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GoDaddy
Founder Bob Parsons to Deliver Keynote at DOMAINfest
Global + MO.com Interviews Ron Jackson
GoDaddy.com
Founder Bob Parsons
will deliver the keynote presentation at the DOMAINfest
Globalconference coming up Feb.
1-3, 2011 at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in
Santa Monica, California. Parsons, who
was the subject of one of our earliest Cover
Stories in September
2004, has built GoDaddy into the
world's largest web hosting provider as well as
the biggest domain name registrar.
Go
Daddy currently registers, renews or transfers
more than one domain name everysecond
of every day, manages more than 44
million domain names, runs one of the
world's largest domain name aftermarkets, serves
more than 8.5 million customers worldwide
and employs more than 2,800 people. His
is a remarkable success story, made even more
remarkable by the fact that this is the second
time he has built an extremely successful
company. He sold his previous venture, Parsons
Technology, to Intuit for $64
million and as impressive as that number is,
it just a fraction of GoDaddy's present worth.
Bob
Parsons
Go Daddy Founder & CEO
Landing
Parsons, who is considered to be a marketing
genius, is a very nice coup for DOMAINfest
Global.Oversee.net CEO and President
Jeff Kupietzky, whose company stages the
annual conferece, was understandably excited about
getting him. "We are thrilled to have Bob
Parsons at this year’s event," Kupietzky
said. “Our attendees are domain investors and
internet entrepreneurs who rely on DOMAINfest to
provide them access to visionary leaders and
internet marketing innovators.As a leader and innovator, Bob is uniquely
positioned to not only speak to them about the
domain business, but also about the challenges
they face as entrepreneurs. He’s a perfect
fit for our audience. So we’re sure his stories
and perspective will inspire and motivate everyone
attending.”
One other
note today. I recently had the honor of
being interviewed by MO.com,
Brian Null's superb site about
upcoming companies and the entrepreneurs
who are building them. MO.com published
that interview
today.
Mike
Sullivan conducted the interview for
MO.com and did the excellent job people
have come to expect from the work he
publishes on his own site, Sully's
Blog.
We
covered a lot of ground in this interview,
including how I found my way into the
domain business, why I started DN
Journal, how the industry has changed
in recent years and whether or not there
are still opportunities for newcomers in
this business. If you would like to check
it out, the full
interview is here.
As it
happens, MO.com founder Brian Null was the
subject on one of our most popular cover
stories, a piece published five years ago
called Going
for Broke: Why Brian Null’s Family Bet
the Farm On His Golf Domains.
Back then I certainly had no idea that
Brian would one day be turning the tables
on me, but it was certainly a pleasure. I
also appreciated the exposure to the
mainstream business world that Brian gave
both myself and the domain industry
through this interview.
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