Speakers
Mark R. Van Dyke
Mark R. Van Dyke is an Internet entrepreneur and president, owner and founder of three very successful Internet companies in the United States.
Since completing his college education in Computer Engineering, Mark has employed an aggressive entrepreneurial spirit in every endeavor in which
he has been involved. After serving as president of an Internet service provider for four years, Mark co-founded FanMail.com, an e-mail service provider
that continues to offer lifetime e-mail addresses and service to customers around the globe. He has also founded Activv LLC, and 822 Media Inc.,
two Internet publishing companies which publish two highly successful Web sites, Army.com and Bulldogs.com, and manage numerous other Web sites in support
of his business objectives. Mark is a proven innovator who demonstrates daily how to build equity in a domain name through the development, monetization
and publishing of content for a selected audience and commercialization of the site to sustain and grow the business.
Paul Keating of Renova Ltd
Paul Keating has been practicing law since 1983. Most recently, Paul was an equity partner in Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, a 93 attorney firm with offices
in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Walnut Creek and Riga Latvia. At CBM Paul was responsible for the firm's Business, Taxation and IP group.
During his tenure with CBM Paul handled a wide-variety of transactions ranging from start-ups to $100 million mergers for his business, tax and intellectual
property clients.
In 2004 he resigned from CBM to relocate to Barcelona Spain where he lives with his wife and son. He has since begun Renova, ltd., a new rapidly growing
law firm in Barcelona, Spain. Renova represents a selective group of businesses and individuals, including Paul's former clients in the US as well as new
clients in Spain, Sweden, Isle of Man, Germany, Luxembourg and elsewhere.
Paul's practice emphasizes intellectual property, international tax planning and finance. He continues to represent domain portfolio holders on all matters
related to their activities including business structure, taxes, financing, licensing, IP transfers, as well as UDRPs and related litigation.
PRKeating@Renovaltd.com.
Examples of Paul's practice include the following:
- Establishment of offshore registrar and privacy structures for large portfolio holders;
- Structuring holdings for various tasting programs and management of domain disputes arising out of the program;
- Management of successful litigation to remove restrictions imposed by EURid on large domain portfolios and registrar groups.
- Management of domain dispute systems for portfolio clients ranging from automated C&D response systems through complex ADRs and UDRPs.
- Completion of purchase and sale transactions for specialty high-value domains involving complex securitization and escrow issues.
- Completion of portfolio purchases and sales with pricing ranging from $300,000 up to $15 million.
Lesley Cowley
Lesley joined Nominet UK as Operations Director in April 1999. She has extensive management experience in both the public and private sectors,
having worked in a range of management roles for more than 20 years. She is a member of the Institute of Directors, the Chartered Management
Institute and the Institute of Credit Management.
Lesley was appointed Managing Director in March 2002. As a Nominet board member, she makes a major contribution to strategic planning and decision making.
She is responsible for the running of the company and oversees the management team.
She is particularly involved in relations with Nominet's members, managing company performance and introducing improvements to the systems and processes.
Lesley's job title was changed from Managing Director to Chief Executive on 1 January 2005.
Angus Hanton - Giraffe.co.uk
Angus is probably one of the longest-toothed UK Domain name owners & strategists having owned generic names for over 10 years and having made
some notable sales including taste.co.uk, egg.co.uk and three.co.uk to mention a few. His portfolio consists of about 18,000 domains and growing.
Ross Sandler
Ross Sandler is an equity research analyst covering the Internet and Digital Media space at RBC Capital Markets (Royal Bank of Canada).
He is a member of a global Internet research team, based in New York, which covers around 20 publicly traded companies, including: Google, Yahoo,
Marchex, eBay, Amazon, aQuantive, Digitas, Cnet, InfoSpace, Liquidity Services, Miva, PlanetOut, Spark Networks, 24/7 Real Media, ValueClick, and
several companies outside the US.
The RBC team has been actively following the direct navigation and domain services space for several years, and has developed relationships with
most of the major players in the global community.
Ross has been working on Wall Street since 2000. Prior to RBC, he researched the Enterprise Hardware and Imaging sector at UBS. Prior to UBS,
Ross played minor league professional soccer for a team based in Boston, MA. Ross graduated Phi Beta Kappa with an MBA from New York University,
with a specialization in Finance, and has a BS from the University of New Hampshire.
Tommy Butler
Tommy Butler is a Domain Name Strategist who has been involved in the domain industry since 1998
As owner of Glasgow.com and several other UK city.coms, he is a firm believer in developing content-driven portfolio websites which increase traffic and
revenue by strategic planning, involving clusters of generic and product names.
He is a member of Associated Cities and a tag member of Nominet.
Michael Toth
Michael Toth set up a small b2b computer repair and networking company in 1996, not knowing how it would change his life.
At that time, most of the best domain names (DN’s) had already gone, but after a number of interesting conversations with Nominet
he discovered that DN’s were being released by there original owners. Michael quickly developed a small piece of software to catch
any name that was dropped. And for two years he probably got most of the best domain names. Today he has sold very few names as he
choses to develop names rather than sell. One which is under development is www.usedcars.co.uk.
Sell your car for free. He is also involved in trying to make changes to the DRS system, which is now very much in favour of the complainant.
He is also involved in the setting up of the new Domain Name Association.
Daniel Law
Daniel Law is the CEO and founder of Sombrero.de (founded 2006), the first .de-specific domain auction marketplace. Daniel has extensive
industry experience in after-market sales, domain name monetization, and domain name brokering and has brokered several large (6 figure plus)
industry-known sales, both in the .com and .de space, such as Woman.com, Commerce.com, Mobilephone.com, Blackjack.de and Airline.de. He is currently
examining expanding Sombrero's scope to the UK.
Prior to setting out on his own, Daniel was Director of Operations with Sedo GmbH and ran their International Division. He was a key part of setting
up and growing English language activities, and after 2 short years had grown his department from its fledgling and subsidized start into the most
profitable of all of the company's divisions employing a staff of over 20.
Daniel holds a B.A. from Columbia University (USA) in Economics and Political Science. Prior to his University days, he spent 4 years in the US Army
Infantry as an Infantry Fire Team Leader.
Stevan Lieberman
Stevan Lieberman is a founding partner of Greenberg & Lieberman, an intellectual property law firm. His practice areas include intellectual property,
patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. He also has extensive experience with Internet / domain name law. For more information about him or
the firm please go to www.aplegal.com
Jim Davies
Jim Davies obtained an MA in science and law at Cambridge, before doing post-graduate study in business computing at Keele University. In 1992 he
started as a trainee solicitor – and then practiced law - at IP specialist firm Monier-Williams. During that time he was part of a small team that
successfully represented Champagne in a landmark Court of Appeal passing off case.
Jim left private practice to manage projects in Eastern Europe for Law Society groups, funded by the Foreign Office. He then set up an IT company
that offered security solutions to law firms and other city institutions. Their specialist areas of work were anti-virus, removable
USB devices and encryption.
Jim returned to practicing law as a consultant at Bell Dening, having developed a strong interest in domain name disputes. He now manages that busy
area of work at the firm. One of Bell Dening’s recent high profile successes was obtaining a public apology from Nominet in relation to the controversial
bounce.co.uk DRS case – almost certainly the first time Nominet has made such an apology. That case was also resolved to the "satisfaction" of their
client, Michael Toth.
Bell Dening is a growing firm of solicitors, based in London and Kent. It was established by former Edward Lewis partners Jeremy Dening and Clive Bell.
Already with a thriving property department; the firm has rapidly developed a reputation for being experts in .uk domain name disputes – in particular
acting for registrants when challenged by large corporate complainants.
Bell Dening offer a free appraisal of any domain dispute. Details of this and other services can will shortly be available from the soon to be re-launched
website at www.BellDening.com . You can also reach Jim directly at Jim.Davies @ BellDening.com.
Edward Russell, President NameDrive
Ed Russell has been involved in the UK domain industry since 2004. In August 2005, he was a founding member of the NameDrive domain monetisation platform.
Since its launch, Ed has been instrumental in NameDrive's rise through the ranks to their current position of strength in the European domain market.
Under his direction, ND now host over 650,000 domains worldwide and have gained recognition as one of the premier parking companies in the UK space.
Peter Smith – Business Development Director, MIVA Media UK
Peter Smith is Business Development Director at leading online advertising network MIVA Media UK, a division of MIVA Inc., (NASDAQ: MIVA).
Peter joined MIVA Media in 2001 with a brief to both expand the company’s network of publishing partners and to maximize revenue generating
potential for existing partners.
Over the last five years Peter has been instrumental in the development of online monetization tools targeted at online publishers across every
category from domain parkers through to major ISPs and search engines. Most recently, Peter was involved in the development and launch of MIVA MC,
a new product that for the first time enables online publishers to access MIVA’s Pay-Per-Click advertiser base via a self-serve platform.
Prior to MIVA, Peter was Business Development Manager at Screaming Media, a news content aggregator and software provider.
Master of Ceremonies
David Brayshaw
After 12 years' experience in the IT industry running his own computer supply & support firm, David made the transition to the domain industry as a
consultant for the ANY-Village.co.uk project. His drive and ambition helped transform ANY-Web Ltd.to an established company in the UK domain industry.
Turning down the offer of partnership and equity in ANY-Web after only six months, David decided to follow his own interests in May 2006.
David's company is now growing rapidly and is currently managing over 30,000 UK domain names.
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