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Today
in The
Lowdown:
The
Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is ready to welcome members back to Las Vegas for their
2024 Annual Meeting that is coming up next month. The ICA just launched a new meeting website
that provides a central location for checking out the agenda, finding out who is coming,
securing tickets and booking a room at Resorts World.
Also
inside: Sedo turned up the heat up our latest
all-extension Top 20 Domain Sales Chart with a six-figure sale of a
literally hot .com. They wound up with three of the top five entries on the honor
roll. The #2 spot went to another hot TLD, .ai, with this one producing one the ten biggest ccTLD sales reported year to date. An $80,000
non .com gTLD sale rounded out the first five.
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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
Story Here |

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
The
Domain King's Sweetest Deal: How the Sale of GreenRabbit.com Wound Up Putting
Over $11 Million in Rick Schwartz's Pocket
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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
On
Monday October 1, 2023
the Performance
Food Group (PFG) acquired
fresh and frozen foods delivery company GreenRabbit.com
for an undisclosed price. Whatever the
amount was, PFG, a company that has assets
valued at $7.8 billion could easily
afford it. There
is a fascinating domain back story
behind this deal. GreenRabbit.com was a new
brand adopted by the owners of
Candy.com in 2021 when their business
services had expanded far beyond the
category they had become a power in after
acquiring the Candy.com domain from Rick
Schwartz back in 2009.
Being
the savvy businessman that he is, Rick,
widely known as the Domain King, crafted the
Candy.com deal to give him not only $3
million in cash, but also equity in
the company that acquired the domain. So,
when GreenRabbit was acquired, 14 years
after he sold Candy.com, Rick, who had
picked up $1.7 million from a share
sale three years ago, collected another
$6.8 million,
bringing his total take from the domain to over
$11 million! Full
Story Here
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Rick Schwartz
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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
Hilco
Digital Assets Doubles Firepower with Braden Pollock Joining Andrew Miller at
HDA as a Strategic Partner and Stakeholder
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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
15
months ago
domain consultant and ATM
Holdings Founder Andrew
Miller, who has been involved in many of
the biggest domain sales in industry
history, teamed up with diversified
financial services giant Hilco
Global to
start a
new division - Hilco
Digital Assets (HDA). The new
enterprise hit the ground running, quickly
establishing itself as a powerful force in
the premium domain space with
moves that included a $10
million investment in SquadHelp.com.
That funding and Miller's advice helped
SquadHelp build and launch their new Ultra
Premium Domain Marketplace.
HDA
just doubled their firepower with another
big move in welcoming another one of the
industry's most highly respected figures,
Braden
Pollock, on board as a strategic
partner and stakeholder.
Braden is a long-time investor in both
domain names and promising startups. He also
owns a world class domain portfolio that HDA
will now exclusively represent. Pollock in
turn will help put deals together that he
and HDA can jointly invest in. Full
Story Here
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Braden Pollock
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