http://www.ricklatona.com Inside the mind of a serial entrepreneur. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:10:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I've had time now to digest and summarize my thoughts on the new vanity top level domain extensions that ICANN has decided to soon allow. Yes, I'm also supporting David Castello's coined terminology "vTLDs". The quick and dirty answer of mine is that they are a bum deal for speculators ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/07/03/vtlds-my-thoughts/ I'm not sure why I keep making so many mistakes in my daily newsletters. Just yesterday I made two. I told my audience that on jp.net I can no confirm that this name does 5 dollars a day on Sedo. What does that mean? It looks like I'm saying I can't ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/07/02/dyslexia-is-a-disease-horrible/ Having now returned from the Galapagos I realize I could have done the trip much more cheaply. It isn’t the kind of trip that needs business class seats and top accommodations. It was after all, an eco-tour. Nevertheless, it was nice to start the journey in Quito at the Patio Andaluz. ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/30/voyage-of-the-eclipse/ Tomorrow I leave for the Galapagos islands. It's the type of trip you have to book two years in advance and spend enough money to buy a small country.com to get there. Other than checking email Friday from a hotel in Quito  I'll be offline for a full week. I'm not ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/18/some-trips-really-are-once-in-a-lifetime-opportunities/ Hopefully in a few days I'll be launching SouthLakeTahoe.com. There is a temporary site up there now but it's not good enough. I'm a little more excited about this one than most GEO names. It is an actually city for one thing but what really gets me thinking good thoughts are ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/15/southlaketahoecom-under-development/ I get asked a lot what names I've sold recently. Very often people ask me not to announce it so a huge chunk of the real list below is missing from this post. Looking at them now, combined they would make a nice portfolio. So here's about half the names ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/11/sold-names/ I often get questions about the Lincoln in the header of this website. That car, isn't actually mine. I told my designer I had an old convertible Continental so he just looked one up on the net. Being that he lives in the Philippines, it wasn't exactly easy for him ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/07/decisions-decisions/ While I made a promise to myself to never regurgitate press releases and only blog when I had something I wanted to talk about, I must chime in on the GEO domain conversation which my peers are having. I suppose I'm more bullish than Sahar and more bearish than SimplyGEO and ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/04/my-thoughts-on-geo-domains/ I consider myself an amatuer historian. I've read biographies on more than half of our U.S. presidents. I love reading biographies because I feel as though reading about great men helps you become one yourself. I don't know if Obama is one of these great men but he certainly appears ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/04/the-united-states-has-a-real-opportunity-with-barack-obama/ When I was younger, GTE used to have a commercial for their Yellow Pages that featured a fictional character named Bob. Bob owned a store called Bob’s Rug. In the story he’s asked why he doesn’t advertise in the GTE Yellow Pages and his answer was, “I can’t advertise in ... http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/06/01/the-bobs-rug-syndrome/