Nos Experts

Dietmar Stefitz est un associé d'Inverdom CB et rédacteur de Blogdominios.com. Les 5 dernières années il organise la conférence annuelle de Domaining à Valence. En 2008 il a vendu sa précédente compagnie Internet BemarNet Management, dont le domaine est bemarnet.es qu'il a enregistré en 1995.Dietmar est un citoyen autrichien vivant en Epsagnedeplus plus de 25 ans, et a toujours été très actif dans l'industrie d'Internet comme président d'ANPROTEL qui a été intégré dans EUROISPA vers la fin des années 90 et était dans l'acte de constitution de l'ICANN à l'époque.

Richard est actuellement CEO de TJ&Pals, une compagnie de divertissement ludique qui fournit des solutions de jeu et de contenu pour des compagnies de médias concentrées sur le marché de la jeunesse. Richard est également le fondateur et le Président de Qoof Ltd, la compagnie commerciale de Viédo. Qoof est un gagnant de RedHerrong Global 100 avec des clients tels que Best Buy, Mariott, Offerpal et Intuit. Richard est également un investisseur avide de domaines .tv avec des gemmes telles que Coffee.tv, Laptops.tv et Paradise.tv parmi tant d'autres.

Daniel Dryzek est cadre supérieur et fondateur de ddfund.eu - un fond de développement de domaine. Daniel travaille dans l'industrie du domaine depuis 10 ans. Son plan est de construire un conglomérat multi-service de ccTLD en Europe pour inclure des fonds de domaine, des enchères, du courtage, des estimations, des places de marché de domaine et des registrars. Daniel est également le Co-organisateur de MeetDomainers - un événement réussi pour des investisseurs de domaine et des entrepreneurs d'Internet organisé en Pologne. Avant ddfund.eu, Daniel a possédé une compagnie d’hébergement et de registrar de domaine (vendue en 2005 au groupe Active 24).

L'expertise de Michael Marcovici dans les affaires en ligne s'étend jusqu'en 1991 où Internet fonctionnait sans WWW et sans domaines. Il est également le fondateur d'AustriaBoersenbrief, un magazine d'expert financier, et était un gestionnaire de fonds privés de capitaux propres pendant cinq ans. Michael s'est impliqué dans les domaines en 2002 où il a commencé à enregistrer, acheter et vendre des domaines de grandes valeurs. En 2005, il a intensifié son implication en achetant de plus en plus de domaines, particulièrement dans les ccTLDs tels que l'Autriche et l'Allemagne. Après 2006, Michael est devenu de plus en plus impliqué dans des entreprises en ligne, particulièrement le domaining, et a augmenté la valeur de son portfolio. Michael est le directeur du Domain DevelopersFund.

Andy est un domaineur à plein temps depuis 10 ans et un courtier à plein temps de domaine depuis 2 ans. Ses expériences précédentes sont une maitrise avec mention honorifique dans les finances et les sciences économiques de l'université de Manchester. Andy opère Upmarketdns avec Tony Adams et Toni Hoffmann et depuis 2009 upmarketdns fait du courtage de plus de 2 millions de dollars US dans les noms. Il opére principalement dans les .com, .net et le domaine des .org.

With over 3500 great domains Alexander Ernst is one of Austria´s most renowned domain owners, some of the best .at domains are a part of his portfolio. He is a domainer for almost 15 years and is the owner of Domainquadrat, Austria based domain registrar, parking provider and drop-catch service for .at domains. He is the expert when it comes to any technical or commercial question related to .at domain names.

Paul Porzky is COO of KeywordDomains.com GmbH and CTO of DomainInvest.lu (DI S.A.). He studied business administration in the Netherlands, but also has a strong technical background and years of experience with domains, online marketing, webtechnologies & making sense of big volumes of data. With 17 he started his first webdesign company and worked as a consultant to help businesses with their online marketing efforts.Since he joined Markus Schnermann in 2006 as the first employee of KeywordDomains.com, he successfully helped to grow the company and its portfolio. Paul developed many of the tools, technology and infrastructure needed to build and run a profitable domainportfolio. He is an expert when it comes to international portfolios and - as a German citizen - especially .de names and german CNO's.

Marcus Hofer is CEO of Name Works GmbH in Austria, which operates under the brand name internetdomains.at. He is a specialist in direct sales and counts remarkable salesin the german spoken countries on his record. After breaking up law university he changed to the financial industry as an area manager. With that success in the backpack he co-founded a private jet company and brought the company to a fleet of three business jets and even one commuter airliner. Whilst that time he already made contact with the domain industry. So he sold his aviation company shares and soon co-founded Domain Invest Salzburg, which he left after building up, to found his 100% own business: Name Works. He now offers his services, as a direct sales agent, to other domainers with domains in their portfolios of which he believes have very high sales potential.His company - Name Works GmbH - became official sales partner of the new .WIEN TLD and offers appraisal reports and expert opinions.

Ingénieur de l'Ecole Centrale de Lyon et diplômé de l'ESSEC, Philippe FRANCK dispose de 20 ans d'expérience industrielle et commerciale dont 10 années de Direction Générale dans l'Industrie Automobile. En 1999, il crée la société Delta Phi, dont l'activité est aujourd'hui structurée autour de deux pôles: le pôle SEO (Ligne1) et le pôle Noms de Domaine: Domainium. Plus de 10 années d'expérience de domaining et de pratique du marché des noms de domaine francophones en extensions com et fr lui ont permis de bâtir un réseau professionnel très spécialisé. Il met à la disposition de ses clients sa compétence et son réseau pour le courtage à l’achat et à la vente de noms de domaine.

Carolin Silbernagl is Co-Founder and Chairwoman of dotHIV (.hiv), which she and her team launched in 2010. Before that, she worked as a Project Manager at sdw (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft), where she directed the start up qualification programm "Herausforderung Unternehmertum". She began the .hiv initiative in order to extend HIV/AIDS awareness into a consistent Internet namespace, and it is her goal that .hiv domains will become the red ribbon of the digital age. dotHIV will operate as a non profit organisation and is incorporated as a charitable association under German law. Domain sales are exclusively aimed at generating funds for HIV projects around the world and reducing the stigma of the infection. It is the first proposed TLD aimed at creating and fostering charitable opportunities.

Andrew is CEO of MediaOptions, an industry leading domain brokerage firm, as well as an active domain investor. He has been buying domain names himself since 1998, but in the last 5 years Andrew has leveraged his domain investment knowledge and sales expertise to grow MediaOptions into one of the top domain brokers for premium generic domain names. A serial entrepreneur, Andrew also helped MediaOptions to develop some of their premium properties into stand alone businesses which were later sold, such as DX.com. He has lead MediaOptions to build an enviable portfolio of premium domain names at a time when most believed it was too late; names such as White.com, Blood.com, PX.com, DAM.com, BikeRentals.com, Plume.com, Excitement.com, TheNet.com, Spearfishing.com, Scanner.com, DisabilityInsurance.org & thousands more like them.

Fabiano Rodrigues currently works and studies at the same time. He is almost finishing his degree on Information Systems and Technology. He started to work in the domain industry when he was 17 and since then he has been providing technical support to several companies in Portugal, Spain, Angola and Mozambique. He have already worked in the GPS tracking business, automation of management systems and several projects related to web development. Now he works as programmer, web consultant, domainer and provides technical support to SEO. At this moment he is focused on the Portuguese market, registering and developing domains in Portuguese language, mainly .com and .pt.

Valentino trades domain names since early 1998. In year 2000 he co-funded Nexta.com one of Italy's top entertainment networks, using premium .it domain names such as Film.it, Arte.it, Televisione.it, Moda.it, Sport.it and Giochi.it which today still holds the top position of most valuable ccTld .it domain name ever sold at 300.000Euro. In 2010 he then launched DomainDirect.it Italy's leading trading platform for premium .it domain names. Please refer to Valentino for any technical or commercial issue concerning italian domain names.

Ibrahim Mbithi is Director and founder of IAN Media UG, a German-based digital media company. Started as a consultant of web marketing solutions (domain portfolio broker / web development), now fully focused on overall product strategy and development of YVD.com - a domain registrar focused on African Top Level Domains. He has been in the domain industry since 2006 and is a regular attendee at various international conferences and events about internet marketing/domains. He holds a Bachelor from Jacobs University Bremen and a Master from the Schiller International University.