In our last Who Are They? exercise (last updated in an August 6th Lowdown post) we were still looking for the identities of two of the people with veteran domainer Richard Lau (in the white shirt) in the photograph below that was snapped at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver conference in June. At that point readers had identified Shane Martin (2nd from left) and NameDrive's Director of European Operation, Matthias Kaiser, who is standing behind Richard. That left us needing names for our bookends at the far left and far right. As it happens, soon after our readers identified Matthias, he in turn identified the gentleman at the far left - Adrian Ariolla of SecondIncome.ca. 

When our readers did not come up with the name and profession of our final holdout at the far right (reader Frank Michlick did remember his first name - Ken) we called on Richard Lau to complete the puzzle. "That's Ken Nybeck," Richard wrote. "He is an independent contractor and we work together on a few different projects. His main focus right now is building Resume.com (not yet launched)." Thanks to all for helping complete our latest mission. I've gotten favorable feedback on this feature which allows us to introduce you to industry people that you may not have previously known. I'll have a new set of faces for you in the next week or so and we'll again see who can be the first to answer the Who Are They? question next time around.

Last month I told you about the Domaining III conference coming up at the Hotel Sorolla Palace in Valencia, Spain September 23-25, 2010 where Sedo CEO Tim Schumacher and the Castello Brothers (Michael and David) will be the keynote speakers. If you think you might like to attend the conference but cost is an issue, you will be interested to know that EuroDNS is giving away 20 free passes to the event in a random drawing. To put your name in the hat, just sign up here before the drawing deadline September 1st. 

A couple of other notes today - congratulations to David Clements (former President at RickLatona.com) and Harvey Kaplan on their launch of Cheesecake.com. I'm sure they will turn that generic gem into a solid online business. Also, don't forget that the DOMAINfest New York Power Networking Day will be held tomorrow (Wednesday, August 18) at the Grand Hyatt Hotel  in Manhattan. If you are in the Big Apple it's not too late to pay at the door to attend what will be an event well worth attending.

(Posted August 17, 2010)