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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
Jackson. |
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Crazy
for Keynotes! Next Week's Inaugural NamesCon
Conference in Las Vegas Will Feature Five
Keynote Speakers
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The
countdown
to the first ever NamesCon
conference continues. The new domain show
officially opens at the Tropicana Hotel
in Las Vegas one week from tonight
(Monday, January 13, 2014) with the .XYZ
Opening Night Cocktail
Party. NamesCon
Founder Richard Lau and a team
captained by industry veterans Jothan
Frakes and Jodi Chamberlain has
done a remarkable job in putting together
what has become a major production,
even though the event was announced just
10 weeks ago. Lau said a sellout crowd of
over 450 people has registered for
the event that will run January 13-15 (you
can read our NamesCon Preview interview
with Lau here). |
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Author
and Eexecutive Jennifer Wolfe
will be the first of five keynote
speakers
to take the stage at NamesCon
next week. |
The
big crowd will be treated to a big
agenda
that features dozens of sessions
that will play out on three
simultaneous tracks. NamesCon will
also have not one, not two (or even
three or four) but five keynote
speakers. The first of those to
appear will be author and executive Jennifer
Wolfe who will speak Tuesday
morning (Jan. 14) at 10:10am to kick
off the first full day of business.
Wolfe’s most recent book, Domain
Names Rewired,
predicts trends in the next
generation of the internet. She also
co-authored Brand
Rewired, on
innovation, branding and
intellectual property strategy in
2010, which was widely recognized as
visionary thinking by global brand
executives.
Right
after Ms. Wolfe's keynote, Las Vegas
Mayor Carolyn Goodman will
take the stage to welcome NamesCon
attendees to the city. Bill
Arent, the Director of Economic and Urban Development for
Las Vegas, will also speak. |
The
second keynote address Tuesday at 4:50pm
will be delivered by legendary domain
investor and Uniregistry
Founder Frank
Schilling. If there is anyone
in this business who truly needs no
introduction it is Frank (who was profiled
in two DN Journal Cover Stories -
one in December
2007 and another, covering
ensuing career developments, in November
2012).
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Three
more keynote speakers will highlight
the closing day of business Wednesday,
May 15 starting with Jodee
Rich, CEO of
PeopleBrowsr, dotCEO, dotBEST
and dotKRED, at 9:55am. A guy
who is known far and wide on the
web, ShoeMoney
blogger Jeremy
Schoemaker, will follow
at 10:15am. The fifth and final
keynote will also be the final
business event at NamesCon. That
comes at 4:50pm Wednesday when Duane
Forrester, the Senior
Product Manager for Microsoft's Bing
search engine, will close things out
with a highly anticipated
talk.
The
keynote addresses are just part of
the NamesCon picture. There will
also be a variety of networking and
social events, highlighted by the
big Water
Night charity gala
Tuesday night, Jan. 14. |
Duane
Forrester
Senior Product Manager, Bing |
I will, of
course, be in Las Vegas to cover
everything wire to wire for you in
this column. I have a feeling 2014
is going to be a big year for domains and
NamesCon promises to get things started
with a bang. |
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(Posted
January 6, 2014)
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