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On Your Mark, Get Set GO! 5 Conferences Scheduled Over the Next 8 Weeks + Sedo Adds New Member to Management Team 

There were far fewer domain conferences in the first half of this year than we've seen in the recent past, but things are about to get busy on the show circuit with at least five industry 

events scheduled over the next eight weeks in the U.S. alone. DOMAINfest will get things started with their Meet-up in New York City Tuesday night (August 23). The event will run from 7-10pm at the Mad46 Rooftop Lounge (located atop the 19th floor of The Roosevelt Hotel on Madison Avenue at 46th Street.) 

In addition to the networking dinner at the heart of the meet-up, a four-week long Moniker online auction is being held in conjunction with the event. Bidding on several hundred domains opens Tuesday afternoon and will continue until the sale closes at 3:15pm (U.S. Eastern time) on Tuesday, Sept. 20

On the opposite side of the U.S., new gTLDs will be the topic of the 2011 .Nxt conference that runs Wednesday through Friday (August 24-26) at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. Then, two weeks from today (Monday, Sept. 5), the second edition of DNCruise (the only domain conference on a cruise ship) gets underway when a Carnival ocean liner leaves the port of Tampa, Florida for stops in Grand Cayman and Cozumel, Mexico before returning to Tampa Sept. 10.

Three weeks after the cruise, the first ever Geo Publishers Expo will get underway in Chicago with a Friday evening reception at the Fairmont Hotel. That even will continue Oct. 1-2 with most of the bright lights from the geodomain industry in attendance. 

The conference run ends with a grand finale - the only T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference of the year - an industry extravaganza that will be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel on Florida's Ft. Lauderdale Beach October 16-19

Today, show organizers Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu released details on the show's revamped live domain auction that will be held October 18 at 4pm (U.S. Eastern time). They are adopting a new domain submission and commission plan (detailed at the link above) that they believe will produce a much livelier event. 

Though I won't be able to make the two conferences this week, I will be attending and speaking at all of the latter three; DNCruise, the GeoPublishers Expo and, of course, the granddaddy of them all - T.R.A.F.F.I.C. I'm looking forward to seeing many of you at those events.

One other note today, Sedo has added a new member to their management team. Thies Lindenthal, a veteran internet entrepreneur and researcher, will bring his scientific expertise (and a PhD in Real Estate) to the domain pricing field as Product Manager for Domain Pricing. Sedo recently partnered with Lindenthal to develop IDNX, the first standard price index for domain names that uses real estate valuation methodology to accurately assess the domain name market. IDNX will continue to be an independent project.

Sedo CEO Tim Schumacher said, “Thies's expertise and experience with online commerce, coupled with his scientific background in economic and real estate research, are the ideal combination to help grow Sedo’s domain pricing service into the industry leader.” Lindenthal added, “I am thrilled to combine my passions for the domain market and real estate research at Sedo. I look 

Thies Lindenthal
(Photo: courtesy of epri.eu)

forward to continuing work on IDNX, and to bringing my research to Sedo in order to develop transparent, industry-leading domain pricing services for the marketplace.”

(Posted Aug. 22, 2011)


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