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“So I Did What Anybody Would Do” – Domaining IS Mainstream!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Why would you advertise your company during the Super Bowl if your target audience wasn’t average Americans? GoDaddy’s phenomenal growth over the last few years is evidence enough- domaining is mainstream! While the average person might throw their arms up in frustration at not finding an available name they like, they certainly won’t hesitate to [...]

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My Rule Is Something You Can Spell

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Steve Huffman, co-founder of Reddit and Hipmunk was recently the guest on This Week In Startups with Jason Calacanis. In this audio clip, Steve and Jason share their frustration with acquiring good dot coms and discuss their minimal criteria for choosing a domain. Funny that but for the random passing of a S. American tourist, [...]

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I Should Ask For $5 Thousand – My Favorite Domain Story Ever

Sunday, September 5, 2010

What’s so impressive about John’s story is that he learned from it and moved on.

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Domains For SEO- Do They Still Matter? Kelvin Newman’s Take

Sunday, August 29, 2010

A fun podcast I never miss is the Internet Marketing Insider from SiteVisibility.com. Great insights from the internet marketing trenches featuring Kelvin Newman and Andy White. I borrowed this clip from their recent Want a Sticky Website episode because it deals with a subject I know to be near and dear to domainers. Especially if [...]

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Startup Social Proof Number One – Your Domain Name!

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Marco used credit cards to put 30% down on a $36,000 domain name. Financed at 6%, he used Moniker’s escrow service to purchase Thumbtack.com – before he even had a product!

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How We Acquired Groupon.com

Monday, July 19, 2010

Mixergy’s Andrew Warner recently interviewed Groupon’s Andrew Mason. This clip discusses how Groupon got Groupon.com. Full interview with video and transcription can be found at Mixergy. Andrew calls it ‘the perfect name’, but another fellow with a similar idea already owned Groupon.com. He didn’t want to sell it and he didn’t want to work together. [...]

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Is a Hyphen Worth $15,000 Dollars

Monday, July 19, 2010

Mixergy’s Andrew Warner recently interviewed Blank-Label.com‘s co-founder Danny Wong. This clip discusses Danny’s frustration with trying to acquire the domain BlankLabel.com Full interview with video and transcription can be found at Mixergy. [Note: Danny was Skyping in from China so the audio clip is a little funky.] Danny calls the owner of BlankLabel.com both a [...]

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Naming Your Company – A Venture Capitalist Tells You How

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. He is also the host of This Week In Venture Capital, a new show on Jason Calacanis’s ThisWeekIn.com network of web shows. In the [...]

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If You Didn’t Know What An Mp3 Is, Why Did You Register The Domain?

Friday, April 2, 2010

Ultimate early internet domain name play story. In this excerpt Michael Robertson tells how he came to own mp3.com and what happened when he ‘turned on’ the traffic. (Click arrow to play audio clip) Michael Robertson tells the story of mp3.com. In addition to starting mp3.com (later sold to Vivendi), Michael Robertson founded Lindows (Linspire) [...]

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A Great Domain Name Is a “Signal of Quality”

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Again from ThisWeekInStartups.com, the Jason Calacanis ustream.tv show. It’s a great show, and the experience of watching it live has turned out to be a little bit addictive. Check out #TWIST on Twitter. Jason is simply Twitter.com/Jason. In this audio clip from ‘Jason’s Shark Tank’, Jason tells caller/developer Kevin, of pikk.com what he likes about [...]

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