Here are a few of my Internet projects worth mentioning.
Current Projects
Project: Northcutt.com
Northcutt is an SEO consulting firm that I started in 2011. The company’s services are based around the evolution of an online marketing process that was used to build my previous companies, experimental web sites, and that of other clients that I’ve worked with as a freelance consultant.
Project: FamousQuotesAbout.com
For as long as I can remember now, I’ve had a pretty common dream- to do something that inspired millions of people. By my math, this project may already have done that, and for that, this creation was easy for me to get behind. It has a 1 year goal of 10 million pageviews/month, and a 3 year goal of 50 million. Based upon comparisons with DoubleClick, Alexa, and Compete traffic stats, would just barely make it the most trafficked site on the Internet that is purely a famous quote archive. Quotes, in search, are one of the most Googled of all keywords, and on the web, one of the oldest genres of website, giving other sites decades of a head-start on me, and a very real test of my skills.
Past Projects
Project: DarkStar Communications
DarkStar Communications was founded in August of 2002 by Chris Childers, who was joined by Brett Guarnieri in September of the same year. I first assisted DarkStar with some free consulting on infrastructure and SEO through 2005-2006 while managing the company’s account with Ubiquity, and eventually acted as a managing partner in the company via Nobis from December of 2006 to October of 2010. This company roughly doubled in size under my watch, which was significant, as we estimated that based upon statistics made publicly available, that it was likely that DarkStar was the largest Ventrilo provider on the Internet, peaking at approx. 600,000 concurrent voice server connections as reported on the public statistics appearing on the DarkStar website.
Project: Ubiquity Hosting Solutions
On June 4, 2004, I registered ubiquityhosting.com, and later a domain for a spin-off brand, ubiquityservers.com, with a name based on a song by The Orb, some notebooks full of ideas, and a $60 investment. On January 1, 2005, I picked up my first business partner, and formed Ubiquity Hosting Solutions, LLP. On January 1, 2007, I picked up two more business partners in a merger with a company called DarkStar Communications, and formed Nobis Technology Group, LLC. Before parting ways with my creation based upon what must now be thousands of little thoughts put into action and countless hours of development, Ubiquity had become classified as a Large ISP by arin.net under the orgid NTGL, profitable data centers running in 6 major U.S. cities, and 25 active, full-time staff members.