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DomainingEurope
Conference
founder Dietmar Stefitz has
helped raise the domain industry's
profile in Europe with seven well produced
annual shows in Valenica, Spain
(and an 8th one that is scheduled
for April 28-20, 2016).
However, Stefitz believes more work
remains to be done to help business
owners on the Continent see how much
the right domain names can help
their enterprises grow. Stefitz
decided to take the bull by the
horns himself by staging a series of
one day domain educational events
on the road starting with two in
his home country - Madrid
on October 30, 2015 and Barcelona
on November 13, 2015.
Stefitz
told me he envisions his effort as
an Awareness Road Show
tailored for end users, marketing-agencies
and investors who are looking for an
alternative. He believes new
gTLDs would be of particular
interest to those group but noted,
"At this time, people in
general have very little awareness
that these options even exist.
In Europe it is very difficult
to get things going and there has
been very little support from the
big registries, organizations
and associations, but I still
believe that the domain Industry
here needs a PUSH!"
Fortunately,
a handful of forward thinking
sponsors see what Stefitz is trying
to accomplish and are lending
support. Blacknight
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Dietmar
Stefitz
DomainingEurope Founder
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and
.CLUB
will sponsor the Madrid event and
have also agreed to join FundCAT
and CDMON
in helping back the one in Barcelona.
Stefitz said, "If the results
are positive, I plan to do it in Paris,
London, Berlin, Vienna,
Warsaw and Milan next
year and I hope to do it with local
support from registry
operators."
To
make the upcoming one day events in
Spain as accessible as possible for
local business people, Domaining
Madrid and Barcelona will feature
mostly speakers from that nation and
the sessions will be conducted in
Spanish (unlike the DomainingEurope
conference that is presented in
English, with translated audio
available). You can see the kind of
programming Stefitz will provide by
checking out the Madrid agenda here
and the Barcelona schedule here.
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