Because of Global Domains Int. Dot.ws and another company that I Promoted I was able to do what most Parents DREAM ABOUT…Being a stay at home Dad.

Great Story Take the time to read it as it did touch many hearts.

Thanks To our Island Brothers because of there kind hearted and loving beliefs.

Read this complete story and If you would like to be apart of a great team and support our Island Brothers then contact me.

Because of Global Domains Int. Dot.ws and another company that I Promoted I was able to do what most Parents DREAM ABOUT…Being a stay at home Dad.

Great Story Take the time to read it as it did touch many hearts.

Thanks To our Island Brothers because of there kind hearted and loving beliefs.

Read this complete story and If you would like to be apart of a great team and support our Island Brothers then contact me.

What Is The .WS Domain…

.WS is a globally accessible top level domain that works just like .COM and.NET. Anyone, anywhere, can register a .WS domain and establish a personal internet address for life.

Dot.WS is easy to remember Dot .WS is WebSite! Register a .WS domain today, and see why Global Domains International has been ranked in the top 50 of theInc. 500 fastest growing companies.

Example: My Dot.WS Domain

Rich@RichardDelaCruz.ws

RichardDelaCruz.com

Rich@moneymogel.ws

moneymogel.org

moneymogel.ws

moneymogel.com

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Before you can start up a business — any business — customers need to be able to find you. On the Internet, your address is your domain name; the part of an Internet address that comes after the www. With the unparalleled growth of the Internet, dot com domain names continue to sell like hotcakes. Currently, there are more than 20 million dotcom domains, and over 34 million total domains registered worldwide.

Industry experts forecast that more than 500 million domains will be registered in the next ten years. In fact, reliable sources from companies like Intel are predicting that every personal computer in the future will have its own domain name.

In 1998, the dot.com craze was beginning to ramp up to unbelievable proportions. So many Internet companies sprouted up in Silicon Valley, and elsewhere, that companies not swept up in the hysteria were thought to be missing out.But, while most people were focused on things like Content, Banner Ads and Bandwidth.

Michael Starr and Alan Ezeir,the CEO and President respectively of Global Domains International,Inc. (GDI), recognized another opportunity that was largely ignored;they wondered, “Besides dot com, are there other extensions that businesses could use as a domain name?”

Mike and Alan were aware that in the mid 1990’s, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned each nation a country code. These codes were designed to give each country an address to use for their own Internet needs. For instance, the United States was assigned .us,Australia .au, Ireland .ie. “We knew that a good, easy-to-remember country code could be marketable globally as a viable alternative to.com,” said Alan. “And so,” Mike added, “we ordered some pizza, locked ourselves in a room, and went through the entire list of countries top in point the best possible code.”

They ultimately focused on the domain extension .WS —which belongs to the tiny island nation of Samoa, deep in the South Pacific. “We thought that the abbreviation .WS could be successfully marketed worldwide as the ‘WebSite’ top-level domain,” said Mike.

“There were a small handful of other viable options, but through resolve and perseverance, we found that some countries were already using their domain locally, and not interested in becoming an ‘open’ or’global’ registry. With a population of less than 200,000 people, Samoa had yet to utilize their domain on a massive scale.

And, none of the other countries’ domains compared to the potential branding power of.WS to signify ‘WebSite’. After all,” Mike happily exclaimed, “everyone in the free world knows what a web site is!”

The island nation of Samoa is part of a group of islands and islets inthe south-central Pacific Ocean about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeastof New Zealand. It is completely separate and independent of its U.S.cousin, American Samoa. Its form of government consists of a PrimeMinister, Parliament and, as head-of-state, a King. The country’sprimary exports range from coconut cream and beer, to automotivewiring-harnesses and cigarettes.

All business professionals know that having an idea is one thing,but executing the idea is quite another. Mike and Alan knew that the idea of marketing an alternative to dot com had tremendous promise.

Yet, they both recognized that they’d need more perseverance and a little luck to pull it off. “Remember, we were paddling against the current,” Mike said. “Back then, most people were still branding businesses with dot com. Quite frankly, nearly everyone thought we were wasting our time.”

After a series of overseas phone calls and e-mails to Samoan officials, a date was set for Mike and Alan to meet with the leading figures of Samoa, including the King and his Prime Minister. In less than a week, Mike and Alan put together a presentation detailing their plans for their appropriation of the technical and marketing operations of Samoa’s top-level domain extension, “.WS.”

So as not to take any chances, Mike and Alan devoured reams of information about the nation of Samoa, familiarizing themselves with as many of its customs and traditions as possible. While Alan busily acquainted himself with appropriate etiquette when meeting with Samoan government officials, Mike worked on ensuring that the proposal they would present to the Samoans was as interesting and worthwhile as possible. “I had to make certain the Samoans understood that we looked at the opportunity as a joint relationship that would ultimately benefit their entire nation,” said Mike.

One major risk gnawed at Alan and Mike: they really didn’t have anything significant to immediately offer the country, except for their business ingenuity and know-how. Although Mike and Alan were successful marketing experts in the U.S., convincing an entire nation to trust them on what appeared to be a hunch would be difficult, at best.

“There was mounting pressure by some of our consultants to offer the Samoan government cash up-front. Otherwise, they felt we’d lose the deal and someone else could come in and take over,” Alan said.”However, we knew the culture of Samoa was much different than here in the States, and that ‘buying off’ anyone is not the way we do business!As a result,” Alan continued, “we came up with an alternative proposal we thought better accommodated the cultural demands of the country.”

The plane landed in Honolulu without any problems. They boarded their connecting flight to Samoa, finally beginning to relax. Three hours into the flight the pilot announced the plane had encounteredsome mechanical problems. The plane’s landing lights were inoperable,and there were no repair facilities open in Samoa. As a result, the pilot turned the flight around and headed back to Hawaii. “We were completely dejected,” Mike said. “All of our preparation came to a screeching halt … all because some light bulbs weren’t working!” After the plane landed safely in Honolulu, the glum business partners entered a deserted Hawaiian terminal.

But, as had happened all along, luck was once more on their side. An Air New Zealand flight that travels to Samoa only once a week “just so happened” to be at the terminal, scheduled to leave in less than 45minutes. “We were shocked and thrilled. I’ve never run so fast in my life!” Alan said. They both hopped onto the flight hoping this plane’s landing lights worked!

After landing in Samoa with a whopping two hours to spare, “Mike was looking a bit ragged but I looked good,” Alan laughed. “We went over our presentation one last time, trying to get into the mind-set as to how a true Samoan would give the presentation.”

The meeting started with all the appropriate government members present. Mike and Alan pitched the Prime Minister on the fact that the domain extension they presently owned, .WS, would be perfectly suited to market worldwide. With the correct marketing idea behind it, there was no reason why the .WS extension could not be recognized as the major alternative to dot com.

Everyone at the meeting studied the 20-page proposal that Mike and Alan finalized on their midnight flight from Honolulu. “The Samoans dothings with a great deal of trust and understanding of the people involved,” Mike stated. “Because of our due diligence, we knew that providing a detailed legal agreement might have actually worked agains tus. So, the clincher was more about the fact that we came across as sincere and honest.”

“We needed to give them reasons to trust us,” Mike continued. “I believe we did just that.” A visit to the King’s home helped cement a relationship they hoped would become long-term. “He was a kind, gentle person, concerned that what we wanted to do was in the best interest of his people,” Alan said.

The meetings ended on a congenial note with Mike and Alan satisfied that they had successfully completed the task they had set out to accomplish. Since their flight was not leaving the island for a few days, they went into vacation mode, spending time exploring Samoa’s beautiful, pristine beaches and lush tropical forests.

Convinced that negotiations had been concluded, Mike and Alan flew back to the States confident that the deal was completed.Unfortunately, they waited another few months to discover that their proposal had, in fact, been rejected. It seems that after making their presentation, no less than a half dozen companies from the United States and other countries were also granted an opportunity to offer presentations to the Samoan government. So much time had passed since Mike and Alan’s initial visit, that it seemed inevitable the Samoans might have been deluged with other information, including various claims of potential profits by other groups wanting to do a similar deal. “I wanted to give up,” Alan said. “I felt we had given it our best shot, but it just wasn’t meant to be.”

Mike, however, had another idea. He tracked down the local Samoan government’s majority-owned technology company that was ultimately granted the domain contract, and placed a call to its General Manager. “The company was local on the island, so I had a hunch that their ability to market the domains globally would be limited,” said Mike. “I had to change my way of thinking. So, I pitched him on the idea that we should partner together, and he accepted.”

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In the 2002 Special issue of Inc. magazine, GDI placed #37on the Inc. 500 “List” of the USA’s 500 fastest growing privatecompanies and #5 in the state of California.
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“The truly exciting thing about GDI making the Inc. 500 List is thefact that we’ve barely even begun!” says Mike. “We’ve gotten to thislevel by serving only that tiny minority of Internet users who evenknow what a ‘domain name’ is and why they need one. We’ve actuallybegun to create a market by introducing .ws domains to the masses, withour turnkey, extremely affordable and easy to use packages of domainnames, self-service instant websites, and personal email services.We’re actually ‘targeting’ the other 99+% of the Internet community -families, single people, children, seniors, and small businesses - thevast majority of whom are new to domain names and just need somethingsimple and affordable to get them excited. That is literally hundredsof millions of people globally who are prospects for our service.”

Richard & Faith Anne

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