Oversee.net Announces 2nd Annual DOMAINfest Global to Be Held in Hollywood, California.--Company's First European DOMAINfest Auction Brings Highest Recorded ccTLD Sale-- LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- DomainSponsor[TM], the domain monetization Monetization The securitization of the gross revenues of a contract. business of Oversee.net, today announced that the next DOMAINfest[TM] Global will take place January 21-23, 2008. Due to popular demand, the event will return to the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, California, where DomainSponsor plans to build on the success of its first global conference held earlier this year. The Company's 3rd regional event, DOMAINfest Amsterdam, took place in mid-May and was an international success. The conference was attended by more than two hundred guests from nearly twenty countries across the globe, including Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, and Israel. In commenting on the event, Ron Sheridan, Director of Business Development for DomainSponsor, said, "DOMAINfest Amsterdam connected international domainers with mutual interests. It was an intense learning and networking experience. With each conference, our goal is to offer more to the domainer community, and establish DOMAINfest as the premier conference and marketplace for the domain industry." Speakers at DOMAINfest Amsterdam represented major industry players, such as Sedo, NICIT, NameMedia, EuroDNS, and Yahoo, who discussed today's major domain industry issues. The leading domain conference premiered its first live auction in Amsterdam organized by show sponsor, NICIT. Twenty-seven domains were sold, totaling just under $1 million. While Liz Williams Liz Williams is a British science fiction writer. Her first novel, The Ghost Sister was published in 2001. Both this novel and her next, Empire of Bones (2002) were nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award. , Senior Policy Counselor at ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number , reviewed the upcoming round of new TLDs in her keynote speech keynote speech n. See keynote address. Noun 1. keynote speech - a speech setting forth the keynote keynote address keynote - the principal theme in a speech or literary work , DOMAINfest hosted the sale of the highest grossing ccTLD on record. Poker.de sold for over $937,000 at live auction. "It was exciting to hear the perspectives of European domain experts and learn from them," Lawrence Ng Lawrence Ng Kai Wah (Traditional Chinese: 吳啟華; Simplified Chinese: 吴启华, Pinyin: Wú Qǐhuá , Oversee.net Chief Executive Officer, said. "This event helps lay the groundwork for a fantastic global event in January 2008. We understand how important our continued partnerships with top domain professionals are to the success of DOMAINfest events and we plan to nurture NURTURE. The act of taking care of children and educating them: the right to the nurture of children generally belongs to the father till the child shall arrive at the age of fourteen years, and not longer. Till then, he is guardian by nurture. Co. Litt. 38 b. those key relationships to produce an event that's important and pertinent to the industry as a whole." Registration for DOMAINfest Global will open Monday, June 11, 2007. To register or learn more about DOMAINfest Global, visit http://www.domainfest.com or e-mail info@domainfest.com. DOMAINfest Global is open to all domain industry professionals. In related news, last week Oversee.net announced that it had signed an agreement to acquire SnapNames, the operator of the largest available source of expired and deleting domain names, which will enhance the services provided to the domain-owner community, supporting the entire life cycle of domain name procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. , monetization and sales. About DomainSponsor.com DomainSponsor is the leader in domain monetization, serving domain owners since 2002. It monetizes more than two and a half million domain names and has more than 100 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month. To learn more, please visit http://www.domainsponsor.com. About Oversee.net Oversee.net is a technology-driven company whose core businesses are domain services and online marketing services. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Company has over 160 employees and was recently named "Internet and New Media Company of the Year" by the Technology Council of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Oversee has been growing profitably since inception. To learn more, please visit http://www.oversee.net. |
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