| HOW IT STARTED: | | | | Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. |
| Michael Reed and Alan Ezeir are the co-founders of | | | | In 2002, Global Domains International was placed #37 |
| Global Domains International. In the mid 1990s the | | | | on Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private |
| Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) gave | | | | Companies in the United States, and today it still |
| each country a code for internet use. For example, | | | | continues to grow at a rapid pace. |
| the United States received .us, Ireland received .ie, | | | | WHAT YOU GET: |
| and so on and so forth. | | | | When you sign up for the 7 day free trial with Global |
| All of us know the code ".com", and because it | | | | Domains International, you get your very own .ws |
| stands for "commercial", it is used worldwide. Similar | | | | domain name (which you can use to market your |
| to the saturation of the 1-800 telephone numbers for | | | | primary business, forward visitors to another |
| commercial companies, which created numbers like | | | | website, etc.), and 10 email addresses to go along |
| 1-888, dot com was also becoming saturated, and | | | | with it. You also get a website creator, access to |
| consequently disallowing new domain names to be | | | | exclusive forums, and much more. After the 7 day |
| made with a dot com code (a domain name is simply | | | | trial you pay only $10 a month and keep all these |
| a web address, such as Michael and Alan then | | | | features. |
| decided to create a new code that could be used | | | | BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: |
| worldwide. The code they decided on was ".ws" for | | | | For every person you refer to the company that |
| "web site". However, this code had already been | | | | gets their own .ws domain name, you get 10% of |
| assigned by the IANA to the country of Western | | | | their monthly fees, or $1 a month. For every person |
| Samoa in the deep south Pacific. So Michael and Alan | | | | they refer, you also get $1 a month, and this |
| went to Samoa and met with the King and Prime | | | | continues for 5 downlines. For example, if you refer 5 |
| Ministers, purchased their country code, and agreed | | | | people, and they each refer 5 people, and this |
| to give them a cut of their profits. | | | | continues for 5 downlines, you will receive $3905 |
| Nine months later, the company had sold over | | | | monthly. GDI also offers bonuses, one being for |
| 100,000 .ws domain names to such companies as Dell | | | | every 5 people you refer in a 7 day period, you get |
| computers, Yahoo!, and Intel. Soon they created | | | | $100. If you refer 25, you get a $500 bonus, and so |
| marketing campaigns in such magazines as Fortune | | | | on and so forth. |