Seven Mile

Making Change and Dreaming Big

There's colors on the street
Red, white and blue
People shufflin' their feet
People sleepin' in their shoes"

-- Neil Young, Rockin in the Free World

http://www.dnjournal.com:80/cover/2007/september.htm

Josh sends this fine link to DNJournal's cover story on Mike Mann, which highlights the terrific charitable work he's doing.

There are a lot of of worthy causes in this world that need your help. They are all around us if we care to look. People in your community who are homeless, and people in parts of the world in much worse straits.

Yesterday was the 6th anniversary of 9/11.  If that terrible day taught us anything, it's that life can change in an instant.  Our time in this world is short..  We need to seize each moment.  Don't sleepwalk through your life..  Help where you can in your community and savor the little things each day. Do all you can to live to the fullest, dream big and help our fellow man in the process.

I commend Mike for his dream of a charitable foundation. What a great example he sets for all of us to follow.

More Fuel For the "Google-Daddy Merger" Fire

Analyst friend writes:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/46373-google-to-acquire-the-world-s-largest-domain-name-registrar

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2177278,00.asp

These things might just be idle speculation but I thought it was interesting nonetheless

The thing that caught my eye was the quote from parsons in the first article

Summer Vacation!!

When I first moved to the Island I was shocked that my favorite restaurants closed down for a month of the year. Many of their key staff took 2 full months vacation leave. How could they do it and still be so successful?.. Over the years I have taken to eating more of a Mediterranean diet and adopted the European holiday mindset. I find I come back refreshed and recharged, ready to think and be decisive.  I am genuinely going to miss you and will probably go through withdrawal, but I'm going to fight my urge to check-in until I return to the Island in September.  I still plan to stop by Domain Round-table in August and look forward to seeing many of you there.

Until then,  I wish you all well.  Have a terrific summer. Be safe, clear your minds and recharge yourselves. Your mind, body and business will thank you :))

Mike Bahlitzanakis Launches His Media Co.. Powered by Domains

Vern sends link:

""Mike B kicks it Web2.0 style. Launches his media company

http://www.bphg.com

Vern""

***FS***  I think Mike has some terrific domain names and is going to be very successful with this.  God has blessed domain names.  :))   Nice to see decent guys like this grow into real media concerns.

Sahar Goes Further Down the Road With NLP

http://www.conceptualist.com:80/?p=301

Assista is going to be an awesome search-engine Sahar :))

Contributor Appreciation

Sahar writes:

Ok, I need help here. I always see other guys send links and then you add their pics, which is cool.. however, I know nothing of some of these guys.
How about contributors appreciation day? Tell us something about them :)
Sahar

***FS*** That's a good idea..  If you've contributed to my blog (Josh, Danno others) please feel free to send a note about yourselves and I will post..  If you prefer your privacy then that's cool too.  :)

Javier Marti
Amateur writer, futurist, domain investor... to name a few ;)
Background: Real Estate Consulting in Spain and the UK (MD), as well as in the luxury hospitality sector (Hyatt, Hilton, Sheraton) in the UK and Ireland (when I was young ;). Mother tongue Spanish. Born in Uruguay, South America, 1975. Currently residing in the UK.

Founder and developer: Trendirama.com, Trendinews.com, Trendirama.tv. Avid reader (+7h/day)... interested in "all things Future", particularly in the convergent trends shaping the future of business, sociology and technology and their reprecussions in the domain world.

Danno

Hi 'Sports Fans'

My name is Dan Brown I am over 45, even though my personality is much younger. I worked at the race tracks in So.Cal for 14 years (from hot walker to trainer). Won a few stakes races and placed in few 'graded stakes'.

Was working for a mortgage company in 2000 when I first turned on a computer. Like most, I did not 'get' domain names and missed the boat. Registered my first domain in 2002 and then in about 2004 started to become "addicted".

Went through a long ~ long learning process...mostly from Dnforum. From 'type o's to industry specific domains. Have not made any sales over 12k. currently own about 2000+ domains. I live in Long Beach, Ca. were I kinda take care of my brother who has some what of a disability.

So, there's not much out in the world for an x-horse trainer...so it was either I learn about domains, or learn how to say "would you like that order super-sized" about 300 times a day...LOL.

I send Frank news, because I like it and want to help out with somewhat relevant information. I have never met Frank, but I think it is quite obvious that his opinions matter and his willingness to share his thoughts on the "future" of this industry is...'priceless'.

Right now, I think the next 2 - 5 years is going to bring the most dramatic change in the world of domains and search engines...and I do not want to miss it. If you have read any of my post...you know I have my own 'unique' thoughts on both domains and SE's.

I am an just a "idea guy" about the domain industry and the search industry and just looking to turn a few of these into reality.

I guess that's basically it...in a thousand words or less...LOL

Peace,
Dan

Robert

Even though I may not qualify I still wanted to thank Mr. Schilling for letting mere mortals and regular webmasters like myself to even suggest links and post comments on the blog. Frank, your friendly demeanor is greatly appreciated.

In the who-is-who of the internet I would just be another dot in the very big picture... and this is fine! My background is mostly online marketing (7 years) with a focus on search where I achieved mild successes, enough to keep me going. Mild successes may also mean one highly successfull website and another highly unsuccessfull one. Better than always being average, I guess.

In my own eyes, my largest accomplishment is having won the award for the most outstanding confection (hand-made candy) in Mississippi in 1993, which places me in the opposite side of the fence where Stanford PhD's reside. But perhaps opposites attract. And just like my hand-made candies, most of my development is still done the old fashion way. I have recently decided to test the waters in the field of domaining with the hopes of achieving a bit more than mild successes but if this isn't in my fate I will be happy to develop some new friends.

Besides this, I deeply admire Jimi Hendrix's artistic genius and Nicola Tesla's freedom of spirit and believe that life highest mission is service in *whatever* form.

Oh, I am also fully bilingual (spanish/english), have a business degree from a top college and at 45 have just become a Father. Finally!

Best of luck to everyone.

***FS***  Congratulations on fatherhood Robert! There are no kings here and I have no illusions of grandeur.  In fact, I'm flattered that you are grateful to share here.  It is "I" who am luck to have loyal visitors like you (and others), teaching me..  We learn from each other. Thanks again.

Happy Independence Day

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." ~William J. Clinton

Sincere wishes for a safe and happy Independence Day to my American friends and neighbors.

Ron Jackson Comments on Shoddy New York Times Journalism

Per my post on the lopsided New York Times story about Marchex and domain names:

"Quite right frank - this is simply shoddy and dishonest journalism and something that no self-respecting media outlet should tolerate - especially one that has had a reputation for accuracy like the NY Times. Letting reporters color news pieces with their own biases used to be a no no. But today newspaper editors and reporters are being laid off left and right as their branch of media continues to wither and die on the vine. I guess it is not surprising that those very scared people continually lash out at the force that is on the way to putting them out of business - but whatever the excuse - it is still simply bad journalism and in the end that will come back to bite them in the [caboose]."

I can only hope Ron. If anyone deserves a good bite in the posterior it's the author of that piece.

3 Domainers and a Gallon of Mojitos, Courtesy of TrafficZ.com

Vern, Geosign's Craig Hamilton and Sedo's Mark Klein (a Pete Neumann look-alike) practicing the 7mile gang symbol. In an embarrasing twist, I own wanksta.com Vern ;)

Verns says:  "And you only paid $40 for that name at Snap in 2004".

Thanks Nelson :)

Oversee's Lawrence Ng wins E&Y 'Entrepreneur of the Year' 2007

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070629005405&newsLang=en

Wow,  Congratulations Lawrence.  Big award! Vern takes on the role of statistician tonight and points out a former recipient is Marchex's Russ Horrowitz. E&Y loves domainers.