For those of you that have not already seen, I was interviewed by DomainSherpa.com which posted yesterday.

Thank you to Michael Cyger for the invite and interview.

I also want to add a bravo to Michael. He’s done a great job with his video interviews. Michael has interviewed some great guests such as Frank Schilling, Marc Ostrofsky, Eric Borgos, Mike Mann, Ron Jackson and many more.

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I’ve been counseled by many people on whether to post anything about this at all or not. I decided that I would share my side and then leave it there as I believe this will answer everyone’s questions on what really happened.

However, first I need to comment on motivations behind Rick’s postings because I don’t, like so many others, believe he is posting for “the good of the domaining community.”  How convenient of Rick Schwartz to drag this out for 3 months and finally name me after press coverage for DNCruise has been showing up the past couple of days and then say he has nothing personal against me. I wonder if it was personal when he specifically lobbied to management to try to get me fired. If that’s not personal, I don’t know what is because I promise everyone, my wife took that real personal as it directly affects her and our children’s lives.

Hmmm, could it be that Rick doesn’t like competition and believes only TRAFFIC should be the conference people attend? In one article he gets a 2 for 1 deal….he gets to attack Oversee and Chef Patrick….of which both of us have conferences. Now that I think about it the last time Rick was about to release my name he instead released the next date for TRAFFIC in Ft Lauderdale. I don’t know, but I see a pattern of self motivation here and I know several others do as well as I’ve received many emails already from people questioning his motives and specifically his convenient timing.
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Nearly one year ago, after being self-employed for over five years, I decided to take a position with domain name registrar Moniker as a premium broker. A lot of people questioned why I did this. Well, last January before DOMAINfest my friends Morgan Linton and Jason Thompson held their Southern California Domainers Meetup which I attended. One of the questions asked to the audience was what are your goals for this year. As my turn came I said, I want to sell a million dollar domain name and have my domain sales get on DNJournal.com. I said this without knowing how to get there, I just knew it was what I wanted. About two months later I was communicating with Monte Cahn, president of Moniker at the time, about something else. He mentioned they were looking for a broker and asked if I knew anyone. Right away I suggested a friend that already lived in South Florida and had been domaining for many years. I told my friend and they were not interested. The next day I emailed Monte and said, what about me? Throw my name into that hat and I sent over a makeshift resume because I hadn’t needed one in so many years. After several conversations and a couple interviews I got the job. I won’t bore you with job specifics, but since taking the position I have sold well over $3 million dollars in domain names including the million dollar sale I wanted.

To sum up that story, I went to Oversee for an education and walked away with a bachelors in domain brokerage.

Moniker and I part on good terms. Unfortunately there was no way to continue, beyond the fact that I strongly dislike working out of an office and working for a boss, I just have too many projects going on that need my full attention. I believe we have mutually gotten everything we possibly can from each other. The education I have received is priceless. Thank you to Oversee for the opportunity, more specifically Craig Snyder, Monte Cahn and the co-workers I worked with every day. Oversee have shown additional support in my ventures by sponsoring this very blog and again DNCruise which will be held later this year. Stay tuned because Monday we will announce the dates for our next cruise.

What’s next for me?

Towards the end of 2010 I purchased ScienceFiction.com for $175,000 with a couple partners. We even had some TechCrunch.com coverage right before Christmas. Since then we have developed a news website and are working every day to build our readership.

Beyond ScienceFiction.com I own several properties that are screaming out for development which I will begin working on after my family’s spring break vacation next week.

I do plan on blogging again, not every day, but maybe once per week or two. My goal is to provide meaningful posts, not just regurgitated news.

In addition to development projects in the works I will continue to broker premium domain names. In my three years of domaining I have been involved with over $3.5 million in domain transactions. If you have a domain name for sale above $50,000 and would like to hire me please reach out through my contact page for more information.

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I know it is late in the day, but I wanted to at least get out a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone in the domain community.

Picture below taken two weeks ago at the beach. I know, living in Florida is tough

Next week I will be posting a 2010 recap for Chef Patrick, DNCruise and set some 2011 goals. One of those goals is to get back to blogging on a regular basis. Stay tuned!

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Sorry for the lack of blog posts over the last two weeks. I plan on spending some quality time this weekend getting caught up on some posts and schedule a few out for the upcoming week. I also have plans to have Elizabeth over tomorrow to help me with this week’s news video.

What have I been doing? Working!!!

So far I’m loving it at Oversee.net. The first 30-60 days with any company are always a challenge. It takes time to learn the systems, routines and people. The team here in Ft Lauderdale is awesome, a real pleasure to work with. Obviously I can’t divulge trade secrets, but one thing I can tell you, everyone here works very hard to get things done.

That’s it for now, I’ll write more this weekend.

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