ATTENTION BEANSTALK CHALLENGE BUILDERS! Please check your email. Important instructions have been sent regarding your business summary, Miami attendance and Yacht Day. We need a short, pithy, 1–2 page summary of your business for the judges. What are you building? Who does it serve? What have you accomplished? How will it make money? Where are you going, and what do you expect? Think of it as your two-minute elevator pitch. Make every sentence count. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday, October 23, at 5 PM Eastern. Please also confirm whether you will attend @NamesCon in Miami and Yacht Day on November 10 at 10 AM. If you haven’t received the email, contact me immediately. It’s your responsibility to make sure you have the information and meet the deadline. Let’s show the judges what you’re building!

Rick and the Beanstalk Interview with @DomainNameWire I've been so busy, I forgot to post this a little bit earlier. HOPE YOU LIKE IT!!

It used to be a home theater. But everything is & in ready to go for @NamesCon , except for the USB cards and special badges. I don't think it's all gonna fit in the trunk of the Bentley. 🥳😎 Bingo. Bongo. Beanstalk. 🌱👑🚀

BENTLEY DISCLAIMER UPDATE! 🚘👑 I owe the future winner a disclaimer: I said the car had 6,500 miles. It actually has only 3,521. Sorry about that. 😂 I just paid the Bentley’s beauty parlor bill. $12,500 to sparkle for @NamesCon There was a Bentley hat in the car, too. The winner gets the hat. 🧢🥳 #BeanstalkChallenge #Domains

BEANSTALK CHALLENGE BUILDER BULLETIN! THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING. Approximately 26 builders have not opened the original & first mass email. Check your inbox AND spam folder. Read it and respond. ASAP! The next email contains VITAL information about the judges and submitting your project summary. No communication or no project summary means NO consideration for the Bentley award!!!

OIL AND WATER ARE MERGING IN MIAMI!! WHAT IT MEANS FOR DOMAIN INVESTORS & OTHERS. WILL YOU PARTICIPATE OR SIT ON THE SIDELINES? There are 8 billion people on Earth. Thousands of people in the domain industry saw the same opportunity. Only 55 builders raised their hands. What do those 55 builders have in common? 🌱 They recognized an opportunity. 🌱 They took action. 🌱 They did not wait for permission. 🌱 They are self-motivated. 🌱 They brought their own talents, visions and passions. 🌱 They accepted responsibility for turning possibility into reality. 🌱 They kept building while everyone else watched from the sidelines. Different people. Different countries. Different talents. Different businesses. But they share the qualities from which nearly every meaningful success begins: Vision. Initiative. Conviction. Motivation. Action. These 55 builders are the advance party. In November, the next group will come off the sidelines. For 30 years, domain investors and builders have been the oil and water of the Internet. Domain investors accumulated extraordinary digital land. Builders, engineers and technologists possessed the talent to build on it. They occupied the same Internet, but rarely shared the same language, incentives or destination. They were almost polar opposites. That is changing. OIL AND WATER ARE MERGING! @NamesCon and @CloudFest are bringing these 2 worlds together in Miami. One side controls extraordinary digital assets. The other side knows how to build, develop, and operate. For the first time, they have every reason to move into the future together. I have watched this evolution from the front row for 7 months. It did not begin this way. It revealed itself one builder at a time. The Beanstalk Challenge has already demonstrated what happens when domain assets, builders, technology, vision, sweat equity and shared economics come together. November is where the larger merger becomes visible. I have not attended an industry show since I closed T.R.A.F.F.I.C. in 2014. Why am I attending now? Because there is finally a reason to go, and it extends far beyond the Beanstalk Challenge. The domain industry has been STUCK for YEARS! It is no longer stuck!! Displacement creates opportunity. This show will not merely help determine the remainder of 2026 or even 2027. It could help determine the direction of the next 5 years. There will be two groups afterward: Those who recognize the magnitude of this merger and participate in it. And those who remain exactly where they are. For the NEXT 30 years, people will offer all kinds of reasons why they missed this moment. Some reasons will be completely valid. I get that. But if your excuse is not valid, think carefully. The train is already moving. The question is: Do you want to participate in the next phase, or watch it happen from the sidelines? #NamesCon #CloudFest #BeanstalkChallenge #Domains #DomainNames #Builders #Startups #Entrepreneurs #DigitalAssets #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #DomainKing