Domain Name Wire Podcast

You don’t hear about many domain sales, including this $2 million sale earlier this year. We often hear about domain name sales, but the public sales just scratch the surface. Many more sales are never made public.

Why Squadhelp changes its name and how it came up with Atom. Darpan Munjal has been a guest on this podcast many times, but he gets a different introduction this time: CEO of Atom. That’s because his company Squadhelp recently rebranded as Atom and mov...

Acquiring domains isn’t always easy. Domain buyer broker Bill Sweetman of Name Ninja returns to the show this week with more wacky domain name tales. Bill has met some interesting people while acquiring domain names and social media handles.

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,

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.

Understanding the domain name market in Canada. Oh, Canada! This week, I chat with domain investor Frank Mardian, founder of the DN.ca domain name forum popular with Canadian domain name investors. Frank talks about becoming interested in websites when...

Jeff Neuman fills us in on what happened at the latest ICANN meeting. Jeff Neuman has just about seen it all in the domain business over the past few decades. The former VP of Registry at Neustar currently serves as a lawyer and policy consultant and i...

How Radix scored a deal with the world’s most popular YouTuber. Last year, the world’s most popular YouTuber, Mr. Beast, changed his merch store website to a .store domain and promoted the switch in a video viewed nearly 200 million times.

Why this entrepreneur paid $65,000 for cofounders.com. Chris Koerner reminds me of a lot of people in the domain business: he has his hands in multiple businesses ranging from tree trimming to cryptocurrency to reselling Buc-ee’s goods.

Helmuts Meskonis discusses Domain Summit and how he hopes to bring DNForum back to its former glory. This week, I interview Helmuts Meskonis, who organizes the Domain Summit conference in London and owns DNForum and AcornDomains.