Social activist and serial entrepreneur Mike Mann has been proactively
involved with the Internet since 1994. At that time, Mike founded and ran the
ISP and web developer, Internet Interstate, until he sold the company to Verio
in 1997. Mike then founded the world’s largest secondary market for domain
names, BuyDomains.com, which is now called NameMedia. In 2005, he sold
the majority of his interest in BuyDomains.com and the Seeq.com search
engine portal to Highland Capital Partners and Summit Venture Partners.
Mike is also founder of several active, successful, for-profi t corporations
including Phone.com, SEO.com, Skateboards.com, DomainMarket.com,
Yield Soft ware, BrowserMedia, and others. In many cases, his companies
exchange resources, talent, and technologies in their never-ending quest to
deliver innovative, profi table digital products and services.