That is the beauty of our program. YOU don't sell anything, WE do all the selling for you. Just enter the names and email addresses of the people you know personally online, and we'll send a personalized email to them, from YOU, which directs them to a fully personalized, dynamic flash presentation. If you prefer, you can alternatively send them directly to your free WebSite.ws Affiliate WebSite, which will be identical to the one you are looking at right now, but tracked to YOU, so you get the credit for all sign ups.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Income for Life Opportunity GDI Provided
Congratulations! You have just come across something that has the power to change your life for the better, forever.
Global Domains International, Inc. is the worldwide domain name registry for all .ws (Dot WS) domain names. Our product is an incredible $10 per month package that includes your own domain name, hosting accounts, and up to ten email accounts, plus an easy-to-use online web site builder that will allow you to get a professional looking web site on the web as quickly as possible. And the best thing is, you can try out everything we have to offer, starting today, for FREE.
We offer a week-long free trial of our entire package, no strings attached.
The domain industry is exploding! Industry experts predict that over 500 Million domains will be active annually within the next ten years. GDI has no competition in the network marketing industry. We are the only company that has the ability to market our domain names through the power of network marketing, and we're willing to pay you handsomely for helping us get the word out worldwide. There are no geographical or income limits with GDI.
If you have already taken a moment to watch our exciting, brief presentation, you already know this. If you haven't, then click here and "Get Ready for the Ride of Your Life!". Or, try out our income calculator and imagine the unlimited potential of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Ways You are Compensated
5-Level Uni-Level Compensation
This is our standard compensation plan that ALL affiliates qualify for, even those who are still in their free trial period. Basically, you are paid $1 per month, per domain, that is registered in your 5 level network. A uni-level compensation plan is the most simple plan in network marketing, and the key to our quick growth.
You are not limited by width. You can refer as many people as you want to, and so can those people that you refer, and so on.
Here's an example. You refer 5 people to our product/program. That pays you $5 per month. No big deal? Hang on, you'll see the power of this. Each of those 5 people then refer 5 of their own, so you're now getting paid an additional $25 per month on your "second level". Each of those 25 can refer as many as they want, but for consistency we'll say that they too refer 5 each. That's $125 in monthly commissions on your 3rd level. If the trend continues, you'll have $625 in monthly commissions on your 4th level, and $3,125 in monthly commissions on your 5th level.
That's a total of over $3,900 in monthly commissions for referring 5 people, and then teaching those people how to do the same and assisting them in growing their own organizations. Keep in mind that nobody is limited in how many people they can refer. Some of our affiliates personally refer hundreds of other affiliates. Just a couple of these "go-getters" in your organization can really blow your income off the charts. Here's a graphical example of our uni-level plan.
Earn an UNLIMITED Number of $100 Bonuses Each Week By Simply Referring FIVE New Confirmed Affiliates in a 7-day Contest Period.
You read that correctly! For every 5 paid affiliates you refer in a one week period, you'll earn a $100 cash bonus. There is no limit! Refer 25 new paid affiliates in one week and you'll earn $500!
Our bonus contests are exciting.. The following contest rules, awards and eligibility requirements will apply. Please read the new rules carefully and let us know if you have any questions about how the contests will be run.
Contest Eligibility Requirements:
You must have purchased at least ten (10) DVDs through your GDI account and your account must be paid and in good standing. The reason for this requirement is that we are HIGHLY recommend the DVD promotional method for recruiting new affiliates.
Your referrals will be counted for one calendar week. A "week" is defined as 12:00am Monday through 11:59pm Sunday, Pacific Time.
For every five (5) new PAID referrals you make in the contest week, you will earn $100. For instance, if you refer 10 new affiliates who remain affiliates after their trial period, you would earn $200 for that week.
Only affiliates who we can bill on the first charge attempt are counted in this contest.
Because of our free 7-day trial, there is a one week delay after the contest week ends before your number of confirmed referrals can be determined.
You'll need a PayPal account to collect your prize money.
How Winners are Determined:
One week after the last day of the contest week, actual, confirmed winners are determined as the free trial members become paid affiliates. Because of our 7-day free trial offer to new affiliates, we do not know which affiliates will become paying customers until they are charged for their account at the end of the 7-day trial.
Affiliates who cancel their account prior to being charged DO NOT COUNT toward the bonus contests. The contests only count actual new affiliates from whom we are able to obtain the $10 fee on our first billing attempt.
Contest standings and results will be announced via email and on our members' area leaderboards.
You must provide all four of the above before we will issue your bonus money. If you have previously sent in your bonus requirement and we have your valid payout info on file, you will be paid automatically - so it is not necessary to send in a payment request or an additional testimonial and photo.
Make sure you have ordered your DVDs and begin using the DVD method of promotion as soon as possible. The DVD sleeves have a place for you to write or type in your affiliate ID (known as the "access code" to your prospects). Throughout the presentation and on the DVD packaging, your prospects will be directed to www.freedom.ws and instructed to enter your access code.
Good luck!
$5,000 Heavy Hitter Bonus
Our Heavy Hitter Bonus has been increased to $5,000!
Any affiliate referring 1,000 or more paid affiliates in any consecutive 4 week period is eligible to receive the Heavy Hitter Bonus. The bar has been set high! Are you a heavy hitter? Show us what you're made of by referring 1,000 new affiliates in a month and you'll be taking home an extra $5,000 in addition to the thousands per month you'll quickly be making in residual commissions.
Global Domains International, Inc.Announces Our NEW Infinity Bonus
Since we first launched our Income for Life™ affiliate program in May of 2004, we've had people asking us "How do I earn the BIG bucks in GDI?". We've been running incredible referral contests, with many reps earning thousands of dollars in bonus money per month.
However, for you serious players - the people who want to shoot for the moon - we're about to answer the BIG QUESTION, "How do I earn the big bucks in GDI?".
By getting paid on ALL levels,down to infinity, that's how!
Don't get us wrong, our current pay structure is paying out TREMENDOUS COMMISSIONS to those of you who are serious about building your GDI business (many already approaching 5 figures monthly) but this takes it to the next level - allowing the real "go getters" to reach a level of income they've only dreamed about until now.
How this works is still very simple.
Imagine being paid not only on 5 levels, but on levels 6 through INFINITY. That could amount to some BIG extra income from the same amount of work. That's what the Infinity Bonus is all about.
To earn 10% of revenues generated on your levels 6 through infinity, you must earn our "INFINTY OVERRIDE" bonus by referring AND maintaining at least 10 active accounts on your front line. In addition, at least 10 of those front line affiliates must maintain at least 10 active affiliates each on THEIR front lines (100 active affiliates on your second level, who are referred by your frontline 10), and you'll need to have at least 5,000 active accounts in your entire 5 level organization.
This will achieve the INFINITY OVERRIDE and you'll qualify to earn a 10% "unlimited levels" override, which pays down to the next qualifying "Infinity Override" on any given leg.
Will it be easy to qualify for the Infinity Override? Of course not. Nothing worth working towards ever is.
However, achieving this title and earning commissions on more than 5 levels IS SIMPLE. You do it the same way you referred your first member. Show the movie, then follow-up. Then, teach all of your front liners to do the same. If you keep doing this for as long as it takes, YOU can earn the Infinity Override. Sticking with the GDI program and your daily marketing plan is the key.
And, new affiliates that you refer, then transfer to one of your frontline members DO count towards the requirement.
How many people do you know who would like to earn an unlimited potential income, from the comfort of their own home, without ever having to talk to another person, and without investing one single penny to start?
Aside from telling all the people you already know online about WebSite.ws, the opportunity to quickly build your business is truly unlimited:
LEADS, LEADS, LEADS...
Did you know that there are literally millions of people online today, who are just waiting to be told about a legitimate, exciting new opportunity? As we mentioned in the presentation, we have access to a virtually unlimited supply of interested prospects.
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About Global Domains International
The History
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?"
Mike and Alan were aware that in the mid 1990's, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned each nation a country code. These codes were designed to give each country an address to use for their own Internet needs. For instance, the United States was assigned .us, Australia .au, Ireland .ie. "We knew that a good, easy-to-remember country code could be marketable globally as a viable alternative to .com," said Alan. "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."
They 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!"
Samoa
The island nation of Samoa is part of a group of islands and islets in the south-central Pacific Ocean about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand. It is completely separate and independent of its U.S. cousin, American Samoa. Its form of government consists of a Prime Minister, Parliament and, as head-of-state, a King. The country's primary exports range from coconut cream and beer, to automotive wiring-harnesses and cigarettes.
All business professionals know that having an idea is one thing, but executing the idea is quite another. Mike and Alan knew that the idea of marketing an alternative to dot com had tremendous promise.
Yet, they both recognized that they'd need more perseverance and a little luck to pull it off. "Remember, we were paddling against the current," Mike said. "Back then, most people were still branding businesses with dot com. Quite frankly, nearly everyone thought we were wasting our time."
After a series of overseas phone calls and e-mails to Samoan officials, a date was set for Mike and Alan to meet with the leading figures of Samoa, including the King and his Prime Minister. In less than a week, Mike and Alan put together a presentation detailing their plans for their appropriation of the technical and marketing operations of Samoa's top-level domain extension, ".WS."
So as not to take any chances, Mike and Alan devoured reams of information about the nation of Samoa, familiarizing themselves with as many of its customs and traditions as possible. While Alan busily acquainted himself with appropriate etiquette when meeting with Samoan government officials, Mike worked on ensuring that the proposal they would present to the Samoans was as interesting and worthwhile as possible. "I had to make certain the Samoans understood that we looked at the opportunity as a joint relationship that would ultimately benefit their entire nation," said Mike.
One major risk gnawed at Alan and Mike: they really didn't have anything significant to immediately offer the country, except for their business ingenuity and know-how. Although Mike and Alan were successful marketing experts in the U.S., convincing an entire nation to trust them on what appeared to be a hunch would be difficult, at best.
"There was mounting pressure by some of our consultants to offer the Samoan government cash up-front. Otherwise, they felt we'd lose the deal and someone else could come in and take over," Alan said. "However, we knew the culture of Samoa was much different than here in the States, and that 'buying off' anyone is not the way we do business! As a result," Alan continued, "we came up with an alternative proposal we thought better accommodated the cultural demands of the country."
The Big Trip
The day finally arrived to travel directly to Samoa . . . well, almost directly! To get to Samoa via the U.S., one has to first fly from the mainland to Honolulu. Easy enough. "We hopped on the flight to Honolulu, still pinching ourselves to make sure this was really happening," Mike said. "It all happened so fast; one moment we were selling long distance air time, the next minute our idea of 'air-time' was how long it would take to fly to Samoa."
The plane landed in Honolulu without any problems. They boarded their connecting flight to Samoa, finally beginning to relax. Three hours into the flight the pilot announced the plane had encountered some mechanical problems. The plane's landing lights were inoperable, and there were no repair facilities open in Samoa. As a result, the pilot turned the flight around and headed back to Hawaii. "We were completely dejected," Mike said. "All of our preparation came to a screeching halt . . . all because some light bulbs weren't working!" After the plane landed safely in Honolulu, the glum business partners entered a deserted Hawaiian terminal.
But, as had happened all along, luck was once more on their side. An Air New Zealand flight that travels to Samoa only once a week "just so happened" to be at the terminal, scheduled to leave in less than 45 minutes. "We were shocked and thrilled. I've never run so fast in my life!" Alan said. They both hopped onto the flight hoping this plane's landing lights worked!
After landing in Samoa with a whopping two hours to spare, "Mike was looking a bit ragged but I looked good," Alan laughed. "We went over our presentation one last time, trying to get into the mind-set as to how a true Samoan would give the presentation."
The meeting started with all the appropriate government members present. Mike and Alan pitched the Prime Minister on the fact that the domain extension they presently owned, .WS, would be perfectly suited to market worldwide. With the correct marketing idea behind it, there was no reason why the .WS extension could not be recognized as the major alternative to dot com.
Everyone at the meeting studied the 20-page proposal that Mike and Alan finalized on their midnight flight from Honolulu. "The Samoans do things with a great deal of trust and understanding of the people involved," Mike stated. "Because of our due diligence, we knew that providing a detailed legal agreement might have actually worked against us. So, the clincher was more about the fact that we came across as sincere and honest."
"We needed to give them reasons to trust us," Mike continued. "I believe we did just that." A visit to the King's home helped cement a relationship they hoped would become long-term. "He was a kind, gentle person, concerned that what we wanted to do was in the best interest of his people," Alan said.
The meetings ended on a congenial note with Mike and Alan satisfied that they had successfully completed the task they had set out to accomplish. Since their flight was not leaving the island for a few days, they went into vacation mode, spending time exploring Samoa's beautiful, pristine beaches and lush tropical forests.
Convinced that negotiations had been concluded, Mike and Alan flew back to the States confident that the deal was completed. Unfortunately, they waited another few months to discover that their proposal had, in fact, been rejected. It seems that after making their presentation, no less than a half dozen companies from the United States and other countries were also granted an opportunity to offer presentations to the Samoan government. So much time had passed since Mike and Alan's initial visit, that it seemed inevitable the Samoans might have been deluged with other information, including various claims of potential profits by other groups wanting to do a similar deal. "I wanted to give up," Alan said. "I felt we had given it our best shot, but it just wasn't meant to be."
Mike, however, had another idea. He tracked down the local Samoan government's majority-owned technology company that was ultimately granted the domain contract, and placed a call to its General Manager. "The company was local on the island, so I had a hunch that their ability to market the domains globally would be limited," said Mike. "I had to change my way of thinking. So, I pitched him on the idea that we should partner together, and he accepted."
Flash Forward
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.
And the Samoans?
"They originally wanted to wait to see just how well we performed," Mike said. "They proposed that, as a test, our Company had to produce 15,000 registrations in just three years. We did that in the first month," Alan proudly stated. "The Nation of Samoa now receives a percentage of all .WS domain sales that GDI generates, and is delighted with our success. Our company is proud of a freshly minted, unprecedented, 12-year exclusive international agreement to distribute .WS worldwide, with first right of renewal."
As proud and exciting as the beginning of .WS was for Mike and Alan, the future is what excites them most. Just before .WS recorded its first registration, Mike and Alan knew the time had arrived to begin building their business to reflect its quickly changing personality -- from a forty-person shop to that of a multi-national corporate conglomerate. To accomplish this, Mike and Alan focused on surrounding themselves with intelligent people who were filled with enthusiasm, and had the capacity to help launch their business on an international scale. In addition, the .WS founders beefed up their marketing outreach with ad placements in Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Additional ads appeared in Major League Baseball's 2000 World Series program, and thousands of radio spots aired in large urban markets. Mike and Alan also invested heavily in the company's infrastructure, ensuring that the anticipated volume of registrations would be handled with relative ease and no downtime.
And now, what do Mike and Alan have to say about their "idea," a little more than a year after their harried plane-trip across the Pacific? Mike said, "It's all about taking a risk and believing in a concept enough to drop everything and make it a reality." Alan concurs. "We are extremely excited about what the next few years have in store for everyone who joins us as we make .WS the global standard for Internet addresses."
"This is just the beginning..."
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!" says Mike. "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."
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?"
Mike and Alan were aware that in the mid 1990's, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned each nation a country code. These codes were designed to give each country an address to use for their own Internet needs. For instance, the United States was assigned .us, Australia .au, Ireland .ie. "We knew that a good, easy-to-remember country code could be marketable globally as a viable alternative to .com," said Alan. "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."
They 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!"
Samoa
The island nation of Samoa is part of a group of islands and islets in the south-central Pacific Ocean about 1,600 miles (2,600 km) northeast of New Zealand. It is completely separate and independent of its U.S. cousin, American Samoa. Its form of government consists of a Prime Minister, Parliament and, as head-of-state, a King. The country's primary exports range from coconut cream and beer, to automotive wiring-harnesses and cigarettes.
All business professionals know that having an idea is one thing, but executing the idea is quite another. Mike and Alan knew that the idea of marketing an alternative to dot com had tremendous promise.
Yet, they both recognized that they'd need more perseverance and a little luck to pull it off. "Remember, we were paddling against the current," Mike said. "Back then, most people were still branding businesses with dot com. Quite frankly, nearly everyone thought we were wasting our time."
After a series of overseas phone calls and e-mails to Samoan officials, a date was set for Mike and Alan to meet with the leading figures of Samoa, including the King and his Prime Minister. In less than a week, Mike and Alan put together a presentation detailing their plans for their appropriation of the technical and marketing operations of Samoa's top-level domain extension, ".WS."
So as not to take any chances, Mike and Alan devoured reams of information about the nation of Samoa, familiarizing themselves with as many of its customs and traditions as possible. While Alan busily acquainted himself with appropriate etiquette when meeting with Samoan government officials, Mike worked on ensuring that the proposal they would present to the Samoans was as interesting and worthwhile as possible. "I had to make certain the Samoans understood that we looked at the opportunity as a joint relationship that would ultimately benefit their entire nation," said Mike.
One major risk gnawed at Alan and Mike: they really didn't have anything significant to immediately offer the country, except for their business ingenuity and know-how. Although Mike and Alan were successful marketing experts in the U.S., convincing an entire nation to trust them on what appeared to be a hunch would be difficult, at best.
"There was mounting pressure by some of our consultants to offer the Samoan government cash up-front. Otherwise, they felt we'd lose the deal and someone else could come in and take over," Alan said. "However, we knew the culture of Samoa was much different than here in the States, and that 'buying off' anyone is not the way we do business! As a result," Alan continued, "we came up with an alternative proposal we thought better accommodated the cultural demands of the country."
The Big Trip
The day finally arrived to travel directly to Samoa . . . well, almost directly! To get to Samoa via the U.S., one has to first fly from the mainland to Honolulu. Easy enough. "We hopped on the flight to Honolulu, still pinching ourselves to make sure this was really happening," Mike said. "It all happened so fast; one moment we were selling long distance air time, the next minute our idea of 'air-time' was how long it would take to fly to Samoa."
The plane landed in Honolulu without any problems. They boarded their connecting flight to Samoa, finally beginning to relax. Three hours into the flight the pilot announced the plane had encountered some mechanical problems. The plane's landing lights were inoperable, and there were no repair facilities open in Samoa. As a result, the pilot turned the flight around and headed back to Hawaii. "We were completely dejected," Mike said. "All of our preparation came to a screeching halt . . . all because some light bulbs weren't working!" After the plane landed safely in Honolulu, the glum business partners entered a deserted Hawaiian terminal.
But, as had happened all along, luck was once more on their side. An Air New Zealand flight that travels to Samoa only once a week "just so happened" to be at the terminal, scheduled to leave in less than 45 minutes. "We were shocked and thrilled. I've never run so fast in my life!" Alan said. They both hopped onto the flight hoping this plane's landing lights worked!
After landing in Samoa with a whopping two hours to spare, "Mike was looking a bit ragged but I looked good," Alan laughed. "We went over our presentation one last time, trying to get into the mind-set as to how a true Samoan would give the presentation."
The meeting started with all the appropriate government members present. Mike and Alan pitched the Prime Minister on the fact that the domain extension they presently owned, .WS, would be perfectly suited to market worldwide. With the correct marketing idea behind it, there was no reason why the .WS extension could not be recognized as the major alternative to dot com.
Everyone at the meeting studied the 20-page proposal that Mike and Alan finalized on their midnight flight from Honolulu. "The Samoans do things with a great deal of trust and understanding of the people involved," Mike stated. "Because of our due diligence, we knew that providing a detailed legal agreement might have actually worked against us. So, the clincher was more about the fact that we came across as sincere and honest."
"We needed to give them reasons to trust us," Mike continued. "I believe we did just that." A visit to the King's home helped cement a relationship they hoped would become long-term. "He was a kind, gentle person, concerned that what we wanted to do was in the best interest of his people," Alan said.
The meetings ended on a congenial note with Mike and Alan satisfied that they had successfully completed the task they had set out to accomplish. Since their flight was not leaving the island for a few days, they went into vacation mode, spending time exploring Samoa's beautiful, pristine beaches and lush tropical forests.
Convinced that negotiations had been concluded, Mike and Alan flew back to the States confident that the deal was completed. Unfortunately, they waited another few months to discover that their proposal had, in fact, been rejected. It seems that after making their presentation, no less than a half dozen companies from the United States and other countries were also granted an opportunity to offer presentations to the Samoan government. So much time had passed since Mike and Alan's initial visit, that it seemed inevitable the Samoans might have been deluged with other information, including various claims of potential profits by other groups wanting to do a similar deal. "I wanted to give up," Alan said. "I felt we had given it our best shot, but it just wasn't meant to be."
Mike, however, had another idea. He tracked down the local Samoan government's majority-owned technology company that was ultimately granted the domain contract, and placed a call to its General Manager. "The company was local on the island, so I had a hunch that their ability to market the domains globally would be limited," said Mike. "I had to change my way of thinking. So, I pitched him on the idea that we should partner together, and he accepted."
Flash Forward
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.
And the Samoans?
"They originally wanted to wait to see just how well we performed," Mike said. "They proposed that, as a test, our Company had to produce 15,000 registrations in just three years. We did that in the first month," Alan proudly stated. "The Nation of Samoa now receives a percentage of all .WS domain sales that GDI generates, and is delighted with our success. Our company is proud of a freshly minted, unprecedented, 12-year exclusive international agreement to distribute .WS worldwide, with first right of renewal."
As proud and exciting as the beginning of .WS was for Mike and Alan, the future is what excites them most. Just before .WS recorded its first registration, Mike and Alan knew the time had arrived to begin building their business to reflect its quickly changing personality -- from a forty-person shop to that of a multi-national corporate conglomerate. To accomplish this, Mike and Alan focused on surrounding themselves with intelligent people who were filled with enthusiasm, and had the capacity to help launch their business on an international scale. In addition, the .WS founders beefed up their marketing outreach with ad placements in Fortune Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. Additional ads appeared in Major League Baseball's 2000 World Series program, and thousands of radio spots aired in large urban markets. Mike and Alan also invested heavily in the company's infrastructure, ensuring that the anticipated volume of registrations would be handled with relative ease and no downtime.
And now, what do Mike and Alan have to say about their "idea," a little more than a year after their harried plane-trip across the Pacific? Mike said, "It's all about taking a risk and believing in a concept enough to drop everything and make it a reality." Alan concurs. "We are extremely excited about what the next few years have in store for everyone who joins us as we make .WS the global standard for Internet addresses."
"This is just the beginning..."
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!" says Mike. "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."
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