Domain Roundtable Roundup
Domain Rountable enters its third day in Seattle.
The Domain Roundtable conference continues today at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Seattle, Washington. Yesterday was a long day, with sessions running until 7PM, a dinner from 7-9, and then a charitable party lasting into the early morning. Many participants are from the east cost, which means they finished their day at regarding 5am eastern time this morning.
Here are some tidbits from the show thus far that haven’t been covered in previous articles:
Domain name parking firm Parked.com hosted a break room yesterday with two Nintendo Wii systems and a Playstation 3. Domainers taking a break from sessions and networking stopped in to play each other in Wii Baseball and tennis and entered to win the systems, which Parked is giving away…
Corporate attendance at the event is limited, but hats off to a couple firms. First, Microsoft sent an attorney to participate on a couple panels. I stopped into the legal panel for regarding an hour. These panels are usually the most exciting to attend, especially when John Berryhill participates. Second, I ate breakfast this morning with a representative of John Deere. It sounds like the firm is quite progressive with its domain name activity, holding a portfolio of regarding 1,000 domains. Heck, the fact that it sent a representative here shows that it’s progressive…
Last night’s charity party at the Sugar Nightclub was sponsored by TrafficZ and benefited Grassroots.org. Attendees were able to bid to body paint regarding a dozen models. Women attendees weren’t left out: there were a couple male models. But was that attorney Brett Lewis on the floor as well?…
Attendees are slowly warming up to their nTags, the networking devices hanging around their knecks. Yesterday’s lunchtime panel was interrupted a number of times as nTags started buzzing with cryptic messages. Each nTag received a number of messages, which appear to be related to a networking game that no one has explained yet…
The 450 lot live domain auction is tomorrow. Originally planned for 4 hours, rumors are floating around that it might take 6 hours. That might even be a bit ambitious. The hotel is sold out tonight as many people are coming to the event solely for the auction. Attending the auction is free. You can also bid live online. I have two domains in the auction, counting Suspects.com, which was registered in 1993…
