events Domain Summit Europe 2026 - Kempten, Germany | 17-18 August 2026

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Domain Summit Europe 2026 will take place on 17-18 August 2026 in Kempten, Germany.

This year, I am organizing the Domain Summit Europe to be a smaller and more focused edition. Instead of a large London-style conference - this Summit will be a limited-size, business-first networking gathering for the domain name industry, with around 60 attendees maximum.

The ticket price is set to keep outsiders away (due to space limitations) - please drop me a message to get an invitation

The goal is simple: fewer people, better and longer conversations and more real business opportunities between domain investors, registrars, registries, brokers, marketplaces, hosting companies, domain service providers, and other industry professionals.

Important: the premises (Bitcoin Metropole is a bitcoin meetup place run by my friend cryptoartist MX12) are simpler this year compared with previous larger Summits. The focus will be on the quality of the people in the room, meetings in nearby restaurants and the business value of group tours.

Planned schedule:

Sunday, 16 August 2026
Optional pre-event social group activity. A group trip is being planned, currently expected to include a visit to Neuschwanstein Castle or another regional cultural/networking activity. In China they call it: Swan Castle. .. for Americans - this is the castle that Disney is using on their opening blue screen

Monday, 17 August 2026
First official conference and networking day in Kempten. The day will focus on introductions, industry discussions, networking, and business meetings.

Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Second official conference and networking day. More sessions, conversations, meetings, and informal networking between attendees.

Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Optional post-event social group activity. A curated networking activity is being planned to a brewery (a group experience). I am on the final stages of being ready to confirm the brewery for this group tour

Talking about the domain investors - the 3 investors on the domain investing panel have 1mil+ domains among them

.. this is 1 off experience - next year the Domain Summit Europe will be in a new location (I do not plan to repeat locations for our Summits).

And, yes - you are most welcome to travel with your +1 to the Summit. The group tours will be ready for this And, also, this is good for business.

Helmuts
.. I am shaping Domain Summits - one Summit at a time.

 

[Helmuts]

Today's Featured Attendee is Alan Guerin from the UK , founder of Domain Parachute, as a Featured Attendee at Domain Summit Europe 2026 in Kempten, Germany.

Alan is one of the newer builders in the UK domain space, but already one of the more interesting ones.

Domain Parachute is a .UK domain backordering and drop-catching platform built around a simple promise: backorder and drop-catch .UK domains with no upfront cost, and pay only if the domain is successfully secured.

For domain investors, that matters.

The UK drop-catching market is competitive, technical and unforgiving. Timing, infrastructure, latency, search, data, filters, auctions and user experience all matter.

Alan has approached it as a software builder rather than only as a domainer.

His public profile highlights Kotlin and AWS, and he has also publicly shared an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate achievement. That engineering background shows in Domain Parachute’s product direction: clear interface, backorder status visibility, domain monitoring ideas, search improvements, AI-enhanced filtering and a move toward stronger marketplace and auction functionality.

An especially interesting detail: Alan has been very open about listening to the UK domain community. Early feedback directly shaped planned improvements such as watchlists, clearer backorder status, removing renewed domains from results, better search filters, AI categorisation and performance improvements.

That kind of product attitude is valuable.

Because domain tools are not built only in code.
They are built in conversation with the people who actually use them.

Alan is exactly the kind of attendee we want in Kempten:
- technical,
- curious,
- product-driven,
- community-aware,
- and building practical infrastructure for the UK domain aftermarket.

Welcome to Domain Summit Europe 2026, Alan

17-18 August 2026
Kempten, Germany
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