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Marc Ostrofsky is a Houston, Texas based entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Internet REIT, Inc. and focuses on identifying new technology trends, partnerships and relationships for the firm that buys and monetizes domain names. Marc is most noteworthy in the domain name industry for his record sale of Business.com in 1999 for $7.5 million to eCompanies. He coined the term "Domain Names are Internet Real Estate" when he bought Business.com for $150,000 in 1995.

Mr. Ostrofsky is a technology and Internet evangelist and researcher in various Internet and telecom sectors. His upcoming book, Get Rich Click, is scheduled for release in late 2007.

Prior, Ostrofsky created, built and sold two publishing and trade show firms (Information Publishing Corporation and Multimedia Publishing Corporation).

Ostrofsky has also founded and sold four "high tech" Internet and telecom magazines and 10+ trade shows and conventions, including idNames.com, an international domain name registration service that was sold to and is now a $30 million division of Verisign.

He is also an owner and Board Member of www.Blinds.com, a $40 million company selling window coverings on the Internet - with no inventory costs. He also is an owner of CuffLinks.com, the largest web site in the world selling Mens and Womens CuffLinks.com. He has been interviewed and seen on the Today Show, ABC's 20/20, Wall Street Journal Report, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and other media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times and USA Today and Newsweek magazine amoung others. Marc is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.

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