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Who is Gregg Ostrick?
January 03, 2003

Who is Gregg Ostrick?

On the one hand, he's a music producer, with an album of kid songs (Louisiana Songs for Kids), featuring characters like Oscar de la Oyster and Ezzard the Gator. Here's a quote from Gregg on his goals in producing the CD.

On the other hand, he's a domain name entrepreneur, who happens, despite no connection with the activity that I could find, to own squaredance.com. If you go to squaredance.com, you'll end up at a poster site (relevance? they're dance posters...). That particular domain (allposters.com) is not owned by Gregg (dba GNO, Inc); however, another poster site (Posterworld.com) is owned by GNO, Inc. and is affiliated with allposters.com. (Posterworld.com is linked from rainbowraccoons.com, a kids' educational site owned by (you guessed it) GNO, Inc.). He's written a report on the Secrets of Domain Name Hunting, which gives "some interesting techniques and ways that will aid ... in finding and evaluating good domain names" (referenced here, but the given link goes to the w3.com site, owned by (you guessed it) GNO, Inc.

What are the odds that Mr. Ostrick is hanging on to squaredance.com, hoping that somebody with deep pockets (in square dancing? hah!) will come along and offer to buy it? The domain name registration expires on May 6, 2003.

BTW, I did find an extremely tangential square dance connection: Gregg maintains a website in memory of Al Hirt, Al Hirt did the song "Java", "Java" makes a good patter song.

Another BTW: Happy New Year!


website
Dave (daveostrick@cox.net) January 18, 2003 10:18:16 AM

v e r y i n t e r e s t i n g
Hot child in the bayou....
Bruce (kungfunorm@hotmail.com) February 11, 2003 08:45:00 PM

Greg.... OOOOOoooooo....

remember WABB? ;?>

Your former co-worker,
Kung-fu Norman (as Bill Hooper said)
ostrick
marc ostrick (marc@ostrickproductions.com) November 23, 2003 11:51:18 PM

We sure are a talented breed.
Greg "The Terd" Ostrick
Rich (Rich@hotmail.com) January 23, 2005 04:32:11 PM

Greg Ostrick is a bad man. He is a thief. I am glad he is dieing of cancer.
Satan on earth?
Ostrick Hater (fu@ostricksucks.com) July 20, 2005 01:29:08 PM

Talented bread? I think not.. I love anti cyber squatting laws.. Gregg is in for some HUGE payments :)
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