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Above:
At 10am, Mike McLaughlin (Godaddy
Sr. Vice President, Domains),
delivered a keynote talk that
included news about a slick new
GoDaddy investor mobile
phone app that you will
want to get. Mike also called
Paul Nicks (General Manager of
Godaddy's popular Afternic domain
sales platform) to the stage to
share the company's aftermarket
news. You can get more details on
what Mike and Paul had to say here.
Below:
Next up at 10:25am was another
keynote - A Branding
Perspective from Paul
McGrady (Chair of Trademark,
Domain Name & Brand Enforcement,
Winston & Strawn). You
will find more on Paul's talk here.
Above:
After his keynote, McGrady
(left) joined (left to right after
Paul) Pervez Delawalla (CEO, Net Data Centers),
Christian Dawson
(12Coalition) and Michele Neylon
(CEO, Blacknight Internet Solutions
Ltd) for a panel discussion about Naming
the Innovation Economy.
Below:
In between sessions NamesCon
attendees took advantage of the
inviting meeting space in the expanded Exhibit
Hall to catch up with friends
and company representatives.
Above:
In addition to taking advantage of
the convenient and comfortable
seating throughout the Exhibit
Hall, attendees could visit
any of the dozens of sponsor
exhibits to ask questions about their
offerings and pick up cool swag including
T-shirts and other promotional
items.
Below:
On hand to greet guests at the Above.com
table were (left to right) David
Warmuz (President of Above
parent company Trellian.com), EVP Nancy
Bianchi and SVP Aaron Kvitek.
Senior Account Manager Liz Corona
was also there but we never managed
to catch all four of the busy Above
folks together at once! Above.com
was celebrating the launch of a new
and improved website during show
week.
Above:
Phil McKegney (DomainAgents.com),
at right, chats with visitors to his
company's booth in the Exhibit
Hall.
Back
in the various NamesCon meeting
rooms four more simultaneous
business sessions got underway at
11:45am. Uniregistry's Sevan
Derderian discussed the popular
registrar's bulk management tools in
one room while Simon Cousins and
Raymond Li (of
Allegravita.com) conducted a China
Boot Camp for Registrars in
another.
Below:
Another 11:45 session about
aftermarket sales called The
Secondary Market is the Primary
Market featured (left to
right): Andrew Rosener (MediaOptions.com),
Larry Fischer (GetYourDomain.com),
moderator Derek Newman, Jeff
Gabriel (Uniregistry Market) and
Monte Cahn (RightOfTheDot.com).
Above:
Wrapping up the final round of
morning business sessions was this
panel allowing attendees to Meet
the New TLDs. It featured
(left to right) Jodee Rich
(CEO, People Browser), Karn Jajoo
(Associate Manager, Radix Registry),
Reg Levy (VP Compliance +
Policy, Minds + Machines), Jay
Westerdal (Founder & CEO,
Total Level Spectrum - TLS's .feedback
extension just entered General
Availability today)
and moderator Braden Pollock
(LegalBrandMarketing).
Below:
Before the lunch break the audience
also got an update from Vox
Populi Registry CEO John Berard.
Above:
After the lunch break Pat Kane
(Verisign Senior Vice President,
Naming and Directory Services)
kicked off the afternoon session
with a fascinating stats-filled
keynote address that underscored the
continuing strength of Verisign's .com
extension. You can find details
on Pat's talk here.
At
2:15pm it was time for another round
of business sessions including
another China Boot Camp
with Simon Cousins and Raymond
Li - this one a General Session
with Q&A. The Uniregistry room
also continued to welcome attendees
with a session about the new Uniregistry
Market (an upgraded
iteration of the popular
DomainNameSales platform).
Below:
Also at 2:15, Canada and .CA
was in the spotlight in this session
featuring (left to right): Kelly
Campbell (Channel Manager, CIRA),
lawyer Zak Muscovitch (DNAttorney.com),
Elliot Noss (President &
CEO, Tucows Inc.), veteran investor Rob
Montgomery, Peter Maxymych
(President, Emall.ca Inc) and
moderator Bill Sweetman (NameNinja.com).
Above:
In the final 2:15pm session, Domain
Name Security was the topic
of discussion among this group of
experts. Left to right are moderator
Braden Pollock, Theo
Develegas (Owner, Acroplex.com)
and Scott McCormick
(President, Kvant).
Below:
The next hour, starting at 3:20pm
brought three more panel
discussions. Here Michael Gilmour
(ParkLogic.com), standing, conducted
a MasterClass on Domain
Traffic Monetization that
drew a capacity crowd.
Above:
In another 3:20pm session that was
an audience favorite, the topic
was Future Proofing Your
Domain Business. It featured
(left to right) John Smrekar
(Uniregistry), veteran domain
investor and entrepreneur Adam
Strong, moderator Derek
Newman and NamesCon Co-Founder Richard
Lau.
Below:
Wrapping up the 3:20 round was this
panel on Using WordPress to
Develop and Host Domains. It
featured, left to right, Lisa Box (VP
Business Development, WP Engine), Krutal Desai (Special Projects,
Automattic/WordPress), Tony
Gilharry (Sales Engineer, WP
Engine), Cory Miller (CEO,
iThemes.com) and Paul Carter
(Chief Marketing Officer,
Pressed.net).
Above:
At 4:25pm it was time for NamesCon
2016's final keynote address and
they landed a speaker worthy of the
anchor role - Matt Barrie (President
& CEO, Escrow.com (part of
Freelancer Limited). Matt covered a
wide range of new and improved services
at Escrow.com and had a lot
of good news about upward trends
in
the domain market (something he has
a great deal of insight into at
Escrow.com, the global leader in
secure online transactions). You
will find more details about Matt's
talk here
- or better yet - watch the full video
of it here.
Speaking
of videos - a video of Uniregistry
Founder Frank
Schilling's
SRO keynote talk
from earlier in the week is also now
available on YouTube.
If you did not see it in person,
this is another one you will want to
watch.
Below:
At 4:50 the final event of Namescon
2016 was staged - an Executive
Roundtable that featured
(left to right): Christian Dawson
(i2Coalition), Michele Neylon
(Blacknight Ltd.), Rolf Larsen
(CEO, DotGlobal), Tessa Holcomb
(Co-Founder & CEO, Igloo.com)
and Arnold Blinn (Chief
Architect at Go Daddy). With the
panelists' expertise in various
sectors of the industry this
illuminating discussion proved to be
the perfect ending for a
truly extraordinary event.
The
people who made the magic happen:
(left to right) NamesCon Co-Founder
Jothan Frakes, Co-Producer Terri
Potratz, NamesCon Co-Founder
Richard Lau and Co-Producer James
Morfopoulos. Though they had
much to celebrate at NamesCon 2016
concluded you can bet they are
already working on next year's show
that will run January 22-25, 2017
at the Tropicana Hotel
in Las Vegas. If history is
an indicator that one will set yet
another new standard.
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