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In this DomainSherpa Discussion: Verisign sues .XYZ and Negari for false advertising Verisign also ramps up their marketing of .COM The .Blog auction was settled for an estimated $20 million .Shabaka preliminary renewals coming in a 55% NamesCon.Vegas ridiculously low registration cost of $199 (for 2 days) Reader question: are new gTLDs still worth investing in? And much more!

Ali Zandi entered the domain name industry as an investor in mid-2014. He started by purchasing 10 domain names and sold every single one within 30 days on Flippa. He did such a good job, he moved from selling about $2,000 to $12,000 in a period of three months, was upgraded from "New" to "Super Seller" on Flippa, and was offered a newly created senior broker position at Flippa. (His sales are now $402,000 in the first 7 months.) In this interview, Ali Zandi talks about who buys what types of domain names on Flippa, and walks us through his exact process for listing domain names for sale on Flippa.

In this DomainSherpa Discussion: Who won the Superbowl commercials: GoDaddy or up-start Wix? Rick Schwartz proves he's still Domain King with his Porno.com sale for $8,888,888 360.com overshadows Schwartz with it's $17 million sales price Credit.Club, worth $200,000, sells for $10.99 wow! Fadi Chehade, CEO of ICANN, calls you a "hogger" of domains Verisign is giving away $100,000 CASH we tell you how to get some And much more!

In this DomainSherpa Discussion: Thoughts after attending NamesCon and the Right of the Dot auction .Club's recent sales Whether copycat "glitter" domain names are worth registering Michael Berkens' negotiation tactics And much more!

Waiting to defend your trademarks can be costly. Hoping that the whole issue will go away is not a realistic strategy. The rules for intellectual property protection have changed. There are proactive steps you can take now to prevent cybersquatting. Understanding the seven steps discussed in this interview should be your top priority if your company owns a trademark.

Whether you’re attending the NamesCon domain name auction in person, watching via the live web feed, or bidding by telephone, this show will walk you through domain names that you might have missed – presenting opportunities for either undervalued or no-reserve purchases. This show also contains tactics for understanding and successfully navigating most live domain name auctions that may occur at a future date, so don’t disregard watching this interview just because you missed the auction on Tuesday, January 13, 2015.

Mike Faith founded a headset company and experienced explosive growth, selling $3 million in the first three years. Then he hit a bump in the road. To get the company back on a path of consistent growth, he raised money and acquired Headsets.com. Learn how he creatively financed the domain name, what benefits it provided to his business, and how he made a generic word memorable.

Jothan Frakes, co-founder and content producer of the NamesCon domain name industry conference, joins Michael Cyger to discuss NamesCon 2015 taking place January 11-15 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Why is this conference worth your time and money? How can you make money at the DomainSherpa Review, LIVE? Tune in to learn more.

At the end of every show I ask the audience to take a moment and post a comment, question, or simply say thanks to the Sherpa being interviewed. This time I'm giving thanks to two individuals that have done so - with a six month membership to the brand-new Coffee.club.

FastMail started in 1999 and today serves hundreds of thousands of customers. They launched on FastMail.fm because it was what was available and memorable, and proving the business model was more important than trying to acquire the .com domain name. But when an employee took the initiative to call the Monster.com main switchboard to inquire about purchasing fastmail.com, the then-owner was more than happy to sell the unused domain name asset for a fair price. In this interview, founder and director Rob Mueller recounts the impact of not owning fastmail.com for 15 years, how the negotiations started and progressed, how much they paid, and lessons learned for other startup entrepreneurs.