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Here's the The Lowdown
from DN Journal,
updated daily
to
fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry.
The Lowdown is
compiled by DN Journal Editor & Publisher Ron
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WorldHostingDays Conference Coming to America for
the First Time Next Month
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WorldHostingDays
(WHD)
conferences are a BIG deal.
Founded in Germany over a
decade ago, WHD events (the
world's largest series of events for
the hosting and cloud service
provider industry) are
anchored by the massive WHD.global
conference that drew a record 6,300
attendees (from 85 countries) to
this
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year's event,
held last month in Rust, Germany.
600 people would be a lot for a
domain conference so you can
imagine how much bigger an
event 10 times larger would
be.
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In
addition to WHD.global,
regional WHD events are also
held throughout the year and
six of those are still to come
in 2015 with conferences in Singapore,
Australia, India,
Japan, China and
- for the first time ever -
the United States all
on the calendar. WHD's debut
in the U.S. will be staged May
19-20, 2015 at
Pennsylvania's scenic 7Springs
Ski & Mountain Resort
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Even
though this will be WHD.usa's
first lap around the track in America, organizers are
expecting more than 800
professionals from around the
world to attend next month's
event. Many well-known names in the domain
business will be there -
no surprise since domain
registration and hosting
services go hand in hand and
many major companies provide
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InterNetX.com
will have an especially high profile
at 7Springs as a Platinum Sponsor
with .CLUB, eNom, Key-Systems,
Radix, Sedo and Uniregistry
also among those in the
spotlight as Gold Sponsors.
Representatives from several of
those companies will be featured in
some of the many panel discussions
and breakout sessions that fill the
jam-packed WHD.usa agenda.
Attendees will hear from Brad
Lemire (Sedo), Alexander
Siffrin (Key-Systems), Jeff
Sass (.CLUB), Helena
Schindler (InterNetX) and Chris
Sheridan (the long time eNom
exec who is now with Weebly)
among others.
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Wikipedia
Founder Jimmy Wales
will be a keynote speaker
at WHD.usa |
WHD
always lines up an all-star
list of keynote speakers for
their events as well and
WHD.usa will be no exception
with Wikipedia Founder
Jimmy Wales, CoreOS
CEO Alex Polvi, and Tim
Wu, author of the book The
Master Switch and the
man who coined the the phrase
"net neutrality”,
all set to take the stage.
One
thing that has helped make WHD
so popular is a low cost to
attend - even free in
many cases if you have a
contact at any of the event's
dozens of partner
companies (scroll
down for the full list). Those
partners can give clients a
code to enter on the registration
page to waive the $349
cost of a standard ticket.
There is also a $999
VIP ticket option that is
loaded with perks.
Having
WHD come to the USA for the
first time is a significant
event for a lot of people in
the domain business, as well
as those in the the hosting
field, so we will be going to
7Springs to cover it for you.
Conference organizers
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graciously
given us a nice perk to pass
along to any of our readers
who want to go for both show
days - a free night -
at the 7Springs Resort (worth $129).
Just send an e-mail to [email protected] with the subject line
“DNJournal Member” and you will receive
the $129 voucher code. |
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(Posted
April 20, 2015)
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