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I have taken three days off this week to attend the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. There are no new brands being launched but there are a lot of interesting people in the hall ways that I am talking to. Domain conferences are good and comfortable but some real business can take place when talking with people in different sectors. It was well worth the trip to come down here and meet a few of these people. I think I like TechCrunch 40 conference better because it had all the startups and that is more entertaining to watch. However this conference has a lot of important leaders of established tech companies and it was very easy to approach people and talk about deals. I found out that Jay Adelson of Digg used to be an old sysadmin and loves our site and uses it all the time. MC Hammer was here, he has a new company called Dance Jam. I met Chad Hurley the founder of YouTube. Overall this is a very good place to make new business development deals and see what neat features these companies are coming out with.

There are a lot more Domainers running around as well, Champ Mitchell (CEO of Network Solutions), Rob Hall (CEO of Momentous), Roland Chemtob (Branded Holding Group), Rob Monster (Domain Strategies), Victor Pitts (Moniker), Andrew Miller (Internet Real Estate), and Mike “Zappy” Zapolin (Internet Real Estate).