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The GDI Business Model

GDI Business information;

GDI or Global Domain International was founded by Michael Reed and Alan Ezeir in the late nineties. With the exploded growth on the internet dot com names were selling like crazy and still are. Currently, there are more than 20 million dot com domains, and over 34 million total domains registered worldwide. Industry experts forecast that more than 500 million domains will be registered in the next ten years.business

While most companies were focusing on content, Google and bandwidth, the GDI business founders were discovering another opportunity that was being largely ignored. They were wondering, besides the dot com names being sold were their any other extensions companies could use for their domain? Thus the GDI business was born.

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigns each nation a country code. These codes are designed to give each country an address to use for their own Internet needs. I.E., the United States was assigned .us, Australia .au, Ireland .ie. The GDI business founders knew that a good, easy-to-remember country code could be marketable globally as an effective alternative to .com. They finally decided on the .WS domain extension which belongs to the tiny island nation of Samoa, deep in the South Pacific.