Good stuff Hawkeye...it's really a shame you didn't come up to me at NamesCon and introduce yourself. I've always said you don't really know someone until you have an opportunity to meet them in person and look them in the eye. I've also said that I honestly believe we all something "good" in common with each other, and if you start from that premise anything is possible.
Moving on...you asked
non-confrontationally why I think I'm pretty good at this name business just because I'd named a
couple of businesses in my lifetime? To which I said, it's not just a
couple of businesses, but rather
20-30 businesses. Then because you've questioned my veracity, I felt the need to point to sources like Linkedin, the USPTO where I trademarked
JudgementScore™, and even here on NP where numerous comments have been made about
DomainGourmet™, the last business domain name I registered about 90 days ago....all to which you refer to as;
"off subject rambling that has nothing to do with the price of tea in Timbuktu" .......huh?
Hawkeye...I must say I take personally your questioning my honesty and veracity much like people who call me a racist because I'm a 71 year old white male. If you took a little time to get to know me you'd learn I pretty much luv everyone, and I make it a point to meet someone new practically every day of my life. At NamesCon in four days I met well over 100 people, and I have 60 business cards here on my desk to prove it.
Moving on again assuming I'm being honest.....I've shared stories of failure as well as success, but I probably wouldn't be in the business today If it weren't for a major failure of a business I started in 1990 called
Contact USA. I think it was shortly after that I registered the domain ContactUSA.com with Network Solutions around 1992. My business folded in 2001 and according to HosterStats someone picked up the domain ContactUSA in 2003, and has kept it for the last 16 years without developing it. If you were to go to ContactUSA.com today, all you will see is an American Flag taking up the whole screen. While keying this I did a little research on the name and learned that it's owned by someone in Albuquerque NM named Walter White according to Whois. With hind sight being 20/20, I probably should have kept the name because it appraises for over $3,500 today. However, i did register
MakeSomethingHappen.com on September 1, 2001 that's not for sale, and I use only for my personal email address.
Another reason why I think I'm pretty good at the domain/name business is because my friends, my local business peers, and now my domain business peers have said so. Unless she/they were lying to me, you may want to ask Margot Bushnaq (founder and ceo of Brand Bucket) and some of her
girls employees about me. Granted Margot is into dogs, and my stuffed Bulldog named Biscuit sparked a conversation about her
Boxador(.)com site so named because her dog was a mixed breed Boxer/Labrador. When she learned I use to show dogs and owned a Basset Hound named;
Lord Mergatroyd of Antwerp (called him Mergy for short), I think she took pity on me and said she liked some of the domain/names I own and maybe she/they could help me to sell them. I recently sent them a few names to review and approve for sale and I'm waiting to hear back from them.
Then we have GoDaddy....although I haven't met him personally it's because I hand registered the names
DaddyoDomains.com and
DaddyoBrands.com that I was able to get through to the CEO at GoDaddy if not just to refer me to management. About 800 of my 1,500 names are registered at GoDaddy.
Then there's the very first contact I made in this business/industry,
Rob Monster the President and CEO of
Epik. Now there are two names that are absolutely incredible names imho. Rob learned we're brothers in Christ (i think I can say that?), and it's because of him I hand registered the domain names
JesusOvercomes.com and
SalvationRx.com and I just hand registered
QuarterKosher.com because my grandfather Ben Goldstein is one of the reasons I've been self employed all my life. My middle name is
Benjamin, and according to
Ilhan Omar "It's all about the Benjamin's Baby" To which I'm prouder now to be quarter Jewish than ever. If requested, I'll share a poignant story about being quarter Jewish. And speaking of great names, I invited a young man (45 is young to me) to speak to my Kiwanis Club a few weeks ago about wind farming off the coast of Virginia and his name is
Wolfgang Rain. That's almost as good as
Rob Monster
If I were to change my name I'd change it to a domain I recently registered,
JumboLumpDaddy™ that's actually a name for a restaurant that specializes in crab cakes.
That's it for now Hawkeye, but you asked me why I think I'm pretty good at the domain/name business and I don't think I answered
condescendingly, but I'll leave it up to you and others to be the judge of that. Again, let's keep this conversation going if you
honestly believe my rationale is nothing more than; "off subject rambling that has nothing to do with the price of tea in Timbuktu"......NextPlay!
