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John Colascione registered his first geographic domain name – LongIslandExchange.com – for only registration fee (about $10), and after years of hard work discovered the best way to make money in his specific geographic region. With the success of that business model, he parlayed his readership and revenue into an ownership stake in LongIsland.com and now serves more than one million readers per m...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: AIX.com, FastFunds.com, LLL.xyz An investor's portfolio is appraised: 1xl.com, PopcornKing.com, SafetyRecords.com... Get your bids in soon for Ecofund.com, ReferralClub.com, TrainingOnline.com... Plus, much more! We're joined by Sam Dennis, Andrew Rosener an...

The DomainSherpa audience often asks us to check in with past Sherpas to see how their business has fared since their interview. So that's what we're delivering today. Luke Webster started his shaving business on a single, niche, exact-match domain name: VintageStraightRazor.com. But he executed day in and day out and reinvested profits. Today his venture, now called The Grooming Network, sells ra...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: DogEatDog.com, PTY.com, 50X.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: RussianWhisky.com, ConorPass.com, AssadRegime.com... Get your bids in soon for CashQuick.com, DallasBroker.com, MDC.org... Plus, much more! We're joined by Ammar Kubba, Andrew Rosener and...

On today's DomainSherpa interview, we discuss content marketing with Joe Pulizzi, the person who coined the phrase and the world's leading expert on the topic. We also discuss why he passed up the opportunity to buy ContentMarketing.com, whether he regrets it, and what it would have taken to close a deal when it was offered to him. It's an interesting case study on pairing exact-match domain names...

Frank Schilling has been raving about it for months. Industry blogs have been discussing it for weeks. Now’s your chance to see the Uniregistry Market for yourself and make your own decision. Originally scheduled as an exclusive for DNAcademy PRO members, we’re sharing this tutorial given by the two people most responsible for building the new Uniregistry Market. Learn how to setup landing pages (...

This Profitable Flip might never have happened if George Adu wasn't always thinking one step ahead and anticipating the customer's needs. Because of his customer focus, Adu’s $217.50 purchase on eBay.com led to a $15,500 sale about 12 months later. Learn how his tactics (one of which was rather risky) turned into not only a sale, but also an ongoing relationship that continued after the sale due t...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Flawless.com, EdibleFlowers.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: PacificPlace.com, KitchenSolutions.com, DiamondDesigns.com... Get your bids in soon for Sakai.com, Nort.com, IE.org... Plus, much more! We're joined by Frank Schilling, Andrew Rosener and...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: CLI.com, LZC.co, XXHX.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: Fertilizing.com, ExecutiveInsurance.com, ChronicHeadaches.com... Get your bids in soon for Greenfest.com, GlobalMail.com, CNADegree.com... Plus, much more! We're joined by Sam Dennis, Andrew Ros...

Even with my portfolio of only a few hundred domain names, every month I debate which to renew, which to let expire, which to sell and how best to sell them. I find myself going back and forth on which criteria are important in analyzing the portfolio, and worrying that I'm going to drop a domain name of value. In today’s interview, we find out how an investor with 22,000 domain names manages his...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: GoodWeed.com, VRVG.com, 200x6N.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: Motorhomes.review, Vr-cloud.io... Get your bids in soon for SkiSchool.com, Paddleball.com, CWSS.com, Siin.com... Plus, Ali Zandi at Zandibot.com is giving away a free paid tuition to DN...

If you want to know how the domain name expiration process works in detail, you need to watch today's show with Chris Ambler. We discuss: * The domain name expiration process * Which auction partners are associated with which registrars * The best drop catching services to use * When domain names drop and when they go to auction * And much more!

After five plus years of interviewing the brightest Sherpas from around the world, you can now have all their expertise and insights condensed down into a single, carefully-crafted and professionally-published educational course. DNAcademy.com is an an accelerated learning course built for novice and intermediate domain name investors. It was developed by Michael Cyger, publisher of DomainSherpa.c...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: VLOG.com, PureBreads.com, 888733.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: Film.academy, Biotech.co, Lead.ly... Get your bids in soon for Symbiotic.com, Quik.com, LifeIsHard.com... Plus, much more! We're joined by Ammar Kubba, Andrew Rosener and Shane Cultra...

This tutorial walks you through a six-step domain name sales process to find, organize and contact the right decision maker at prospective companies. Does it work? Interviewee David Kelly used it on AccessiblityTesting.com and in less than a year had this $69 purchased domain name sold for $3,500.

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: BBBW.com, Botany.com, VRVC.com An investor's portfolio is appraised: SSSE.com, oGod.com, CUUZ.com... Get your bids in soon for KWeb.com, RBM.org... Plus, much more! We're joined by Ali Zandi, Andrew Rosener and Shane Cultra.

Live from NamesCon 2016! HolyCow.com, MovingUp.com, eGreeting.com, Breast.org... In this show: Domains from the audience at NamesCon are reviewed and appraised... Find out which reserve or reserve-met auctions at NameJet the Sherpas like... Audience questions... Plus, much more! With Frank Schilling, Shane Cultra and Andrew Rosener.

My favorite way to meet people is in person, and next week I'll be in Las Vegas for the third annual NamesCon domain name conference, which promises to be a blockbuster event. I'm making a list of what I need to do to prepare for next week, so I thought it was a good time to chat with the founders of NamesCon about what's going to happen, what we need to be ready for, and how we can make the most...

Think you can only make money in domain name investing if you got into the industry 5, 10 or 20 years ago? Think again. Today's guest entered the industry about a year ago and earned enough profit in that time for a down payment on his lakefront home (where he spoke with me for this interview). And he still owns 189 LLLL .com domain names. But this is no "get-rich-quick scheme." To the contrary, h...

Efty is announcing something we've been working on for a while: a For-Sale landing page theme gallery. Why is this important? I tell you in this short video overview.

In his first interview since selling his portfolio, Michael Berkens answered some questions about the the WorldWide Media domain name portfolio mega-sale to GoDaddy. I asked him how much he sold his portfolio for, what he bought as a result of the sale, and what's next for him. Also, Berkens and Monte Cahn discuss the $24 million dollars worth of domain names that are going up for auction at the N...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: SRE.com, ZBZB.cc, Travel.agency An investor's portfolio is appraised: JuicyGourmet.com, Employment.services, DNsoapbox.com... Get your bids in soon for Soft.com, ePhoto.com, 3731.com, Boxscore.com... One Sherpa almost sweeps the "Name That Price" game Plus,...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Hora.com, KailuaKona.com, 5L.com Portfolio An investor's portfolio is appraised: "Strkli" Portfolio, "Pro" Portfolio... Get your bids in soon for Robe.com, Braces.net, Webmasters.org... One Sherpa almost sweeps the "Name That Price" game Plus, much more! We'...

What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: An investor's gTLD portfolio is appraised: Sex.guide, Higher.education, Design.center... Get your bids in soon for Genetics.com, Night.club and GGG.xyz... A surprising result when a Sherpa summits the mountain in the "Name That Price" game Plus, much more!

In this DomainSherpa Discussion: Are we experiencing too much growth in too fast a time period? Is this type of growth sustainable? Is this a domain name bubble that’s going to pop? Should you stay clear of this investment? And much more! We discuss these questions and more with Sherpas Andrew Rosener, Frank Schilling and Shane Cultra.