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'''Marc Ostrofsky''' is an American entrepreneur, [[venture capitalist]], [[New York Times Best Selling Author]] and public speaker.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcc1HYzaRWk |title=Marc Ostrofsky on The View - 7-8-11 discussing Amazing Smartphone Apps |publisher=YouTube |date=2011-07-09 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> He is the author of the books ''Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money Online'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW5UZZHkZHA&feature=youtu.be |title=Marc Ostrofsky's first appearance on The View and how to make money on the internet |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-06-11 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> and ''Word of Mouse: 101+ trends in How we Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work and Play!''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://video.foxnews.com/v/2668002979001/tech-trends-businesses-need-to-know-now/?playlist_id=931078471001 |title=Tech trends businesses need to know now |publisher=[[Fox News]] |date=2013-09-12 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> ''Get Rich Click'' was in the top ten of the lists of bestselling books compiled by [[USA Today]], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>http://www.getrichclick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1-Bestseller-sheet-all.pdf</ref>
'''Marc Ostrofsky''' is an American entrepreneur, [[venture capitalist]], [[New York Times Best Selling Author]] and public speaker.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcc1HYzaRWk |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/dcc1HYzaRWk |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Marc Ostrofsky on The View - 7-8-11 discussing Amazing Smartphone Apps |publisher=YouTube |date=2011-07-09 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He is the author of the books ''Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money Online'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW5UZZHkZHA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/gW5UZZHkZHA |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Marc Ostrofsky's first appearance on "The View" on ABC television was about how to make money on the internet |publisher=YouTube |date=2012-06-11 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and ''Word of Mouse: 101+ trends using technology on How we Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work and Play!''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://video.foxnews.com/v/2668002979001/tech-trends-businesses-need-to-know-now/?playlist_id=931078471001 |title=Tech trends businesses need to know now |publisher=[[Fox News]] |date=2013-09-12 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> ''Get Rich Click'' was in the top ten of the lists of bestselling books compiled by [[USA Today]], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>http://www.getrichclick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1-Bestseller-sheet-all.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
His career began developing companies for [[voice mail]] and [[voice processing]], private [[pay phone]]s, [[Telephone company|operator services]], [[telecom reseller]] and [[VOIP]], and prepaid [[telephone card]]s in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2006/august.htm |title=Inside iREIT: How a Startup Company Became an Industry Giant Almost Overnight |publisher=Dnjournal.com |date=2008-04-01 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>
His career began developing companies for [[voice mail]] and [[voice processing]], private [[pay phone]]s, [[Telephone company|operator services]], [[telecom reseller]] and [[VOIP]], and prepaid [[telephone card]]s in the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2006/august.htm |title=Inside iREIT: How a Startup Company Became an Industry Giant Almost Overnight |publisher=Dnjournal.com |date=2008-04-01 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>


Before writing his first book, Ostrofsky was a [[domain name]] investor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1999/10/11/story3.html |title=Tech wildcatter sells company for $35 million |publisher=[[Houston Business Journal]] |date=1999-10-10 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> His [[venture capital]] firm has created a number of [[telecommunication]], [[publishing]] and [[internet]] based companies, and he is the co-founder of hundreds of web properties.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sloan |first=Paul |url=http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/29/technology/nextbigforeign.biz2/index.htm |title=Next Big Thing: Internet real estate gets a foreign accent |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=2006-08-29 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> He was a co-founder of Internet REIT (iREIT) (also known as www.iREIT.com), which acquires, develops and sells internet traffic [[wholesale]] to [[Google]] for them to resell to others on a [[pay per click]] basis with partners [[Ross Perot]] and [[Howard Schultz]], the founder of [[Starbucks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/05/23/internet-reit-domain_cx_rr_0523cyber.html |title=Typo.com |publisher=[[Forbes]] |date= |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>
Before writing his first book, Ostrofsky was a [[domain name]] investor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1999/10/11/story3.html |title=Tech wildcatter sells company for $35 million |publisher=[[Houston Business Journal]] |date=1999-10-10 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> His [[venture capital]] firm has created a number of [[telecommunication]], [[publishing]] and [[internet]] based companies, and he is the co-founder of hundreds of web properties.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sloan |first=Paul |url=https://money.cnn.com/2006/08/29/technology/nextbigforeign.biz2/index.htm |title=Next Big Thing: Internet real estate gets a foreign accent |publisher=CNN |date=2006-08-29 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> He was a co-founder of Internet REIT (iREIT) (also known as www.iREIT.com), which acquires, develops and sells internet traffic [[wholesale]] to [[Google]] for them to resell to others on a [[pay per click]] basis with partners [[Ross Perot]] and [[Howard Schultz]], the founder of [[Starbucks]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/2006/05/23/internet-reit-domain_cx_rr_0523cyber.html |title=Typo.com |work=[[Forbes]] |date= |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>
In 1999 he sold the DNS domain [[Business.com]] $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was listed in the [[Guinness Book of World Records]] for what was at the time the most expensive domain name ever sold,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.4to40.com/recordbook/index.asp?id=359&category=human |title=Kids Portal for Parents - Site Map |publisher=4to40 |date= |accessdate=2014-01-28 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203000505/http://www.4to40.com/recordbook/index.asp?id=359&category=human |archivedate=2014-02-03 |df= }}</ref> Ostrofsky owned a stake in Business.com which was sold in 2008 for $345 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSWNAS789220070726 |title=R.H. Donnelley to buy Business.com for $345 mln |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date= |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> He coined the phrase "Domain names and web sites are the real estate of the Internet" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in the mid 1990s, which had been the most money ever paid for a [[domain name]] at that time.<ref>http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_roundtable_to_address_explosive_growth_of_internet_real_estate/</ref>
In 1999 he sold the DNS domain [[Business.com]] $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was listed in the [[Guinness Book of World Records]] for what was, at the time, the most expensive domain name ever sold in the world,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.4to40.com/recordbook/index.asp?id=359&category=human |title=Kids Portal for Parents - Site Map |publisher=4to40 |accessdate=2014-01-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203000505/http://www.4to40.com/recordbook/index.asp?id=359&category=human |archivedate=2014-02-03 }}</ref> Ostrofsky owned a stake in Business.com which was sold in 2008 for $345 million.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/mergersNews/idUSWNAS789220070726 |title=R.H. Donnelley to buy Business.com for $345 mln |publisher=Reuters |date= |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref> He coined the phrase "Domain names and web sites are the real estate of the Internet" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in the mid 1990s, which had been the most money ever paid for a [[domain name]] at that time.<ref>http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_roundtable_to_address_explosive_growth_of_internet_real_estate/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2022}}</ref>


Ostrofsky founded five high tech Internet and telecommunications magazines and a dozen technology trade shows,{{which|date=January 2014}} which were later sold to Advanstar Publishing for $8,000,000.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} He later created and sold Multimedia Publishing Corporation (another firm holding magazines, trade shows and web sites) to [[Primedia]] for $35,000,000.<ref name="bizjournals.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1999/10/11/story3.html |title=Tech wildcatter sells company for $35 million |publisher=Houston Business Journal |date=1999-10-10 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>
Ostrofsky founded five high tech Internet and telecommunications magazines and a dozen technology trade shows,{{which|date=January 2014}} which were later sold to Advanstar Publishing for $8,000,000.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} He later created and sold Multimedia Publishing Corporation (another firm holding magazines, trade shows and web sites) to [[Primedia]] for $35,000,000.<ref name="bizjournals.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/1999/10/11/story3.html |title=Tech wildcatter sells company for $35 million |publisher=Houston Business Journal |date=1999-10-10 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>


Ostrofsky was the first outside investor in Blinds.com and a member of its board of directors. In 2014, Blinds.com was sold to [[Home Depot]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140123-912454.html |title=The Home Depot Acquires Blinds.com |publisher=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=2014-01-23 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref><ref>http://www.dnjournal.com/lowdown.htm</ref>
Ostrofsky was the first outside investor in Blinds.com and a member of its board of directors. In 2014, Blinds.com was sold for over $200 Million+ to [[Home Depot]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20140123-912454.html |title=The Home Depot Acquires Blinds.com |publisher=Wall Street Journal |date=2014-01-23 |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnjournal.com/lowdown.htm |title=The Lowdown from Domain Name Journal at |publisher=Dnjournal.com |date= |accessdate=2022-08-25}}</ref>


He currently owns the web sites CuffLinks.com, SummerCamps.com and eTickets.com. He also owns the domains Bachelor.com, p2p.com, SalesTraining.com, Photographer.com, Consulting.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, TechToys.com, and over 300 other top level domains.<ref>http://www.whois.sc</ref>
He currently owns the web sites Photographer.com, TechToys.com, APPortunity.com, MARCeting.com, LabGrownDiamonds.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, Potshops.com and 200+ others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.whois.sc/ |title=Home |website=whois.sc}}</ref>


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]].<ref>[http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/353381 ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050502103527/http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/353381 |date=May 2, 2005 }}</ref>
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]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/353381 |title= Network Solutions' idNames Launches Domain Associate Program|website=dc.internet.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050502103527/http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/353381 |archive-date=May 2, 2005}}</ref>


In 2001 Ostrofsky donated a sculpture to the City of [[Houston, Texas]] that now resides at the [[George Bush Intercontinental Airport]] in Terminal B, Houston, Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5FR9 |title="Moonwalker", Houston, Texas, USA - Figurative Public Sculpture on |publisher=Waymarking.com |date= |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>
In 2001 Ostrofsky donated a sculpture to the City of [[Houston, Texas]] that now resides at the [[George Bush Intercontinental Airport]] in Terminal B, Houston, Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5FR9 |title="Moonwalker", Houston, Texas, USA - Figurative Public Sculpture on |publisher=Waymarking.com |date= |accessdate=2014-01-28}}</ref>


Ostrofsky is a professional speaker domestically and internationally on entrepreneurship on the internet. He was a member of the [[National Speakers Association]] (NSA) and was the founder of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA).<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/newsletters/2007/january.htm DN Journal Newsletter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220050934/http://dnjournal.com/newsletters/2007/january.htm |date=2016-12-20 }} January, 2007</ref>
Ostrofsky is a professional public speaker domestically and internationally on business, how to make money and entrepreneurship in the age of the internet. He was a member of the [[National Speakers Association]] (NSA) and was the original founder of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA).<ref>[http://www.dnjournal.com/newsletters/2007/january.htm DN Journal Newsletter] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220050934/http://dnjournal.com/newsletters/2007/january.htm |date=2016-12-20 }} January, 2007</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[https://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/05/23/internet-reit-domain_cx_rr_0523cyber.html ''Forbes Interview'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060613012529/http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/05/23/internet-reit-domain_cx_rr_0523cyber.html ''Forbes Interview'']
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429151851/http://naming.com/assets/news/inc.html ''The Name Game''] by Robert A Mamis, ''Inc.'' Magazine, May 15, 2000
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070429151851/http://naming.com/assets/news/inc.html ''The Name Game''] by Robert A Mamis, ''Inc.'' Magazine, May 15, 2000
*[http://www.teenbusinessforum.com/interviews/marc-ostrofsky-selling-business-com-and-how-to-get-rich-click-interview ''Teen Business Forum'' interview]
*[http://www.teenbusinessforum.com/interviews/marc-ostrofsky-selling-business-com-and-how-to-get-rich-click-interview ''Teen Business Forum'' interview]

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Marc Ostrofsky
Born (1961-10-28) October 28, 1961 (age 63)
OccupationAuthor, Entrepreneur, Investor
GenreNonfiction
Notable worksGet Rich Click

Marc Ostrofsky is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, New York Times Best Selling Author and public speaker.[1] He is the author of the books Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money Online,[2] and Word of Mouse: 101+ trends using technology on How we Buy, Sell, Live, Learn, Work and Play!.[3] Get Rich Click was in the top ten of the lists of bestselling books compiled by USA Today, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.[4]

Career

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His career began developing companies for voice mail and voice processing, private pay phones, operator services, telecom reseller and VOIP, and prepaid telephone cards in the United States.[5]

Before writing his first book, Ostrofsky was a domain name investor.[6] His venture capital firm has created a number of telecommunication, publishing and internet based companies, and he is the co-founder of hundreds of web properties.[7] He was a co-founder of Internet REIT (iREIT) (also known as www.iREIT.com), which acquires, develops and sells internet traffic wholesale to Google for them to resell to others on a pay per click basis with partners Ross Perot and Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks.[8]

In 1999 he sold the DNS domain Business.com $7.5 million to eCompanies, which was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for what was, at the time, the most expensive domain name ever sold in the world,[9] Ostrofsky owned a stake in Business.com which was sold in 2008 for $345 million.[10] He coined the phrase "Domain names and web sites are the real estate of the Internet" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in the mid 1990s, which had been the most money ever paid for a domain name at that time.[11]

Ostrofsky founded five high tech Internet and telecommunications magazines and a dozen technology trade shows,[which?] which were later sold to Advanstar Publishing for $8,000,000.[citation needed] He later created and sold Multimedia Publishing Corporation (another firm holding magazines, trade shows and web sites) to Primedia for $35,000,000.[12]

Ostrofsky was the first outside investor in Blinds.com and a member of its board of directors. In 2014, Blinds.com was sold for over $200 Million+ to Home Depot,[13][14]

He currently owns the web sites Photographer.com, TechToys.com, APPortunity.com, MARCeting.com, LabGrownDiamonds.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, Potshops.com and 200+ others.[15]

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.[16]

In 2001 Ostrofsky donated a sculpture to the City of Houston, Texas that now resides at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Terminal B, Houston, Texas.[17]

Ostrofsky is a professional public speaker domestically and internationally on business, how to make money and entrepreneurship in the age of the internet. He was a member of the National Speakers Association (NSA) and was the original founder of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA).[18]

References

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  1. ^ "Marc Ostrofsky on The View - 7-8-11 discussing Amazing Smartphone Apps". YouTube. 2011-07-09. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  2. ^ "Marc Ostrofsky's first appearance on "The View" on ABC television was about how to make money on the internet". YouTube. 2012-06-11. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  3. ^ "Tech trends businesses need to know now". Fox News. 2013-09-12. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  4. ^ http://www.getrichclick.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/1-Bestseller-sheet-all.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  5. ^ "Inside iREIT: How a Startup Company Became an Industry Giant Almost Overnight". Dnjournal.com. 2008-04-01. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  6. ^ "Tech wildcatter sells company for $35 million". Houston Business Journal. 1999-10-10. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  7. ^ Sloan, Paul (2006-08-29). "Next Big Thing: Internet real estate gets a foreign accent". CNN. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  8. ^ "Typo.com". Forbes. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  9. ^ "Kids Portal for Parents - Site Map". 4to40. Archived from the original on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  10. ^ "R.H. Donnelley to buy Business.com for $345 mln". Reuters. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  11. ^ http://www.circleid.com/posts/domain_roundtable_to_address_explosive_growth_of_internet_real_estate/ [bare URL]
  12. ^ "Tech wildcatter sells company for $35 million". Houston Business Journal. 1999-10-10. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  13. ^ "The Home Depot Acquires Blinds.com". Wall Street Journal. 2014-01-23. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  14. ^ "The Lowdown from Domain Name Journal at". Dnjournal.com. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  15. ^ "Home". whois.sc.
  16. ^ "Network Solutions' idNames Launches Domain Associate Program". dc.internet.com. Archived from the original on May 2, 2005.
  17. ^ ""Moonwalker", Houston, Texas, USA - Figurative Public Sculpture on". Waymarking.com. Retrieved 2014-01-28.
  18. ^ DN Journal Newsletter Archived 2016-12-20 at the Wayback Machine January, 2007
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