British Columbia Innovation Council

Congratulations to Left of the Dot for progressing to the 3^rd round of this year's BCIC-New Ventures Competition.

Maple Ridge' Left of the Dot was created in 2010 to provide domain name portfolio holders with an alternative to domain parking for the very best names in their portfolio. Domain parking revenues have been plummeting since 2008 and the asset holders have seen multi-million dollar drops in annual earnings because of it. tDomain holders have a desire to build out many of the names within their portfolios, but they don't have the ability and expertise to build or manage the resulting web-based business.

The domain names that are managed by Left of the Dot are all high-quality, million dollar domain names that when built out on the Left of the Dot platform, turn into multi-million dollar businesses. This is achieved by leasing out sub-domains and websites direct to end users (e.g. Luxury.Villa.com or Tours.Oahu.com) while building real businesses onto the primary domain name itself. This not only increases the amount of monthly, recurring revenue for the asset holder, but it builds a real web-based business that is now valued at a much higher multiple than the asset itself.

Learn more about the BCIC-New Ventures Competition and the 2^nd annual regional competition launching this fall at www.newventuresbc.com or on Twitter.  The five-month, three-round BCIC-New Ventures Competition: Regional is open to any BC resident located outside metro Vancouver who has not yet secured significant financing from outside investors

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