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A
panoramic view of the crowd at World
Domain Day August 24, 2014
in Hyderabad, India. World
Domain Day was organized by a team
that included Sanjeev Goyal, Prakhar
Bindal, Vishaal Vij, Divam Sharma,
Anshul Chaudhary and Arvind Reddy. The
presence of many of the India's top
domain investors, as well as
well-known industry figures from
other countries, caught the
attention of mainstream media
outlets, including several TV
stations that sent reporters to
cover
World Domain Day. 
World
Domain Day CEO Prakhar Bindal
being interview by TV5 News
during the inaugural event in Hyderabad,
India August 24, 2014. 
The
World Domain Day Organizing Team
included (left to right): Sanjeev
Goyal,
Prakhar Bindal, Vishal Vij,
Anshul Chaudhary, Divam
Sharma & Arvind Reddy. We
were unable to attend the
conference, but you can find an
excellent review of the event
written by someone who was there, Anil
Kumar Pammidimukkala, in this
recap that has been published on the
World Domain Day (WDD) website: http://worlddomainday.com/wdd-2014-recap/. To
touch on just a few of the
highlights that Anil covers in more
detail (with photos that Mr. Bindal
graciously shared with us), WDD had
an excellent keynote speaker in
Dr. Govind, the CEO of the National
Internet Exchange of India (NIXI),
and one of the two members of
ICANN-GAC from India. 
Dr.
Govind speaking at World
Domain Day in Hyderabad,
India August 24, 2014. Of
course, new gTLDs are going
to be a major topic of discussion at
every domain conference now that
hundreds of new extensions have
begun rolling out. World Domain Day
had leaders from many new registry
operators on hand to personally
answer questions from WDD attendees. 
Above:
Four new gTLD
representatives on stage for a panel
discussion at World Domain Day
are (left to right) Gajendra
Upadhyay (Afilias), Anand
Vora (Donuts), Jeffrey Sass
(.CLUB) and Karn Jajoo
(Radix) Below:
In another session two executives
from TLD
Registry discussed the
burgeoning domain market in China.
At left is CMO Simon Cousins
(夏明),who is
responsible for global and China
branding, marketing and
communications, and at right is CEO
and Co-Founder Arto Isokoski. 
In
addition to a robust turnout and
impressive speaker's roster, World
Domain Day drew widespread sponsor
participation, with global
powerhouse like Go
Daddy and Sedo
among those supporting and sending
representatives to the inaugural
show. 
Patricja
Krol and Dildeep Singh
represented Sedo at World
Domain Day 2014. Patricia, who
speaks English, German and
Polish, is credited with handling
several 7-figure domain name
sales. Following
their successful debut, World Domain
Day organizers are
already planning a 2015 event
in a new location that should prove
to be very popular - Dubai -
most likely in March of next year. As
I previously
told you World Domain
Day is one of two new domain
conferences scheduled just two weeks
apart in Hyderabad. The next one
will be the DomainX
conference this coming Sunday,
September 7, 2014 at the
Marriott Hotel & Convention
Centre. Michael
Castello is scheduled to
deliver the keynote there and I will
be interviewing DNForum.com owner Adam Dicker
(via Skype) in one of the sessions
following Michael's talk. I'll have
more on that show for you later this
week. While
I expressed some concerns about two
shows being held so closely together
in the same city, WDD proved there
is a great deal of pent up demand
in the Indian market for the unique
kind of networking and educational
opportunities that only well
organized and attended conferences
can provide. DomainX expects to hit
a home run too and if they succeed
the industry at large will benefit
greatly. India is obviously more
that ready for its turn in the
spotlight and will play an ever
expanding role in the ongoing worldwide
growth of the domain business. |
