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Mini Baby Boom in the Domain Business!  Andrew Rosener & Jay Westerdal Celebrate the Arrival of New Sons

This has been a week of very special occasions with three of the most widely known men in our industry celebrating days they will never forget. For one, Ammar Kubba, it was his wedding day last Saturday (August 20) that I told you about earlier in the week. For the other two it was the birth of new sons

One day after Ammar's wedding - on Sunday, August 21,  MediaOptions.com Founder Andrew Rosener and his lovely wife Anna welcomed their new son - Lou Atlas Rosener - to the world!   

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Veteran domain broker Andrew Rosener, Founder of MediaOptions.com, with his new son 
Lou Atlas Rosener, just moments after wife Anna delivered the healthy baby boy. 

Just two days after the Rosener family celebrated their new arrival, on Tuesday, August 23, Jay Westerdal - the founder of multiple industry companies including Name Intelligence Inc.DomainTools.com, the Domain Roundtable conference and most recently new gTLD registry operator Top Level Spectrum - and his wife Icy experienced the same joy when their new son, Thor Harcourt Erik Westerdal, made his grand entrance.  

Jay Westerdal and wife Icy welcome their new son, 
Thor Harcourt Erik Westerdal
, on Tuesday, August 23.

When Andrew Rosener got the good news about Jay's new son he quickly took notice of something the two baby boys had in common. With Thor and Atlas a part of their names Andrew quipped, "The world just got two Greek Gods!"  Jay said Atlas was actually one of the names he and Icy also considered but Thor has a history in his family as the name of a great great great grandfather.

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Jay added, "I have always valued unique names. Just like domains, they help set a person apart from everyone else. For inspiration we looked at the family tree and thankfully we had lot of great grandfathers in our family with cool names! The most popular baby boy name in 2015 was Noah with 19,511 people. However only 118 babies were named last year were Thor. I personally had two middle names and we decide Thor would also have two middle names. His other middle names are other great grandfathers as well. A unique name stands out, my wife "Icy" agrees. She was named after 

her great grandmother and her whole life people can talk about her and know who they are talking about without a last name. It is hard to be in the domain business and not have a strong appreciation for unique names!," Jay concluded.

Our congratulations to Andrew and Anna and  Jay and Icy, on the arrival of their new family members - and to Ammar on his marriage to the beautiful Josephine Madriz. We all love the domain business but it is still trumped by bigger things in life, something we were happy to be reminded of on three separate occasions in the space of just 72 hours this week!

(Posted August 26, 2016)


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