Today's Featured Attendee | Domain Summit Europe 2026
Some people know domains.
Richard Lau knows how to find the people behind them.
We are delighted to feature Richard Lau from Canada 🇨🇦 as a Featured Attendee at Domain Summit Europe 2026 in Kempten, Germany.
Richard is one of the truly established names in the domain industry: founder of NamesCon, founder of
Resume.com, founder of
Logo.com, domain investor, entrepreneur, and one of the people whose work has helped shape how this industry meets, trades, builds and thinks.
He was named “Domainer of the Year” in 2004, and since then his career has touched almost every serious part of the domain world: premium domains, developed businesses, conferences, branding, domain owner research, acquisition strategy and domain hijacking recovery.
That last part matters.
Because Richard does not only understand domains as assets.
He understands the human layer behind them:
who owns them,
how to reach them,
how to negotiate,
how to keep going when everyone else stops.
At Domain Summit Europe 2025 in London, Richard gave a talk titled “Tenaciously Finding Domain Owners.” It was exactly the kind of session only someone with decades of real experience could deliver: practical, calm, specific and quietly powerful.
A particularly interesting part of Richard’s current world is Titan Research, where he is involved as a major investor. Titan reflects a very Richard kind of ambition: not simply buying domains one by one, but building the intelligence layer behind serious portfolio work.
The original plan was bold: programmatically register 1 million domains and develop the in-house domain intelligence tools needed to evaluate, manage and grow that scale of portfolio. Today, Titan Research is focused on domain name intelligence and management, including ownership history, DNS records, sub-domain detection, DNS analysis, DNS fingerprinting, traffic data, malware and phishing detection, and portfolio management automation.
In other words: not just domaining.
Domain intelligence.
Another remarkable detail: Richard has also been involved with WaterSchool, a charity focused on clean water projects in Uganda. That gives his story a rare balance: commercial success, industry leadership and a real habit of giving back.
For Domain Summit Europe 2026, Richard brings exactly the kind of presence we want in Kempten:
experienced,
trusted,
generous,
deeply domain-native,
and still curious enough to keep finding the next person, the next deal and the next opportunity.
Welcome to Domain Summit Europe 2026, Richard 🇨🇦
17-18 August 2026
Kempten, Germany
Limited to 60 people
kempten26.domainsummit.eu/e/…
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