Name: Mark Fulton
Title: Web Developer, Domainer, Entrepreneur, Blogger
Website/Blog: DotSauce Magazine
Location: Jacksonville, NC
Mark with sister Rachel Fulton
Tell us about your educational/professional background.
My strongest passion has always been online business, being an entrepreneur and writing my own destiny (no pun intended). I started a web hosting and design company in 1998 while a freshman in high school. It was a life-changing initiative for me. I was 15 and taking on clients like the local country club, Chamber of Commerce, musicians, small business, organizations, and more. I would later learn that tech support and updating websites for people was not so rewarding. I got into developing advertiser-supported community websites of my own — some reached thousands of members.
My second passion is writing! I wandered the campuses of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for three years, absorbing some of the various offerings that piqued my interests. I soon found that business school wasn’t for me (turns out my anti-passion is calculus), so I pursued a study of professional writing and creative writing. I had always loved writing stories, poetry, and blogging.
I nearly finished at UNCW, less than a year of credits to graduation, but a culmination of events such as failing Computer Science 201 (which I could have taught in my sleep, but did not succeed at taking the final exam in my sleep) and other misfortunes led me to take an extended hiatus to pursue my own online business interests. I have looked at going back to finish, but I’m waiting for the right time as it would only distract from my current business growth.
Tell us about your current job.
I founded DotSauce Magazine in early 2007 as a destination for those interested in domain names. Domaining is the business of buying, selling, and otherwise making money with .COM addresses. I also cater to front-end web developers (not programmers), WordPress enthusiasts, online marketers, bloggers, and online entrepreneurs.
Some of my other active projects are focused on Twitter. I’ve created a Twitter Forum and Twitter app for creating lists of friends.
I also sell domain names occasionally at AQDN.com – Affordable Quality Domain Names. (more…)
