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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 Inside Interview: Why Adam Perzow Spent 7 Figures on Coins.com

The influx of interest and funding into the cryptocurrency industry has lead to some of the largest domain sales over the past few years. One of the most recent cryptocurrency related sales was that of Coins.com by Adam Perzow in a seven-figure...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: What's It Like to Buy a Domain Name from Rick Schwartz?

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Punchbowl Founder and CEO Matt Douglas. Punchbowl is an online invitation and digital greeting card company that has gone from strength to strength since opening for business in 2007.

What...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: The £600,000 Domain That's Worth Its Weight in Gold

Rob Halliday-Stein is a British entrepreneur and founder of BullionByPost, a highly popular platform that helps regular people buy gold and silver as investments. He is now the owner of the most expensive .CO.UK domain name ever sold...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: The £100,000 Claims.co.uk Purchase

In this week's Inside Interview, I speak with John Quail, the owner of Claims.co.uk - a personal injury claims website that helps people to connect with solicitors in order to pursue compensation claims.

The domain name was acquired by...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: The Owners of $320,000 Domain Malls.com

In my second "Inside Interview," I chat with the owners of Malls.com; a domain name they purchased for $320,000 in 2014.


1. For some of our readers who aren't aware of your company's background, could you give us a brief overview?...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: The $185,000 StockBrokers.com Domain Name

In this week's Inside Interview, I had the pleasure of chatting with Blain Reinkensmeyer; a partner at Reink Media Group. Along with a team of three others, Blain runs the popular StockBrokers.com service, which provides unbiased reviews and...
 
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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 Inside Interview: HostGator Founder's $500,000 Give.com Purchase

In 2002, Brent Oxley founded the web hosting company HostGator in his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University, and he quickly grew it from a small business with just 100 customers into one of the largest providers of reseller hosting.

In 2012...
 
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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 Inside Interview: Creating a Business On a $130,000 Domain Name

In this edition of Inside Interviews, we take a look at the $130,000 acquisition of Due.com by John Rampton. The domain name, which was acquired through auction platform Flippa.com last year, is now the base for an effective invoicing and time...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Behind Vroom's $75,000 Acquisition of Vroom.com

Vroom is a car brand that is making waves in the automotive industry by working to make the car buying process easier. It's website, on the domain name Vroom.com, has become one of the largest online car stores in the United States. Customers and...
 
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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 Inside Interview: Behind the Rebranding of DoorBot to Ring.com

In 2011, an inventor named Jamie Siminoff brought together a team of 5 engineers to work out of his garage to create a product that would become DoorBot; a doorbell system that allows you to see and speak to visitors from your smartphone.

This...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Behind the Million Dollar PX.com Purchase

This week's Inside Interview is with Frans van Hulle, the CEO and Co-founder of ReviMedia - a company that has a long history of producing high-quality lead generation websites on premium domain names. In August 2015, it was announced that...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Behind the Acquisition of TN.Com With Tuft & Needle

What is it like to buy a two-letter .COM domain name? For years, this category of domains has been seen as one of the rarest, most exclusive types of domains available. With just 676 two-letter .COM names in existence, they can be difficult to...
 
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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: Behind The $700,000 Nuts.com Acquisition

In 2011, the domain name Nuts.com was acquired by Jeff Braverman, the CEO of a family nut shop first set up in 1929. As a college freshman, Jeff created NutsOnline.com which helped Nuts.com become what it is today. Since 2002, the company...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Behind the $250,000 Purchase of StockPhoto.com

This week's Inside Interview puts the spotlight on Jon Yau's $250,000 purchase of StockPhoto.com. This purchase was completed using Flippa, and it is the largest domain sale on the marketplace's website (according to NameBio).

In the eleven...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: An Exclusive Look at the 3.1 Million Dollar Sale of Whisky.com

Last year, Castello Cities Internet Network's CEO Michael Castello announced the sale of one of his most prized domain names: Whisky.com for $3.1m. In the first of a weekly feature entitled "Inside Interviews," I talk to the new owner...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: An Exclusive Look at the 2.1 Million Dollar Sale of 37.com

In this week’s Inside Interview, we have the opportunity of learning more about one of the most high-profile seven-figure domain name sales in recent history. On March 6th 2014, DNJournal’s Ron Jackson broke the news that 37Games had spent...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: A Look at the $430,000 Purchase of Staff.com

In the sixth issue of my regular series of Inside Interviews, I speak to Rob Rawson, the owner of Staff.com - a platform for remote job opportunities. In this interview, Rob discusses many topics such as how he acquired Staff.com, his views...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: A First Look At the $240,000 Lawn.com Purchase

This year's NamesCon live domain auction produced almost $1.5MM in sales, with 92 of the 131 live auction listings being sold. The largest sale was the $240,000 sale of Lawn.com, which was acquired by an Atlanta-based company who are...
 
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interviews Inside Interview with the Buyer of Supply.com for a College Education

At the end of November 2015, National Building Supply made a big announcement. They were rebranding the company to Supply.com - a memorable, generic one-word .COM domain name that they hoped would help with the extraordinary growth of their...
 
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interviews Inside Interview with the Buyer of $300,000 in Domain Acquisitions

Building a brand on a memorable, one-word domain name is something that many of us strive to do. Our guest this week has managed to create a network of at least twelve websites, all hosted on some of the best .COM and .NET domain names around...
 
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