Domain Name Wire Podcast

Erik Bergman has great plans for Great.com Imagine this: you’re bidding in your first domain name auction. You’re traveling and are at a hotel in Iceland with poor internet connectivity. There’s a domain name you really want but the reserve is at least $1 million. Suddenly, your screen shows a $500,000 bid. You bid the […] Post link: Meet Erik Bergman, who paid $900k for Great.com – DNW Podcast #182 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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.

Mike Kugler’s company VacaRent paid a record amount for a new TLD. Find out why. Mike Kugler is CEO of VacaRent, a company that just paid a record price for a domain under a new top level domain: $500,300 for vacation.rentals. On today’s show, Kugler gives the interesting story about how he negotiated for the […] Post link: Why Mike Kugler spent $500k on Vacation.Rentals – DNW Podcast #181 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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.

On this podcast we talk about visiting Panama for ICANN 62, DomainSherpa and the domain market. This week we chat with Media Options CEO Andrew Rosener about three topics. First, we talk about his hometown of Panama City. ICANN is holding a meeting there this summer and Andrew explains what to expect when visiting the […] Post link: Panama, Sherpas and the Domain Market with Andrew Rosener – DNW Podcast #180 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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 happens if Whois, which is often used to hunt down bad guys, goes dark? Security companies and brands rely on Whois records in order to quickly identify and mitigate all sorts of bad behavior: phishing, counterfeiting, fraud, spam, DDoS and more. What happens when these experts can no longer get access to Whois? On […] Post link: Whois and GDPR with Tim Chen – DNW Podcast #179 © 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.

Meet a guy who has leveraged the value of good domain names and learn what he is investing in now. Bill Karamouzis, also known as Bill Kara, has made a lot of hefty domain name investments. Some of them have been for businesses. He bought CookingGames.com for $350,000 and paid $725,000 for MathGames.com for his […] Post link: Bill Karamouzis – DNW Podcast #178 © 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 first-hand account of selling new top level domains. What is it like integrating and selling new top level domain names as a registrar? On today’s podcast we talk with Tobias Sattler, the CIO for United Domains, a registrar with 1.6 million domains under management and around 10% of these in new TLDs. Tobias talks […] Post link: The challenges of new TLDs with Tobias Sattler – DNW Podcast #177 © 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.

After a major business setback, Michael Gargiulo spent close to $1 million to acquire VPN.com. Imagine creating a website that is generating $1,500-$2,000 a day and then getting hit with a lawsuit claiming trademark infringement and cybersquatting. That’s what happened to Michael Gargiulo. Making things more complicated, he was leasing the domain name from someone […] Post link: The value of a category killer domain – DNW Podcast #176 © 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.

Elisa Cooper discusses what’s important to big companies when it comes to domain names. Remember when The New York Times’ domain name server settings were hijacked to point the site somewhere else? It could have easily prevented this from happening by using Registry Lock. On today’s show, Elisa Cooper of Brandsight talks about domain protection. […] Post link: Big companies and domain names with Elisa Cooper – DNW Podcast #175 © 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.

Meet a person who you can thank for making it possible to be a domain name investor. Back in the 1990s, the Domain Name Rights Coalition was formed to represent domain name owners against overhanded trademark interests. Today, that organization was reborn. Our guest today, Kathy Kleiman, was one of the founders of the organization […] Post link: Protecting Domains with Kathy Kleiman – DNW Podcast #174 © 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 in-depth discussion on the state of new top level domains. What makes for a good top level domain name? Well, it starts with the ABIC test. Christa Taylor of dotTBA has helped many companies apply for, plan for and/or launch top level domain names. This puts her in a unique position of seeing new […] Post link: Christa Taylor talks domains – DNW Podcast #173 © 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.