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More often than not, hand registered domain name portfolios submitted to the DomainSherpa Review are not considered to be valuable by our panel of experts. Maybe there are a few domains worth keeping out of 50 submitted. Maybe. Today, we’re turning the tables on one of the regular reviewers on the DomainSherpa Review. Past Domain Sherpa and frequent DomainSherpa Review expert Rick Schwartz opens up his list of 390 recently hand registered domain names, and shares his thought process for how and why he registered the domains.

Jon Yau considers this investment of $250,000 in StockPhoto.com a pre-payment for the endless stream of potential customers that visit his website daily through direct navigation. And with plans to continue to grow his photography database, he expects only to increase his customer conversion rate and revenue.

Listed among the DNJournal.com top domain name sales of 2013 are 114.com for $2.1 million, 88888.com for $245,000 and 1001.com for $100,000. Learn at's behind those high sale prices and who's buying 80 percent of the numeric domain names.

We all have domain names that are begging to be developed. Or an idea that we would love to test and see if potential customers like it enough that we can build a profitable business. But what if we don’t want to design the user experience, hire a developer, build a website, sign up for hosting, or spend any money launching? Can it be done? It can. And Raj Beri has returned to the show to tell us exactly how to do it.

In this interview, .Club CEO Colin Campbell and CMO Jeff Sass discuss the winning auction (in which they beat out Donuts and Merchant Law Group with a bid somewhere less than $5 million), their registry mission, potential customer base, customer adoption, marketing, availabilities phases, valuation of both their domains and .com equivalents (e.g., wine.club versus wineclub.com), and much more.

Learn why Sol Orwell, the founder of Examine.com, came out of retirement to educate people about the waste and issues associated with the $10+ billion dietary supplements industry; how he partnered for success; why he chose the brandable domain name Examine.com over exact-match domain names like Supplements.com; how he iteratively grew the business while updating their business model; and much more.

Ken Hansen was leading the .NYC top-level domain launch for Neustar. But an opportunity came up that he felt was even bigger than .NYC, one of the most anticipated new gTLDs pending launch.

Understanding the basics of a revenue-generating website is half of the equation to successfully building and exiting an Internet business. In this interview, a successful entrepreneur and business broker walks us through the fundamentals, including understanding – in detail – how to value websites, how he finds so many buyers in the $50,000 to $5 million range, and what types of businesses are always in demand by buyers.

In this interview we hear about the history, current operations and future aspirations of a leading registry service provider: CentralNic.

Spencer Haws of NichePursuits.com has made a career out of long-tail and traffic and continues to innovate. In this interview, we learn how he started, what used to work, and how today’s environment requires a much different strategy and set of tactics than just a year ago.

While holding all other factors constant – a change in business and domain name from brandable Beep.com.au to exact-match CarLoans.com.au produced a 66 percent increase in sales turnover, driving their business from a $60 million company to $100 million in only five months...just with an exact match domain name.

Nokta Domains went from no domain name leases to earning as much from leasing as they do from domain name parking. Merve Engin, manager of domain name leasing, joins us to share how Nokta generates leasing leads, what their pricing methodology is, how they encourage leasees to purchase the domain at the end of the term, and much more.

In this interview, Ope Odusan openly shares how Africa.com has sold hundreds of Africa.com third-level domains to large companies, and discusses prospects for future sales, especially with the impending launch of geographic top-level domains like .Africa, .Joburg, .CapeTown and .Durban.

In this how-to video tutorial, you’ll learn exactly how to use the Google Adwords Keyword Planner tool to determine search volume and advertising interest before you make a domain name purchase.

How do domain name owners and developers form a joint venture for mutual benefit? What if the domain name owner receives an offer to sell the domain that they can't refuse? Or what if the developer fails to deliver on the timeline and thresholds that were agreed to prior to the joint venture?

Most investors in the domain name industry would be nervous to invest $185,000 in a single premium domain name. But on today’s show we interview a 27-year-old entrepreneur who invested $185,000 not once, but three times this year, spending a total of over half a million dollars in application fees alone to register new top level domains. This is the story of how a domain name investor built a registrar and is launching at least two (possibly three) registries.

The hacker group Syrian Electronic Army was able to hijack the websites of the New York Times, HuffingtonPost and Twitter, redirecting traffic, causing lost revenue and confusing hundreds of thousands of people. Are our websites and email safe?Chief Technology Officer Bruce Tonkin from Melbourne IT answers this question and tells us how we can secure our domain names from a similar fate.

In real estate, the stock market or domain name investing, it's an oft-stated business rule that you make your money on the buy, not the sell. But how do you make sure you're value investing like Warren Buffett in the domain name industry? What do top domain name brokers look for when buying domain names for their own personal investment portfolio? This interview answers those questions and more.

How do you maximize the revenue you can generate from a website using lead generation and no Google AdSense? Frans van Hulle answers this question and talks about lead generation with websites.

If you run a business and own trademarks for your brand, products or services, you are likely going to be affected by the hundreds of new top level domains that will be coming available over the next few years. Learn what you can do today to protect your business interests.