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Today
in The
Lowdown: Radix, the operator of 10 top level domain registries, has issued their latest
report on their Premium Domain Sales covering the first half of 2023. The company reported total premium revenue came in at $4.6
million, a 22% jump from the same time frame last year.
Also
inside: A nice pair of six-figure
one-word .com domain sales lead our latest bi-weekly all-extension Top 20 Sales
Chart. One of those hit $300,000 and the other came in at $150,000.
We also saw one of the year's 10 biggest non .com gTLD sales (a $50,000 .org)
and watched the ccTLDs pile up seven entries on the Big Board. One of
those country code sales ranks among the year's 15 biggest in that category.
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The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
Quality Trumps Quantity: Lessons Learned from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/may-june.htm#sthash.TGjujBZO.dpuf
Quality Trumps Quantity: Lessons Learned from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/may-june.htm#sthash.TGjujBZO.dpuf
How
Dynadot's Todd Han Turned a One Man Show Into One of the World's Fastest Growing
Domain Registrars
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Todd
Han's domain industry journey
began over 20 years ago when his mother asked him to build a website for her.
She was able to keep the project "in house" because Todd was already a
computer whiz who had graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley with a degree in computer science and had
recently added a Master's degree in CS from Stanford. When Han started
looking at the domain registrars from that era he couldn't find any that
he liked, so he decided he would just set up one of his own - after all, how
hard could it be?
"The
internet was just taking off and I thought I could build a better
registrar," Han recalls. "I was young and naive and had no idea what
running a business entailed." Todd would spend the next three years as the only
employee of his new company. Over the past five years with dozens now on
staff and over 100,000 customers around the world, Dynadot
has tripled in size, rocketing to 4.5 million domains under
management. Here is how he did it. Full
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Todd
Han
Dynadot President & CEO
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The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
Quality Trumps Quantity: Lessons Learned from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/may-june.htm#sthash.TGjujBZO.dpuf
Quality Trumps Quantity: Lessons Learned from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/may-june.htm#sthash.TGjujBZO.dpuf
Michael Castello Closes $1.5 Million Sale of Room.com to Cap 26-Year Saga from Hand Registration to 7-Figure Sale
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Welcome
to the 10th edition of our annual State
of the Industry Cover Story. Every
January since 2005 we have assembled a
distinguished panel of experts drawn from
every corner of the industry-
including domain investors, developers,
top corporate leaders and attorneys
- to give us their thoughts on the key
trends of the past year and what they saw
coming our way in the new year ahead.
This year we
have put together our biggest panel ever, 17
of the industry' best and brightest, and
split them into two groups of eight each -
one comprised of investors &
developers and one of corporate
leaders. We will the extra spot with
an attorney who has a foot firmly planted
on each side of the line.
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/january.htm#sthash.YJo3bmZs.dpuf
Welcome
to the 10th edition of our annual State
of the Industry Cover Story. Every
January since 2005 we have assembled a
distinguished panel of experts drawn from
every corner of the industry-
including domain investors, developers,
top corporate leaders and attorneys
- to give us their thoughts on the key
trends of the past year and what they saw
coming our way in the new year ahead.
This year we
have put together our biggest panel ever, 17
of the industry' best and brightest, and
split them into two groups of eight each -
one comprised of investors &
developers and one of corporate
leaders. We will the extra spot with
an attorney who has a foot firmly planted
on each side of the line.
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/january.htm#sthash.YJo3bmZs.dpuf
Regular
readers may remember a 2019 DN
Journal Cover Story in which
domain industry pioneer Michael Castello
gave us the inside story of how he got a $1.5
million contract to sell a domain he
co-owned with friend and nationally
syndicated radio icon Walt
"Baby" Love. The deal for Room.com,
a name wisely purchased to upgrade from GetRoom.com,
allowed the buyer to pay for the domain
under a five-year installment plan. That
company just sent in a check for $250,000 to
close the deal.
We
connected with Michael to get an update on
his history with the domain from first
registration to its eventual seven-figure
sale, a history that stretches back 26
years. "Back in the mid 1990's,
during one of our recording sessions, Walt
asked if I could get him involved in domain
names," Michael recalled. I asked him
how much he wanted to spend, and he said,
"How about $3,000?" Our
arrangement was that I would find and
register the names, and we would split their
sales or website businesses 50/50. He handed
me his credit card, and I registered 30
generic domain names, including Room.com."
Full
Story Here
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Michael Castello
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The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
The Amazing Ascent of Whisky.com: How Michael Castello Turned a Free Domain
Into a $3.1 Million Sale - See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/february.htm#sthash.jnkq2io9.dpuf
Quality Trumps Quantity: Lessons Learned from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/may-june.htm#sthash.TGjujBZO.dpuf
Quality Trumps Quantity: Lessons Learned from T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/may-june.htm#sthash.TGjujBZO.dpuf
London Domain Name Summit
Organizers Detail What They Liked About the August
Show and Announce Plans to Go Bigger Next Year
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Welcome
to the 10th edition of our annual State
of the Industry Cover Story. Every
January since 2005 we have assembled a
distinguished panel of experts drawn from
every corner of the industry-
including domain investors, developers,
top corporate leaders and attorneys
- to give us their thoughts on the key
trends of the past year and what they saw
coming our way in the new year ahead.
This year we
have put together our biggest panel ever, 17
of the industry' best and brightest, and
split them into two groups of eight each -
one comprised of investors &
developers and one of corporate
leaders. We will the extra spot with
an attorney who has a foot firmly planted
on each side of the line.
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/january.htm#sthash.YJo3bmZs.dpuf
Welcome
to the 10th edition of our annual State
of the Industry Cover Story. Every
January since 2005 we have assembled a
distinguished panel of experts drawn from
every corner of the industry-
including domain investors, developers,
top corporate leaders and attorneys
- to give us their thoughts on the key
trends of the past year and what they saw
coming our way in the new year ahead.
This year we
have put together our biggest panel ever, 17
of the industry' best and brightest, and
split them into two groups of eight each -
one comprised of investors &
developers and one of corporate
leaders. We will the extra spot with
an attorney who has a foot firmly planted
on each side of the line.
- See more at: http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2014/january.htm#sthash.YJo3bmZs.dpuf
A
lot goes into getting a new domain
conference off the ground - especially when
you are staging it in one of the world's
most expensive cities - but the London
Domain Name Summit planted a seed with
their debut event last year and went into
their second show in August 2023 hoping to
take it to another level. A couple of
weeks after the latest show ended at the
London Hilton Metropole Hotel, we circled
back around to LDNS Founder Helmuts
Meskonis to get his thoughts on how,
given time to reflect, he thought his second
time at bat went.
For further insight, we also connected with
it.com Founder Andrey Insarov whose financial backing as Title Sponsor was critical in helping the new show get off the
ground (it.com also sponsored the inaugural
event in 2022). Insarov, whose company is
also sponsoring the new Domain Days Dubai
conference coming up November 1 & 2,
sees these new events as key elements
in expanding the industry's reach around the
world.
Full
Story Here
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