Domain Summit Founder Announces New Event for Africa to Be Held in Nairobi Next February

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Domain Summit Founder Announces New Event for Africa to Be Held in Nairobi Next February

Domain Summit Founder Helmuts Meskonis will be staging his 4th annual London conference September 2-3, 2025 with this year's event newly dubbed Domain Summit Europe. The expanded name better reflects the UK event's Euro-centric agenda as well as the composition of its audience that has come from across the continent ever since the show began.

Now there is yet another reason for adding a geo identifier to the Domain Summit name. Helmuts has decided to take the show on the road with a new Domain Summit Africa conference leading he way. The event will be held February 23-24, 2026 at the Villa Rosa Kempinski in Nairobi, Kenya, with Kenic (the administrator of Kenya's .ke ccTLD) co-hosting the ground-breaking summit.

Helmuts, who also has initial plans in the works for a 2027 Domain Summit USA, credited three global partners for helping him make the Nairobi event a reality - Site.pro, Freename and it.com Domains. With those parties involved Helmuts said attendees can expect "an exclusive, business-only convention that will be Africa’s largest B2B gathering of domain name service providers, registrars, investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders."

The early outline for Domain Summit Africa includes a pre-event day February 22 that will feature a private tour of Kenic offices for all registered attendees and an early networking get-together at the Villa Rosa Kempinski. The two business days that follow will be filled with keynotes, panel discussions, technical sessions, workshops and visits to an exhibition area. Helmuts also aims to have approximately 90% of the speakers coming from those based on the African continent. For guests who want to spend some extra time in Kenya, Helmuts is also looking into organizing an optional Safari Tour the day after the summit ends (February 25).

Helmuts Meskonis
Domain Summit Founder

While many more details will be released in the months ahead, registration is already open with tickets priced at just $50 per person (a hallmark of all of the Domain Summit conferences has been ultra-low ticket prices for attendees with the backing of sponsors making that possible). Domain Summit Africa will also have a discounted block of rooms at the Villa Rosa Kempinski. You can use the Contact the Organizer link on the event website to get a booking link.

(Posted June 30, 2025)

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