Domain Name Wire Podcast

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 […]

Post link: Democratization, compression, and delegation – DNW Podcast #606

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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, […]

Post link: Australian domain alert – DNW Podcast #603

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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 […]

Post link: My domain investing year so far – DNW Podcast #602

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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 […]

Post link: .Ai end user domain stories – DNW Podcast #601

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ICANN received 1,600 TLD applications, and one company was behind a lot of them. Welcome to episode #600! The deadline to apply for a top level domain with ICANN was last Wednesday, and one company went big. Really big. Link Freedom Group (LFG), a company associated with the team behind .link, followed through on its […]

Post link: Inside LFG’s big bet on top level domains – DNW Podcast #600

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A look at what to expect at this year’s show. Last year, NamesCon moved to Miami for its first conference under new ownership. There were a lot of cool changes to the conference…as well as some things that could be improved. Today, I’m joined by Anthony Pomball, managing director of NamesCon and CloudFest Americas, and […]

Post link: NamesCon is changing in 2026 – DNW Podcast #599

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Elliot Noss explains his vision for using DNS with agents. Is the DNS the perfect backbone for a future full of agents? I previously talked to GoDaddy about Agent Name Service and Identity Digital about DNSid. Former Tucows CEO Elliot Noss has another vision: Groundmark. On today’s show, Elliot talks about the idea behind Groundmark […]

Post link: Trust and identity with AI agents – DNW Podcast #598

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