Having been in both the insurance business before websites existed, and then later ~ in the real estate business ~ when websites became the rage, I foresaw years ago how very effective the Internet would become for agents and businesses.
Although I didn't comprehend how very significant websites would become, I bought my first website domain, a dot com.
That was what everybody back then said that I wanted a .
com (Commercial).
I was soon getting real estate customers from both my own website and the big name real estate corporation's site provided for agents.
"RELOS," or real estate relocation clients as they are called, are easy sales.
For the ones I received via the corporation's website, I had to pay a 20% referral fee.
The clients generated by my own website cost me nothing.
Soon, I had earned enough money and had the expertise to start my own real estate company.
Of course, I bought a new dot com website domain and improved my new site.
My real estate business grew and prospered.
I had over a dozen experienced real estate professionals working for me.
Many had formerly owned their own brokerages and found working from my brokerage better for them.
I did not want to hire new agents because they took too much time to train and only 5% even survive in the brutal industry beyond the second full year.
Then I got "Blindsided," hit with a dread disease that I did not anticipate - MS (Multiple Sclerosis).
I was knocked out of the real estate business by progressive disabilities.
I had to give up my profession, wholesale my brokerage, vend my house, and accept life as a permanently disabled victim.
I left my website domain with the brokerage.
Yet I never lost hope.
Nor did I ever give up my faith in "The Almighty" - that my health and good fortune would be restored.
Well, last month, I was miraculously cured of "Incurable" MS.
Now, in June of 2006, Mr.
Wealth is returning and bringing with him many of his friends - thanks to selling website domain "properties" ~ and buying over 80 "Name" domain properties.
The first reason that I sell domain properties is that my Lord has told me too.
He said to buy a couple of dot WS (Web Site) over 10 months ago.
Now, He has instructed me to buy and sell .
WS websites and to teach others how to prosper also.
The second reason that I sell GDI (Global Domains International) properties is to gain wealth.
More wealth than I had ever imagined myself having, an "Income For Life!" When I became a Realtor, I was eager to earn my fortune selling land-based properties, houses, land, and businesses.
I was told then by a successful, respected real estate associate, Bill Norton, a truth I was not ready to accept.
"You'll never become rich selling properties.
You become rich by buying properties - and selling them," my real estate buddy said.
And so - Bill did! "Truth" is "Truth" - wherever it applies.
It applies in selling cyber-based properties too, website domain properties.
The third reason that I sell website domain properties is that I can provide a service by protecting some "Good Names.
" I believe the scripture (CEV) Proverbs 22:1:"A good reputation and respect are worth much more than silver and gold.
" For example, can you imagine typing Jerry Falwell's name into your browser and be whisked away to "A pro-homosexual video Porn-site?" I seriously doubt if the founder of "The Moral Majority" would appreciate that very real possibility.
Andy Rooney, Art Bell, or Zachariah Stitchen would not likely appreciate their good names being used as a devil's vehicle by a pornographer either.
Nor would Barbara Walters.
They will not be.
I own their names on the dot Web Site extension.
Most of my website domains are for sale or trade.
No law requires me to sell to a buyer that I do not choose to do business with.
While it may take me some time, I intend to place contact links to the persons who the web surfers were attempting to reach when he or she typed in their "Good" names.
I trust that the owners of those good names understand that no intention to exploit or otherwise defame their "Good" names, business names, and/or trademarks was ever intended.