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interviews Expert Exchange: How Do You Speed Up the Learning Process for Potential Buyers?

Typically, end users are the type of buyers that pay the highest prices for domain names. Scrolling through NameBio, you’ll see numerous examples of startups to corporations paying five, six, or seven figures for the best names. End users aren’t...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: How To Contact The Right People to Sell Your Domain

Domain investors that have performed outbound sales will be aware that the ability to contact the appropriate person within an organisation can make or break a sale. While small establishments may only have a single decision maker that you need...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: How To Get The Word Out About Domains for Sale

Just how do you make investors and end users aware that you have put a domain name up for sale? For many investors, promoting their domain names effectively is vital for creating a cash flow for their domaining business. In the first edition of a...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Why Buying Pillows.com Was Worth Every Penny

Fourteen years ago, Craig Clark and his wife Abby founded Pacific Pillows whilst Craig was on active duty in the Marine Corps. Using the PacificPillows.com domain name, the company flourished but by 2010, the company was looking to change their...
 
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interviews Ultra-Premium Monkey.com Returns to Original Owner

In August, we published the news that the domain name Monkey.com had been sold in a deal worth $500,000. The sale, verified independently through an Escrow.com sales agreement, listed Daniel Mark Harrison of Monkey Capital as the buyer...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: How Jason Wilk Acquired Dave.com For His Fintech Startup

Jason Wilk is a serial entrepreneur having founded companies such as Allscreen.TV, a technology platform that was ranked at number twenty-nine on INC 5000’s list of fastest growing companies in 2015. Zealot Networks acquired Allscreen in 2015 and...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: James Booth Reaches a $10 Million Milestone With the $196,500 Sale of D8.com

James Booth has only been a part of the industry for two years, but during that time he has produced some impressive sales figures. Very recently, James has crossed a significant milestone of $10 million in sales. Here, we speak with James about...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: An Interview With Domain Buyer Broker Bill Sweetman

Bill Sweetman is the President of Name Ninja, a company that works with entrepreneurs, global startups and marketers to buy some of the best names available. Unlike most domain name brokers, Bill concentrates solely on acquisition services...
 
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interviews GoDaddy Aftermarket Product Manager Joe Styler Joins Us For A Video Interview

With NamesCon 2017 just about to start, it's an excellent opportunity to remember the incredible job that @Edward Zeiden and his team did in producing coverage of last year's NamesCon event.

One of the many video highlights of NamesCon...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Here's Why Hive Bought Hive.com

There are relatively few startups who truly appreciate the power of a great domain name, but in this Inside Interview, we are speaking to the CEO of a company that made the decision to create a smart workflow application and house it on an...
 
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interviews Never Split The Difference: An Interview with FBI Negotiator Chris Voss

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interviews Inside Interview: Why Recycle Track Systems Bought RTS.com

In this Inside Interview, we speak with the CEO of a company that really gets the power and value of a three-letter .COM domain name. Recycle Track Systems is a New York based startup that was founded in 2015, and is using innovative real time...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Why This Business Owner Paid $650,000 for Furniture.co.uk

The Inside Interview series has focused on talking to end users who have acquired high value names. Up until now, we have interviewed 26 people or companies to find out why they acquired a specific domain.

Today, we bring you an Inside Interview...
 
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interviews Giuseppe Graziano Gives New Insights into the Short Domain Market

Giuseppe Graziano is one of the domain industry's leading brokers. Through his brokerage company, GGRG.com, Giuseppe has been involved in millions of dollars worth of sales in the short domain name categories that have dominated the market in...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: An Interview With Frank Schilling

Frank Schilling is one of the most recognizable names in the domain name industry. He has built a domain name portfolio that consists of hundreds of thousands of domains, including some of the most valuable digital properties on the Internet...
 
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interviews We Talk .BLOG With WordPress Creator Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg is one of the most recognizable names in Internet history. As the creator of WordPress, he has revolutionized the way in which websites are made. Estimates show that WordPress powers 25% of all websites on the Internet, which is an...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: An Interview With Domain Broker McKay Taylor

McKay Taylor isn't necessarily a name you will have heard of before, but this domain investor and broker has been quietly selling millions of dollars worth of domain names thanks to his connections all over the world. He's been responsible for...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Behind the $800,000 Purchase of Kiwi.com

Earlier this year, Skypicker made the momentous decision to change their brand from Skypicker to Kiwi.com. After starting as a two-man team in 2012, Skypicker has grown to be a phenomenally popular travel brand. Thanks to the growth of Skypicker...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Why This Company Paid $150,000 for BookKeeping.com

After being placed on hold during a phone call, Brandon Littlefield started to browse through domain names. After stumbling across BookKeeping.com and realizing it was for sale, Brandon immediately enquired about the name and eventually...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: An Interview With ShortNames.com Owner, Russell Panella

In 2015, short domain names came to the attention of the domain community as a whole, thanks to the influx of funds from Chinese investors into two-, three- and four-character domains. Many domainers took advantage of the rising prices, and made...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: An Interview With Domain Broker Joe Uddeme

There are very few domain brokers who can say that they have successfully brokered over $40mm worth of domain sales, but today, we are speaking with someone who can. Joe Uddeme is one of the industry’s most successful domain brokers and as a key...
 
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interviews Interview with Frank Schilling, the Man Who Once Had the Largest Domain Portfolio

Frank Schilling is the founder of InternetTraffic.com, DomainNameSales.com, and Uniregistry. In this interview, Schilling shares his insights on new gTLDs, the Chinese market, the relationship between Bitcoin and domain names, and more. He even...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Behind the Seven Figure Purchase of invest.com

We have brought you a number of interviews about companies that have created brands on ultra-premium .COM domains. Today, we have the pleasure of interviewing the team behind an investment company that has decided to place a considerable amount...
 
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interviews An Exclusive Interview with Richard Lau, founder of NamesCon

DN.com is thrilled to have Richard Lau to do this interview. Richard, being one of the most respected domainers, is the founder of NamesCon, and Resume.com. For all these years, He devoted himself to NamesCon, Waterschool charity, Domain Name...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: An Interview With Nat Cohen, Owner of Telepathy and ICA Board Member

On this edition of "Expert Exchange" is Nat Cohen, a seasoned domain investor and owner of Telepathy, Inc. Nat's company owns a portfolio of several thousand domains, consisting of some of the most valuable domains available. Alongside one-word...
 
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