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Throughout
this week excitement has been building
for the return of the NamesCon
Global conference after its two-and-a-half
year absence due to the global pandemic. While
preparations for the big show that runs August 31
through September 3 in Austin, Texas
entered their final stages, another lucky group of
domain investors and service providers were already
meeting face to face in a new event on the
other side of the Atlantic. That was the inaugural
London
Domain Name Summit (LDNS) that was
held Monday and Tuesday (August 22 and 23) in
London at the Yum Sa restaurant and
event center. The Presenting Sponsor of the London
meetup, IT.com,
is also one of the primary sponsors of NamesCon
Global, joining GoDaddy as a Diamond
Sponsor with Above.com taking the Title
Sponsor role as part of parent company Trellian's
25th anniversary celebration. |
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Broker
Igor Furdyk of Linkoeln.com,
who helped Intis
Telecom acquire the IT.com domain name
for $3.8 million, was at the London Domain
Name Summit and was kind enough to send us a few
photos from the event.
Above:
The IT.com team at the 2022 London Domain
Name Summit (LDNS) included (left to right) Tatyana
Tarassenko (Growth Marketing Director), Rolandas
Japertas (Business Manager), Andrey Insarov
(Founder & CEO), Natalija Japerte
(Business Development Manager) and Munir Badr
(It.com Advisor and Owner of Aeserver.com).
Below:
IT.com Advisor Munir Badr manning IT.com's
stop in the London Domain Name Summit Exhibit
Area. As someone who likes to have an occasional
glass of red wine, I have to say that there is
something about the LDNS's venue - Yum Sa -
that I really love. I just can't quite put my finger
on it!
Above:
IT.com Business
Development Manager Natalija Japerte with
London Domain Name Summit Founder Helmuts
Meskonis.
Igor
also let me know that Growth Marketing Director Tatyana
Tarassenko recorded a video interview with LDNS
Founder Helmuts Meskonis shortly before the
show began. Post show, it is still interesting
because it focuses on why Helmuts started the new
event and how he believes it will benefit domain
investors in the UK and Europe going forward. You
can view that 5-minute clip on YouTube.
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The IT.com crew
that was at the LDNS the first half of this
week has to get back to work, but IT.com
will still be well represented at NamesCon
Global by one of the industry's most
familiar faces, our long-time friend Joe
Alagna, who is now an IT.com Advisor. Joe
was CentralNic’s General Manager
for North American Markets for 12 years
prior to joining 101domain and then
the Afilias Registry. Joe
will be providing an Introduction to
IT.com on the Bodis Keynote Hall
Stage on Friday morning, September 2,
starting at 11:35am.
The
2022 NamesCon Global conference will get
underway Wednesday morning, August
31, at 10am (U.S. Central Time) at the
downtown Omni Hotel in Austin. That
is the same venue where the industry's last
major in-person conference - NamesCon
2020 - was staged in January of
that year. The long wait is just about over
and that is something we can't wait to
celebrate. |
Joe
Alagna
IT.com |
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