There's been domain industry conferences/events for 2+ decades (give or take).
Events I've attended over the years:
Meetups – (2009 to current) – Meeting with individual domain investors 1 on 1 across the U.S.
T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West – Las Vegas Nevada (2014) – An Official Domain Investor Conference
NamesCon – Las Vegas, Nevada (2015/2017) – An Official Domain Investor Conference
DnHouston – Houston, Texas (2016) – An Official Domain Investor Meetup
Lean – Houston, Texas (2014) – An Official Start-Up Accelerator Conference.
NACCE – Houston, Texas (2015) – An Official Entrepreneurial Conference.
However, there has been changes of the guard (Ownership) for them over the years, as well as a bunch of new ones that surfaced in different parts of the world to spread the domain seeds, shake hands (in person) with other portfolio holders, stake-holders, VCs, and industry related companies, direct marketing and brand exposure in new markets or to new start-ups/investors, etc...
I've met a lot of great people over the years at events and meet-ups and miss some of the ones that phased out into retirement or pivoted to another industry, Like Frank Schilling (Original founder of Uniregistry), who recently Starred in 7 episodes of the reality TV show "
Grand Cayman: Secrets in Paradise" just last year in 2024.
Besides talking domains and pitching, there's generally a lot of mingling, drinking, loud music and sometimes parties...
One of these days, I may have to go to another larger event. For now though, I stick to local turnouts in the south/south east Texas regions.
