Guest Speakers:

Elliot J. Silver
Top Notch Domains, LLC
ElliotsBlog.com & TopNotchDomains.com

Elliot Silver is the founder of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a domain acquisition, sales, and monetization company, and Silver Internet Ventures, LLC, a web development company. Silver is the publisher of ElliotsBlog.com, an award-winning domain investment blog he started in 2007.

Some domain names and websites owned by Silver’s companies include Burbank.com, Lowell.com, Bahamas.co, Newburyport.com, Torah.com, NassauHotels.com, DogWalker.com, ActingCoach.com, and many others. Silver holds a BA from Muhlenberg College and a MS in Direct & Interactive Marketing from NYU. He lives in New York City with his wife, Karen, and their puggle, Lucy.

Edmon Chung
CEO of DotAsia

Edmon Chung is the CEO of DotAsia Organisation – registry operator for the ‘.Asia’ regional top-level-domain. Since 2002, Edmon played a leadership role in the region-wide .Asia initiative, bringing together an open membership of 27 official country-code top-level domain authorities and regional Internet bodies. DotAsia is a not-for-profit organisation with a mandate to promote Internet development and adoption in Asia.

Edmon is an inventor of patents underlying technologies for internationalized domain names (IDN) and email addresses on the Internet. Edmon has served on many global IDN related committees, including technical and policy groups, that made it possible for the introduction of multilingual domain names and email addresses on the Internet. Edmon currently co-chairs the ICANN Joint ccNSO/ GNOS IDN Working Group and the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group. He is also an elected councillor of the ICANN GNSO Council, as well as the Secretariat for the ICANN APRALO (Asia Pacific At-Large Organisation) and Vice Chair for the Internet Society HK Chapter.

Patrick Carleton
Executive Director of Associated Cities

Patrick Carleton is the Chairman and Managing Member of Wyvern LLC, a portfolio of over 1,500 domains, half of which are prime IDNs across 14 languages which the company hand-registered as early as 2004. Since entering the domain and website development industries, Patrick has established himself as an expert in online advertising, website development, and domain-name acquisition and portfolio management.

Patrick is the Executive Director of Associated Cities, Inc., 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 GeoDomain industry worldwide.

Patrick is the founder and producer 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. In 2008, Patrick was the first inductee into the GeoDomain Hall of Fame.