Featured Attendee Profile: Ryan Colby

I founded Outcome Brokerage 4 years ago as a way to work closer with my clients. We specialize in ultra-premium domain brokerage, which is primarily one word generic .com names. We do about 70% buyer brokerage and 30% seller brokerage.

Speaker Profile: Marco Hoffmann

InterNetX is an award-winning ISP, founded in Regensburg, Germany, in 1998. With over 3.8 million managed domains, about 3,000 physical servers and more than 20,000 managed SSL certificates, InterNetX is one of the largest Internet service providers on the international market for resellers and professional users, serving a network of over 25,000 partners worldwide. I’ve been working at InterNetX for more than 15 years.

Speaker Profile: Elaine Pruis

Donuts powers the world’s largest and most diverse group of new, relevant and expressive Internet domain names. From .bike to .coffee, .life to .services, and hundreds of other useful domains. Donuts offers businesses, individuals, organizations, families, and others fresh and meaningful Internet identities in a stable, secure environment.

Speaker Profile: Michael Fountain

I’ve been at Rightside.co for a little over a year now, and I work on the Enom business, specifically focused on driving the Enom API. However, I’ve known Enom for the better part of my professional career all the way back to my ModernBill days in the early 2000s.

Speaker Profile: Bennett Collen

Cognate is the first step in trademark protection. We use technology to help businesses protect their trademark rights quickly and affordably. Cognate uses blockchain technology to make an immutable record of your trademark rights, and a machine-learning trademark monitoring algorithm to find and alert you to any potential infringement or misuse of your trademark. I founded Cognate in 2014.

Speaker Profile: Andrew Hazen

Attendees can look forward to learning firsthand how to build a business from domain names like I have with bobbleboss.com, bagelofthemonth.com, coupons.info and more. We will also discuss various ways to drive traffic and sales to your domain names. Strategic relationships can be vital when leveraging domain names.

Featured Attendee Profile: John Colascione

Long Island Media, Inc. is digital advertising agency superior for its public relations and marketing communications. The only truly geographic ‘.com’ company with both a national and international reach, Long Island Media, Inc. is an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau®, a Google Certified Partner Company, and owner and operator of LongIsland.com, Long Island’s Most Popular Website since 1996, giving Long Island Media Inc., a significant advantage in public relations, particularly for clients in the Long Island region. I’ve been working there for 15 months (merger in 2015).

Speaker Profile: Michael Sumner

NameBio is a searchable database of historical domain name sales. We have nearly half a million records totaling more than $1.4 billion and spanning nearly two decades. Visitors use our site both to track the market, and to research comparable sales when buying or selling domains. We also developed The Domain Game for iOS and Android to help investors improve their gut instincts on domain valuations. I have been with NameBio for two years, but it just recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.

Featured Attendee Profile: Don Ruiz

Knock Knock WhoIs There, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Automattic, Inc. It was formed specifically to launch and operate the .blog TLD. I have been with KKWT since March 2016, but have worked as a partner with Automattic prior to that.

Speaker Profile: Jothan Frakes

I’ll break character and exhibit some pride, but I am really grateful to have served this great industry by founding the NamesCon with Richard Lau. He has been an outstanding collaborator and open to change as a leader. I am looking forward to witnessing over 1400 people join us for a great event, because it demonstrates the benefits of collaboration and having the show be more about serving the industry than about him or I as industry leaders.