Day 1
Walk-through Session: How to get the most out of NamesCon 360 on the virtual venue (Pre-Recorded)
Speaker:- Jay Paudyal & Hitesh Wadhwa
Panel : Growing Domain Aftermarket Industry in South Asia - Manish Lunja, Aishwin Vikhona, Riz M
Speaker:- Manish Lunja, Aishwin Vikhona, Riz Memon
Domain Names as Digital Asset by Arun Bansal, Abhishek Rungta
Speaker:- Arun Bansal, Abhishek Rungta
Listing of Domain Names by Khan Mohammad Nakib, Arafatul Islam Akib
Speaker:- Khan Mohammad Nakib, Arafatul Islam Akib
Inspiring stories of Young Domainers - Domaining in Early Twenties by Jai Gupta, Aman Tibrewal, Harsh Karel, Mukesh Kumar, Avijit Roy moderated by Deepak Daftari
Speaker:- Jai Gupta, Aman Tibrewal, Harsh Karel, Mukesh Kumar, Avijit Roy moderated by Deepak Daftari
Domaining Rap
08:00 - 08:15How to begin Domaining journey by Arvind Reddy, Divya Shukla
Speaker:- Arvind Reddy, Divya Shukla
(Hindi) डोमेन नेम बिज़नस की शुरुआत कैसे करें Hitesh Wadhwa, Praneet Thakur
Speaker:- Hitesh Wadhwa, Praneet Thakur
Day 2
Welcome Session - Opening of Day 2 and Recap Day 1 - Jay Paudyal
Speaker:- Jay Paudyal
Session : Art of Buying Five figure Premium Domains - Manish Lunja, Aishwin Vikhona, Hiren Patel
Speaker:- Manish Lunja, Aishwin Vikhona, Hiren Patel
Legal : Domain Name Disputes and Digital Rights by Ankur Raheja, Rodney Ryder moderated by Arun Bansal
Speaker:- Ankur Raheja, Rodney Ryder moderated by Arun Bansal
Session : Selling Domain Names by Paul Singh, Jay Paudyal
Speaker:- Paul Singh, Jay Paudyal
(Hindi) डोमेन नेम कैसे बेचें Hitesh Wadhwa, Rohit Goyal
Speaker:- Hitesh Wadhwa, Rohit Goyal
Panel : Women in Domaining - Neha Gupta, Samia Ahmed, Anita Walker, Divya Shukla
Speaker:- Neha Gupta, Samia Ahmed, Anita Walker, Divya Shukla
Best Practices of LinkedIN Outreach by Riz M, Hitesh Wadhwa
Speaker:- Riz M, Hitesh Wadhwa
Domain Appraisal : What's my domain worth - Deepak Daftari, Paul Singh, Arvind Reddy moderated by Jay Paudyal
Speaker:- Deepak Daftari, Paul Singh, Arvind Reddy moderated by Jay Paudyal
Closing Note
08:45 - 09:0010 September 2020
11 September
How to get the most out of NamesCon Online on the virtual venue!
Timing: 10:30 AM – 10:40 AM
It’s great to experience the NamesCon’s professional Learning Conference amongst the passionate domain investors who have left the industry professionals spellbound with their unique experiences. The South Asia Track of NamesCon Online 2020 will be opened by
Veteran Indian domainer Deepak Daftari who is known to have closed some prominent six-figure domain deals and is one of the largest portfolio holders of two-letter domain names. Grow your networking with the eminent domain professionals and find the way out to your successful journey in domaining.
Timing: 10:45 – 11:05 AM IST
Speaker:- Deepak Daftari
SPEAKERS
Deepak Daftari
Veteran Indian domainer Deepak Daftari having closed some prominent six-figure domain deals is an active domain name investor helping the fortune 500 and 1000 companies acquire strategic domain assets and potential billion-dollar names. Holding a large portfolio of extensively valuable Domain Names, Deepak is also one of the largest portfolio holders of two-letter domain names. He runs eSiksha.com - one of the oldest education portals in India and a Pan India Executive Resourcing & Head-Hunting Consultancy for Senior Positions in some of the most prominent IT Companies in India.
The strong uptick witnessed for the Domain Aftermarket Industry in the South Asia Region has driven a substantial interest of the individuals thereby strengthening the Domain Aftermarket Industry. This session has some of the prominent domainers like Manish Lunja– who has brokered India’s Highest Value Domain Name Sale of $500,000+ , Aishwin Vikhona– Holding a portfolio of some thousand domains, a few 3 letter premium dot coms and Riz Memon– who holds a profound expertise in LinkedIn outreach. This expert panel would discuss the statistical progression of the domaining industry in the South Asia region along with throwing light upon the growth of CCTLDs.
Timing:- 11:05 AM – 11:35 AM IST
Speaker:- Manish Lunja, Aishwin Vikhona, Riz Memon
SPEAKERS
Avijit Roy
Avijit is the founder of ViableNames.com and holds interests in various digital investments(Domains, crypto) and E-commerce. His domaining journey began in Aug 2018, as a part-time investment. Avijit's first four-figure sale was healthcade.com for $1899 with an investment of $3. Since then he mostly sells hand reg and closeout names in a range of high xxx to mid xxxx figures. In 2020 alone he has sold domains worth $10000 In his free time, he enjoys reading philosophy, literature and Economics.
SPEAKERS
Manish Lunja
Manish having decades of experience as an Entrepreneur, an adept Angel Investor and a highly proficient domain name investor with top 1% GoDaddy Customers, Total Domain Portfolio of $1.5Million+ and he is known for having brokered India's Highest Value Domain Name Sale of $500,000+. He has over 10 years of experience in business development, digital marketing, investing and divesting in Premium and Ultra Premium Domain Names. Embedded with professional values and ethics Manish holds great expertise in all aspects of the domain name and digital asset brokerage services.
SPEAKERS
Aishwin Vikhona
Ashwin Vikhona is an entrepreneur, an author to a book called "Sell Domains Fast" and an active Domain Investor with a portfolio of a few thousand domains. He loves domain names and its endless possibilities. Ashwin runs an IT startup called Global Websoft, focused on buying/selling domain names, product development, outsourcing and IT services. With over years of experience in digital asset acquisitions, He also helped a lot of startups find the right name to build an online enterprise.
Dive into the competitive research that helps you land into unique business opportunities with this exclusive workshop on Finding Good Domains with Vinesh Bhaskarla who has gained intense expertise in selling domain names via outbound and believes in selling the Domain names quickly. Having sold the domain names quickly within 2-3 days and sometimes even a single day, Vinesh is one of the proficient domainers who would tell you about how to find the quick selling domains and plan the best strategy to find the buyers.
Timing:- 11:05 AM – 11:35 AM IST
Speaker:- Vinesh Bhaskarla
SPEAKERS
Vinesh Bhaskarla
An Entrepreneur, having 6 years experience in the Recruitment Industry, with high interest in Digital Media and Internet opportunities Vinesh made his way into Domain Names Investing and Internet Marketing. Being Co-Founder and Business Consultant at Sculpt Digital, he helps the SME's to grow in Digital Platforms.
The Fireside Chat with Ashish Tulsian – one of India’s top entrepreneurs and the man behind the creation of POSist– a leading online POS, Restaurant Management software is all set to throw light on what do the Brands and Businesses look for in a domain name. Ashish will be sharing the journey of POSist that led to its global presence and the story behind choosing this domain name. Having made POSist- a global success in number of countries, he would also throw light on planning of the TLD strategy and the concept behind how they decide on booking other ccTLDs and nGTLDs
Timing: 11:35 – 12:15 PM IST
Speaker:- Ashish Tulsian
SPEAKERS
Ashish Tulsian
Ashish is one of India’s top entrepreneurs, restauranteur turned inventor who created a complete online POS solution for retailers. He is the one behind the creation of POSist– a leading online POS, Restaurant Management software. It started with a goal to make his restaurant operations faster, accurate & efficient and today it has evolved to be a global product. Ashish is both Technocrat and Restaurateur who kickstarted his career founding a telecom company- TechnoApex, serving telecom operators in India. A side investment in a restaurant out of passion brought him to this side of things.
Learn how Domain Names can be a Digital Asset with the perspective of Brand owners and domain investors who consider domains as assets. Arun Bnasal- the founder of ServerGuy Inc. & Breeze.io. who has been speaking at varied international conferences like WordCamps, WordPress & Magento Meetups and CIPFO along with Abhishek Rungta – a technology guy turned an Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and a Visionary would throw light on vivid approaches of considering Domain Names as a digital asset focussing both on the strength of the domain as well as its monetary valuation.
Timing:- 12:15 – 12:45 PM IST
Speaker:- Arun Bansal, Abhishek Rungta
SPEAKERS
Arun Bansal
Arun Bansal is the founder of ServerGuy Inc. & Breeze.io. For the past 13 years, Arun has been helping businesses to automate, secure & scale their IT Infrastructure. Breeze.io is a platform-as-a-service, democratizing web hosting by bringing enterprise-level cloud for WordPress and Magento, to the masses. Arun has been a speaker at Indian and several international conferences like WordCamps, WordPress & Magento Meetups, CIPFO and ICANN.
SPEAKERS
Abhishek Rungta
Abhishek is an Entrepreneur, Digital Strategy Consultant, Software Architect, Marketing Geek, Angel Investor and a Visionary. A technology guy turned entrepreneur in his teens, Abhishek founded INT. in the year 1997. It is a fully bootstrapped venture from one person to a family of 750+ full-time professionals who work from India, UK, USA, Singapore and Australia. His expertise across technology and marketing gives him the unique ability to synergize systems with business, ensuring a high success rate of innovation and change management initiatives.
Khan Mohammad Nakib and Arafatul Islam Akib- the two prominent domainers from Bangladesh who started domaining as their part-time career and have built one of the largest domaining community in Bangladesh named as DAB would take a workshop on How to list the domain names for selling? This session would be a hands-on experience for you to witness the ways of listing domains on various platforms along with increased exposure. Get ready to update, manage and handle your listing with ease and spread your domains spread across the network
Timing:- 12:15 – 12:45 PM IST
Speaker:- Khan Mohammad Nakib, Arafatul Islam Akib
SPEAKERS
Khan Mohammad Nakib (Swadhin)
Khan M. Nakib (Swadhin), is the founder of community domain and hosting related activities named Domain Bangladesh - DAB and also works as the Head of Operation of the country's one of the well known ITeS service providers and first ICANN accredited registrar. He has showcased quite significant Leadership qualities and has been working with the e-CAB, BASIS, BDHPA as a member of it's standing committees and encourages and youth enabling them to participate in online businesses. He has been closely active with various Tech Communities in Bangladesh. Know more about him at www.swadhin.dehas.
SPEAKERS
Arafatul Islam Akib
Arafatul Islam Akib lives in Bangladesh and has been working in the Startup Ecosystem since last 5 years building entrepreneurs in rural level in his professional journey. He has inspired 6000+ students till now and has created 40 plus startup venture, 20+ investors community work with Bangladesh & Global Entrepreneurship Network community. He also works in collaboration with Bangladesh government also domain, startup, e-commerce industry and creates an impactful footprint. His venture Startup Chattogram website www.startupchattogram.org
The Panel features some of the growing domainers in South Asia who entered the Domain Aftermarket Industry in their early twenties and since then have been showcasing incredible performance. This session will be moderated by Deepak Daftari- the Veteran Indian domainer who also has mentored some of these young domainers. These young domainers shall share their stories of making way through domain name business involving acquisitions and sales. They would primarily talk about the challenges faced in having led their way to domaining while they were still students then. Their self-driven enthusiasm combined with expert mentorship has inspired many individuals to self-assess their potential and pave the path towards successful beginning in the domain aftermarket industry.
Timing:- 12:45 – 01:30 PM IST
Speaker:- Jai Gupta, Aman Tibrewal, Harsh Karel, Mukesh Kumar, Avijit Roy moderated by Deepak Daftari
SPEAKERS
Jai Gupta
Jai Gupta is a young 21-year-old aspirational domain name investor. He has been bartering domains for 3+ years. He has a stronghold at organic trends and search analytics and soon found domain names intriguing and fascinating as he believes "Anything you do online, be it mail, website, e-commerce; you definitely need a strong relevant domain name." He also believes in saying that "Identity today, in the supercharging webspace starts with a DOMAIN NAME". He likes to audit/understand Domain Name Sales, Brand Acquisitions, Portfolios, Rebranding etc. based on his knowledge and industry trends.
SPEAKERS
Aman Tibrewal
Aman Tibrewal began his domaining journey with a limited investment resorting to only hand registration domain names and got his first sale in October 2019 which was a .org sale (londonmeditation.org). From then he has been acquiring better-valued domain names and has been getting decent sales.
SPEAKERS
Harsh Karel
Aged 20 Harsh started his domaining journey about 16 months ago i.e. in April 2019. Most of his sales are through outbound. He has sold around 40-45 domains to date and most of them were in the range of $300-500. It has been a great journey so far and he is looking forward to getting better at it and selling more domain names.
SPEAKERS
Mukesh Kumar
Mukesh started his domaining journey 2 years back with limited investment. He gives more time to research instead of buying. After a year of starting his domaining journey, his first domain(indict.in) was sold for $249. Now, he has a portfolio of over 250 domains. His last domain sale was $825 after 15 days of acquiring the domain.
SPEAKERS
Avijit Roy
Avijit is the founder of ViableNames.com and holds interests in various digital investments(Domains, crypto) and E-commerce. His domaining journey began in Aug 2018, as a part-time investment. Avijit's first four-figure sale was healthcade.com for $1899 with an investment of $3. Since then he mostly sells hand reg and closeout names in a range of high xxx to mid xxxx figures. In 2020 alone he has sold domains worth $10000 In his free time, he enjoys reading philosophy, literature and Economics.
Timing:- 12:45 – 01:30 PM IST
Speaker:- Vipin Khetarpal
SPEAKERS
Vipin Khetarpal
Vipin has over 20 years of experience in domain services, brand building, web hosting and email solutions and is a solution consultant to various companies in India. Vipin currently heads Datameter Technologies, which provide Managed cloud hosting, Email servers and helps in solving complex problems relating to web and email services.
In this session, you will witness Rap on Domain Aftermarket Business, performed by Jay Paudyal founder of Urban Skill, and Abhishek Talwar founder of Delve Logic.
Timing: 01:30 PM – 01:45 PM IST
Speaker:- Jay paudyal & Abhishek Talwar
SPEAKERS
Jay Paudyal
Having an enthralling experience of 20 years in domain name investment, Jay is the founder of Urbanskill.com & DomainKhan.com. He has been investing in brandable domains and the names which can be developed as a blog, an eCommerce portal or a tool. With divergent thinking, immense potential and the energy of logic, Jay has been leading the way as a Serial Entrepreneur and Internet Governance enthusiast. Being a leading light to several individuals with his core expertise in technology and e-business, he has ventured into several other niches and also runs a SaaS product company.
SPEAKERS
Abhishek Talwar
Abhishek is a serial entrepreneur running multiple ventures in e-commerce, carpooling and software consulting domain.
This session is exclusively for the newbies in the industry and also for those who want to enter into Domain Name Aftermarket business and are looking forward to try their hands in implementing the learnings and getting started with their entrepreneurial journey. The panel would discuss everything including right from the market research, finding good names, selecting a niche, choosing the right business structure to create one’s online presence. Get ready to experience this informative ride with Arvind Reddy – leading domainer of the Indian subcontinent who has observed and been part of every major change in the industry and Divya Shukla, who recently stepped-in to craft her own journey into domain name aftermarket space. She is also a coordinator & curator of the popular 5 Webinar-series domaining course at Urban Skill.
Timing:- 01:45 – 02:30 PM IST
Speaker:- Arvind Reddy, Divya Shukla
SPEAKERS
Divya Shukla
An avid writer and journalism graduate. Divya is an aspiring domainer who has just stepped into the field and the community manager at Urban Skill. She started her career as a freelance writer/Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in Communication, Community building, Teamwork, Social Media, and Research.
SPEAKERS
Arvind Reddy
A domainer since the early days of the business, Arvind has observed and been part of every major change the industry has undergone over the past decades. One of the earliest proponents of “Any name, single price” domain sale format with 100DollarDomains.com, he has since then sold thousands of names to SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. Currently holding a portfolio of 11500 names, Arvind is a leading domainer of the Indian subcontinent. He is an old industry hand and considers Mr.Ian Andrew of DotcomAgency.com & late Mr.Igal Lichtman of Domainspa.com his mentors in the industry and beyond.
दोस्तों अगर आप डोमेन की दुनिया में नए हैं या इसके बारे में और जानना चाहते हैं तो यह सेशन आपके लिए है, इसमें हमारे एक्सपर्ट हितेश वाधवा और प्रनीत ठाकुर आपको डोमेन नेम बिज़नेस क्या है, इस की बारीकियां, कैसे शुरुवात करें, एक अच्छा डोमेन क्या होता है, अच्छे डोमेन कैसे ढूंढे, डोमेन के वर्गीकरण के बारे में बतायेंगे. दोनों पेशेवर अपने दशकों का अनुभव साझा करेंगे. इस सेशन के बाद आप इस बिज़नेस की हर छोटी बड़ी बातें जान पायेंगे.
Timing:- 01:45 – 02:30 PM IST
Speaker:- Hitesh Wadhwa, Praneet Thakur
SPEAKERS
Hitesh Wadhwa
Performance-driven, a motivated Entrepreneur and a Domain name investor with a proven track record of success in selling domains via outbound, delivering domain development projects to global clients. Talented tech consultant with over 20 years of demonstrated expertise reflecting leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” internet, intranet & enterprise applications development. Strong technical and business management skills. He also helps organizations to buy right domain names for their businesses. Mentored, collaborated & works with SMEs to provide quality products and services.
SPEAKERS
Praneet Thakur
Praneet is the Founder of an SEO Agency named ShoutRank where he also shares valuable information about SEO on his blog which is quite famous amongst black hat SEO named PBNGuru.com. Besides this, he also has SAAS names CheckDuck which is an expired domain analysis tool
Day 1
Walk-through Session: How to get the most out of NamesCon 360 on the virtual venue (Pre-Recorded)
Timing: 05:00 – 05:15
Welcome Session - Opening of Day 1
Timing: 05:15 – 05:35
Speaker:- Deepak Daftari
SPEAKERS
Deepak Daftari
Veteran Indian domainer Deepak Daftari having closed some prominent six-figure domain deals is an active domain name investor helping the fortune 500 and 1000 companies acquire strategic domain assets and potential billion-dollar names. Holding a large portfolio of extensively valuable Domain Names, Deepak is also one of the largest portfolio holders of two-letter domain names. He runs eSiksha.com - one of the oldest education portals in India and a Pan India Executive Resourcing & Head-Hunting Consultancy for Senior Positions in some of the most prominent IT Companies in India.
Panel : Growing Domain Aftermarket Industry in South Asia
Timing:- 05:35 – 06:05
Speaker:- Manish Lunja, Aishwin Vikhona, Riz Memon
SPEAKERS
Avijit Roy
Avijit is the founder of ViableNames.com and holds interests in various digital investments(Domains, crypto) and E-commerce. His domaining journey began in Aug 2018, as a part-time investment. Avijit's first four-figure sale was healthcade.com for $1899 with an investment of $3. Since then he mostly sells hand reg and closeout names in a range of high xxx to mid xxxx figures. In 2020 alone he has sold domains worth $10000 In his free time, he enjoys reading philosophy, literature and Economics.
SPEAKERS
Manish Lunja
Manish having decades of experience as an Entrepreneur, an adept Angel Investor and a highly proficient domain name investor with top 1% GoDaddy Customers, Total Domain Portfolio of $1.5Million+ and he is known for having brokered India's Highest Value Domain Name Sale of $500,000+. He has over 10 years of experience in business development, digital marketing, investing and divesting in Premium and Ultra Premium Domain Names. Embedded with professional values and ethics Manish holds great expertise in all aspects of the domain name and digital asset brokerage services.
SPEAKERS
Aishwin Vikhona
Ashwin Vikhona is an entrepreneur, an author to a book called "Sell Domains Fast" and an active Domain Investor with a portfolio of a few thousand domains. He loves domain names and its endless possibilities. Ashwin runs an IT startup called Global Websoft, focused on buying/selling domain names, product development, outsourcing and IT services. With over years of experience in digital asset acquisitions, He also helped a lot of startups find the right name to build an online enterprise.
Workshop on Finding Good Domains
Timing:- 05:35 – 06:05
Speaker:- Jay Paudyal & Hitesh Wadhwa
SPEAKERS
Vinesh Bhaskarla
An Entrepreneur, having 6 years experience in the Recruitment Industry, with high interest in Digital Media and Internet opportunities Vinesh made his way into Domain Names Investing and Internet Marketing. Being Co-Founder and Business Consultant at Sculpt Digital, he helps the SME's to grow in Digital Platforms.
Fireside Chat with Ashish Tulsian
Timing: 06:05 – 06:45
Speaker:- Jay Paudyal
SPEAKERS
Jay Paudyal
Having an enthralling experience of 20 years in domain name investment, Jay is the founder of Urbanskill.com & DomainKhan.com. He has been investing in brandable domains and the names which can be developed as a blog, an eCommerce portal or a tool. With divergent thinking, immense potential and the energy of logic, Jay has been leading the way as a Serial Entrepreneur and Internet Governance enthusiast. Being a leading light to several individuals with his core expertise in technology and e-business, he has ventured into several other niches and also runs a SaaS product company.
Domain Names as Digital Asset
Timing:- 06:45 – 07:15
Speaker:- Arun Bansal, Abhishek Rungta
SPEAKERS
Arun Bansal
Arun Bansal is the founder of ServerGuy Inc. & Breeze.io. For the past 13 years, Arun has been helping businesses to automate, secure & scale their IT Infrastructure. Breeze.io is a platform-as-a-service, democratizing web hosting by bringing enterprise-level cloud for WordPress and Magento, to the masses. Arun has been a speaker at Indian and several international conferences like WordCamps, WordPress & Magento Meetups, CIPFO and ICANN.
SPEAKERS
Abhishek Rungta
Abhishek is an Entrepreneur, Digital Strategy Consultant, Software Architect, Marketing Geek, Angel Investor and a Visionary. A technology guy turned entrepreneur in his teens, Abhishek founded INT. in the year 1997. It is a fully bootstrapped venture from one person to a family of 750+ full-time professionals who work from India, UK, USA, Singapore and Australia. His expertise across technology and marketing gives him the unique ability to synergize systems with business, ensuring a high success rate of innovation and change management initiatives.
Listing of Domain Names
Timing:- 06:45 – 07:15
Speaker:- Khan Mohammad Nakib, Arafatul Islam Akib
SPEAKERS
Khan Mohammad Nakib (Swadhin)
Khan M. Nakib (Swadhin), is the founder of community domain and hosting related activities named Domain Bangladesh - DAB and also works as the Head of Operation of the country's one of the well known ITeS service providers and first ICANN accredited registrar. He has showcased quite significant Leadership qualities and has been working with the e-CAB, BASIS, BDHPA as a member of it's standing committees and encourages and youth enabling them to participate in online businesses. He has been closely active with various Tech Communities in Bangladesh. Know more about him at www.swadhin.dehas.
SPEAKERS
Arafatul Islam Akib
Arafatul Islam Akib lives in Bangladesh and has been working in the Startup Ecosystem since last 5 years building entrepreneurs in rural level in his professional journey. He has inspired 6000+ students till now and has created 40 plus startup venture, 20+ investors community work with Bangladesh & Global Entrepreneurship Network community. He also works in collaboration with Bangladesh government also domain, startup, e-commerce industry and creates an impactful footprint. His venture Startup Chattogram website www.startupchattogram.org
Inspiring stories of Young Domainers - Domaining in Early Twenties
Timing:- 07:15 – 08:00
Speaker:- Jai Gupta, Aman Tibrewal, Harsh Karel, Mukesh Kumar, Avijit Roy moderated by Deepak Daftari
SPEAKERS
Jai Gupta
Jai Gupta is a young 21-year-old aspirational domain name investor. He has been bartering domains for 3+ years. He has a stronghold at organic trends and search analytics and soon found domain names intriguing and fascinating as he believes "Anything you do online, be it mail, website, e-commerce; you definitely need a strong relevant domain name." He also believes in saying that "Identity today, in the supercharging webspace starts with a DOMAIN NAME". He likes to audit/understand Domain Name Sales, Brand Acquisitions, Portfolios, Rebranding etc. based on his knowledge and industry trends.
SPEAKERS
Aman Tibrewal
Aman Tibrewal began his domaining journey with a limited investment resorting to only hand registration domain names and got his first sale in October 2019 which was a .org sale (londonmeditation.org). From then he has been acquiring better-valued domain names and has been getting decent sales.
SPEAKERS
Harsh Karel
Aged 20 Harsh started his domaining journey about 16 months ago i.e. in April 2019. Most of his sales are through outbound. He has sold around 40-45 domains to date and most of them were in the range of $300-500. It has been a great journey so far and he is looking forward to getting better at it and selling more domain names.
SPEAKERS
Mukesh Kumar
Mukesh started his domaining journey 2 years back with limited investment. He gives more time to research instead of buying. After a year of starting his domaining journey, his first domain(indict.in) was sold for $249. Now, he has a portfolio of over 250 domains. His last domain sale was $825 after 15 days of acquiring the domain.
SPEAKERS
Avijit Roy
Avijit is the founder of ViableNames.com and holds interests in various digital investments(Domains, crypto) and E-commerce. His domaining journey began in Aug 2018, as a part-time investment. Avijit's first four-figure sale was healthcade.com for $1899 with an investment of $3. Since then he mostly sells hand reg and closeout names in a range of high xxx to mid xxxx figures. In 2020 alone he has sold domains worth $10000 In his free time, he enjoys reading philosophy, literature and Economics.
Best Practices of Email Outreach
Timing:- 07:15 – 08:00
Speaker:- Vipin Khetarpal
SPEAKERS
Vipin Khetarpal
Vipin has over 20 years of experience in domain services, brand building, web hosting and email solutions and is a solution consultant to various companies in India. Vipin currently heads Datameter Technologies, which provide Managed cloud hosting, Email servers and helps in solving complex problems relating to web and email services.
Domaining Rap
Timing: 08:00 – 08:15
How to begin Domaining journey
Timing:- 08:15 – 09:00
Speaker:- Arvind Reddy, Divya Shukla
SPEAKERS
Divya Shukla
An avid writer and journalism graduate. Divya is an aspiring domainer who has just stepped into the field and the community manager at Urban Skill. She started her career as a freelance writer/Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in Communication, Community building, Teamwork, Social Media, and Research.
SPEAKERS
Arvind Reddy
A domainer since the early days of the business, Arvind has observed and been part of every major change the industry has undergone over the past decades. One of the earliest proponents of “Any name, single price” domain sale format with 100DollarDomains.com, he has since then sold thousands of names to SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. Currently holding a portfolio of 11500 names, Arvind is a leading domainer of the Indian subcontinent. He is an old industry hand and considers Mr.Ian Andrew of DotcomAgency.com & late Mr.Igal Lichtman of Domainspa.com his mentors in the industry and beyond.
(Hindi) डोमेन नेम बिज़नस की शुरुआत कैसे करें Hitesh Wadhwa, Praneet Thakur
Timing:- 08:15 – 09:00
Speaker:- Hitesh Wadhwa, Praneet Thakur
SPEAKERS
Hitesh Wadhwa
Performance-driven, a motivated Entrepreneur and a Domain name investor with a proven track record of success in selling domains via outbound, delivering domain development projects to global clients. Talented tech consultant with over 20 years of demonstrated expertise reflecting leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” internet, intranet & enterprise applications development. Strong technical and business management skills. He also helps organizations to buy right domain names for their businesses. Mentored, collaborated & works with SMEs to provide quality products and services.
SPEAKERS
Praneet Thakur
Praneet is the Founder of an SEO Agency named ShoutRank where he also shares valuable information about SEO on his blog which is quite famous amongst black hat SEO named PBNGuru.com. Besides this, he also has SAAS names CheckDuck which is an expired domain analysis tool
Day 2
Welcome Session - Opening of Day 2 and Recap Day 1
Timing: 05:00 – 05:20
Speaker:- Jay Paudyal
SPEAKERS
Jay Paudyal
Having an enthralling experience of 20 years in domain name investment, Jay is the founder of Urbanskill.com & DomainKhan.com. He has been investing in brandable domains and the names which can be developed as a blog, an eCommerce portal or a tool. With divergent thinking, immense potential and the energy of logic, Jay has been leading the way as a Serial Entrepreneur and Internet Governance enthusiast. Being a leading light to several individuals with his core expertise in technology and e-business, he has ventured into several other niches and also runs a SaaS product company.
Session : Art of Buying Five figure Premium Domains -
Timing:- 05:20 – 06:00
Speaker:- Manish Lunja, Aishwin Vikhona, Hiren Patel
SPEAKERS
Manish Lunja
Manish having decades of experience as an Entrepreneur, an adept Angel Investor and a highly proficient domain name investor with top 1% GoDaddy Customers, Total Domain Portfolio of $1.5Million+ and he is known for having brokered India's Highest Value Domain Name Sale of $500,000+. He has over 10 years of experience in business development, digital marketing, investing and divesting in Premium and Ultra Premium Domain Names. Embedded with professional values and ethics Manish holds great expertise in all aspects of the domain name and digital asset brokerage services.
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Aishwin Vikhona
Ashwin Vikhona is an entrepreneur, an author to a book called "Sell Domains Fast" and an active Domain Investor with a portfolio of a few thousand domains. He loves domain names and its endless possibilities. Ashwin runs an IT startup called Global Websoft, focused on buying/selling domain names, product development, outsourcing and IT services. With over years of experience in digital asset acquisitions, He also helped a lot of startups find the right name to build an online enterprise.
Legal : Domain Name Disputes and Digital Rights
Timing:- 05:20 – 06:00
Speaker:- Ankur Raheja, Rodney Ryder moderated by Arun Bansal
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Ankur Raheja
Ankur is a Cyber Domain Lawyer, having an experience of over 15 years. He is handling Domain Name Disputes (UDRP/INDRP) for Clients... have recently successfully defended UDRP / INDRP matters of Naturals.com (against Naturals India), Enow.in (against Bennett & Coleman Ltd) in 2020. He has been a Domain Dispute Panelist / Arbitrator with .IN Registry and with few International organizations as well. He has helped enforcement agencies in cybercrime Investigation and is spreading techno-legal awareness through his venture CyLaw®. He also handles work related to Trademarks & Cyber Law Compliance
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Rodney Ryder
Rodney D. Ryder is a lawyer with over two decades of experience in Technology, Data Privacy, Intellectual Property and New Media Laws. He is the Founding Partner of Scriboard, a full-service commercial law firm. He is also the author of two great books one of them being, ‘Intellectual Property and the Internet’ which is an authoritative work on domain name disputes and has been quoted as the only judgement on domain names by the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. He is presently Advisor to the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and National Internet Exchange of India.
Session : Selling Domain Names
Timing:- 06:00 – 06:40
Speaker:- Paul Singh, Jay Paudyal
SPEAKERS
Paul Singh
Paul Singh has been involved in real estate, both real and virtual for over two decades. Since 2005, he has accumulated some top keyword .in domains and sold six figures worth of them yielding an 80X return on some. He lives in Orange County, CA and owns Airbnb rentals in Las Vegas, NV. Specialized in comparison shopping, lead gen, affiliate marketing he has found himself sitting on a goldmine of .in domains receiving a huge visitors and inquiries, he decided to launch Platform.in as self-serve network enabling advertisers to take advantage of natural type-in traffic from .in domains.
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Jay Paudyal
Having an enthralling experience of 20 years in domain name investment, Jay is the founder of Urbanskill.com & DomainKhan.com. He has been investing in brandable domains and the names which can be developed as a blog, an eCommerce portal or a tool. With divergent thinking, immense potential and the energy of logic, Jay has been leading the way as a Serial Entrepreneur and Internet Governance enthusiast. Being a leading light to several individuals with his core expertise in technology and e-business, he has ventured into several other niches and also runs a SaaS product company.
(Hindi) डोमेन नेम कैसे बेचें
Timing:- 06:00 – 06:40
Speaker:- Hitesh Wadhwa, Rohit Goyal
SPEAKERS
Hitesh Wadhwa
Performance-driven, a motivated Entrepreneur and a Domain name investor with a proven track record of success in selling domains via outbound, delivering domain development projects to global clients. Talented tech consultant with over 20 years of demonstrated expertise reflecting leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” internet, intranet & enterprise applications development. Strong technical and business management skills. He also helps organizations to buy right domain names for their businesses. Mentored, collaborated & works with SMEs to provide quality products and services.
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Rohit Goyal
Rohit started his domaining journey in 2018. He has sold over 1000 domains and generated over $400k in revenue so far. Explored and created extensive expertise in outreach model. Rohit is Developing multi long term blogs in different niches and exploring the entire array of digital marketing services.
Panel : Women in Domaining
Timing: 06:40 – 07:30
Speaker:- – Neha Gupta, Samia Ahmed, Anita Walker, Divya Shukla
SPEAKERS
Divya Shukla
An avid writer and journalism graduate. Divya is an aspiring domainer who has just stepped into the field and the community manager at Urban Skill. She started her career as a freelance writer/Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in Communication, Community building, Teamwork, Social Media, and Research.
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Neha Gupta
Neha Gupta is an Entrepreneur, Domain Investor and Trainer. She is an IIT Roorkee Alumni. She started her domain investment and advisory company "Namaxis Pvt. Ltd." in 2016. She has more than 1000 domain names in her portfolio and has sold hundreds of domain names. She is an active speaker in many domain industry events and published in different online portals like Godaddy and DNJournal. She is tagged as the most prominent female domain investor in Asia. She is an Industry Influencer who runs a community to help people learn domain investment with the low initial investment.
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Anita Walker
Anita founded SmartWebby.com in Dec 2000 at age 22 and has been providing startup consulting, branding, design, web development and marketing services to global clients for almost 20 years. Relatively new to domaining (since 2012), from being just a hobby for several years it has now become a big part of her profession so she can provide comprehensive services to startups. On the personal front, she's a single mom to two teens who keep her high spirited and her hobbies include writing, poetry and painting.
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Samia Ahmed
Samia is a women domainer from Bangladesh and has sold many domains at the early beginning of her career in the domaining field. Additionally, she is also an experienced Marketing Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the executive office industry. Skilled in Microsoft Excel, Management, Customer Service, Sales, and Leadership. Strong marketing professional with a Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA focused in Accounting from Eden Women's College.
Best Practices of LinkedIN Outreach
Timing: 07:30 – 08:00
Speaker:- Riz M, Hitesh Wadhwa
SPEAKERS
Riz Memon
Riz with an eminently flourishing entrepreneurial and domain investing journey markets the domain names in a way that makes his company Empire Names unarguably the best. He has honed the outbound marketing strategy that makes use of LinkedIn to realize annual sales well into 6 figures. Riz, his wife, and extended family members having partnered and owned a number of UAE-based businesses have made a domain investing, a family affair that has garnered profitable success across the board.
SPEAKERS
Hitesh Wadhwa
Performance-driven, a motivated Entrepreneur and a Domain name investor with a proven track record of success in selling domains via outbound, delivering domain development projects to global clients. Talented tech consultant with over 20 years of demonstrated expertise reflecting leadership qualifications coupled with “hands-on” internet, intranet & enterprise applications development. Strong technical and business management skills. He also helps organizations to buy right domain names for their businesses. Mentored, collaborated & works with SMEs to provide quality products and services.
Domain Appraisal : What's my domain worth
Timing: 08:05 – 08:45
Speaker:- Deepak Daftari, Paul Singh, Arvind Reddy moderated by Jay Paudyal
SPEAKERS
Deepak Daftari
Veteran Indian domainer Deepak Daftari having closed some prominent six-figure domain deals is an active domain name investor helping the fortune 500 and 1000 companies acquire strategic domain assets and potential billion-dollar names. Holding a large portfolio of extensively valuable Domain Names, Deepak is also one of the largest portfolio holders of two-letter domain names. He runs eSiksha.com - one of the oldest education portals in India and a Pan India Executive Resourcing & Head-Hunting Consultancy for Senior Positions in some of the most prominent IT Companies in India.
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Paul Singh
Paul Singh has been involved in real estate, both real and virtual for over two decades. Since 2005, he has accumulated some top keyword .in domains and sold six figures worth of them yielding an 80X return on some. He lives in Orange County, CA and owns Airbnb rentals in Las Vegas, NV. Specialized in comparison shopping, lead gen, affiliate marketing he has found himself sitting on a goldmine of .in domains receiving a huge visitors and inquiries, he decided to launch Platform.in as self-serve network enabling advertisers to take advantage of natural type-in traffic from .in domains.
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Arvind Reddy
A domainer since the early days of the business, Arvind has observed and been part of every major change the industry has undergone over the past decades. One of the earliest proponents of “Any name, single price” domain sale format with 100DollarDomains.com, he has since then sold thousands of names to SMBs and Fortune 500 companies. Currently holding a portfolio of 11500 names, Arvind is a leading domainer of the Indian subcontinent. He is an old industry hand and considers Mr.Ian Andrew of DotcomAgency.com & late Mr.Igal Lichtman of Domainspa.com his mentors in the industry and beyond.
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Jay Paudyal
Having an enthralling experience of 20 years in domain name investment, Jay is the founder of Urbanskill.com & DomainKhan.com. He has been investing in brandable domains and the names which can be developed as a blog, an eCommerce portal or a tool. With divergent thinking, immense potential and the energy of logic, Jay has been leading the way as a Serial Entrepreneur and Internet Governance enthusiast. Being a leading light to several individuals with his core expertise in technology and e-business, he has ventured into several other niches and also runs a SaaS product company.
Closing Note
Timing: 08:45 – 09:00