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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...

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...

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...

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 t...

Mike Navarini shares tactics for buying domain names for next to nothing and selling them for thousands. If you're just starting out as a domain name investor or you want to add an almost no-risk way to invest to your game plan, you will want to watch this interview and on-screen tutorial.

Buy a domain name for up to $300 and sell it on average for $3,000. Seems like a straightforward and highly desirable business model, but how do you actually find good names and then put them in front of buyers? Michael Krell's story of turning a $1,000 investment into a $100,000 revenue stream is one that many of us aspire to. He lays out his approach in detail in this show.

Owning the short, single-word, aspirational domain name Wish.co.uk allowed Richard Kernshaw and his business partner to “punch above their weight” – making connections, doing deals and selling more than $1 million in day experiences with a small team. Recently, Kershaw acquired another domain name that will allow him to make big gains right from the get-go: Digital.com, which he purchased for $373...

What is a brandable domain name and why is the average selling price between $2,000 and $4,000 on BrandBucket.com? Founder Margot Bushnaq shares her knowledge about what makes a great brandable domain name and how – if you’re a domain name investor – you can list them for sale on BrandBucket.com.

Last week Freelancer.com launched Freemarket.com, a domain name and website marketplace spun off from their $3.2 million acquisition of WarriorForum.com. While some may think Freemarket.com is "just another" marketplace, what it offers is the community of 13 million potential buyers and sellers across all Freelancer.com properties. I invited CEO Matt Barrie and Product Manager Jimmy Young here to...

Receive more offers on your domain names by listing them for sale at the five major marketplaces. In 26 minutes, you will learn how to sell your domain names at the five major marketplaces that matter most, plus: 1. Organize your domain names for sale 2. Set pricing for your domain names 3. Hang a for sale sign 4. Select the right marketplaces 5. Sell domains on GoDaddy.com 6. Sell domains on Flip...

In the new DomainSherpa series Profitable Flips, skilled domain name investors share all the details of how they bought low and sold high turning a profit of at least five figures. This is the story of Statement.com and how in nine months Braden Pollock turned a $9,200 purchase into a $140,000 sale.

Within the $140+ billion insurance industry, pet insurance’s share may seem paltry at $500 million. But the riches are often in the niches. That’s what PetPremium.com is banking on. Started as a lead-generation website for insurance companies, PetPremium.com quickly morphed into a licensed insurance agency selling policies directly to U.S. consumers and earning more per customer than a mere lead-g...

Google is spending part of their billions in profits on 100 new top-level domains and launching a new registrar, Google Domains. In this presentation, given at Google I/O 2014, Google provides an overview of their domain name plans for the future.

The holy grail of owning a premium domain name is being able to sell an endless of supply of either email addresses or third-level domain names – in essence, acting like a domain name registry but without the regulatory burden. But as Left of the Dot co-founder and CMO John Lyotier explains in this video, the task is a difficult one. His company has navigated this territory before, and he offers b...