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Andrew Miller

June 9, 2024

Another Successful NamesCon in the Books

I am back from NamesCon and a very successful event. Our amazing team at Hilco Digital Assets – Kirstin Wasden, Tiffany Mark, Natasha White, Daniel Koleshchuk, and Braden Pollock, was together to celebrate our massive 2023 and start to 2024 while strategizing on the deals that we are working on now. We got to diversify our Austin BBQ, trying Terry Blacks instead of Franklins, and that was amazing. We had our annual fun dinner at Red Ash with so many great friends in the domain name industry. My trip was shorter than usual, jam packed into 2 nights/2 days so I could get home for family obligations. My fireside chat keynote talk opened up the NamesCon conference, and I hope it was helpful and interesting to those in attendance, thanks to a great host, Ron Jackson. I moderated a session on the largest domain transactions, with Drew Rosener and Larry Fischer, which I believe was eye opening to many, about some of the realities and challenges that go with the massive upside of the most premium .com domain name assets. As soon as it’s available, I will share both my keynote and the Striking Gold session on social media. DNJournal will shortly publish their story on NamesCon, which will be as thorough as always. The NamesCon team, led by Soeren von Varchmin and Christian Jaeger did a phenomenal job once again.

To No One’s Surprise – Multiple Big Bangs from Atom

Also at Namescon, Atom.com and Darpan Munjal made some positive noise with the launch of Atom Connect, a groundbreaker in domains, as well what was one of the most informative sessions of the entire week for domain investors. Atom also had some super soft, insanely comfy T-Shirts they were giving away all week. As I landed back in Boston, I also got some email news of another 7-figure sale on the Atom Ultra Premium Marketplace which we at Hilco Digital Assets oversee. These are the types of emails that make each new day in domain names so exciting. I am proud to be on the Board of Atom and part of the lead investor group.

Hilco Digital Enjoys Beating Their Own Records

It is now time to start the home stretch of Q2 2024, and finish June strong, cementing what has been a record dollar volume of transactions for us in the first half of 2024. We have overseen some epic deals and I have no doubt the second half will be better than the first half so a massive shoutout of pride to my team.

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