From January 11 to January 15, 2015, the NamesCon 2015 domain name conference is being held in Las Vegas. I’m personally speaking in two separate sessions, and will be attending the conference all week. As with a lot of conferences that I’m attending and speaking at, I go through the list of speakers and hand pick a list of them that I think you should definitely not miss.
In the “Quality Destination – The Psychology of a Click : SEO, TLD and Lead Generation A-Z” session, we’ll have a panel if experts talking about ?”SEO being impacted by new TLDs, and go into depth on validated Namespaces, Top Level Domains that have meaning AND validate the registrant. Join Steve Machin, CEO of the new .TICKETS TLD, Braden Pollock of Legal Brand Marketing, and SEO Expert Bill Hartzer as they discuss the interplay between SEO and the TLD that will begin to evidence itself as more selective names come to market.”
In the “Global SEO and Domain Name Preference” session, I’ll be presenting some of the results of my extensive Search Engine Marketing Study (New gTLD vs. .Com Domains). “Learn about results from polls and tests. How does a domain name impact search? What are user preferences as they relate to the psychology behind click engagement? Are the new TLDs a disruptive force?”
So, without further hesitation, here’s my list of must-see speakers at this year’s NamesCon2015 Conference:
Joe Alagna, 101domain, Inc., VP of Channel Development
Andrew Allemann, Domain Name Wire, Editor
Christopher Ambler, GoDaddy, Senior Architect
Steve Banfield. Rightside, SVP & GM, Registrar Services
Matt Bentley, Pretarget.com and CanIRank.com Founder
Michael Berkens, Worldwide Media, inc., President
Karen Bernstein, Bernstein IP, Principal
Monte Cahn, RightOfTheDot, LLC, President / Director
Colin Campbell. .CLUB Domains, LLC, CEO
Patrick Carleton, AdPartnerships.com and BrandedInteractive.com, President and CoFounder
Michael Cyger, DomainSherpa.com, Publisher
Sevan Derderian, Uniregistry, Director Registrar Sales
Theodore Develegas, Acroplex LLC. General manager
Adam Dicker, Webcorp LLC., President and CEO
John Berryhill¸ Ph.d. Esq.
Dave Evanson, Sedo
Jothan Frakes, NamesCon, Co Founder
Michael Gilmour, ParkLogic, Founder
Jim Grace, ParkingCrew.com & DNTX.com, Director of Business Development
Page Howe, iLove.LA, CEO
Ron Jackson, DNJournal.com, Editor
Steven Kaziyev, YourBrand.com Inc., Founder
Richard Lau, NamesCon, Co-Founder
Danny McPherson, VeriSign, Inc., Senior Vice President and Chief Security Officer
Frank Michlick, DomainCocoon Inc., Consultant
Zak Muscovitch, DNattorney.com, Lawyer
Elliot Noss, Tucows Inc., President and CEO
Kellie Peterson, DNC Holdings, President
Victor Pitts, Above.com, Director of Domain Services
Braden Pollock, Legal Brand Marketing, Owner
Andrew Rosener, Media Options, CEO
Frank Schilling, Uniregistry, Founder, Managing Director
Dan Schindler, Donuts Inc., Co-Founder & EVP – Sales & Marketing
Bill Sweetman, Name Ninja, Lead Ninja
Dwayne Walker, Rightside, Senior Vice President
If you’re a speaker and haven’t been included on my list, make sure you introduce yourself and say hi–it could be that I haven’t met you yet or haven’t seen you speak. Whatever the case, make sure you introduce yourself, I’d be happy to meet you.
If you’re attending the NamesCon 2015 conference, feel free to get in touch.