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NamesCon Online Returns

September 22-24, 2021

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1,500 +

Domain Professionals

60 +

Countries

90 %

C-Level

120 +

Speakers

100 +

Sessions

NamesCon is where we gather to create the future of the domain name industry.

NFT technology, emerging social platforms, fractional ownership, explosions in value, and constantly-evolving use cases: domaining has never been more exciting! Join us at this all-digital event to learn how interlocking technologies and trends can set you up for a lifetime of success.

Take a front-row seat for the latest developments in brokerage, investing, aftermarket, and the registry and registrar spaces. We welcome all domaining newcomers to join this vibrant community and see what this exciting industry and the people who create it have to offer.

The industry is evolving too quickly for us to wait until 2022, so join us at NamesCon Online in September.

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»Huge thanks to the whole team @NamesCon – this was one of the most organized, content-packed digital events I’ve been a part of 🚀 I can’t imagine how much work it took to get all of this organized, massive thanks to this amazing team – you rock! 🙏«

Morgan Linton, Bold Metrics

Previous Speakers Include

Richard Lau

Richard Lau

Tobias Sattler

CTO / Board Member

united-domains AG

Tobias Sattler

CTO / Board Member

united-domains AG

Tobias is the CTO and Board Member of united-domains. He is an ICANN NomCom delegate, Member of the eco Names & Numbers Steering Committee, Founder & Editor-in-chief at MyNext.Events, Founder of Domain Name Basics, and has hold some other domain name industry roles.

Jason Eisler

Founder & President of DNadvisor.com

DNadvisor

Jason Eisler

Founder & President of DNadvisor.com

DNadvisor

Braden Pollock

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer

Legal Brand Marketing

Braden Pollock

Chief Cook and Bottle Washer

Legal Brand Marketing

BRADEN POLLOCK is the owner of Legal Brand Marketing. He is a technology angel investor, serial entrepreneur and domain investor who owns several companies, both online and off. Among his businesses is Legal Brand Marketing, LLC, which focuses primarily on lead generation for attorneys in various legal practice areas. While, many years ago, he got his start investing in lawyer-related domains, he’s now focused on premium one-word domains.

Elliot Noss

President and CEO

Tucows Inc.

Elliot Noss

President and CEO

Tucows Inc.

Under Elliot, Tucows challenged how software was distributed in the 1990s and how domain names were offered and managed in the 2000s and is challenging how mobile phone service and xed Internet are provided today. For nearly twenty years, Elliot has loved and championed the Internet as the greatest agent of positive change the world has ever seen. Through his role at Tucows, his involvement in ICANN and his personal efforts, he has lobbied, agitated and educated to promote this vision and protect an Open Internet around the world.

Tess Diaz

Buckley Media

Tess Diaz

Buckley Media

Tess Diaz values community, learning and transparency. She consulted as Executive Account Manager at GoDaddy (2006-2012) and advised GoDaddy's product development team regarding domain names (2010-2012). Since then, she has been Business Development Coordinator for Media Options. In 2017, Media Options acquired DomainSherpa, the free educational resource teaching domain investors to discover, acquire, manage, monetize and sell domains. Tess is Executive Producer and host, interviewing experts who intersect with the domain industry while having a lot of fun along the way!

Michael Mann

CEO

DomainMarket.com

Michael Mann

CEO

DomainMarket.com

Mike is the founder of Make Change! Trust, a charitable fund. He was also the founder and chairman of Grassroots.org. and several successful, active, for-prot corporations. 3 of these corporations were listed among the 2012 Inc 500 fastest growing companies in America: Phone.com, DomainMarket.com and SEO.com Mike is also the author of Make Millions and Make Change! (MakeMillions.com) In 1998, he founded BuyDomains.com, the world’s largest secondary market for domain names In 2007, Mike and WashingtonVC.com founded Yield Software Mike was the Founder and Chairman of Grassroots.org (501c3)

Tessa Holcomb

Founder & CEO

Domain Advisors | Igloo.com

Tessa Holcomb

Founder & CEO

Domain Advisors | Igloo.com

Pioneering the concept of boutique domain brokerages, Tessa founded Domain Advisors, then Igloo.com contributing to over $200 Million in domain sales including names like IG.com, Paris.com, Pro.com and Talent.com. Tessa’s drive has been consistently fueled by her passion to address the need for more awareness and education on the intrinsic value of domain names. She currently works with select clients on sales and acquisitions, provides consulting on branding and domain strategy and serves on the Internet Commerce Association board advocating for the rights and interests of domain name owners.

Shane Cultra

CEO

Uncomfortable.com

Shane Cultra

CEO

Uncomfortable.com

Former trader, current nurseryman, and investor in domains for over a decade. Decent at most things, great at nothing. Living a balanced life. Partner at DSAD.com a blog that specializes in the Domain Aftermarket.

Jordi Gasull

CEO

Name Agency

Jordi Gasull

CEO

Name Agency

Jordi Gasull is the CEO of NameAgency.com, a Domain Name Brokerage rm based in the beautiful Costa Brava, near Barcelona. He is a passionate entrepreneur, traveler, and electronic music producer/synthesizer fanatic. Name Agency focuses on Premium Domain Name brokerage and confidential acquisitions for start-ups and major companies worldwide. Jordi speaks many languages, including Spanish, French and English, a competitive advantage to sell/buy domains internationally. Name Agency has forged a solid global network from China to USA to offer an exceptional level of personalized service.

Hitesh Wadhwa

Founder

Domainofy.com

Hitesh Wadhwa

Founder

Domainofy.com

Performance-driven, a motivated Entrepreneur and a Domain name investor with a proven track record of success in selling domains via outbound, delivering domain development projects to global clients. Talented tech consultant with over 20 years of demonstrated expertise reflecting leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” internet, intranet & enterprise applications development. Strong technical and business management skills. He also helps organizations to buy right domain names for their businesses. Mentored, collaborated & works with SMEs to provide quality products and services.

Kate Buckley

CEO

Buckley Media

Kate Buckley

CEO

Buckley Media

Kate is the CEO of Buckley Media, specializing in Premium Domain Brokerage, Naming and Branding. She has brokered millions in both private and public top domains sales, and regularly speaks about the industry including keynoting NamesCon Global, as well as features on DNJournal, Domain Name Wire, Domain Sherpa, and TheDomainShow.com, among others. A member of the ICA, Kate is also a member of ICANN Business Constituency.

Kate holds a BA in Advertising/PR, an MFA in Creative Writing, and is a Certified Professional Coach, Public Speaker (AMA), and is also an award-winning poet and writer.

Joshua Reason

Co-Owner

DNWE.com

Joshua Reason

Co-Owner

DNWE.com

Investor, Broker, Podcaster, and SaaS Founder with a background in FinTech, Branding & Domains. Lover of Digital Assets & Chief Disruptor @DNWE_com

Ron Jackson

Editor & Publisher

DNJournal.com

Ron Jackson

Editor & Publisher

DNJournal.com

Ron Jackson is the Founder, Editor and Publisher of the domain industry news magazine Domain Name Journal at DNJournal.com. Jackson was a television reporter before entering the domain business in 2002. When he discovered this industry had no trade magazine of its own he established DNJ on New Year's Day 2003 and the publication rapidly became an industry institution. DNJournal provides in-depth pro les of industry leaders, coverage of all major conferences, invaluable weekly domain sales reports and daily news updates about people, companies and events in the global domain industry.

Manish Lunja

CEO & Founder

BrandPros.com, Inc

Manish Lunja

CEO & Founder

BrandPros.com, Inc

Manish having decades of experience as an Entrepreneur, an adept Angel Investor and a highly proficient domain name investor with top 1% GoDaddy Customers, Total Domain Portfolio of $1.5Million+ and he is known for having brokered India's Highest Value Domain Name Sale of $500,000+. He has over 10 years of experience in business development, digital marketing, investing and divesting in Premium and Ultra Premium Domain Names. Embedded with professional values and ethics Manish holds great expertise in all aspects of the domain name and digital asset brokerage services.

Kamila Sekiewicz

Executive Director

Internet Commerce Association

Kamila Sekiewicz

Executive Director

Internet Commerce Association

Kamila is the Executive Director of Internet Commerce Association. She has over 10 years of domain industry experience in account management and business development roles with Sedo and NameDrive. She is a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry and did genetics research prior to starting her career in the domain name industry. A native of Poland, she currently resides in New Jersey. She is uent in Polish, German and English.

Chad Folkening

Leader

RealtyDAO

Chad Folkening

Leader

RealtyDAO

Chad Folkening is an lifelong entrepreneur, connector and contributor to various blockchain and crypto economic platforms with a focus on transparency, decentralization and automations. He is the lead developer of RealtyDAO and its Digital Native Asset (DNA) platform. A member of the Domainer Hall of Fame, Chad is currently focused on helping entrepreneurs and professionals increase digital asset value quickly by leveraging time compression tools (VNOC) digital architecture design and network effects (CONTRIB).

Andrew Rosener

CEO

MediaOptions.com

Andrew Rosener

CEO

MediaOptions.com

Andrew Rosener is the founder & CEO of DomainX, LLC (MediaOptions.com), the World’s #1 Domain Broker. Since 2008 Rosener has personally assisted in the purchase & sale of well into the 9 figures in dollar sales of domain names for both startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Escrow.com has recognized Andrew as the #1 or #2 Domain Broker in the World since 2014 when they began the Award.

Andrew is a pioneer in domain valuation methodology & has created a formula for establishing the objective value of a domain which the industry named “The Rosener Equation”.

You can read more at Drew.com!

Andrew Allemann

Editor

Domain Name Wire

Andrew Allemann

Editor

Domain Name Wire

Andrew is the founder and editor of Domain Name Wire, a trade publication for the domain name industry. Founded in 2005, Domain Name Wire and Andrew have been referenced in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, NPR and more.

Giuseppe Graziano

CEO

LMX.com

Giuseppe Graziano

CEO

LMX.com

Giuseppe Graziano is the founder of LMX.com, the trading platform for domain investors. In his career, Giuseppe brokered over 8 digits in domains, receiving the “Master of Domains” award from Escrow.com, as one of the top highest-grossing domain brokers in the world. Giuseppe has lived in 5 countries across 3 continents, speaks 5 languages and holds a Master Degree in International Management from the Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

Jeffrey Gabriel

CEO

Saw.com

Jeffrey Gabriel

CEO

Saw.com

Jeffrey M. Gabriel is an expert domain brokerage and building sales teams. Jeffrey most recently co- founded Saw.com, an industry-leading boutique brokerage that specializes in acquiring, selling, and appraising domains. Previously, Jeffrey was the Vice President of Sales at Uniregistry (recently purchased by Godaddy). Jeffrey has contributed to over 350 million dollars in completed transactions while in the industry. His most notable sales include The Guinness World Record-breaking sale of Sex.com for $13,000,000 USD and the highest .Org sale ever, Poker.org for $1,000,000 USD.

$1 Billion Worth of Industry-Leading Experience

NamesCon has assembled a superstar roster of industry-leading advisors to help us deliver world-class content and facilitate the most valuable connections, conversations, and partnerships. With a combined experience of over 100 years in the premium domaining world, our advisory board has closed deals that add up to hundreds of millions—if not billions—of dollars.

MEET THE NAMESCON ADVISORY BOARD

»My biggest takeaway from NamesCon Online is it needs to be permanent.«

Raymond Hackney, TLD Investors

General Overview

To deliver live content to as many domain professionals as possible, we’re anchoring the main event timeframe from 3 pm–7 pm UTC to deliver globally relevant content. Domaining hotspots South Asia and North America will have dedicated content tracks.

September 22th

Pre-Event

The platform opens on September 21 for networking.

See who is attending, exhibiting, and presenting
Schedule meetings ahead of the event
Prepare your personalized agenda (and get excited)

Main Event

Global / 3 pm – 7 pm UTC

Welcome and introduction to NamesCon Online
Live tracks
Exhibition and live chat with partners
Expert Roundtables and other live networking opportunities

Regional Track

North America

8 pm – 12 am UTC

September 23th

Regional Track

South Asia

5 am – 9 am UTC

Europe

10 am – 2 pm UTC

Main Event

Global / 3 pm – 7 pm UTC

Welcome and introduction to NamesCon Online
Live tracks
Exhibition and live chat with partners
Expert Roundtables and other live networking opportunities

Regional Track

North America

8 pm – 12 am UTC

September 24th

Regional Track

South Asia

5 am – 9 am UTC

Main Event

Global / 3 pm – 7 pm UTC

Welcome and introduction to NamesCon Online
Live tracks
Exhibition and live chat with partners
Expert Roundtables and other live networking opportunities

Post-Event

The platform opens through October 29.

Catch sessions you missed (and rewatch your favorites)
Gather and organize your contacts and leads
Stay connected with new friends

All times on the NamesCon Online website agenda are shown in UTC.

Use the conversion below or follow the link to convert times to your timezone

-7 h

Pacific

Los Angeles / Vancouver

-4 h

Eastern

NYC / Boston

+2 h

Central Europe

Paris / Cologne

+5,5 h

India Standard

New Delhi / Mumbai

+10 h

Australian Eastern

Sydney / Melbourne

For converting specific times, use this handy online tool

A Global Digital Experience

This virtual conference delivers the elements you know from our in-person events—and more—in a brand-new way, on a platform built for networking. NamesCon Online features a packed agenda with keynotes, live streams, expert round tables, region-specific learning, and prime connection opportunities.

Content and Sessions

Live expert sessions and panels
On-demand content
Global and region-specific programming
Hands-on Workshops
Expert Q&A and roundtables

Network and Interactivity

1-on-1 video chats
Networking lounge
Gamification
Intuitive matchmaking
Live polls and quizzes

Virtual Exhibition / Sponsorship

Virtual company areas
Live chat with partner companies and industry associations
Latest product updates
Promotional offers and swag
Business and partnership opportunities

Watch the NamesCon Online 2021 Recap from January

On the Blog

NamesCon Online Premium Domain Auction Coming September 2021

This is the go-big-or-go-home ultra-premium domain name auction!

Find Out What Your Domain is Worth at NamesCon Online

Find out the value of your domain names on the spot, only at NamesCon Online!

NamesCon Q&A with RapidFire’s Tom Gallagher

Everything you need to know about RapidFire as you prepare for the domain auction.

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»The easy to use platform, professional production values and fresh, compelling content made it hard to believe this was NamesCon's first try at producing a virtual show.«

Ron Jackson, Domain Name Journal

Partnership

Help shape the new era of domaining—partner with NamesCon Online. From branding to content, exhibition to networking, we’ll help you make your presence felt across the world. Get in touch today!

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