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Marc Ostrofsky is a Houston, Texas based domain name reseller and serial entrepreneur. He has created telecommunication, publishing and internet based ventures.
Calling himself "Technology Wildcatter" in the The Houston Business Journal, he has published magazines, started trade shows and created internet firms, web sites and other web based ventures using his Venture Capital Firm.
He is the originator and co-founder of Internet REIT an internet domain name developer and reseller backed by a handful of venture capital firms and private investors.
Ostrofsky is most known for the sale of Business.com in 1999 for $7.5 million to eCompanies which landed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most expensive domain name ever sold. He also founded www.idNames.com, now a part of Network Solutions.
Prior to these ventures, Ostrofsky founded and sold five Internet and telecommunications magazines and 10+ technology trade shows and conventions that were all later sold to Advanstar publishing for $8,000,000. He then created and sold Multimedia Publishing Corporation (a firm made up of technology magazines, trade shows and web sites) to Primedia (NYSE: PRM) for $35,000,000.
He is also involved in various aspect of the phone market (prepaid calling cards, voice mail, etc.)
He is a professional photographer and owns www.Photographer.com, iPhotos.com, PhotoWorkshops.com and PhotoTrips.com.
His television interviews include: The Today Show, ABC's 20/20, Wall Street Journal Report, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, as well as others. Newspaper and wire service media include The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and USA Today and Newsweek magazine among others.
He is a professional speaker domestically and internationally on Entrepreneurship, on a number of topics in entrepreneurship, business and starting, owning and running a business profitable on the internet - ie, "Get Rich Click".
He is a member of the NSA-National Speakers Association and was the initial creator of the ICA - Internet Commerce Association and several other associations back in his early days in telecommunications.
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