What are your set-in-stone business plans for 2025?

[Helmuts]

Greetings, everyone!

What are your set-in-stone business plans for 2025? And perhaps your dreams?

Here’s what I have in mind:

DNF
- Two new free tools are in progress (currently in the research and planning stages).
- Taking interviews to a higher level
- Launching a new informational resource on a subdomain.
- Publishing Media Partnership offer for events
- Adding new moderators.

Acorn
- Once the beta version of one of the tools (mentioned above) is completed, I plan to reconfigure it exclusively for the UK space and launch it on Acorn.
- Publishing Media Partnership offer for events. We will include a request for an exhibitor table, which will allow advertising Acorn Domains at the events we will help promote.
- Also, finding new moderators.

HostMaria
- Time to get working on our first registrar accreditations (the process was set aside when was working on Domain Summit's initial success), starting with Nominet, Nic.lv, Kenic, and then moving on to Afnic, Denic and DNS Belgium.

Domain Summit
- September 2–3: Hosting a 500+ attendee event in London, which will make it the largest independent B2B domain name industry event in Europe.

50/50 Plans
- Hosting a Domain Summit in Chicago in 2025. There are many moving parts to this, so it will only happen if there’s strong support from the industry.
- Possible business partnership (in progress) - 2nd part of the year

Dreams
- Securing ICANN accreditation for HostMaria.

What about your plans and dreams for 2025 - care to share?

 

[Craig2030]

The Chicago domain summit idea

Is this to promote UK domains to US domain investors or something along those lines?

I’m intrigued by this, would love to hear more

 

[Helmuts]

The Chicago domain summit idea

Is this to promote UK domains to US domain investors or something along those lines?

I’m intrigued by this, would love to hear more

Hi Craig, the aim of the Domain Summit already for a couple of years is to have 3-4 major regional domain name events. In the beginning organised by me, then, later with local partners.

Chicago is not to promote UK space States are the biggest market in the world.

Further, I want to establish Domain Summit as an event where +- 90% of the speakers are locals, only. .. saw this issue in Dubai > as amazing event it was (both quality and insane networking opportunities) > many speakers were the well known faces to all.