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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 the mid 90's.

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 September of 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 five "high tech" Internet and telecommunications magazines and 10+ trade shows and conventions that were all later sold to large publishing firms. He also founded www.idNames.com an international domain name registration service that was sold to Network Solutions and is now a $30 million division of Verisign.

He is also an investor and owner and Board Member of www.Blinds.com, the largest provider of Blinds and window coverings on the internet - grossing a $50 million+ annually.

He also is an investor and owner of CuffLinks.com, the largest web site in the world selling Mens and Womens CuffLinks.com.

He also owns:

Bachelor.com, HeartDisease.com, BeautyProducts.com, MutualFunds.com, Proof.com, eTickets.com, Consulting.com, SummerCamps.com, DudeRanches.com, www.WatchExchange.com, Cars.info and over 300 other domain names & web sites. He also is a professional photographer and owns www.Photographer.com, iPhotos.com, PhotoWorkshops.com and PhotoTrips.com. He is currently developing his latest venture, www.FotoFonts.com and a handful of other domain names that will become web sites.

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 among others. He is a professional speaker domestically and internationally on Entrepreneurship and "Get Rich Click" - on how to make money on the internet. Marc is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and lives in Houston, Texas.


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