DOMAINfest

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is one of the most respected and successful business innovators in the new economy. He joined Zappos.com, an online shoe retailer, in 2000 on the basis of new approaches to marketing, human resource management and customer service, and grew it to a $1 billion-a-year enterprise. Fast Company magazine recognized Zappos as one of the world’s 50 most innovative companies, and Amazon.com recently bought it for more than $850 million.

Hsieh, a 35-year-old Harvard graduate, has been developing innovative business approaches since the height of the first Internet era. He built the Web advertising company LinkExchange into a multi-million dollar enterprise before selling it to Microsoft for $265 million in 1998. And he recently purchased Clothes.com for $4.9 million, again signaling his understanding of the connection between Internet real estate, marketing and brand power.

Oversee CEO and President Jeff Kupietzky says, “We’re delighted to have Tony Hsieh join us as keynote speaker at our 2010 event. His fresh thinking, insights related to online consumer behaviors and needs, and intelligent risk-taking have set new standards for how to succeed in e-commerce. DOMAINfest has always been a breeding ground for new ideas on how get the most out of a domain-name investment, so Tony’s fireside chat will provide our guests with plenty of innovative ideas and inspiration.”