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OpenSRS in New York for Web 2.0 Expo

A bunch of us OpenSRS’ers are in the Big Apple this week for the New York edition of the Web 2.0 Expo.

We’re bringing the OpenSRS story to New York over the next couple of days. Drop by and say ‘hi’ if you are in the sponsor pavilion – we’re in booth 210. You can’t miss us – just look for the friendly Service Guy banners and smiling faces.

Learn about a proven revenue stream!

Drop by for a chat – we’d love to tell you about OpenSRS, how our approach to wholesale domain registrations, SSL certificates and hosted email is different, and how we can help your business with a proven revenue stream.

This is our first time sponsoring the NYC version of Web 2.0. We had a great time at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco in the spring, and met tons of great people and introduced a bunch of them to OpenSRS for the first time.

If your already a reseller, make sure you stop in as well – we’re always happy to meet our customers face-to-face and to find out how we’re doing and, of course, how you’re doing!

Win a full conference pass to Web 2.0 New York

The OpenSRS team is gearing up for the Web 2.0 Expo New York, and we’d like you to join us! We’re going to give away two full conference passes (valued at $1745 each) to the folks who come up with the best captions for the photo below.

Like our last photo caption contest, there will also be some great prizes for honourable mentions, and you can enter as many times as you like.

Here’s how to enter

Think up a really witty/sentimental/unique caption for the photo above
Tweet your caption to @OpenSRS, along with the hashtag #w2e
We’ll announce the winners on Twitter and the blog around September 13

Some tips

Anyone can enter, as many times as they like
Don’t forget to use the #w2e hashtag in your entry
It helps to follow @OpenSRS on Twitter – it’s much easier for us to get in touch via DM if you win

The prize

The best two captions will win a full conference pass to Web 2.0 Expo New York, which takes place September 27-30, 2010. This gets you access to: Monday workshops, all sessions and keynotes, lunches every day, the sponsor pavilion, and all networking events and parties.

There will also be some great prizes for the runners-up.

We look forward to seeing your entries!

Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco Wrap-Up

Last week some of the OpenSRS team headed out to San Francisco to attend the Web 2.0 Expo. This was a new experience for OpenSRS – it was our first time sponsoring this show, and we were able to meet a lot of new folks in the social media space. It was great to converse with people who hadn’t considered (or hadn’t explored fully) adding domain sales to their business. It was fun to introduce ourselves, and explain what we do at OpenSRS.

When we weren’t at the booth talking to the large crowds of people in the exhibition hall, we dropped into some of the great sessions going on at the Expo. Between the four different ‘tracks’: Design & User Experience, Social Media Marketing, Strategy & Business Models, and Development, there was a wealth of knowledge, and something for everyone. There were also some influential keynote speakers from companies such as I Can Has Cheezburger, Smule, and TED Conferences.

My Name is URL

Q&A with Ken after his session
The Web 2.0 Expo was also exciting for us because in our sponsored session Ken Schafer, EVP Products for OpenSRS, presented for the first time “My Name is URL – Namespaces & Revenue Models”. This presentation looked at the importance of namespaces as online identities, and encouraged Web 2.0 companies to consider unique and meaningful namespaces as an innovative way to enhance user experience and increase revenue. This session was so well-received that we are repeating it in an upcoming webinar on May 27th! We’d love to have you join us if you missed our presentation or wanted to invite some of your other team members.

Our OpenSRS Service Guy also made an appearance – he was the hottest swag giveaway of the show! There are some pictures of him on Flickr, and we expect many more to pop up over the next while as the attendees post their photos.

So we’d like to thank everyone that we met at the Expo, as well as everyone that was involved in helping make Web 2.0 Expo a great success for us. We hope you enjoyed the show as much as we did!

Thanks for entering our W2E Photo Contest!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our Web 2.0 Expo photo contest on Twitter! We really enjoyed reading your captions, and there were some great entries. Congratulations to our two winners, who will be enjoying a Full Pass to the Expo and a free domain name:

@DavidTouchette: Local Sunrise applications for .MOON will be awarded to Martians with valid trademarks only.

@webwgt: The .co era is coming, the .moon era is next

Honourable mentions

Because there were so many other great ones, we’ve put together a list of “honourable mentions”. We really liked these:

@panicmanual: In space, nobody can hear you register a domain
@kellie: To .infinity and beyond!
@smichm: Anything is possible when your man smells like the service guy. I’m on the moon
@obaumer: Domains don’t have to be rocket science
@stevecomrie: Registering domain names and faking moon landings since January 2000

You can still attend!

Just because the contest is over doesn’t mean you can’t come to the Expo – don’t forget, you can still register for a free Expo Hall Pass using the code websf10coe at the Web 2.0 Expo registration site. Again, thank you all for entering our contest, and keep an eye out for more in the future!

Win a Full Conference Pass to Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco!

Our team is getting ready to exhibit at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco (May 3-6) and we’d like you to join us there! We have two full conference passes that we’d like to give away to the folks with the two best captions for the photo below.

These passes are normally priced at $1745 each, but we’re giving them away for free! The Web 2.0 Expo is a multi-track conference bringing together people, ideas, and companies to foster stronger Web 2.0 communities. As well, our very own Ken Schafer will be speaking at the conference about “My Name Is URL – Namespaces & Revenue Models“.

With a Full Pass, you’ll get access to:

The Expo Hall and all events there
All sessions and keynote speakers
Any of the workshops on Monday, May 3
All networking events
Lunches
Web2Open
Birds of a Feather networking sessions
All sorts of cool swag

Here’s how you could win:

Think up a really witty/sentimental/unique caption for the photo above (hint: Our mascot the Service Guy is in it)
Tweet your caption to @OpenSRS, along with the hashtag #w2e. The best two captions will win.
We’ll announce the winners on April 9 on Twitter, as well as notify them directly via direct message.

We do have just a few guidelines:

Keep it clean, please
Anyone can enter
You can enter as many times as you like
Remember to use the hashtag in your entry
The winners must register with their codes before April 19, 2010
You can view the full terms and conditions here

Just interested in dropping by the exhibition hall (and seeing the keynotes) at Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco? Visit our events page for a free expo only pass registration code. If you go, please drop by our booth (#527) to say hi.

Good luck!

Update: We’ve already received a lot of great entries! You can see them using this Twitter search. May the best caption win!

Update: Elliot Noss (@enoss) has just announced that he will be giving the winners a free domain name!

This contest is now closed – view the winning entries here!