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HostingCon Kicks Off in Austin

Web hosting conference kicks off in Austin, Texas.

The annual HostingCon conference kicked off in Austin this morning, with organizers expecting 1,500 or more attendees. I count over 115 vendors who will be showing their wares on Tuesday and Wednesday. A number of exhibitors are domain name firms who want to get hosting firms to sell their products counting domain name registrations. Among the domain name firms are:

Afilias
DotMobi (which is running the official HostingCon mobile site at hostingcon.mobi)
eNom
ResellerClub and Logic Boxes
VeriSign
Yexa (fresh product from Dark Blue Sea)
OpenSRS/Tucows

Of course there are bunch more domain firms here that aren’t exhibiting, counting DomainSponsor.

There are a number of parallels between a web hosting conference and a domain name conference. It’s primarily men and primarily tech geeks.

You can follow the conference at #hostingcon.

Also on the wire

Other reporting from the domain desk.

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