A Domain Name to Dream About

I spoke with Gary Blumenstein, who lives in Hawaii. Back in 1993, he registered a domain name. Then he spent more than 10 years in defense department supercomputing, often meeting in windowless rooms all day long. He told me that he was glad to be in this business, where pleasure is the commodity being traded. He’s opened a new travel website called fly.com. The name had been gathering dust since then, but now they are finally ready to bring it out.

Every day he gets calls from people who want to buy the domain. I spoke with Gary at length and we shared stories about the travel business. He had kind words about GoNOMAD. His site has some interesting features, is bloggy looking, and apparently will soon be made over and they have four people working on making the site bigger and better. We wish him well–and if he ever wants to sell that domain…