Reason behind your username?

[rexclark]

The rex part of my name comes from

1.) I always liked the name rex

2.) When I was a teenager I watched an awful VH1 show called Bands On The Run about four American bands going on tour trying to get a record deal. One of the guys in the band was called Rex and he was cool as fuck (for a guy on a reality TV show) so I started using that name for stuff like this.

The Clark bit just happens to be my surname.

[Purple Monkey]

I used to draw pictures of monkeys in purple pen on the tables, walls etc at school and get in lots of trouble.

[A-Rob]

A-Rob is an abriviation of mysurname and name

My name is Robert and my surname starts with A

it was also inpisred the MLB baseball player who goes by nick name A-Rod

Edited August 6, 2012 by A-Rob

[Jackmypie]

Well my name is Jack and I like to Jack my pie. Simples.

[jump]

I was going to call myself eFestivals but it was alreay taken so I went for jump instead.

[eFestivals]

cos my own dreadful choice of "festivals online" got voted down.... which is one of the best things that ever happened in the lives of this business.

[AcademicPistol]

cos my own dreadful choice of "festivals online" got voted down.... which is one of the best things that ever happened in the lives of this business.

[eFestivals]

Voted down? By who? "Electronic Festivities" would have been ever better mind

when efestivals first started in 2000 it was owned by a different company to the one which owns it now (which is just me). That old company had three other directors along with me (all of whom were also investors), and they preferred 'efestivals' to 'festivals online'. So efestivals it was, and is.

There aren't many things I'm hugely happy with from efestivals back then, and this is defo top of that list.

[AcademicPistol]

when efestivals first started in 2000 it was owned by a different company to the one which owns it now (which is just me). That old company had three other directors along with me (all of whom were also investors), and they preferred 'efestivals' to 'festivals online'. So efestivals it was, and is.

There aren't many things I'm hugely happy with from efestivals back then, and this is defo top of that list.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

when efestivals first started in 2000 it was owned by a different company to the one which owns it now (which is just me). That old company had three other directors along with me (all of whom were also investors), and they preferred 'efestivals' to 'festivals online'. So efestivals it was, and is.

There aren't many things I'm hugely happy with from efestivals back then, and this is defo top of that list.

[AcademicPistol]

Are the other three directors in a shallow grave now?

[eFestivals]

Ahh, did a few of you have the idea to create the company?

yeah ... it all sort-of grew out of me asking a mate who works in the city to get me a valuation - just out of interest - for the glastonbury festival site I'd created.

It was when he came back to tell me that that site had (then, in late 1999/early 2000) a standard commercial valuation of $12M-$16M based on the traffic it got that he started to get interested.

I knew it would never realise any value of anything like that amount and i'd have been happy to sell it to Glastonbury Festival for £15k-£20k (something which I felt reflected something of the work I'd put in), but Glasto offered just £6.5k which I felt was too little (worked out as me getting 75p an hour for my work, after expenses, payment 'expected' by another, etc) so I then started to talk to my mate about investment.

Before I went that route I made a few calls to try and find out what real hard cash I might have got for that Glastonbury website - and I got a verbal offer (which I didn't pursue) from a dotcom of somewhere around £950k. Not following that up is something which on occasion I regret, but never for long.

Yeah it is certainly the best domain name

not quite the best, but as I (now) own that one too I don't care.

[eFestivals]

Are the other three directors in a shallow grave now?

I heard they all died in 'suspicious circumstances'.

all still doing their own thing, and vastly richer for doing so than me.

[AcademicPistol]

yeah ... it all sort-of grew out of me asking a mate who works in the city to get me a valuation - just out of interest - for the glastonbury festival site I'd created.

It was when he came back to tell me that that site had (then, in late 1999/early 2000) a standard commercial valuation of $12M-$16M based on the traffic it got that he started to get interested.

I knew it would never realise any value of anything like that amount and i'd have been happy to sell it to Glastonbury Festival for £15k-£20k (something which I felt reflected something of the work I'd put in), but Glasto offered just £6.5k which I felt was too little (worked out as me getting 75p an hour for my work, after expenses, payment 'expected' by another, etc) so I then started to talk to my mate about investment.

Before I went that route I made a few calls to try and find out what real hard cash I might have got for that Glastonbury website - and I got a verbal offer (which I didn't pursue) from a dotcom of somewhere around £950k. Not following that up is something which on occasion I regret, but never for long.

[eFestivals]

Intriguing stuff, don't mean to drag up past regrets but why did you not pursue that offer?

a combination of knowing it would never show a return to justify that amount, not being a greedy bastard, and not wanting to stitch Glastonbury Festival up by selling what was then their official website (including an unlimited-time licence* from GF for it to continue to be that).

(* GF disputed that it was that, and I was happy to agree with GF for it not to be that because it was never my intention to screw them over. But the very expensive city lawyers who I wangled a freebie from told me that was indisputably what I had [tho it would take an expensive court case to enforce it]).

For a festival website I can't think of much better, what's the better one? Or can't you say?

I could say (and will), but I'm amused you can't think of a better domain than efestivals for a festivals website. Wanna try again?

Edited August 6, 2012 by eFestivals

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I could say (and will), but I'm amused you can't think of a better domain than efestivals for a festivals website. Wanna try again?

[AcademicPistol]

a combination of knowing it would never show a return to justify that amount, not being a greedy bastard, and not wanting to stitch Glastonbury Festival up by selling what was then their official website (including an unlimited-time licence* from GF for it to continue to be that).

(* GF disputed that it was that, and I was happy to agree with GF for it not to be that because it was never my intention to screw them over. But the very expensive city lawyers who I wangled a freebie from told me that was indisputably what I had [tho it would take an expensive court case to enforce it]).

Edited August 7, 2012 by AcademicPistol

[eFestivals]

I was gonna have stab at festival or festivals.com? (the latter being more grammatically correct).

yeah, that would be the very best, but that one was and is long gone - established in its own right.

Next best would be festivals.co.uk. Which is mine (bought in [i think] 2002 for a few grand).

I've also picked up efestivals.com along the way - which cost a significant amount more than a few grand.

[TalkShow Bob]

yeah, that would be the very best, but that one was and is long gone - established in its own right.

Next best would be festivals.co.uk. Which is mine (bought in [i think] 2002 for a few grand).

I've also picked up efestivals.com along the way - which cost a significant amount more than a few grand.

[TalkShow Bob]

Also what is it? From the outside it looks like a social network for festivals (ie for the events not for people who attend them).

[eFestivals]

it's a not-very successful attempt at a different type of festivals website, that's done facebook-styleee where everything is user generated.

[TalkShow Bob]

it's a not-very successful attempt at a different type of festivals website, that's done facebook-styleee where everything is user generated.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

My brother had Grandstand.co.uk (or ,com. I can't recall exactly). He tried to sell it to the BBC but they threatened him with legal action and in the end he had to give it up. He did make about £6K having an Irish Telecoms company's favoured e.mail address.

[eFestivals]

My brother had Grandstand.co.uk (or ,com. I can't recall exactly). He tried to sell it to the BBC but they threatened him with legal action and in the end he had to give it up.

until he tried to sell it to them he'd have been able to keep it or accept an offer from the BBC for it. Once he approached them to sell it to them he became a cyber-squatter and outside what is allowed.

A friend of a friend used to own (I think it was) manutd.com. He made the mistake of selling his own fake Man Utd branded goods via it (tho it also had a 'we hate man utd' side* ), and Utd had it off him.

(* the front page was something like "love them / hate them", and dependent which link you followed you got different content).

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

until he tried to sell it to them he'd have been able to keep it or accept an offer from the BBC for it. Once he approached them to sell it to them he became a cyber-squatter and outside what is allowed.

A friend of a friend used to own (I think it was) manutd.com. He made the mistake of selling his own fake Man Utd branded goods via it (tho it also had a 'we hate man utd' side* ), and Utd had it off him.

(* the front page was something like "love them / hate them", and dependent which link you followed you got different content).