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If
you have been in the domain business
for anything length of time, you know Ari
Goldberger (or know he is). Ari, whose
fascinating life story was told in a June 2006
DNJournal Cover
Story, is one of the industry's
leading attorneys
(as well as a very successful domain
investor/developer, most recently represented by
his MD.com
and Songs.com
sites), who has won many landmark cases
involving top tier domain names.
Though
he has been an entrepreneur since he was a kid,
business, in terms of his priorities, has always
taken a back seat to his family. He is
somewhat famous for pulling out all the
stops for major life events involving his wife Sharon
or their kids. Last
year in this column, when Monkees lead
singer Davy Jones passed away, I told
you about a surprise birthday
party Ari threw for Sharon in 2006. Sharon
loves monkeys (the animal variety), but
since safety (and, I would
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Ari
Goldberger speaking at the 2013
TRAFFIC Las Vegas conference (5/30/13)
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assume,
local ordinances) made it unwise to turn any of
those loose at the party, Ari actually hired
Davy Jones to come and sing! He wound up both performing
and hanging out with the guests in an event that
lives on in this YouTube
video.
This weekend the
Goldberger family will be celebrating another big
event - their son Josh's bar mitzvah
- and, while there is no telling what Ari
has in store, it is a virtual certainty that it
will be over the top. That being the
case, and with a number of Goldberger's domain
industry friends also converging in Cherry
Hill, New Jersey for the festivities, we
will also be going to cover it for you and to
share this milestone event with a longtime
friend of both ours and the industry's at
large.
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Just one
indication of how big Ari's plans are is
the website he has set up at JoshGoldberger.com.
There you can actually watch the entire
evening LIVE on the web - starting
with the bar mitzvah ceremony at 5:30pm
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Eastern time Saturday
(June 15 - hence the James Bond inspired
Agent 0615 graphic in the site's
logo above and the 007 music that will
greet you when you arrive at the
site).
After the bar
mitzvah ceremony, guests will make the
short trip from the synagogue to the nearby Westin
Mount Laurel Hotel where the
celebration will continue until who knows
when. The answers will be forthcoming - in
the meantime Mazel Tov to the Goldberger
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