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The
DOMAINfest
Global conference
is
just two weeks away. Today was the
original deadline to apply for a spot on the
annual show's popular PITCHfest
Contest but I just got word from
conference organizers that they have extended
the deadline to January 24. PITCHfest
gives web entrepreneurs a rare opportunity to
pitch their online business plan to a panel of angel
investor judges, as well as a conference
audience expected to once again include over
700 Internet professionals from nearly 30
countries around the world 
Part
of the wall-to-wall crowd on hand at
DOMAINfest Global 2011 a year ago. PITCHfest
will be staged on February 1, 2012 (the
second day of DOMAINfest Global) at the Fairmont
Miramar Hotel in Santa, Monica,
California where the conference will run January
31 through February 2. Each
contestant will have three minutes to
make their presentation, then two
winner's trophies will be handed out. One will
be the judges's choice and the other will
be selected by members of the audience
who will pick their favorite through a real time
text message voting system. More
details about the contest can be found in this Lowdown
post from last month.
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While
PITCHfest applicants now have been some
extra time to work with, domain buyers
interested in acquiring any of the
previously unreleased one, two and
three-letter .PRO domains the
registry is currently auctioning off
will have to act fast. That 7-day
auction, being conducted on the GoDaddy
auctions platform, ends tomorrow
night (Tuesday, Jan. 17) at 9PM
U.S. Pacific Time (that is Midnight
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Eastern
time). The more than 150 domains upfor
bid include 1.pro, X.pro
and Go.pro to name just a few. As
of today about two thirds of the domains
in the catalog have received at least
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