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Why Mike Kugler spent $500k on Vacation.Rentals – DNW Podcast #181

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Mike Kugler’s company VacaRent paid a record amount for a new TLD. Find out why.

dnw-podcastMike 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 domain and why he was willing to pay so much. There are lessons in his story for both how domains are sold to end users and the power of syndicated domain listings. Also: Emailed offers, FURY, and ICANN.

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Panama, Sherpas and the Domain Market with Andrew Rosener – DNW Podcast #180

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On this podcast we talk about visiting Panama for ICANN 62, DomainSherpa and the domain market.

dnw-podcastThis 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 city. Then we discuss his acquisition of DomainSherpa and what he’s doing with the media platform. Finally, we discuss the domain name market so far in 2018. It’s off to a great start (for Media Options, at least). Also: Google surges into top registrars, Whois, Guess? did a bad thing, .AI domain changes, and .NYC.

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Bill Karamouzis – DNW Podcast #178

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Meet a guy who has leveraged the value of good domain names and learn what he is investing in now.

dnw-podcastBill 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 latest venture, TeachMe. Bill shares data from these domain purchases and also explains why he thinks there’s an opportunity to buy outdated websites and fix them up. You’ll get a lot of business ideas from this episode. Also: Make Your Own Way, Purple.com, Radix data, and an airline’s domain name troubles.

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The challenges of new TLDs with Tobias Sattler – DNW Podcast #177

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A first-hand account of selling new top level domains.

dnw-podcastWhat 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 about some of the challenges his company faced onboarding new TLDs, dealing with different backend systems, handling premium domains and more. Given the headaches, you might be surprised by his response to the question if premium domains were worth it. Also: Merger time, .Boats, Wes Anderson’s domain, a nice brandable sale and Whois.

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The value of a category killer domain – DNW Podcast #176

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After a major business setback, Michael Gargiulo spent close to $1 million to acquire VPN.com.

dnw-podcastImagine 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 else. Despite settling the lawsuit and abandoning the business, Michael looked forward instead of backward. He negotiated to buy VPN.com for close to 7 figures. Hear Michael’s story about buying the domain name and why he thinks this category killer domain name is worth it.

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