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'''Marc Ostrofsky''' is widely known as a domain name financer who owns a corporate enterprise known as '''“Internet REIT”'''. He is the one that empowers the Google Ad sense programs for regular individuals to generate revenue based on the amount of clicks per ad on a user’s blog or website.
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'''Marc Ostrofsky''' is the Founder of [[Internet REIT]] and CEO at [[Multimedia Ventures]]. He is also an author, known for his bestselling book ''Get Rich Click!''.<ref>[http://www.getrichclick.com/ getrichclick.com]</ref>


He created his enterprise with help from the most surprising people, Ross Perot and Howard Schultz who were both known as the founders of '''Starbucks Coffee'''. In the year 1999 he sold his website Bussiness.com at a staggering seven and half million dollars making into the Guinness world records books for selling a domain name website for such a large price (and this was before the Internet got really big). He was one of the original Internet successes before people like Zuckerberg came into the spectrum.
== Domaining ==
Mr. Ostrofsky was a [[domainer]] before he wrote his first book. He is the founder and co-founder of several web properties. Mr. Ostrofsky currently owns eTickets.com, Cufflinks.com, SummperCamps.com and is a major shareholder in Blinds.com.<ref>[http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/resources/2011/02/28/web-entrepreneur-marc-ostrofsky-shares-tips-on-how-to-make-money-online/ portfolio.com]</ref>


In 1999, he sold the domain business.com to eCompanies for $7.5 Million and consequently landed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most expensive domain ever sold.<ref>[http://naming.com/assets/news/inc.html naming.com]</ref> He sold the domain ebusiness.com to another competitor for $10 Million.


== Personal Development ==
He bought SummerCamps.com from a doctor whose son had created a very crude site. He paid for the purchase of the domain within 2.5 years. He still holds the domain and is waiting for the right offer to come to sell the domain. He also owns eTickets.com and e-Tickets.com, he uses these websites to point traffic to a third-party website that send him 10% of the profits each month. He also owns other names, including Consulting.com, Photographer.com, MutualFunds.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, TechToys.com, Bachelor.com, .net and .org, Psychologists.com, Cars.info, CosmeticSurgery.net and 300 others.<ref>[http://dnjournal.com/cover/2011/june-july.htm dnjournal.com]</ref>


== Career History ==
Mr.Ostrofsky has founded five IT magazines and several trade shows. He is one of the pioneers of the voice mail/voice processing market, the private payphone market, the operator services market, the telecom reseller & [[VoIP]] market and the prepaid telephone card market in the United States.


During this long and outstanding career Marc has molded and shaped many internet-based businesses into tip-top form, all of which specialized in telecommunications spanning across magazines, trade shows, and publishing agencies all of which would eventually be sold for another hefty price of eight million dollars. He has made it quite the habit to ‘found’ a company and to quickly sell it to the highest bidder; such was the continuing trend with his company Multimedia Publishing Co. which specialized in the same thing as some of his earlier corporation, he sold it for over thirty five million dollars, yet another stunning amount.
He also founded www.idNames.com, an international domain name registry service that was sold to [[Network Solutions]], and is now a division of [[Verisign]]. Marc Ostrofsky created the [[Internet Commerce Association]].<ref>[http://dnjournal.com/cover/2011/june-july.htm dnjournal.com]</ref>


=== Awards and Recognition ===
*Get Rich Click was #1 on USA TODAY Bestselling books, #1 on the Wall Street Journal Bestselling business books list, #1 on Barnes & Noble as well as #1 Amazon.com in multiple categories.<ref>[http://www.yakoo21.com/marc-ostrofsky/ yakoo21.com]</ref>
*After the success of his book, he appeared on ABC's better TV and News May on CBS. He was also featured on The View.<ref>[http://www.thedomains.com/2011/06/08/marc-ostrofsky-to-appear-on-the-view-on-june-9th/ thedomains.com]</ref>
*He was called the Technology Wildcatter" in the Houston Business Journal<ref>[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/7642211.html chorn.com]</ref>
*Ms. Ostrofsky purchased a sculpture and then worked with the Mayor of Houston to donate the piece to the City of Houston. It now resides at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Terminal B.
*He received Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst and Young.<ref>[http://kirktaylor.com/entrepreneur-mark-ostrofsky-7-5-mil-domain-man-ase11-keynote/ kirktaylor.com]</ref>


== Ownerships ==
=== Meetings and Conferences ===
He is a professional speaker and regularly speaks domestically and internationally:
*He was a featured speaker at Yanik Silver's Underground 2011 event.
*He is currently booked to be a keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit East in August 2011.<ref>[http://blog.affiliatetip.com/archives/marc-ostrofsky-to-keynote-affiliate-summit-east-2011/ blog.affiliateip.com]</ref>


== Personal Life ==
=== Early Life===
Marc Ostrofsky still fondly remembers his first forays into business, a lemonade stand and washing his neighbors' cars. Other early entrepreneurial highlights include turning down work with a young startup in college, the project went on to become DELL computers.


He has not sold every company under his belt; he currently has still onto a few websites of his own called eTickets.com and Cufflinks.com. He also currently holds a membership position as well as shareholder on the website Blinds.com; he made even more money through that site which bases its business around selling windows online to customers.
Marc Ostrofsky was born in Los Angeles, his dad was a professor at UCLA.  


VeriSign, an Internet Communications site, became his next customer as he would start a company called idnames.com and sell it to the major corporation repurposing it as a division of the company giving VeriSign a much greater deal of success.
On June 29, 2008, he was married to Beverle in Aspen, Colorado. He like photography, playing golf and traveling. He has five daughters and currently resides in Houston.<ref>[http://www.getrichclick.com/about-marc/bio/ getrichclick.com]</ref>
=== Beginning of Work and the Internet Industry ===
After graduating from college, he joined a national magazine thanks to his experience with his entrepreneurial businesses in the college. As a result of this magazine publicity, he received several job offers but refused them because he wanted to do "his own thing". From there he later joined the telecommunications industry and quickly excelled therein.  


Because of all of these accomplishments he has been interviewed not only by local news stations and papers but also on the national spectrum being interview on major news networks and often times speaking at events across the nation. His continued patronage has inspired many “current day” domain web hosts take the same route he took in making their businesses an historical success.
His sister Keri inspired him to join the domain industry. His sister became a professor at the University of Texas after completing Ph.D. from Harvard. In 1994, Marc went to speak to his sister's class about business and she showed him the "Internet". He came home and began searching domain names. After some search, he decided to buy business.com. He consulted his father and bought the domain Business.com for $150K. He sold this domain for $7.5million in 1999, he used much of the money to further reinvest in domains.<ref>[http://dnjournal.com/cover/2011/june-july.htm dnjournal.com]</ref>
===Fun Fact===
His daughters Kelly and Shelly are identical twins, and they graduated co-valedictorians of their high school.
 
== Education ==
He holds a BBA with a major in Marketing from the University of Texas.<ref>[http://www.getrichclick.com/about-marc/bio/ getrichclick.com]</ref>
 
== Publications ==
He published his first book, ''Get Rich Click'', in 2011. Mr. Ostrofsky has announced that he is currently working on his next book, entitled, ''Word of Mouse''.<ref>[http://thesocietydiplomat.com/blog/2011/4/27/clicking-for-cash-marc-ostrofskys-way.html thesocietydiplomat.com]</ref>
 
== External Links ==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DawxSym8K8A Marc Ostrofsky - Get Rich Click - Author - Part 1]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS_oOvRcyPI&feature=related Marc Ostrofsky - Get Rich Click - Author - Part 2]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMnaPDaaFDE&feature=related Marc Ostrofsky - YEO Houston]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF-UOCGTlQo&feature=related Get Rich Click" - BETTER]
*[http://moneyland.time.com/2011/06/22/qa-marc-ostrofsky-on-how-he-got-rich-click/ Q&A: Marc Ostrofsky on How He Got Rich … ‘Click’]
*[http://www.amnavigator.com/blog/2011/07/28/interview-with-marc-ostrofsky-author-of-get-rich-click/ Interview with Marc Ostrofsky, Author of Get Rich Click]
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J3R3GtIeRE Interview With Marc Ostrofsky]
*[http://www.teenbusinessforum.com/interviews/marc-ostrofsky-selling-business-com-and-how-to-get-rich-click-interview Marc Ostrofsky- Selling Business.com And How To Get Rich Click [Interview]]
 
== References ==
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Marc Ostrofsky is the Founder of Internet REIT and CEO at Multimedia Ventures. He is also an author, known for his bestselling book Get Rich Click!.[1]

Domaining

Mr. Ostrofsky was a domainer before he wrote his first book. He is the founder and co-founder of several web properties. Mr. Ostrofsky currently owns eTickets.com, Cufflinks.com, SummperCamps.com and is a major shareholder in Blinds.com.[2]

In 1999, he sold the domain business.com to eCompanies for $7.5 Million and consequently landed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most expensive domain ever sold.[3] He sold the domain ebusiness.com to another competitor for $10 Million.

He bought SummerCamps.com from a doctor whose son had created a very crude site. He paid for the purchase of the domain within 2.5 years. He still holds the domain and is waiting for the right offer to come to sell the domain. He also owns eTickets.com and e-Tickets.com, he uses these websites to point traffic to a third-party website that send him 10% of the profits each month. He also owns other names, including Consulting.com, Photographer.com, MutualFunds.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, TechToys.com, Bachelor.com, .net and .org, Psychologists.com, Cars.info, CosmeticSurgery.net and 300 others.[4]

Career History

Mr.Ostrofsky has founded five IT magazines and several trade shows. He is one of the pioneers of the voice mail/voice processing market, the private payphone market, the operator services market, the telecom reseller & VoIP market and the prepaid telephone card market in the United States.

He also founded www.idNames.com, an international domain name registry service that was sold to Network Solutions, and is now a division of Verisign. Marc Ostrofsky created the Internet Commerce Association.[5]

Awards and Recognition

  • Get Rich Click was #1 on USA TODAY Bestselling books, #1 on the Wall Street Journal Bestselling business books list, #1 on Barnes & Noble as well as #1 Amazon.com in multiple categories.[6]
  • After the success of his book, he appeared on ABC's better TV and News May on CBS. He was also featured on The View.[7]
  • He was called the Technology Wildcatter" in the Houston Business Journal[8]
  • Ms. Ostrofsky purchased a sculpture and then worked with the Mayor of Houston to donate the piece to the City of Houston. It now resides at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Terminal B.
  • He received Entrepreneur of the Year from Ernst and Young.[9]

Meetings and Conferences

He is a professional speaker and regularly speaks domestically and internationally:

  • He was a featured speaker at Yanik Silver's Underground 2011 event.
  • He is currently booked to be a keynote speaker at Affiliate Summit East in August 2011.[10]

Personal Life

Early Life

Marc Ostrofsky still fondly remembers his first forays into business, a lemonade stand and washing his neighbors' cars. Other early entrepreneurial highlights include turning down work with a young startup in college, the project went on to become DELL computers.

Marc Ostrofsky was born in Los Angeles, his dad was a professor at UCLA.

On June 29, 2008, he was married to Beverle in Aspen, Colorado. He like photography, playing golf and traveling. He has five daughters and currently resides in Houston.[11]

Beginning of Work and the Internet Industry

After graduating from college, he joined a national magazine thanks to his experience with his entrepreneurial businesses in the college. As a result of this magazine publicity, he received several job offers but refused them because he wanted to do "his own thing". From there he later joined the telecommunications industry and quickly excelled therein.

His sister Keri inspired him to join the domain industry. His sister became a professor at the University of Texas after completing Ph.D. from Harvard. In 1994, Marc went to speak to his sister's class about business and she showed him the "Internet". He came home and began searching domain names. After some search, he decided to buy business.com. He consulted his father and bought the domain Business.com for $150K. He sold this domain for $7.5million in 1999, he used much of the money to further reinvest in domains.[12]

Fun Fact

His daughters Kelly and Shelly are identical twins, and they graduated co-valedictorians of their high school.

Education

He holds a BBA with a major in Marketing from the University of Texas.[13]

Publications

He published his first book, Get Rich Click, in 2011. Mr. Ostrofsky has announced that he is currently working on his next book, entitled, Word of Mouse.[14]

External Links

References

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