The ICANN Brussels schwag bag – full details
Kevin Murphy,
June 20, 2010,
Gossip
I’ve just landed at ICANN 38, in the really rather lovely setting of the Mont des Arts in Brussels.
Either I’m lost, or it’s a bit quiet at the moment, so I thought I’d get the most important news out of the way first – what’s in the schwag bag?
A heck of a lot more than the last ICANN meeting I attended, in Mar Del Plata, Argentina three five years ago.
Consider this a disclosure statement – I am now forever beholden to all of these companies, in no particular order:
- T-shirt (Hanes) from ICANN.
- T-shirt (Fruit of the Loom) from RegistryPro.
- Empty Belgian chocolate bag from Iron Mountain (visit the booth for the choccie, presumably).
- Fan with party invite printed on it from GMO (dotShop).
- Pen from .CO Internet.
- Keyring (foam) from dns.be.
- Pen from Nic.ru.
- Belgian chocolate box (full) from Centr.
- Keyring (metal) from PIR (slogan: “PracticeSafeDNS.org”)
- Badge/button (small) from .quebec.
- Badge/button (huge) from ICM Registry (slogan: “Yes to .XXX”)
- Bumper sticker from .quebec.
- Notebook from PIR (.org “Celebrating 25 years”)
- Playing cards (one-way backs) from Ausregistry.
- “Multi-purpose retractable lock” from SIDN.
- USB Flash drive (4GB) from Afnic.
- Notebook from .eu.
- A good-sized tree’s worth of flyers, booklets and sales pitches from the meeting’s sponsors – very strong contingent of new TLD players and consultancies.
- The bag itself is sponsored by Afilias.
I heard a rumor that ICM was giving away .xxx vuvuzelas, but if they were they appear to have already run out.
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