NewDomains.org Conference Kicks Off On Sunday In Munich

The NewDomains.org Conference being held for the second year in Munich, jammed packed of seminars, speakers and social networking events.

The show kicks off on Sunday with some networking events and dinner and then goes into full gear on Monday morning with two sessions running all day.

Monte Cahn from RightoftheDot.com a company in which I’m a Director in will be speaking in the session about Marketing on Tuesday along with:

• Tobias Flaitz,  of Sedo
• Lutz Berneke, eBrand Services
• Godefroy Jordan, and Starting Dot, an applicant for new gTLD’s

Lot of people from new gTLD registries like  Frank Schilling from Uniregistry, Daniel Schindler of Donuts, Sandeep Ramchandani of Radix and Colin Campbell of .CLUB will be speaking as well as existing registries like Roland LaPlante from Afilias,  Pat Kane from Verisign and Jim Rogers of Neustar to name a few.

The conference is being put on as it was last year by United Domains.

Last year I was fortunate enough to attend and its was a great conference.

If you can make it I would urge you to go

Here is the agenda:

Day 1: Monday, 28 October 2013

Time

Channel A

Dr. Melinda Crane (Moderation)

Channel B

Jothan Frakes (Moderation)

09:00 -
09:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Melinda Crane

09:15 -
10:00 Keynote
Fadi Chehadé, ICANN

10:00 -
10:45 Marketing: How a major Chinese digital tech company plans to use their new dotBRAND

• Presentation
• Roland LaPlante, Afilias
• Li Yinxiu, aigo

11:15 -
12:00 Marketing: Marketing opportunities using gTLDs

• Panel
• Sarah Langstone, Verisign (Moderation)
• Wendy Schratz, BSkyB
• Dr. Matthias Steegmann, OBI
• Dr. Michael Trautmann, thjnk

ICANN Contract vs. National Law

• Presentation
• Rajesh Chharia, CJ Online
• Michele Neylon, Blacknight Internet Solutions

12:00 -
12:45 Community gTLDs:
It’s all about your community

• Panel
• Dirk Krischenowski, dotBERLIN (Moderation)
• Colin Campbell, .CLUB Domains
• Raphaëlle Laubie, Hexap
• Sandeep Ramchandani, LogicBoxes/Radix
• Jim Rogers, Neustar

ICANN Contract vs. National Law

• Panel
• Thomas Rickert, Schollmeyer & Rickert Lawfirm (Moderation)
• Rajesh Chharia, CJ Online
• Michael Heller, SHSG Lawfirm
• Cyrus Namazi, ICANN
• Michele Neylon, Blacknight Internet Solutions

14:00 -
14:45 Marketing: How major companies/businesses plan to use their new gTLDs

• Interview
• Tom Embrescia, Second Genistry
• Pat Kane, Verisign

 

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14:45 -
15:30 Legal Keynote: Introduction to Rights Protection Mechanisms

• Dr. David Taylor, Hogan Lovells Lawfirm

New Business Models

• Presentation
• Brian Cute, PIR

15:30 -
16:15 Legal: Brand Risk Management I

• Panel
• Dr. David Taylor, Hogan Lovells Lawfirm (Moderation)
• Dr.

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