Getting over a nasty cold means slowly trying to catch up with many missed important tasks, while trying to give the body enough time to recover. What a balancing act. And recover it must, since next week brings to us the DomainFest Global conference in LA, which I will be attending. I am actually going on a parental leave starting February 1st, but I could not afford to miss meeting my friends in LA. So while it certainly sounds weird to start off a parental leave by visiting an industry conference, I had been planning to go for a while already. May my son and my wife forgive me.

That being said, for an event that was only announced in mid November, DomainFest Global is shaping up to be one of the major conferences for this industry this year. 250 attendees are said to have registered so far and while the hotel is apparently almost booked, there is still room for some more. The event starts on January 31st, 2007.

DomainSponsor brings us an industry event and a customer user track at the same time. Their line-up of speakers and sponsors (including the Bank of America, which helped establish a $60 million credit facility for Oversee.net, DomainSponsor’s parent company) for the event looks awesome and silenced critics of the September 2006 DomainFest LA, where some companies said they were refused as attendees. The event even features TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington (who founded Pool.com) and a FASTPitch where you can pitch your idea to Michael. Amongst others, Brett Fausett also is a very good addition to the list of speakers – especially since Domainers should also be concerned about ICANN politics.

For full information on the event, visit their website at http://domainfest.com/ . I am quite excited about the event and am looking forward to meeting at least some of my friends and readers. If you can’t make, I’ll try to cover some of the event here in my blog.