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Wrap on DOMAINfest 2011 — That’s a

Three days of domaining in Santa Monica.

The biggest ever DOMAINfest conference has come to a close.

Almost 700 domain investors, service providers, and attorneys attended this year’s three day event in Santa Monica. Here are a few of my thoughts:

– It’s kind of funny showing up to the airport the day following DOMAINfest. There are a lot of hungover domainers.

– A lot of the hallway talk at the conference was regarding how it was unlikely ICANN would greenlight the fresh TLD applicant guidebook in March. It appears we now have confirmation of this.

– The Demand Media party was particularly upbeat given the sizable crowd of newly minted millionaire’s thanks to the IPO.

– The most entertaining evening was Wednesday night watching TrafficZ’s Sam Aidun play in his band Foul Play at the Viper Room. It was a must see.

– There was a lot of buzz regarding success with Go Daddy’s Premium Listings. More on this later.

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