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Future Business Trends in the Domain Industry

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SPEAKERS

NASK - RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC COMPUTER NETWORK / ccTLD .PL Registry

NASK is the .pl Registry with 1.3+ million names registered as of the end of 2008, 100+ Partners and 73,5% net growth rate year to year. NASK is the first and only TLD in Europe with fully implemented Domain Name Tasting and Wait List Service.

SEDO

Sedo, an acronym for ˝Search Engine for Domain Offers˝ is the leading online marketplace for buying and selling Internet domain names and websites. With offices in America, Germany and the UK, Sedo has assembled the world's largest database of domain names for sale, with more than 14 million listings.
The success of Sedo model has attracted a global membership base of more than 790,000 domain professionals. Sedo is majority-owned by AdLINK Group, which is part of the German United Internet AG. Sedo offers regional versions of its site for the UK (Sedo.co.uk), France (Sedo.fr), Germany (Sedo.de), and Spain (Sedo.com).
For additional information, please visit www.sedo.com.

Namedrive

NameDrive is one of the world's leading domain monetization businesses.
Founded in 2005, NameDrive was quickly recognized by Google as its fastest growing Domains for Adsense partner of all time. With customers and traffic from over 130 countries and support in over 15 languages, NameDrive is the market leader in providing global solutions for domain traffic.

Coordination Center for TLD RU

Coordination Center for TLD RU has performed the naming authority function under RU since 2002, including domain registration policy development, accrediting registrars and investigation of perspective projects for RU top-level domain.
For more information please visit: www.cctld.ru.

Dropped.pl

Michau Enterprises Ltd. is an undisputed leader in the secondary domain name marketing Poland. Dropped.pl, a website owned by the company, has been the first to offer domain dropcatching services in Poland, and still retains a dominant position in this market. The second website, AfterMarket.pl, is the largest Polish domain marketplace, where hundreds of domain sale transactions take place every month. Other provided services include domain registrations and tasting, WLS registrations, domain parking (with NameDrive Ltd.), and Escrow transactions for buying and selling domains.
As a domain registrar, Michau Enterprises Ltd. shows unprecedented growth in the Polish market, having reached a spot within top NASK partners within just few months. Because of elimination of paperwork for domain transfers, and very low renewal prices, it has become one of the preferred registrars among domain investors. New services are added every month, as a response to the growth of domain aftermarket in Poland.

dotBerlin

dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG is pursuing the introduction of .berlin as a new Internet domain ending, which is expected to be available from the end of 2009. Currently there are over 100 organizations and individuals who are partners in dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG, including the Berlin Guilde Association, Berlin Tourismus Marketing, Berlin Yellow Pages, Internet providers such as STRATO, InternetWire, Key Systems, hotels such as the Grand Hyatt Berlin as well as the Berlin State Lottery. dotBERLIN has an advisory board which includes notable figures from (IT) industry, science and culture.

MOBI

dotMobi is leading the growth of Internet use from mobile phones with the .mobi domain name. Unique among domain name providers, dotMobi ensures that services and sites developed around .mobi are optimized for use by mobile devices; this ensures that on-the-go consumers can have confidence that a Web site will work on their mobile phones when using a .mobi address.
dotMobi is backed by such market leaders as Ericsson, Google, GSM Association, Hutchison 3, Microsoft, Nokia, Orascom Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Syniverse, T-Mobile, Telefonica Moviles, TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile), Visa and Vodafone.
For more information on dotMobi, visit http://dotmobi.mobi

Telnic

Telnic Limited is a privately held UK company, based in London. It is the sponsoring organisation and registry for the .tel TLD.
The registry contract for .tel was agreed with ICANN in May 2006.
The final component in the launch of .tel will be the start of general availability on March 24th 2009.
For additional information, please visit www.telnic.com.

AZ.PL

Az.pl is one of the oldest Polish domain registrars. Since its foundation in 1996, the company registered 300 000 domain names with only 23 employees. The company offers the largest number of a domain name registrations on the market. Az.pl as the only registrar in Poland has ICANN accreditation and also is accredited NASK partner for .pl domain name, Eurid partner for .eu domain name, Verisign partner for .com and .net domain name, Afilias partner for .info domain name, NeuLevel partner for .biz domain name as well as Public Internet Registry partner for .org domain name! Az.pl obtained accreditation for Russian domain name .ru and for Austrian domain name .at as well. As the only registrar in Poland Az.pl has accreditation for .asia and .tel domain names. Since June 2008 Az.pl is accredited DENIC partner for .de and as the only Polish registrar the company joined exclusive group of registrars that register .tv and .cc.
Registrants and resellers thanks to the access to practical Partner Panel can register domain names very quickly and can administrate them in easy and convenient way. They can single-handedly change the DNS servers or registrants data, install new hosting account, initiate the transfer or renew the domain name. If any problems will occur registrants and resellers can use the Help Desk Center, textbooks in Polish (accessible ONLY in AZ.pl) as well as they can call to our consultants which wil give them required hints.
Az.pl has created also a wide range of hosting accounts, both resellers and registrants will find something suitable for them. The company offers as well a website creator for beginning customers who are doing theirs first steps in the internet. Thanks to this creating a professional looking website can be fast and easy.

HOME.PL

Home.pl is the largest Internet service provider for small and medium enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe. Company specializes in web sites hosting, e-mail accounts systems and business applications over the Internet. It has over 1 million clients. home.pl is also the largest partner of Research and Academic Computer Network (NASK) in registration of national .pl domain. home.pl is the winner of many prizes and prestigious awards. Deloitte found it as the fastest-growing technology company in Polish ranking FAST50 CE. Corporation is also a member of elite club Business Gazelles that associates the most dynamically growing Polish companies. Home.pl has constant cooperation with world leading technological companies. Key business partners of home.pl are: AMD, Google, Microsoft.

Key-Systems GmbH

Since its foundation in 1998, the domain specialist Key-Systems GmbH in Zweibruecken, Germany has grown on an enormous scale.
With today more than 2.4 million domains under management, the company has reached a leading market position, selling domain names to customers in over 100 countries.
In a highly competitive, global market, Key-Systems convinces with an unique range of offers: extensive customer service is combined with favorable prices integrated in an user friendly, fully automated system. Stability and security for the customer's domains are the top priorities of the company. The key to the company´s success lies in the self-developed and continuously updated software which allows fast domain registration and easy management.

Key-Systems is glad to be among the top 10 registrars for the Polish top level domain .PL: "We are looking forward to work further on closely together with Nask and to provide best services to our .PL customers".

SIDN

SIDN is responsible for the functional stability and development of the .nl Internet domain. As well as registering and allocating .nl domain names, the organisation enables Internet users all over the world to make use of these labels at any given moment.
SIDN's rapidly growing domain name register now contains more than three million .nl domain names, which are the subject of almost one million successful searches a day. In consequence, SIDN is a key player in the global Internet community. The organisation's services are provided to the public through a network of two thousand independent commercial Internet service providers.
SIDN also plays an active role in the technical, regulatory and political development of the Internet, at the national and international levels. Through the ENUM Foundation for the Netherlands, SIDN is additionally at the forefront of preparations to bring ENUM to the Netherlands.
Formed in 1996, SIDN is based in the Dutch town of Arnhem, where it employs fifty people.

CZ.NIC

CZ.NIC, the interest association of legal entities, was founded in 1998 by leading providers of Internet services. The association currently has 57 members. The key activities of the association include operation of the domain name registry for the .CZ domain and the 0.2.4.e164.arpa (ENUM) domain, operation of the CZ top-level domain and public education in the area of domain names. CZ.NIC is now intensively working on development of the ENUM system, extension and improvements of the domain administration system and support of new technologies and projects beneficial to the Internet infrastructure in the Czech Republic. CZ.NIC is a member of international organizations uniting similar organizations around the world (CENTR, ccNSO and more) and a member of the EURid association, managing the European domain .EU.