Domain Name Wire Podcast

A view on the market from an active investor. This week I catch up with domain broker James Booth of Phenom.com (formerly BQDN.com). We first talked in 2016 when he was just starting in the domain industry and had already brokered $5 million of domains in his first six months. At the time, 95% of […] Post link: James Booth – DNW Podcast #262 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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.

Soeren von Varchmin talks about the domain investing community’s big conference in January. I spent last week in Montreal at the ICANN meeting. While there, I sat down with NamesCon CEO Soeren von Varchmin to talk about January’s conference. After many years in Las Vegas, NamesCon is moving to Austin. Soeren explains why it’s moving […] Post link: What to expect at NamesCon 2020 – DNW Podcast #261 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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.

Investing in domains and building them out. Some people are good domain name investors. Others are good site developers. Richard Lau and James Morfopoulos are a rare breed; they are both good domain investors and site developers. They built up Resume.com and sold it to Indeed. Now they are creating Logo.com. Hear what they have […] Post link: Richard Lau and James Morfopoulos – DNW Podcast #260 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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.

What GoDaddy is doing to help you sell more domains. Two weeks ago, Shane Cultra and I discussed improvements we want GoDaddy to make. On today’s show, GoDaddy VP of Aftermarket Paul Nicks comes on the show to discuss some of the fixes and improvements the company is making. We also talk about the future […] Post link: Paul Nicks talks GoDaddy Aftermarket – DNW Podcast #259 © 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 to leverage the search engine value of expired domains. Building links and authority for a new website is hard but there’s a way to skip a lot of the work. Today’s guest, Sean Markey, explains how to find expired domains and turn them into websites to leverage their search value. Also: Scratch.org finally resolve, […] Post link: SEO from Expired Domains – DNW Podcast #258 © 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.

A discussion about GoDaddy and how to improve it. GoDaddy has made many improvements to its domain platform. What more can it do to make the experience better for domain investors going forward? On today’s show, Shane Cultra and I discuss some ideas for the company that dominates the domain name aftermarket. Also: Pablo Escobar, […] Post link: Improving GoDaddy – DNW Podcast #257 © 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.

Zak Muscovitch talks about how ICANN went wrong. Internet Commerce Association general counsel Zak Muscovitch comes on the show to talk about ICANN’s misstep on recent contract renewals and how it could impact domain name registrants. What can be done to prevent this from happening in the future? Also: Netflix, ageism, reverse domain hijacking, domain […] Post link: ICANN drops the ball – DNW Podcast #256 © 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.

Can ID4ME boost both privacy and domain names? This week I talk with Katja Speck and Tom Keller about ID4Me. Katja is the managing director of ID4Me, and Tom Keller is a board member whose day job is Head of Domains at 1&1 Ionos. The best way to think of ID4ME is an easy way […] Post link: ID4ME and Domains – DNW Podcast #255 © 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.

5 small business owners give the story of their domain names. Why do small business owners register the domain names that they choose? On today’s show we’ll talk to five business founders, most of them solopreneurs, about the domains they picked and how they selected them: 7-time Guinness World Record holding Juggler Niels Duinker, who […] Post link: The domain end user episode – DNW Podcast #254 © 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.

Why Donuts is repricing many of its premium domains. This week I talk with Matt Overman, the SVP of sales at Donuts, the company that offers 242 domains in new extensions such as .money and .expert. Matt explains why the company is reducing the price on over 1 million new top level domains that are […] Post link: Matt Overman on new TLDs – DNW Podcast #253 © 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.