DropWizard
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Thanks to Dan for the invite. Truthfully, I'm retired these days, and it's been a long time since I've stopped by a domainers chat board. I still own around 800+ .cas from the early days and maybe 500 .coms.
22 years and counting now. Rick may be the Domain King, but I'm feeling more like the grandfather.
Many of you know me. I started in '98 when Afternic was a domainer's chat board. Rick Schwartz (Domain King) used to come over and tell us all we knew nothing about domaining, which really pissed me off. I went over to tell him off and show him my great domains like (I think) Sexxxy.com and others. I saw the wealth of info on his board and joined, never looking back. I honestly credit Rick for any success in the business. Of the 400 domains I'd purchased with what I learned at Afternic, only one survived. It's the only brandable I own, and I like it. The rest were crap.
Many of you may have read that "Goldrush at 6:45 am" article that precipitated a lot of the current domain industry. For me, it meant getting up at @ 3 am. Getting coffee and my records in order. Then at 3:45 opening as many windows as my computer would support and hammer the registry for hand registrations till 4:30. By 5, I'd be back in bed to try to get some sleep before going to work.
Heavily involved in the drops (circa 2000), I founded DropWizard and started offering the drop service commercially with registry partners AW Registry and Fabulous .com. We were also the first drop service in Canada to chase .ca for our clients with registry partner Sibername. Right up till Cira stepped in and royally F***ed things up in a giveaway to the registrars. After that, I shut the commercial service and focused on increasing our own acquisitions.
There are articles about us from the early days on DNJournal.com if you feel like reading.
22 years and counting now. Rick may be the Domain King, but I'm feeling more like the grandfather.
Many of you know me. I started in '98 when Afternic was a domainer's chat board. Rick Schwartz (Domain King) used to come over and tell us all we knew nothing about domaining, which really pissed me off. I went over to tell him off and show him my great domains like (I think) Sexxxy.com and others. I saw the wealth of info on his board and joined, never looking back. I honestly credit Rick for any success in the business. Of the 400 domains I'd purchased with what I learned at Afternic, only one survived. It's the only brandable I own, and I like it. The rest were crap.
Many of you may have read that "Goldrush at 6:45 am" article that precipitated a lot of the current domain industry. For me, it meant getting up at @ 3 am. Getting coffee and my records in order. Then at 3:45 opening as many windows as my computer would support and hammer the registry for hand registrations till 4:30. By 5, I'd be back in bed to try to get some sleep before going to work.
Heavily involved in the drops (circa 2000), I founded DropWizard and started offering the drop service commercially with registry partners AW Registry and Fabulous .com. We were also the first drop service in Canada to chase .ca for our clients with registry partner Sibername. Right up till Cira stepped in and royally F***ed things up in a giveaway to the registrars. After that, I shut the commercial service and focused on increasing our own acquisitions.
There are articles about us from the early days on DNJournal.com if you feel like reading.