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Originally posted by webfather@Oct 16 2004, 01:45 AM
Hey guys!!
Just figured I would tell you about a tradeshow that I am putting on next week. It is one of the most expensive shows around fetching as much as $5000 a ticket and we are going to have "Ben Stein" give our keynote address. The show is completely sold out so don't even ask for this year. We already have close to 25 on a waiting list.
I purposely never mentioned it to the adult world cuz I wanted the first year to be comprised of mainly mainstreamers. However our 2005 show will be open to everyone to attend.
Who woulda thunk in there would be a tradeshow just for domainers? It has been in the back of my head for many years just waiting for the right time. I think the interesting part is who we got as sponsors and attendees. Each one hand picked and approved to come.
I am looking to repeat Orlando 1997 in a different industry and we have a really good shot at pulling it off.
Never before will so many domainers and sponsors be at the same place at the same time. For me it is a dream come true and an event long overdue. The clicks in that room will be counted in the BILLIONS.
Tshirt and jean millionaires meeting up with "The ivory tower boys" is gonna be quite a picture.
You may not know this but some domain collections from these guys are approaching 1 MILLION domains in their portfolios. I am still struggling to hit 5000. So you can see these guys are leaving me in the dust.
Anyway, I will stop boring you and go back to my little hole. I do think we have an interesting story to tell and you can find out more at http://www.targetedtraffic.com
Imagine that, I have a site with content. lol 
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Rick if there was anyone who was to put on such a trade show that is worth $5,000.00 if not MORE - It would be you. 99.9% of these people have no idea who the hell I am but I was there when u made what was considered by most of us in the industry a $50,000.00 purchase that was insane!
You could let that domain go for (and I tend to under evaluate) an easy $750K in under 24 hours, wait with it being you 4 hours. On the upwards side I would have to say $1.5 million but being the state of the adult industry - tough judgement. Regardless, great buy.
We all understood your motives and saw you and your concepts all fall into places as the years went on. For those smart enough to risk even 10% of their portfolio in Rick's ideas back in the days, you are living well now. From what I hear Slavik maybe? I would guess more then 10 % as the years went on though
At worst you are a visionary. I truly wish you the best and continued success... If I only had HALF the smarts then as I do now at 26, I swear... I would have 1/100th the life you do Rick
All jokes aside - You honestly were the first businessman I ran into who saw and shared their opinion of a domain's value in the future and I truly believe (as all things adult led the way back then) you were most likely the first person ever who looked at domains as real estate.
God Bless the good old day's and hopefully I will relive them again at some point of time in my life
I probably won't read up on this board for a few months again, so if anyone wants to holler
ryan1978@insightbb.com