Global Domains International
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 dot COM 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 Reed 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? " In November 2000, less than nine months after launching. WS to the global Internet community, GDI 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.
In the 2002 Special issue of Inc. Magazine, GDI placed# 37 on the Inc. 500 "List" of the USA's 500 fastest growing private companies and# 5 in the state of California.
The truly exciting thing about GDI making the Inc. 500 List is the fact that we've barely even begun! We've gotten to this level by serving only that tiny minority of Internet users who even know what a 'domain name' is and why they need one. We've actually begun to create a market by introducing. Ws domains to the masses, with our turnkey, extremely affordable and easy to use packages of domain names, 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-the vast majority of whom are new to domain names and just need something simple and affordable to get them excited. That is literally hundreds of millions of people globally who are prospects for our service.