Domain Name Wire Podcast

Guest Yoni Belousov, domain investor and entrepreneur, shares insights on trimming domain portfolios efficiently by letting go of underperforming domains. He discusses strategies for analyzing portfolio performance, selling low performers, and investing in high producers. The podcast also explores emotional attachments to domains, fluctuations in the domain market, impact of crypto, pricing trends, challenges in the domain business, and the importance of owning domain names for control and flexibility.

Entrepreneur Nick Huber shares how he paid $400,000 for a new domain name somewhere.com. He discusses the importance of a good domain name, challenges of domain rebranding, strategic domain name investments, and the value of domains in business and credibility building.

Paul Nicks has a new role as VP, Domain Investor at GoDaddy, signaling a shift in how domains are viewed. The podcast discusses GoDaddy's holistic digital identity approach, domain investor priorities and challenges, lease to own option success, commission structure changes, and the impact of personnel changes on domain investors.

How domain investing helped Doron Vermaat buy a house. On today’s show, domain investor and Efty co-founder Doron Vermaat returns to the show to talk about some of his latest domain sales. He compares his results in 2023 to 2022, and shares some sales (including a .io domain for $70k). If you need some inspiration, […] Post link: Buying a house from domain investing – DNW Podcast #485 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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.

Learn about this year’s NamesCon and the live domain name auction. NamesCon 2024 is just weeks away, and it’s not too late to register to attend. On today’s show, I preview the event with two interviews. First, I speak with Soeren von Varchmin, Chairman of the Advisory Board at NamesCon. Soeren tells us what to […] Post link: NamesCon + Auction preview – DNW Podcast #484 © 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 Domain Name Wire full-text RSS feeds are made available for personal use only, and may not be published on any site without permission.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.

CEO of DomainAgents, Ryan McKegney, reveals the hidden domain market with undisclosed $2 million sales. They discuss high-value domain sales, navigating domain ownership changes, evolving domain trends, popular extensions, and future investments in the domain market.

CEO of Atom, Darpan Munjal, shares insights on rebranding Squadhelp to Atom, discussing strategic name selection, audience testing, and addressing concerns about similar names. He also delves into technical challenges of website rebranding, SEO optimization, and the value of rebranding for businesses.

Bill Sweetman, domain buyer broker, shares wacky domain name tales including a failed social media handle acquisition, navigating complex domain acquisitions, domain name drama, and a success story helping a senior citizen sell a domain name.

Fred Hsu discusses some of his company’s plans for new top level domains tied to web3 communities. It’s been just six months since I had Fred Hsu, co-founder of D3, on the podcast. The company has made many announcements since then, and it’s becoming clear that it will be one of the more significant portfolio […] Post link: .Ape in to new TLDs – DNW Podcast #480 © 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.

Richard Lau discusses a seven-figure domain sale and what companies using .ai domains should know. Domain investor Richard Lau joins me on today’s show. We discuss his $1 million sale of gld.com and how a domain buyer broker helped seal the deal. Richard also explains why he hopes his sale of passes.com will turn into […] Post link: A golden domain sale – DNW Podcast #479 © 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.