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Must
See Video from NamesCon Provides Inside Look at
Historic Home.com and Chat.com Sales
In
our review
of the 2023 NamesCon
Global conference I talked about
see one of the best business sessions at a show
that I've seen in 20 years of covering them. That
opening day session on May 31, titled The
Greatest Stories Never Told, featured
pioneering domain brokers Andrew Miller and
Larry Fischer who provided an unprecedented
look behind the curtain at how they got two of the
biggest sales in history done (an eight-figure
deal for Chat.com and another blockbuster in
Home.com).
The dynamic duo (seen above with Andrew at left and Larry at right) took things to a
new level when Andrew got his long-time
friend, David
Lazowski, to join them via an Internet
connection. David was a huge get because he is the
President, Retail Sales East, for Fairway,
the company that bought Home.com (for an
undisclosed price). In
his first hand account of why the company dug deep
for Home.com, David explained what having that
domain will mean for the company for generations
to come and why it will be worth every penny it
cost.
David
Laszowski, President, Retail Sales East
Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation
In
my review I noted that
a video of this session should be saved and shown to every
corporate buyer in the world who is thinking
about why they should invest in a category killing domain name.
Thankfully that video is now available for
all to see since Andrew posted it on his LinkedIn
account. The video (below) was shot on a single
NamesCon camera at the back of the hall that
remained focused on the stage. As a result, you will
not see David who the live audience watched on large
screens on each side of the stage, but will heareverything he said while talking with Andrew
and Larry. The 45-minute video gives you the entire
session, so you also get all of Andrew and Larry's
fascinating anecdotes before and after David joined
them. It is great that this was preserved and made
available to all who want to learn from the masters
why top tier domains command the prices they do.
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