Domain Name Wire Podcast

Domain buyer broker Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja returns to this show this week with more wacky domain name tales. 

Bill has run into some interesting people while acquiring domain names. On today’s show, you’ll hear the tales of Pedro the Paranoid, The Satisfied Senior, The Lucky Lady, and many more.

And if you want more, be sure to go back to episode #338 for more crazy stories.

It's been just six months since I had Fred Hsu, co-founder of D3, on the podcast. The company has made many announcements since then, and it's becoming clear that it will be one of the more significant portfolio applicants in the next round of new TLDs.

Back on episode 456, Hsu explained how he wanted to bridge web2 and web3 in the right way. We're not talking about alt-root domains. We're talking about he...

Oh, Canada! This week I chat with domain investor Frank Mardian, founder of the DN.ca domain name forum popular with Canadian domain name investors.

Frank talks about becoming interested in websites when he ran a Mercedes Benz dealership, and how he started collecting domains.

We discuss some nuances of the .ca domain name extension, how Frank avoids domain sales ...

Jeff Neuman has just about seen it all in the domain business over the past few decades. The former VP of Registry at Neustar currently serves as a lawyer and policy consultant and is the chief legal officer of Dot Hip Hop.

Jeff has attended 72 (!) of the 79 ICANN meetings and was in Puerto Rico this month for the latest meeting. On today’s show, Jeff shares what happened at the meeting regarding the nex...

Last year the world’s most popular YouTuber, Mr. Beast, changed his merch store domain to .store and promoted the switch in a video viewed nearly 200 million times.

On today’s show, Radix CEO Sandeep Ramchandani explains how his company worked over many months to strike a deal with Mr. Beast.

We also discuss other influencer and other marketing campaigns Radix has run and how it calculates...

Chris Koerner reminds me of a lot of people in the domain business: he has his hands in multiple businesses ranging from tree trimming to cryptocurrency to reselling Buc-ee’s goods.

He partners with lots of founders to start businesses, and recently paid $65,000 to acquire cofounders.com to promote this opportunity.

On today’s show, Chris talks about why he acquired the domain and what the...

This week I interview Helmuts Meskonis, who organizes the Domain Summit conference in London and owns DNForum and AcornDomains.

Helmuts had a bit of a rough relationship with some in the domain name community early on thanks to his association with a controversial person, but I had a chance to chat with him at the Internet Commerce Association meeting last month and learned about some of what he’s doing ...

Once a year, domain investors Mark Levin and Logan Flatt join me on the show to discuss their sales results from the previous year.

On today’s show, you learn how many domains they sold in 2023 compared to 2022, a breakdown of which top level domains they sold, how they are acquiring domain names, and what they are trying differently in 2024 to try to improve their results.

Also: Mar-a-Lag...

Most domain investors are passive. They list their domains for sale on marketplaces and put of “for sale” landers and wait for buyers to come to them.

A subset of investors do outbound marketing, contacting businesses that might be interested in buying their domains.

One such investor took this on overdrive recently. Ryan Ewen, founder of DomainManage.com, contact...

Have you ever typed an email address into a web form and it wasn’t accepted because your address ends in a new top level domain? Or noticed that a domain name wasn’t linked on social media because the network didn’t recognize the top level domain?

These are examples of a lack of Universal Acceptance of all types of domain names. Universal Acceptance means that all valid domains and email addresses work i...

2023 is in the books. On today’s show, I share my domain sales results from last year including total sales, breakdown by TLD, median prices, length of domains, acquisition strategy, and more. I also share a couple of tactics I’m going to try to boost sales in 2024.

Also: Escrow.com sales, reverse domain name hijacking, and a $300k domain lost in a cybersquatting dispute

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Chocolate.com. Licorice.com. Caramels.com. These are some really sweet domain names, and they’re all owned by one company: GOAT Foods. The company is leveraging these great domain names to sell snacks and confections.

On today’s show, GOAT Foods cofounder Jonathan Packer tells the company’s origin story and explains how the high-quality domain names have helped it launch its brands. He also explains whic...

“Brandable Insider” Keith DeBoer returns to the show this week to talk about domain investing. Keith owns about 5,000 domains. Today, he explains how he decides which domains to buy, where he’s listing them for sale, and why (and how) he pruned his portfolio by about 500 domains this year.

Also: DNS abuse, .io, .xyz, and more.

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NIS2 is a European Union Directive that could impact domain registrations. On today’s show, I’m joined by Polina Malaja, Policty Director of CENTR, to talk about NIS2. She explains why the EU brought forward this directive, and how it will impact domain registrars, registries, and other parties in the domain name ecosystem.

Further reading: Whitepaper on registration data accuracy, and NIS2: Unraveling ...

When domain investor AbdulBasit Makrani was frustrated by his domain sales volume, he decided to take drastic measures by reducing the prices of nearly all of his domains by 20%-60%. Sales volume almost immediately went up. We discuss this on today’s show, and some takeaways for domain investors. As always, AbdulBasit provides great tips, so listen to today’s interview!

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