I never had the pleasure to meet Howard Neu in person, but from everything I have heard he had an immense and positive impact within the domain community. He played a particularly important role, with Rick Schwartz, in co-founding the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain conferences. The associations made at those conferences helped set the path for subsequent development of the domain investments field. I am so glad that the ICA. was able to have an online event to honour him a couple of months ago.
R.I.P. Howard Neu, and thoughts with your wife and many friends.
-Bob