Big Changes in Store for NamesCon Global 2025 - The Show is Moving to Miami With a New U.S. Management Team

NamesCon Global is on the move and in more ways than one. After launching in 2014 with a six-year run in Las Vegas, the big show for domain industry investors, developers and service providers moved to Austin, Texas in 2020. After putting on four events in the Lone Star state's capital city, NamesCon producers announced today that they are moving to Miami, Florida for the 2025 conference. 

While the Austin events ran in late spring, NamesCon 2025 is shifting to November dates, November 5-6 to be specific. The venue will be a departure too. Instead of the usual set up in a major hotel, the conference

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will be held at the Ice Palace, a popular event center in downtown Miami (the name comes from the building's previous life as an ice plant). The Ice Palace is located in the heart of Miami's Art and Entertainment District, and is just a block north of the MacArthur Causeway that leads straight over to Miami Beach. Using an event center will require booking rooms at nearby hotels but NamesCon hasn't announced a hotel tie-in yet.

In another major development, NamesCon Global announced a new U.S. based management team that includes CEO Rebecca Sausner, VP of Sales & Partnerships Anthony Pombal and Marketing Manager Ollie McCullough.

NamesCon regulars will be happy to hear that one very familiar face from the NamesCon team will be in Miami too - Soeren von Varchmin (with a new title, Content Advisor) who will continue to play a key role in determining conference content and ensuring that the topics, speakers and support are of the same high quality we've seen in the past under his direction.

NamesCon's arrival in Miami brings the the industry's conference history full circle. As detailed in our current Cover Story, the very first major domain conference, T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in October 2004, was held in the Miami metropolitan area at Delray Beach. Florida's Gold Coast, that stretches from Miami up to Palm Beach, has always been a hotbed for domain investors and many of the world's most successful ones remain based there. The area is also a thriving center for Web3 and AI enterprises that will no doubt get a lot of attention at the 2025 event. 

NamesCon Global's new dates will create an extraordinarily busy stretch of international meetings in 2025 that will present a scheduling conundrum for companies and individuals that aim to have a presence at every important industry event. ICANN's 2025 Annual Meeting will be held in Muscat, Oman October 25-30, 2025 and Domain Days Dubai (who just completed a very successful second show) has announced they plan to return in late October or early November next year. In that case NamesCon Global may cap a non-stop three-week run that will be a challenge for some to navigate. On the plus side, those who run the entire gauntlet are going to have a lot reward points in their airline accounts!

(Posted Nov. 25, 2024)   

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