"I know this will be very successful! I wish you all the best on this!"

Richard Lau
DomainManager.com
Vancouver, Canada Area

- Richard Lau is highly recognized member of domain names community worldwide

Current :
- Owner at DomainManager.com

Past :
- Domain Consultant at In the Domain Industry
- Founding Supporter at BaitCar.com
- General Manager at NameZero.com MyDomain.com NamesDirect.com
- Founder at Namesdirect.com
- President at MyDomain.com NamesDirect.com YourNameFree.com
- President at TeleLink Paging Corp

Richard Lau’s Summary :
Domain Management: DomainManager.com
Named 2004 "Domainer of the Year", Richard has generated millions of dollars in revenue in the domain industry. As part of his consulting services in domain forensic background checks (for domain purchasers) Richard was asked to investigate alleged hijackings of various domains. Now, having overseen the rescue of many high-value stolen domains such as God.com, Religion.com, Wifi.com, Iraq.com and others, Richard has become an unfortunate expert in the area of domain hijacking recovery.

Described by customers and colleagues as "a true professional", Richard is recognized for his integrity, creativity and tenacity.

Volunteer Activities: Domain Hijacking Recovery. Contributor to ICANN SSAC Releases Domain Name Hijacking Report found at ICANN.org. Returning Speaker to the Domain Roundtable Conference.

Richard Lau’s Specialties:
- Domain Name Consulting
- ICANN Registrar Consulting
- Domain Name Hijacking Recovery
- Domain Name Monetization
- Pay Per Click Campaign Management

Richard Lau’s Experience :

* Owner DomainManager.com (Internet industry)
November 2002 - Present (6 years 10 months)
He built this Free DNS service for his own use. Then decided to open it up to the public. It is based on PowerDNS, PowerMail, MySQL, Apache and Linux. Plus of course, the requisite amount of scotch-tape and string.

* Domain Consultant In the Domain Industry (Internet industry)
1999 - 2007 (8 years)

* Founding Supporter BaitCar.com (Internet industry)
2002 - 2007 (5 years)

* General Manager NameZero.com MyDomain.com NamesDirect.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
April 2001 - October 2002 (1 year 7 months)
Moved to San Jose after merging NamesDirect.com and MyDomain.com into NameZero.com
NZ lost the majority of its pre-merger value and sold the assets of ND and MyDomain to Dotster in 2002. He returned to Vancouver.

* Founder Namesdirect.com (Internet industry)
2000 - 2002 (2 years)

* President MyDomain.com NamesDirect.com YourNameFree.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 1998 - March 2001 (2 years 9 months)
Founded YourNameFree.com as one of the first "free" domain registration sites processing over 300,000 domain registrations.
Founded NamesDirect.com as one of the first ICANN Accredit Registrars. Grew it to one of the Top 30 ICANN Registrars.
Merged with NameZero in 2001.

* President TeleLink Paging Corp.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 1991 - July 1998 (7 years 7 months)
Introduced Retail Paging to Canada. Sold 10,000 pagers in the first 3 months through general retail outlets such as: Costco, The Bay, London Drugs and a network of cellular phone stores. Took over as President at the age of 25. Oversaw the sell-off of various parts (Ontario, Alberta, two Answering Services and finally BC).
Took the Paging Division from a consistent loss position to profitability within 2 months of taking over as President. Won "Vendor of the Year" Award from London Drugs for outstanding service