.eu connects with international hosting industry at WorldHostingDays Global 2013

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Konstantinos Zournas

EURid, the .eu registry, will attend WorldHostingDays (WHD.global) from 19 – 21 March in Rust, Germany, to raise awareness of .eu and liaise with .eu registrars and other industry professionals.

WorldHostingDays (WHD.global) is the most important annual gathering of the international hosting industry. This year organisers expect more than 4 000 visitors from all over the world.

External Relations Manager Giovanni Seppia will give a presentation on 20 March during the TLD panel discussion organised by DENIC, the registry for .de. On 21 March, Technical manager, Peter Janssen, will speak about the latest developments in .eu’s YADIFA name server implementation. During the entire event, visitors will be able to learn more about the .eu top-level domain at the .eu booth (stand E04). On Wednesday, 20 March, iPad magician Andreas Axmann will be at the booth to entertain visitors.

With a total of 1 135 441 registered .eu domain names, Germany leads the top 10 countries with most .eu domain name registrations. .eu registrations in Germany grew by 7.3% between Q3 2011 and Q3 2012.

Event Details

WorldHostingDays
Location: Europa-Park, Rust, Germany
Date: 19-21 March 2013
.eu exhibition stand: E04
iPad magician Andreas Axmann will perform on 20 March, at 11:00-12:30 and 14:30-16:00.

Presentations

TLD panel discussion
Date: 20 March
Speaker: .eu External Relations Manager Giovanni Seppia
Room: Vasco Da Gama
Other speakers include representatives from nic.at, afnic, SIDN, Nominet and Denic

.eu Yadifa name server implementation
Date: 21 March
Speaker: .eu Technical Manager Peter Janssen
Room: Sanssouci

Giovanni Seppia will be available for interviews on 20 March. Peter Janssen will be available for interviews on 21 March after his presentation, until 16:00 CET. For more information, please contact press@eurid.eu.

EURid will attend “eShow Barcelona” in Spain on 13-14 March 2013

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Konstantinos Zournas

EURid, the .eu registry, will attend eShow Barcelona in Spain on 13-14 March 2013 to promote .eu as a valuable online asset to more than 8 000 e-commerce professionals and to further raise the top-level domain’s visibility in the local market.

eShow is an annual international trade show which presents the latest developments in the e-commerce industry, including the online marketing, hosting and cloud, and social media sectors.

In addition to its exhibition (stand no. 54), EURid will attend ‘eCoffees’ – a unique opportunity to meet in small groups with online industry experts to debate the most current issues.

.eu registrations grew by 11.1% in Spain between Q3 2011 and Q3 2012, a great achievement in the current global economic climate. In terms of total number of registrations, Spain is one of the top 10 countries in the European Union.

An important guest at this year’s eShow will be EMOTA, the European Multi-channel and Online Trade Association (www.emota.eu). On 14 March, EMOTA will host an international e-commerce forum in association with eShow Barcelona. The forum is a one-day conference where industry practitioners can share their ideas and insights on profitable cross-border trading and discuss the core issues that will define and shape Europe’s digital commerce agenda.

EURid’s Liaison Manager for Spain, Adriana León, will be available for interviews on both days of eShow. For more information, please contact press@eurid.eu.

Domain Pulse Conference held on 18th and 19th of February in Switzerland

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Konstantinos Zournas

The Domain Pulse Conference started today in Davos, Switzerland. Domain Pulse claims to be the the most important event in the German-speaking world when it comes to current topics, tendencies and trends associated with domains.

Domain pulse 2013 is being held on Monday and Tuesday, 18 and 19 February 2013 in Davos, Europe’s highest city (1560 m above sea level) and the venue for the World Economic Forum.

The conference this year is mostly targeted at new gTLDs, registries and registrars, Internet Goverance and Cybercrime.

Participants include numerous companies and individuals from all over the world.

The conference is organized by Switch, nic.at and DENIC EG.

SWITCH is a non-profit organization with 100 employees that develops Internet services for lecturers, researchers, students and commercial customers at its head office in Zurich.

Nic.at is the Austrian registry for all .at, .co.at and .or.at domains. The owner of nic.at is the non-profit Internet Foundation Austria (IPA) whose foundation purpose is the promotion of the Internet in Austria. nic.at regards itself as a competence center of expertise as well as a contact for questions around domains and the Austrian Internet and regularly publishes news around the domain world. Since 2010 nic.at has been offering in-house developments like the registry system “Registry-in-a-Box” and the Anycast-Domain Name Service “RcodeZero” via subsidiary companies to external customers and gives advice to applicants for new Top Level Domains.

DENIC eG is the central registry for all domains below the top level domain .de. The company’s duties are varied: it provides an automatic electronic registration system, it operates a network of nameservers all around the world, and it offers a number of further services for the German internet community.

Webfest Global 2013 Keynote Speaker: Kim Kardashian Entrepreneur

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Konstantinos Zournas

Webfest Global 2013 announced today that their keynote speaker will be Kim Kardashian, the reality queen. The conference takes place in Santa Monica, California, during February 5-7, 2013.

On Wednesday Feb 6th the keynote speaker will be Kim Kardashian, Entrepreneur. Kim that is mostly famous for her reality shows and her sex tape has some big shoes to fill. In the past the conference had some very successful entrepreneurs like Biz Stone (Twitter), Bob Parsons (Go Daddy), Tony Hsieh (Zappos) and Steve Wozniak (Apple) as its keynoters. Kim will have a fireside chat with Oversee.net’s CEO Debra Domeyer about her social media and internet success.

Webfest Global was known as DOMAINfest but this year it has a new name. Webfest Global 2013 agenda will provide content in the following areas.

Domain buying/selling, new gTLDs, domain development, alternative monetization and more.
SEO, SEM, affiliate marketing, conversion tips, content strategies and more.
Mobile search, mobile design best practices, mobile monetization and more.

Sedo’s Select 50 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. edition – Fort Lauderdale October 2012

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Konstantinos Zournas

A few days ago Sedo announced the top 50 domains for September. Today, Sedo released the top 50 domains for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference that starts in a couple of days. Sedo includes the price suggestions set by each seller for these 50 domains, so that buyers don’t have to worry about going through long negotiations.

My favorite domains from Sedo’s Select 50 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. edition are QR.com with an asking price of $200,000 and valuable.com with an asking price of $80,000.

This is the complete list of Sedo’s Select 50 T.R.A.F.F.I.C. edition for Fort Lauderdale 2012:

No.	Domain Name	Asking Price
1.	Moms.com	$1,500,000
2.	AT.com	$1,200,000
3.	Get.com	$999,000
4.	XA.com	$600,000
5.	TJ.com	$400,000
6.	Meetings.com	$300,000
7.	IK.com	$295,000
8.	QR.com	$200,000
9.	Bet.it	€200,000
10.	Like.it	€200,000
11.	Youbuy.it	€200,000
12.	CheapHomeInsurance.com	$95,000
13.	Fired.com	$88,000
14.	Valuable.com	$80,000
15.	Quotes.co.uk	£72,000
16.	Smartphone24.com	€70,000
17.	Website.de	€60,000
18.	Gameshow.com	$50,000
19.	CheapPetInsurance.com (incl. .net/.co)	$50,000
20.	Clitoris.com	$48,000
21.	Jeans.co	$40,000
22.	Park.de	€40,000
23.	PRfirm.com	$37,000
24.	Leah.com	$35,000
25.	WatchClips.com	$20,000
26.	BVN.com	$19,000
27.	Jeans.us	€15,000
28.	IK.net	$14,000
29.	FreeContent.com	$8,800
30.	Find.nl	€7,500
31.	Converted.com	$7,100
32.	Examples.net	$6,100
33.	ValuableSavings.com	$5,500
34.	Honored.com	$5,500
35.	BeachHotels.net	$5,100
36.	CrossMediaMarketing.com	€5,000
37.	Abut.com	$4,800
38.	SellWebsite.com	$4,000
39.	Lubricant.net	$3,900
40.	Finance.se	€2,900
41.	FallOpianTubes.com	$2,500
42.	ChristmasPresents.org	$2,200
43.	NutritionalDrinks.com	$1,800
44.	FrozenYogurts.com	$1,500
45.	GreenRealtors.com	$1,500
46.	MyLoveLife.com	$900
47.	AreYouAfraid.com	$500
48.	ShoppingValley.com	$499
49.	WSUV.com	$350
50.	Emoticon.co	$300