more sessions, including an afternoon Q and A session with Google's Matt Cutts. The evening schedule will feature the Name Intelligence Awards Dinner followed by a fundraising casino night party at Club 443 to benefit Grassroots.org. The conference continues through Monday. I'll have a daily highlight post here in the Lowdown and we will of course also produce a comprehensive show wrap-up article that will be published on our home page within a week after the conference ends.
(Posted April 19, 2008)