Have you heard of the Global Domains International story?

Have you taken time to read the story of Global Domains International known also as GDI? It is well worth a read.  In the start up of any business, you would first need an ideal location where customers can find you. In the realm of online marketing, this is no different. Customers would need to know the location of your business in order to purchase your products and services. Your domain name is your business location on the world wide web. Ever since the world wide web came on stream, there has been phenomenal growth of the dot com whereby these domains are premium real estate in the internet industry

In the year 1998, the growth of dotcoms reached incredible heights resulting in many companies grabbing up at the opportunity. Others  focus on other products needed for a dotcom industry such as band width content and  banner ads. However, Michael Starr and Alan Ezeir, the CEO and President respectively of Global Domains International, Inc. (GDI), being innovative and astute business men realised that there was another opportunity that was untapped. They started to brainstorm what if what if domain names had some other extensions that the businesses could potentially use

During the mid 1990’s, each nation were assisted a country code by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. These codes were to assist country in targeting specifics. For example, the United States was assigned .us, United kingdom was assigned .uk, Canada was assigned .ca etc…

In Alan’s words “We knew that a good, easy-to-remember country code could be marketable globally as a viable alternative to .com,” “And so,” Mike added, “we ordered some pizza, locked ourselves in a room, and went through the entire list of countries to pinpoint the best possible code.”

In the final analysis they came up with the .ws extension. Checks revealed that the ws domain extension belong The 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!”

GDI's list of clients

Flash forward now to November 2000, nine months after launching .ws to the global Internet community, Global Domains International announced it had sold over 100,000 .WS registrations to customers such as Yahoo!, Intel, Cisco, Dell Computers, and other companies and individuals in more than 180 countries. Global Domains International achieved 3479% growth in the past five years, ranking #37 on the list of 500 fastest growing companies in the United States, #5 in California, and #2 in San Diego with sales growing from $261,000 in 1997 to $9,341,000 in 2001. During this time, ordinary people have been making extraordinary residual income globally

The internet land rush is on …Shouldn’t you purchase your Global Domains International real estate today?