Opening Remarks with Monte Cahn, host of Domain Masters

Monte: “Hello, Everybody. Welcome to the inaugural show of Domain Masters. I’m Monte Cahn. I’m proud to be here. I happen to be in Fort Lauderdale at the wonderful webmaster radio studios. And, unfortunately it’s a little bit colder here than it probably is in much of the country. We had, what, forty-eight degree weather last night. So anyway, we want to welcome everyone who is in the chat room, if you haven’t logged into the chat room, please visit the lounge. Log in to webmaster radio, and get into the chat rooms so you can interact with everybody. I wanted also to introduce some of the people that will be on the air with me each week. Jay Berkowitz, our chief of marketing officer for Moniker.com, who also is the founder and CEO of TenGoldenRules.com. Jay was the director of marketing for one of the most successful online diet companies, E-Diets. Was located right here in Boca Raton, Florida. Welcome, Jay.”

Jay: “Thanks Monte.”

Monte: “And my partner Eric Harrington will be joining me from time to time. We will also have lots of exciting guests on the show that will be providing great content and tips, everything has to be with domain name, Monetization; domain name, Branding, all kinds of legal related issues. We’re going to cover security, building online identities, domain sales and escrow services. Building online search engine relevancy for domain names, whois privacy, cover some of the major legal and policy issues from ICANN and really help everyone navigate through some of the hurdles that we face everyday and be successful with your domain names.

Today we have 2 very cool guests, Noel McMichael who was the former CEO of Market Leap, and currently the senior vice president for search engine marketing for Digital Impact. Dr. John Berryhill on the air today who’s one of the foremost authorities in Domain Related Law and Intellectual Property Law. John is with a firm in Philadelphia and will be talking about a lot of legal related issues today as well. The future shows will have Matt Kutz from Google and Dave Vermoose from Trellian on, the webfather Rick Schwartz. So we’re real fired up about having some good content and some people that have been in the domain business for quite some time. Those of you who don’t know me, I’ve been in the domain business since 1996. Started investing in domain names back them. Definitely not one of the first starters but were quite successful in selling a couple our domain names and felt that domain names are property and virtual property and became valuable that way. And became pretty well known after we sold the domain name WallStreet.com, which was one of the first names to have been sold for a million dollars and Autos.com, which was the first to sell for more than two million dollars on the web. Since then we’ve gotten an ICANN accreditation and now we operate 4 ICANN accreditation businesses, a web hosting company and a very successful domain name sales and aftermarket business. We hope that we’ll be able to provide a lot of good information that will help a lot of you with domain related issues. We definitely want to hear from you and hear your feedback and hear what you want to talk about in upcoming shows and see what you want to hear about in upcoming shows, with that said I want to thank the staff here- Brandy and Darren Babben and all the staff here at Webmaster Radio, for giving us the chance to share the knowledge and experience that we’ve grown to know over the years and that we feel is really relevant content because we are all online and have businesses online, and we know the domain name as a foundation to being successful and building your identity on the web and we feel it’s that important. So we will break for commercial in just a little bit, and announce our first guest Noel MacMichael, so please hang out and get active in a chat room and well be back in a couple minutes.”