Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann is editor of the popular DomainNameWire.com news site.
Domain Name Wire was the first blog covering the business of domain
names, and has been online for nearly 4 years. A recognized expert on
domains, Andrew has been involved in the domain industry since 1997.
He has been quoted in The New York Times online, Sydney Morning
Herald, eWeek, and numerous other publications. Andrew graduated with
highest honors from The University of Texas with a degree in finance.
He has launched numerous startups in Austin, as well as worked in the
software and telecom industries.

Bruce Marler

Bruce Marler has a long history in the technology field, he started his career working on Internet backbone and VoIP deployments at AT&T and went on to work in sales and business development positions at companies such as Lucent Technologies, Dynavar, and GENBAND where he focused on next generation telecommunicatons and mobile applications.

Most recently Bruce co-founded Localtek, LLC which focuses on helping rural America with their online marketing needs and as part of this has launched Missouri.me which focuses on community portals for all cities and towns within Missouri. Bruce has worked to partner with leading Internet service providers in state to help drive awareness of the need for small business to market their businesses properly on the Internet. This all starts with the selection of their domain name.

Bruce also writes frequently on his blog at BruceMarler.com about a wide range of domain investing topics with much focus on developing an alternative extension such as .ME but also blogs about topics such as marketing your business and general geo domain and minisite tips.

Recently Bruce also announced his companies first geo development partnership with the launch of NorthCarolina.me which is owned by iSupportServices, this is Localteks first partnership where their state platform has been utilized by a separate entity from Localtek.

The Castello Brothers

The Castello Brothers, Michael and David Castello, are the CEO and COO of the Castello Cities Internet Network, Inc (CCIN.com).

The Castello Brothers own and develop some of the most recognized Geo and Generic domain brand names in the world. In 1997, they were the first to significantly monetize a geodomain with PalmSprings.com by generating 100% of its static advertising revenue from local businesses. Today, the Castello Brothers’ portfolio includes over a thousand high profile brands including Manicure.com, Nashville.com, Daycare.com, Bullion.com, Acapulco.com, Whisky.com, Cost.com, PalmSprings.com, Sample.com, Rate.com, LagunaBeach.com, Banana.com, Suntan.com, Adopt.com, WestPalmBeach.com, Kennel.com, LongBeach.com, Driven.com, GolfClub.com, Grape.com, Chili.com and Traveler.com.

The Castello Brothers are members of ICANN’s Business Constituency. Awards include the Domainers Choice Awards for Rising Star and Domain Ambassador (DOMAINfest), the Geo Hall of Fame (Geo Expo) and the Domainer Hall of Fame (TRAFFIC).

Craig Rowe

Craig Rowe is the founder of WhyPark and continues to lead its development after the April 2009 acquisition by Parked.com. Craig got his start in 1997 by developing, funding, and selling numerous web services and applications.

Most recently, he ran BillingOrchard, an online electronic billing application for small- to medium-sized enterprises.

After billing more than $120 million through the application, he sold the platform in June 2008. Craig has his undergraduate degree in International Business and MBA from Lake Erie College.

Donny Simonton

Donny Simonton is the President of Parked Technology Services. He oversees the planning development, infrastructure, and day to day operations for the leading domain parking company. Donny also has served as the Chief Information Officer where he managed the development of multiple domain registrars including directNIC.com. Previously, Donny served as Vice President in the Human Resources division of BankOne.

Elliot Silver

Elliot Silver began investing in domain names in 2003 while in graduate school, and he started blogging in 2007. In October of 2007, Elliot left his corporate job to focus on the management of his domain investment and development companies. Elliot’s companies own Burbank.com, Torah.com, Lowell.com, DogWalker.com, CatSitter.com, TropicalBirds.com and many others.

Elliot is a master Mardi Gras bead thrower, having learned the art in New Orleans during his bachelor party. He lives in New York City with wife and dog, and he has been practicing his balcony bead toss for two months, much to the chagrin of the tourists on the street below his apartment.

Gregg McNair

Chairman, PPX International Limited – Hong Kong

With the benefit of a background in stock broking, farming, investment banking and CEO business education, Gregg and his partners have built a world class domain management business culminating in the acquisition earlier this year of leading CPA player PPX, formerly of Toronto.

The now diverse Group with around 300 employees in 9 countries continues to swell industry presence through providing CPA revenue alternatives. The LiveBetter.com neutraceutical division is providing incredible growth opportunities.

Gregg travels more widely than most and much of the Group success is attributed to attendance at conferences like DMG where he is a sought after as a hard hitting speaker or panelist. The PPXi Group is well respected among the major players in the domain space worldwide.

Gregg and his partners share a passion for philanthropy and have been largely responsible for bringing the work of The Water School to the attention of the domain industry. This year more than 30 people from the domain industry have visited first hand the TWS work in Kenya and Uganda. Saving African kids from the fate of simply preventable waterborne disease, has been a genuine uniting factor across the industry.

Hui Tam

Hui Tam is the Senior Director of Partner Relations for Adknowledge, one of the largest privately-owned ad networks in the United States.

Hui has over 10 years of internet experience, and started her internet career at GoTo.com/Overture Services, Inc. in 1999. She helped pioneer

the domain and error space from the publisher side, and worked directly with many key domain owners, parking companies and ISPs. Prior to

joining Adknowledge, she served as Director of North America Business Development and Partnerships Group at Yahoo where she led the

Domain and Error Channel’s account management team. Hui earned a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology from the University of

Southern California and was preparing for a career in Physical Therapy before the dot-com boom.

Jeffrey Eckhaus

Jeffrey Eckhaus is Senior Vice President Platform for Demand Media/eNom. In his current role Jeff is running Registry services for Demand Media as well as the primary ICANN contact for eNom, where he is Treasurer of Registrars Stakeholders Group. Previously Jeff was General Manager of eNom, the world’s second largest domain name Registrar.

Prior to joining Demand Media/eNom, Jeff held multiple roles at Register.com, including running their Monetization and Business Development groups and worked in Corporate Development for Winstar Communications. Jeff also worked many years on Wall Street managing fixed income and currency portfolios.

Jeff has received his MBA from Columbia Business School and a BS in Accounting from University at Albany.

John Berryhill

John Berryhill, Ph.D., Esq. has represented domain name registrants and trademark claimants in numerous UDRP proceedings and federal court proceedings. John has been a longtime advocate for the rights of domain registrants in ICANN working groups and task forces relating to intellectual property and other domain policy issues, and is a representative in the Registrar Constituency. Having earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, John maintains a “nerds-eye-view” of issues affecting technology and media companies interested in securing and defending their rights in cyberspace.

Ken Hansen

Ken Hansen has over 20 years of Internet and telecommunications sales, marketing, and business development experience. He has been in the domain name industry full-time for more than eight years. Ken played a key role in Neustar’s entry into the domain name registry business in the early and mid-2000s, including the award of .BIZ with ICANN and .US award by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Prior to recently rejoining Neustar, Ken was a co-founder of a domain name parking, auction, and online ad network in Beijing, China. At Neustar, Ken is currently focused on working with applicants for new global Top-Level Domains TLDs and in other business development activities aimed at growing Neustar’s domain name registry business.

Leonard Holmes

Leonard Holmes is a clinical psychologist who has been involved with online work since before the Internet. While working at a college counseling center in the 1980s he began having electronic discussions with students on the college’s internal electronic discussion space. He was one of the first psychologists to offer services Online in the 1990s and was one of the founders of the International Society of Mental Health Online – ismho.org. He was the About.com Guide to Mental Health Resources from 1997-2006. He currently works for the Department of Veterans Affairs specializing in chronic pain. He owns a collection of primarily health and medical domain names, and compares domain monetization strategies and services at ParkQuick.com and NameMonetizer.com.

Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens is president of Worldwide Media, Inc., which owns over 75,000 domains and operates a retail site, MostWantedDomains.com.

Worldwide Media, Inc. started registering domains in 1997,

For over 2 years , Michael publishes a widely read domain blog, thedomains.com.

Michael has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the Miami Herald to name a few.

Michael was elected to the Domain Hall of Fame and was voted as the 2009 Domainer of the Year.

Michael’s background is in law, he holds a J.D. from Stetson College of Law and a Masters in Tax Law (LLM.) from the University of Florida.
Michael just celebrated his 22nd year wedding anniversary to his beautiful bride Judith.

Mike Rodenbaugh

Mike Rodenbaugh has extensive transactional and dispute resolutionexperience with respect to intellectual property, e-commerce and internet marketing. He has specialized in trademark and domain name matters since 1995, including more than 7 years at Yahoo! Inc.

He has been deeply involved in ICANN’s new gTLD policy development program, as a member of the GNSO Council, representing domainers and all other online business interests.

Patrick Carleton

Patrick Carleton is the Executive Director of Associated Cities, LLC, an international network of over 150 intuitive city-dot-com websites such as NewYorkCity.com, LosAngeles.com, and Chicago.com. Under his direction, Associated Cities has become a commanding force in online advertising as well as the authoritative voice for the geo-domain industry worldwide.

Since entering the website development and domain industries, Patrick has established himself as an expert in online advertising, website development, and domain-name acquisition and portfolio management.

Patrick is the founder of the GeoDomain Expo and is a regular presenter at top domain name industry conferences, having attended and/or presented at over 30 to date. The 2010 GeoDomain Expo will be held during Jazzfest this April 28-30 at the Roosevelt Waldorf:Astoria in New Orleans.

Ron Jackson

Ron Jackson is the Founder, Editor and Publisher of Domain Name Journal, the domain industry news magazine at DNJournal.com. Jackson was a television reporter with ABC and CBS stations in Florida before beginning an entrepreneurial career that led him to the domain business. When he discovered that this dynamic industry had no trade magazine of its own he established DN Journal and the publication rapidly became an industry institution.

DN Journal is the source mainstream media outlets like the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the New York Times go to when domain related stories are in the news.

Sean Stafford

Sean Stafford, One of the founding members of ComWired.com and CEO of DomainGraduate.com, is actively involved in the domainer community and has helped guide many fledgling domainers careers with the implementation of his educational product, DomainGraduate.

DomainGraduate is an e-book designed to educate people and guide them through the initial steps of becoming a domainer. In regards to educational domaining products, DomainGraduate is one of the most well known and recognized resources in the world.

Sean’s current projects include ComWired.com, which is the industry’s newest geo traffic splitting DNS tool. For more information on how to better monetize your Geo traffic through your existing PPC providers, please visit: www.comwired.com.