A record setting 715 attendees from 30 countries gathered at the luxurious Fairmont Hotel for the 5th annual conference on Feb 1-3, 2011.

DOMAINfest attracts everyone from "domain industry" rock stars to newbies who firmly believe domain names represent a promising, new asset class for their investment portfolios. The rock stars own and/or manage impressive portfolios, some of them exceeding 100,000 domains that generate over $25,000 in PPC revenue per day (!!!).

DOMAINfest Global 2011 also had some exciting guest speakers such as Bob Parsons (CEO of Go Daddy) or Ben Mezrich (author of "Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook").

More information and future events: www.domainfest.com.

There was pretty big crowd, around 500 attendees - mainly VCs, Internet startups, finance and media. Interesting take on European Internet business. For a list of attendees, program and information about NOAH please visit: www.noah-conference.com

One of the news announced at the meeting was introduction of .it IDNs in 2011. Registro.it meeting dedicated to .it registrars and maintainers was full of interesting information regarding Italian domain market!

DOMAINfest is the biggest domain conference. There are two major meetings annually - one in Santa Monica, US and the other one in Europe. DOMAINfest is coming to Europe in June 2011 to Barcelona, Spain.

Program of the conference included workshops and presentations. There were also a lot of networking opportunities with Spanish domain community. Dietmar Stefitz, Domaining III organizer, was able to get one of the biggest .com domainers and experts: Michael and David Castello (owners of whisky.com, nashville.com or daycare.com), Tim Schumacher (CEO of Sedo) and Paul Keating (well known domain related issues lawyer).

We recommend meeting in Valencia to anyone interested in domain name secondary market, especially the one in Spain and Europe.

During the three days conference many topics related to new technologies, social media but also startups, fundraising or even philosophical topics were addressed. In addition to the Polish speakers there were also some well known guests from abroad, like Alexander Bard, Russell Perry (123people.com) or Lawrence Lessig (Creative Commons).

There were also a lot of networking opportunities during the conference, which allowed us to get to know many interesting possible future business partners and friends as well. We had really good time in Rzeszow and we will be coming back to Internet Beta in 2011!