Justin Godfrey  is well known in the domain investment space as an investor, broker, and web developer. He and his wife Katie were expecting twins in about a month, but the twins had another idea.

Noah Benjamin Godfrey was born on March 20th (4 lb 14 oz, 18.25″) and Madyson Lynn-Lavonne Godfrey was born two minutes later (4 lb 12 oz, 18″). The Godfrey babies were born at 33 weeks, which is about a month early for twins (single pregnancies go 40 weeks). The twins are doing well in NICU (neonatal intensive care unit), and Katie is also doing well after giving birth.

You can see first photos of the twins on Justin’s public Facebook page: facebook.com/snowmobilers. I asked Justin if he and Katie have a baby registry, and they said in lieu of baby gifts,  donations can be made to the non-profit www.projectnightnight.org.

I want to wish the Godfrey family good wishes and good health.

I received an email from a friend at Domain Holdings who asked if I could pass this message along to you. If you have sales experience and are familiar with domain investments, this could be a good opportunity to work with a growing company.

Domain Holdings is based in Delray Beach, Florida, and there are a number of experienced domain investors and industry professionals already working for the company. If you are looking for a full time job in the domain business, or if you know someone that may be interested, you should pass this job opportunity along to him or her.

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Domain Holdings is looking to grow its Premium Brokerage Division by adding a “few good men and women” to our sales team.

We are located in sunny Delray Beach Florida and also have remote work opportunities available for the right candidate.

• Are you a sales superstar with a successful track record?
• Do you listen to your clients and put them first?
• Do you consistently exceed monthly sales quotas?
• Are you an expert communicator and possess saavy computer skills?
• Are you comfortable making 50-60 outbound calls to end-user companies each day?
• Knowledge of the domain industry and experience using Salesforce a plus.
• Do you have 2-4 years sales experience?

If the answer is yes, then we’d like to hear from you!

Domain Holdings is located in Delray Beach on historic Atlantic Boulevard, minutes from the Ocean. We offer a competitive base salary and commission structure. Benefits (Health, Dental, 401K) and Options are available following a 90-day probationary period.  Please email your resumes to sales@domainholdings.com.

DomainIndex.com is supposedly “the domain industry’s leading internet domain name benchmarking, rating and appraisal service.”  I don’t recall ever hearing of (or using) DomainIndex.com before, but I saw an interesting press release the company put out today and want to share it with you.

According to the press release, DomainIndex.com “has changed its rating for the .com and the .net TLD from AAA to AA. The step has been taken after the release of an official statement by U.S. authorities of its intent to continue seizing .com, .net, .cc, .tv and .name domains and forcibly redirecting .org (and probably .us) domains.”

I don’t really know what this means, but I personally have no worries about my domain names or websites being seized by governmental authorities. My personal opinion is that if you aren’t  counterfeiting  anything, selling counterfeit goods, or helping people do illegal activities that are against US laws, you should be okay. I don’t like the seize first ask questions later way they go about this, but I personally don’t believe this impacts domain values or increases risk for the average domain owner.

Anyway, I thought this press release sounded interesting.  Have you used DomainIndex.com before, and what do you make of this?

Full press release is below.

For any company doing business online with passwords, credit card information, or where other private information changes hands, having SSL security settings is a must (https). In addition, Facebook has a SSL requirement for business fan pages, so any company with a custom page lander or third party apps must have a SSL certificate.

Many domain registrars and hosting companies offer SSL upsells, and most domain investors simply skip over this to get to the payment page. SSL certificate sales are a big business for many companies.

One company that has become big in the SSL certificate space is NameCheap, which currently operates CheapSSLs.com.  According to NameCheap CEO Rick Kirkendall, although the website hasn’t reached its second birthday yet, the company is already generating over $50,000 a month in revenue from this one website, and they aren’t stopping.

NameCheap has two additional SSL certificate websites in the works, which should help boost its revenue numbers. The company acquired the exact match SSLcertificate.com about a year ago along with SSLcertificates.com. Both domain names were acquired in the aftermarket, for undisclosed sums.

Throughout his career, Rick has valued and touted exact match domain names, and these acquisitions prove that the right business plan executed on exact match domain names can be huge revenue drivers.

My high value domain purchases and sales that aren’t completed in private are finalized using Escrow.com. In January, the company announced that it had completed over $1 BILLION in transactions, and I would imagine a large percentage of those transactions have been domain names.

I just watched a Mixergy interview with Escrow.com CEO Brandon Abbey, and I think you’ll enjoy it. I couldn’t embed the interview below for some reason, so I highly recommend checking it out when you have a chance (it’s fairly long).

I also recommend checking out Mixergy for a wide range of executive interviews from a wide variety of people and companies.