Domain Name Wire Podcast

Phil Davis explains the keywords and strategy that helped him build a portfolio of over 20,000 hand registered domains. I get a lot of feedback about the Domain Name Wire Podcast, and one episode this year got more accolades than usual. In episode #585, naming expert Phil Davis explained how he built a portfolio of […]

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Josh Reason shares an update on his hand registration experiment. The numbers don’t lie: people are hand registering more domains now than ever before. In the third quarter, people registered 13.1 million new .com and .net domains. That was a record for Verisign, beating the previous record set just three months earlier. Sure, some were […]

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How Donald Trump’s proclamation led to an overnight transformation for Slovenia’s .si country code domain. For Barbara Povše and her team at Slovenia’s .si domain registry, things have always moved at a deliberate pace. That changed last month when Donald Trump triggered a frenzy of domain registrations. During a speech to the United Nations, Trump […]

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How Rick Schwartz is getting his valuable domains into the hands of builders. For three decades, Rick Schwartz has been building a portfolio of super-valuable domain names, and he sells them from time to time at eye-watering prices. This year, something changed. Rick decided to put domains like property.com, tryouts.com, and stud.com into the hands […]

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How AI is changing all businesses. AI changes everything, and that includes domain names and the web presence business. As Wall Street tries to figure out the winners and losers, many incumbent large tech companies, including GoDaddy, have seen their share prices fall. This week, I chat with Vinod Suresh, VP of Product Management at […]

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A discussion about integrating existing web3 namespaces with new top level domains. Many top level domains applied for this year have a connection to web3: think .crypto and .nft. But for many years, web3 companies have offered alt-root “domains” matching these top level domains on blockchain-based systems. What happens if one of those alt-root systems […]

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Chris Ambler won’t end up running .web, but perhaps .epic. Verisign is introducing .web this year, but the idea for the domain dates back more than three decades. Today’s guest was there at the beginning. Chris Ambler, Director of Domains for Registered Agents, Inc., discusses the long and winding history of .web and his role […]

Post link: It’s a long story: from .web to .epic – DNW Podcast #604

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New registration rules for .com.au domains could cause chaos. The board of auDA, the group that oversees the .au namespace, just voted to make a sweeping change to registration rules for .com.au domains. It could mean a million or more domains lose their eligibility in a namespace of 3.3 million. On today’s show, Erhan Karabardak, […]

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The numbers behind my record year. Two-thirds of the year is in the books, and what a year it has been. Technology is changing quickly, and this is impacting the domain business. On today’s show, I discuss my domain results so far this year and dig into some of the changes I’m making to my […]

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These two entrepreneurs moved their websites to .AI domains. .AI is hot, but what do business owners think about them? On this show, I speak with two business owners who switched their businesses to .ai domains. One started with a .so and quickly realized the extension’s limitations. The other started on a .com domain that […]

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