Network Solutions has auto-enrolled one of their customers in some sort of new “WebLock” program, and will soon charge his credit card $1850. Furthermore, this is a program where the customer is auto-enrolled in the program. They have to call Network Solutions in order to opt out of the program, thus not be auto-charged $1,850. This is for two domain names that the customer owns.

Brent Simmons received an email from Network Solutions: [Read more…]

.rest and .bar is looking to integrate more meta data into the content on the TLDs.

Daniel Negari, who has .xyz and .college. They are trying to give people from emerging markets to register a domain that meets their needs.

.luxury is a different business model. They want to make an internet for the luxury industry, different than the rest of the internet. They want to aggregate the luxury industry online. There is a place for mass products, but there is a place for people who want to reach those that dream, want to live on the top, or who are living on the top. The sunrise is beginning in a few weeks. [Read more…]

We are a world class city, she came here in 1964 from the East Coast with here husband and she has been here 50 years. It was the gambling meca, with the best entertainment. She came here and there were 100,000 and now there were 40 million tourists here last year. Lots of people come for shopping and for the gaming. Gaming is everywhere, and Las Vegas is the number one tourist and convention destination. [Read more…]

Jennifer wrote a book called Domain Names Rewired, and is a keynote speaker here at NamesCon 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Jennifer is frequently hired to to consult and educate executives and brands about the new TLDs. CEOs want to know how to deal with big data. Whose budget is this coming out of? The IT folks, marketing, CEOs need to think differently. [Read more…]

Jothan Frakes introduced NamesCon here at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada. There are a lot of statistics about the conference presented during his introduction:

70 percent of domain industry is here at conference.
50 percent of new TLD applicants are here at NamesCon.
Registries, Registrars are here.
Lots of domain developers here.
Service providers are here. DNS providers, research tools, transaction and escrow.
Search engines are here, including Bing.
How is search going to be impacted by new TLDs? [Read more…]

January 13 to 16, 2014, I’m attending the NamesCon conference in Las Vegas. This domain name conference is going to be amazing one, especially because of the speakers, the sponsors, and the attendees. Conferences are about who is there, and not just because of the type of conference it is. Nonetheless, now is a very critical time for the domain industry as a whole, as the new gTLDS are launching soon.

I wrote yesterday about the 19 People Who I Want to Meet while at NamesCon. But what about the sponsors? There are a lot of great sponsors coming to NamesCon, and here’s my list of companies that I want to meet with during NamesCon: [Read more…]