| Hotel in Hollywood.
                        Before these trips I always gather as much reading
                        material as possible so I can get caught up during the
                        long coast-to-coast flight from our Florida base.
                        Just downloaded a two-part interview with Michael
                        and David Castello from SimplyGeo.com
                        that I know will be a worthwhile read. Michael and David
                        (who plan to be at DOMAINfest) are major proponents of
                        domain development and always have a lot of great tips
                        for people interested in building real businesses on
                        their domain names. The two halves of their interview
                        are here: Part
                        1 and Part
                        2. There are a lot of very
                        sharp guys and gals operating in the geo domain space
                        where the Castello brothers have prospered with PalmSprings.com,
                        Nashville.com and several other gems. Our
                        upcoming February Cover Story will be about
                        another giant in the geo field - Dan Pulcrano -
                        who owns the .com domains for 20 of the 30
                        largest cities in America including LosAngeles.com,
                        SanFrancisco.com and Dallas.com to name
                        just a few. I just checked out LosAngeles.com
                        again today in preparation for my LA trip. Dan and his
                        team at Boulevards New Media have done a great
                        job with that site and I am sure you will enjoy reading
                        about how he built his new media empire. Another DOMAINfest note;
                        the complete catalog for the two-day SnapNames Live
                        auction at the show Jan. 22-23  has just been
                        released. You can download the inventory list here.  |