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Dietmar Stefitz è uno dei partner della Inverdom CB ed è l’editore di Blogdominios.com. Negli ultimi 5 anni ha organizzato a Valenzia la conferenza annuale sul commercio dei domini. Nel 2008 ha ceduto la sua precedente società di Internet, la BemarNet Management ed il suo dominio bemarnet.es, il quale era stato registrato nel 1995. Dietmar è un cittadino austriaco ma vive in Spagna da oltre 25 anni ed è sempre stato molto attivo nel settore delle tecnologie internet, essendo presidente della ANPROTEL, la quale venne integrata in EUROISPA alla fine degli anni ’90 ed ha partecipato alla stesura dell’atto costitutivo della ICANN.

Richard è attualmente il Direttore Generale della TJ&Pals, una compagnia per l’intrattenimento a scopo educativo che fornisce videogiochi e soluzioni per i contenuti per le società di media specializzate nel mercato dei giovani. Richard è inoltre fondatore e presidente della Qoof Ltd, una società di commercio elettronico di video. Qoof è la vincitrice della Red Herring Global 100 e vanta tra i suoi clienti Best Buy, Mariott, Offerpal e Intuit. Richard è anche uno degli investitori del dominio avid.tv, che conta tra le sue file le rivelazioni Coffee.tv, Laptops.tv e Paradise.tv.

Daniel Dryzek è l’amministratore delegato e fondatore della ddfund.eu, un fondo per lo sviluppo dei domini. Daniel ha lavorato nel settore dei domini per 10 anni. Il suo obiettivo è quello di costruire un conglomerato ccTLD di multi-servizi in Europa, il quale include un fondo per i domini, le aste, le intermediazioni, le stime, un mercato dei domini e un registrar (fornitore di servizi che gestisce i domini). Daniel è inoltre uno degli organizzatori della MeetDomainers - un evento di successo per investitori sui domini ed imprenditori di Internet, organizzato in Polonia. Prima della ddfund.eu, Daniel possedeva una compagnia per la registrazione di domini e di hosting (ceduta al gruppo Active 24 nel 2005).

Michael Marcovici ha una vasta esperienza nel campo del business online, sviluppata a partire dal 1991, quando internet ancora funzionava senza il suffisso WWW ed i domini. Inoltre è il fondatore della Austria Boersenbrief, un periodico per esperti finanziari ed è stato per cinque anni un manager di capitali sociali privati. Michael ha iniziato ad interessarsi ai domini nel 2002, quando cominciò a registrare, vendere ed acquistare domini di grande valore. Nel 2005, ha intensificato la sua attività, acquistando altri domini, specialmente della ccTLD, come Austria e Germania. Dopo il 2006, Michael ha costantemente aumentato la sua attività nei business online, specialmente sui domini, aumentando cosi il valore del suo portafoglio. Michael è il direttore del Domain Developers Fund.

Andy lavora nel campo dei domini da oltre 10 anni ed un negoziatore di domini da oltre 2 anni. Precedentemente ha conseguito un master con lode in economia e finanza presso l’università di Manchester. Andy amministra Upmarketdns in collaborazione con Tony Adams e Toni Hoffmann e dal 2009 upmarketdns ha negoziato nomi di domini per più di 2 milioni di dollari americani . Il lavoro svolto da Andy si focalizza soprattutto sui domini .com, .net e .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.

Graduated from Ecole Centrale de Lyon Engineer School and from ESSEC Management School (MBA), Philippe FRANCK has been working for 20 years in industrial and commercial companies, including 10 years as CEO in the Automotive Industry.He creates in 1999 the Delta Phi company, which activity is today focused on SEO and on the Domain Industry through its brand DOMAINIUM. Acting since more than 10 years as a domain investor in French language domains, mostly dot com and dot fr, Philippe has developed a good practice of buying and selling domains and a very specialized professional network. As a domain broker, he uses his skills and network to help his customers in buying an selling transactions.

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.