I’ve heard a great deal of glowing things about Dr. Chris Hartnett, but I didn’t have much background about who he is or how he became so successful and well-liked. As the title of this post says, once you read the DNJournal cover story this month, you are going to be “wowed!”

It seems that everything Dr. Hartnett touches turns to gold, and this is another inspiring story written by Ron Jackson. The domain industry is made of people who come from diverse backgrounds, with many of the leaders achieving great success in other industries. This is certainly the case with Dr. Hartnett, and his story is inspirational.

Just received an email from David Castello announcing that CCIN will be partnering with Rob Monster of Monster Venture Partners in the development of Traveler.com. Together, Monster and CCIN will develop Traveler.com into a global travel website.

Monster has recently signed on for joint development projects including HealthCare.com, WiFi.com, and Patents.com. CCIN are leaders in the Geodomain space, operating websites such as PalmSprings.com, LagunaBeach.com, Nashville.com, and many others. They also own non-geo names such as Whisky.com and Daycare.com.

For more information about this deal, check out DNJournal’s Lowdown.

I would like to know if any registrars offer any special security lock that a domain owner can place on his account if he will be away for a period of time without email access. If someone goes out of the country on vacation and doesn’t have email access, I would think his domain names would be at greater risk, as any change to the domain names would be undetected until his return, which could be too late to take preventative action.

I would think it would be easy for a registrar to place the entire account into a lockdown so domain names in the account couldn’t be transferred or have their DNS changed. This feature should be easily to implement by the domain owner, and it should require something more than an email upon return to re-activate the account.

With domain security a high priority these days, this feature is something that I think would be very important for every registrar to have.

Congratulations to fellow domain investor and fellow New Yorker Arlo Gilbert whose company iCall made news with their software, which allows users to reroute ongoing calls on their iPhone to their free VoIP service. This service has the potential to save users a ton of calling minutes. While the application is still being beta tested, it should be made available in the iPhone Apps store.

BTW, If you are looking for a job, iCall is hiring!