Domain Name Wire Podcast

A retrospective after 300 episodes of the Domain Name Wire Podcast. It’s episode #300! Whether you recently discovered the Domain Name Wire Podcast or have listened since 2014, thanks for being part of this journey. On today’s show, we’re going to listen to excerpts from some of my favorite shows. You’ll hear from the creator […] Post link: It’s episode 300! – DNW Podcast #300 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

Ray King discusses the .gay launch and some domainer-friendly upgrades at Porkbun. My guest this week was the very first guest on the Domain Name Wire podcast back in 2014. Ray King runs two domain name companies: Top Level Design and Porkbun. Today, Ray talks about .gay, the new top level domain that his company […] Post link: Oh Hey .Gay – DNW Podcast #299 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

This domain company won’t give you any bullsh*it. There are many paths to growing a business, but domain name registrar Gandi has taken an unusual one: 100% of its business is from word-of-mouth. The registrar has grown to over 40 million euros in annual revenue without spending a dime on advertising. On today’s show, Gandi […] Post link: No B.S. – DNW Podcast #298 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

An interview with the voice for businesses that build the Internet. The Domain Name Association recently merged with i2Coalition, so this week I interview i2Coalition Executive Director Christian Dawson to learn more about the organization. It’s one of the few organizations educating people about the importance of internet infrastructure…including people in Washington. Also: Earnings season, […] Post link: i2Coalition – DNW Podcast #297 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

It’s been a long year, so let’s take stock of what has happened. On this week’s show, I take a look back at what a wild year 2020 has been. So much has changed since we got together at NamesCon in January. I also talk about customer service and trust in the domain business. Finally, […] Post link: 2020 (so far) in review – DNW Podcast #296 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

How this entrepreneur found a good company name for a great price. When it came time for Laura Roeder to select a name for her new company, she didn’t go about it the same way most people do. She thinks they do it backward. The result is that she got a nice, brandable domain—Paperbell.com—for under […] Post link: The best way to pick a company name – DNW Podcast #295 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

Squadhelp is becoming a formidable player in the domain aftermarket. It’s one thing to list your brandable domains for sale. It’s another thing to list them for sale and have people suggest them to end users at the exact moment they’re searching for a name. That’s one of the many benefits of Squadhelp, a crowd-sourced […] Post link: Sell more domains with a crowd – DNW Podcast #294 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

How this domain investor has built his portfolio to over 5,000 domains. Elkhan Agamirza’s domain name portfolio has been doubling in size every year and now stands at over 5,000 domains. He takes a detailed view into what end users want to buy, scooping up domain names that many domain investors overlook based on traditional […] Post link: Elkhan Agamirza – DNW Podcast #293 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

Checking in on blockchain domains one year later Last year I interviewed one of the co-founders of Unstoppable Domains. I’m checking in with another co-founder this week, Brad Kam, to see how it’s going. The company offers blockchain-based domains such as .crypto that it says can’t be censored. We discuss the challenges of operating domains […] Post link: Are these domains unstoppable? – DNW Podcast #292 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.

Report about malware distributed through browser plugins questions registrar’s role. My guest this week is Eric Poyton, a security researcher with Awake. Awake security issued a report last week about a network of malware and connected it to a large number of domain names at ICANN-accredited registrar Galcomm. We discuss how Awake discovered the issue, […] Post link: Security report names domain registrar – DNW Podcast #291 © DomainNameWire.com 2025. This is copyrighted content. Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission. If you see this message on a website, contact editor (at) domainnamewire.com. Latest domain news at DNW.com: Domain Name Wire.