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Monte talks with Michael Mann. Mike was the founder and president of BuyDomains.com, which is one of the worlds largest secondary market for Internet domain names. Monte also talks with Eric Shannon. Eric is President of LatPro, Inc. LatPro is one of the top niche boards in the employment sector and a founding member of www.nicheboards.com.
Ree Semley, from the United Kingdom is an extremely motivated and thorough person who is fortunate enough to be able to identify a good Business opportunity in all areas of commerce with no exception to ecommerce. He used the Internet for many years taking in as much relevant information as possible regarding the phenomenal growth of all aspects of the world wide web and where it is leading. He enjoys very much what he does albeit very boring to most people but looks forward to active participation in the very near future with some of his own projects due to begin in 2007. He has already incorporated 2 new companies which are registered with companies house in London and has successfully created the infrastructure to enable the first business to operate far more efficiently and cost effective than any other competitor can manage at this time.
Special guests Jothan Frakes and Richard Lau discuss the upcoming NamesCon 2016 Domain Conference highlights, keynotes, live auction and more. Use promo code namejet2015 and get $200 off of your NamesCon registration.
Special guests Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens from domain cunsulting company RightOfTheDot discuss the upcoming live domain auction at NamesCon2016, and how China is affecting the domain market.
Aftermarket Domain Sales: From Keys to Success and Leveraging as a Seller and Buyer as Scott Pruitt and Jonathan Tenenbaum welcome the Chief Revenue Officer at Afternic, Bob Mountain. Afternic (http://www.afternic.com/), a specialist in aftermarket domain sales — that is, reselling domain names that are already owned was purchased by GoDaddy in 2013.
Jonathan and Scott welcome Bob Mountain, Chief Revenue Officer at Afternic. Bob shares his insights on how to successfully buy and sell names in the domain aftermarket and how the new TLDs are likely to change the market.
THE Domain Conference is coming to Ft Lauderdale FL this Sept. Jonathan Tenenbaum and Scott Pruitt interview domain industry veteran , the event’s creator, and discuss what to expect in the way of pricing, networking opportunities and current lineup of speakers.
Hosts Jonathan Tenenbaum & Scott Pruitt of NameJet.Com (http://namejet.com) talk with Statton Hammock (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stattonhammock) Vice President of business and legal affairs at Rightside Group (https://www.linkedin.com/company/rightside?trk=ppro_cprof). The guys dice it out about whether you really have any legal rights when it comes to ownership of a Domain.
Michael Cyger, Owner and publisher of DomainSherpa.com joins us to talk about the Domain Name Tax Guide, addressing the special tax needs of people in the domain industry. Listen to receive a special offer for DomainMasters listeners.
Bill Hartzer, Senior SEO Strategist at Globe Runner SEO returns as our guest on Domain Masters. Bill brings new data related to paid search marketing conversion rates, comparing the advertising value of .com domains with the new TLDs. Bill also be shares some of the most current SEO best practices to help you drive more traffic to your website.
Want to learn how to make money with domain names? Jonathan and Scott interview Michael Gilmour of ParkLogic. Michael is an Internet industry veteran managing over 1.2 million domain names through his company. Learn how to make money from domain traffic and how to build an Internet business from scratch.
Former Domain Masters host Victor Pitts of Above.com visits with Scott Pruitt and Jonathan Tenenbaum on location from Namescon 2015 in Las Vegas were he conducted a session on Monetizing Your Domain Traffic. Plus, we hear from Pinky Brand from TLD Registry about the recent domain activity around the Asian market and Chinese character domains.
Scott and Jonathan welcome as our guest successful domain name investor and blogger Shane Cultra of DomainShane.com. Shane will be sharing his never before revealed methods for finding great domain names in the aftermarket, how to value domain names, and what it means to Outsmart the Dumb and Outwork the Smart.
Monitoring the Onboarding and New TLD Launches that Web.com has observed by their owned companies of Register.com and Network Solutions with Online Presence and Domain Name Industry Executive (and the Director of Policy for Web.com) Jennifer Standiford. Jennifer also talks about her domain name compliance and policy, and shares what domainers and portfolio owners need to know about ICANN and domain name policy.
Our guest is Jennifer Standiford, Director of Policy at Web.com. We will be discussing new ICANN verification policies that every domain owner needs to be aware of, and how the introduction of new Top Level Domains (TLDs) are creating exciting opportunities for business owners and investors.
Scott and Jonathan preview and highlight the upcoming NamesCon 2015 Conference (being held in Las Vegas January 11th-14th, 2015) with Richard Lau, NamesCon Co-Founder and Jothan Frakes, Co-Founder and Content Producer of NamesCon. NamesCon is the largest commercial domain name conference offering distinct and diverse content and value for the domain name industry, which will includea live domain auction to the 2015event.
New TLDs VS. .com domains with Bill Hartzer, Senior SEO Strategist at Globe Runner SEO. Bill discusseswhich is the better value when it comes to search marketing; the .com or the exact match TLD. Bill also talks about which new TLDs have the most sites built compared to number of registrations.
New Hosts Scott Pruitt and Jonathan Tenenbaum welcome the original Domain Masters host, as well as Co-Founder and President of Right of the Dot, Monte Cahn. Monte shares his backstory on the early beginnings of hosting the first domain industry podcast. Also, we hear about the latest headlines along the domain auction front.
Bruce Clay talks about his search engine optimization classes, search engine optimization management, and improved search engine placement.
Jay Berkowitz of TenGoldenRules gives us 10 Tips to Domainers for Buying High Traffic Domains While Protecting Your Existing Traffic, plus Chronicling the dotCO Launch as Chef Patrick Ruddell speaks with Lori Anne Wardi, Director of Business Development for .Co Internet S.A.S
Using Blogs for New Domains with Breht Burri, a domainer and the president of the Domain Licensing Corporation a domain monetization and development company that manages a portfolio of approximately 3,000 Generic Domain Names.
Ron Sheridan discusses diversifying your domain name portfolio and his thoughts on the industry and how domainers do not have a major retail platform to seek out a premium domain.
Jake Bailie discusses SEO and website optimization from SES New York 2005 while Roy Lopez with his rags to riches story involving Sneakers.com
Breht Burri from Toobaroo joins Victor to discuss Enterprise/Corporate level domain management, acquisition and planning services. Monte talks to Bill Goss (Mr Lucky) about his book, The Luckiest Unlucky Man Aliveandhis stint in the U.S. Navy
Are ccTLDS a good investment? Victor asks that questions and other as he speaks with guest Bruce Tedeschi, author of the book Domainers Complete Handbook. Also Jothan speaks toDNZoom founder Sean Stafford about hisebook DomainGraduate, Tapping the Online Mines, which offers everything a beginning domainer needs to know, including beginning investing, plus dealing with PayPal and setting up business models.
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Selling Domains with Assets as Chris Leggatt is joined by Moniker senior executive Don Lyons to explain selling domains with assets.Starting a Internet Business for under 5000 Dollars as we learn55 Surefire Internet Businesses You Can Start for Under 5k with the author of the self-titled book Melissa Campanelli.
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Victor leads a discussion on how opportunities are limitless for new gTLD registries, but challenges will be difficult without expert assistance, according to guest Minds + Machines CEO Antony Van Couvering. Plus, Jothan welcomes Peter Celeste of Domain Sponsor discusses what the company does for its clients in the areas of domain name monetization, pay per click and online advertising, plus how domain owners and registrants are referred to as publishers.
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Converting Domain Assets Into Effective Online Businesses asJodi Chamberlain, President of DualEagle.com joins Victor Pitts in a discussion about converting domain assets into effective online businesses by outsourcing development to experienced resources. Also, life-time entrepreneur Stephen Webbexplains whyDomains are The New Real Estate.
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Victor interviews Morgan Linton from Affiliate Covention LA 2009. Morgan is the President of Linton Investment has made a career of investing in domain. Morgan talks about sorting domains between good and bad and how to monetize. Sandra Brooks, author of the Domain Tax Guide on managing taxes with domain ownership.
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Episode 68 - Morgan Linton from MorganLinton.com
.Co Launch a Success
The Wizard of Google AdWords and one of the worlds leading specialists on buying search engine traffic expert Perry Marshall comes on to discuss how to monetize the most revenue using Google AdWords. Plus, veteran domainer Alf Temme tells us his strategy of buying domain names, plus he discusses the issue of domain name squatting.
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Mike speaks with Serial Entrepreneur Gary Kremen, the entrepreneur who invented online dating, founded the personals site Match.com and was the first registrant of Sex.com
DN Journal Editor and Publisher Ron Jackson discussesHow the Dawn of New gTLDs Will Impact 2014 andNew Tools for Keeping Track of All of the New gTLDs. He also fills us in on some new projects he is working on.
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Morgan Linton discusses Lean Startups, Fashion Metric and dotCOs with Mike. Morgan tells us about his new venture, aBrand Discovery Engineand intelligent driven e-commerce platform that creates an effortless online shopping experience reinvented for how men prefer to shop.
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Mike talks tosubject matter expert and thought leader Braden Pollock of Legal Brand Marketing about Lead Generation, Domaining and Internet Marketing.
Mike speaks with Com Mirza: Tech Entrepreneur, Global Investor andChief Executive Officer andCEO at Mirza Holdings,a holding company based in Dubai UAE
Domain Investor/Developer Chad Folkening is theFounder of eCorp.com and Global Ventures,a technology-based venture development, advisory and investment group established in 1996. He speaks to Mike about his domaining highlights
Talking Banking and Credit Card Domain Monetization Solutions with Sean Sullivan, Founder and CEO of BankAds, which specializes in Banking and Credit Card Domain Monetization Solution For Premium Domain Owners And Website Publishers.
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Nonprofit Organization Management with Raymond Henderson, the Executive Director at Grassroots.org. |He discusses some new domains in the work for the non-profit sector .
Talking Full Service Online Marketing and Search with Boyd Norwood, the president of SEO.com, a leading online marketing and search engine optimization company.
Inside the Full Service Agency Clients: Software Development,Integrated Marketing and Payment Solutions, Social Media Management and Marketing and more as Mike interviews Geno Roefaro, President of Webdevelop.com.
Talking Domain Names, Branding and Investing, Branding Value of New TLDs as new host Mike Mann welcomes Ari Rabban, the President of Phone.com. There is never going to be a way around dotCom branding superiority. Anything built without it just makes the dotCom more valuable and necessary.
Understanding your domains traffic will help you with effectiveness. Not understanding your potential acquisition domain's traffic may lead to overpaying or lost of clean-up work after purchase. Victor explains it all.
Talking Drop Catching and Working with New gTLDs as Richard Schreier, CEO of Pool.com joins Victor in a discussion of how Pool has adapted to changes in the drop catching business, and how Pool plans to work with the new gTLDs.
Joe Higgins, Senior Sales and Strategy Consultant at RookMedia.net join Victor. Victor and Joe unveil domain parking mechanics with distinction given to how where parking services differentiate themselves. Learn how the advertisers and landing pages are selected for your domains, and some metrics that may help you earn more from your inventory.
Victor is joined by Aaron Kvitek, Vice President, Marketing and Communications Corporate Management at Oversee.net, as Aaron provides a great preview of the upcoming Webfest Global 2013 Conference February 5-7, 2013 in Santa Monica, CA. Listen to this episode to learn how this show has changed to adapt to a changing industry.
Choosing a Domain to Start a New Business? Before you rush out and choose your domain name or name your website, learn what will your domain help or hinder your business from growing. Victor gives us some best practices and strategies.
Talking Part Time Domain Investing With Full Time Passion as Wendy Putman shares her story of domain investing with Victor. Wendys story is one that most domain investors can relate to.
What categories of domains monetize best, what ccTLDs monetize, how does international traffic compare in monetization to U.S. traffic, and more as Victor speaks with with Joe Higgins and Simon Pupo of Rookmedia, the PPC company that is turning heads with great performance, shares insight on how they achieve success in todays PPC market.
Rick and Howard preview the upcoming T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference with Victor coming back to Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Listen in for the latest and most detailed discussion about the upcoming show in October.
Victors fills us in on the latest headlines with a Domain Industry Update plus he shares with us his Guide for Managing your Domain Portfolio.
As ICANN reveals gTLD expansion domain application list. Victor discusses what Google reveals about domains and how they are looking up the new gTLDs skirts.
Existing domain portfolios have a 15-27 month head start on new gTLDS. What should domain investors do to capitalize on this? Victor breaks down the opportunities.
Victor reviews the ICANN gTLD announcement, of 1900 new TLD applicants. RightoftheDot.com founders Monte Cahn and Michael Berkens join Victor to offer discussion and analysis.
Now that ICANN has announced the big reveal for the applied Generic Top-Level domain names (gTLDs) is scheduled, Victor ponders what comes next for new gTLD Registries?
Putting Domain Assets to Work, Tips for Building Different Types of Websites from a Domain and more as Victor speaks with Jay Berkowitz fromTenGoldenRules.com
Victor updates on the ICANN new TLD status and explains how domainers could help new TLDs gain a foothold in the market.
Internet Commerce Association (ICA) Counsel Philip Corwin speaks with Victor Pitts in a wide-ranging discussion of legal and regulatory policy issues of bottom line importance to all domain investors.
The WHOIS system is under considerable scrutiny, and mandatory regulatory changes may be forthcoming. Domain investors must understand the issues regarding WHOIS, so they protect themselves and their investments.
Dr. Liz Williams, CEO of Sedari.com provides an exceptional update on the ICANN new gTLD process, and answers Victors questions regarding impact of further ICANN delays, risk to the process, and what to expect in terms of new gTLDs reaching the market.
Talking Global Domains and the Health of the ccTLDs Market as Daniel Eisenhut, Chief Sales Officer of EuroDNS joins Victor in a discussion about the global domain market. Discussion includes the health of the ccTLDs market and how new gTLDs might impact that.
Choosing the right domain name to brand your business. Know the difference of the traditional brand and the generic brand online. Victor breaks down the advantages and limitations
Jodi Chamberlain, previews Europes Domaining 2012 conference coming up in Valencia, Spain, plus a classic interview on Diversifying your Domain Name Portfolio with the Domainers icon, Ron Sheridan.
Andrew Allemann and Victor discuss the insight provided by the numerous domain industry surveys conducted over the years by Domain Name Wire.
Victor is joined by Ron Jackson, editor and founder of DNJournal.com, the domain industrys bellwether site. Since 2003, DNJournal has archived trusted domain sales figures for the publics benefit. Ron provides a "20011/2012 State of the Union" report to the market
Victor reports on some news headlines affecting domainers, plus we hear additional interviews from DomainFest Global 2012 with Page Howe, Mason Cole, Tony Lentino and Emily Anne Instra.
Roving reporters talk to major domain industry players from DomainFest Global 2012 in Los Angeles. We hear from Mike Fillipone, Frank Mitchlick, Frank Schilling and Ron Jackson.
IDN guru Mike Ward joins Victor in a discussion about the nuances of IDNs. Mike is the co-founder of the South Florida Domainers group and is an active domainer with a different global development strategy for his domain portfolio.
ScienceFiction.com triggers an imagination full of possibilities. What is happening with at ScienceFiction.com since its acquisition by domainer Patrick Ruddell?
Aaron Kvitek from Oversee.net.previews the upcoming DomainFest Global 2012 and a discussion of what we can expect from this years show.
gTLDs vs. Established TLDs, Mind Share and Challenges For Registry Operators Will Face as Victor offers up a sneak preview of what to expect on Domain Masters in 2012.
Best Practices for Increased Domain Exposure as Victor talks basic domain selling strategy using a passive selling approach. What can be done to increase exposure to your domain while avoiding legal tripwires.
In a classic segment, Victor speaks with Search Engine Land Editor In Chief and Search Marketing Expo Conference Chair Danny Sullivan about how he got started in search, and he gives his thoughts on how search marketers look at the domain industry.
Victor Pitts and TLD Expert Consultant Jothan Frakes look back at the Domain Industry in 2011 with the ongoing movement of Top Level Domains.
Domain Selling 101 as Victor takes us through the basics of the seller initiated sales approach.
Discover the Life Cycle of a Domain Name as Victor takes us through the process and explains why you should know your registrar well.
Domain Development, Step-By-Step as guest host Morgan Linton takes you through the process. He outlines your initial research , the advantage of exact-match domains, backlinks, development paths and monetization.
Following a short-lived rebranding to O.co, Overstock.com will once again be known as Overstock.com. Victor analyzes how the announcement will affects the .Co Registry as well as the value of TLDs in general.
Domain Industry Evolution Discussion with Adam Dicker, one of the 20 most influential people in the domain industry, recently inducted into the domain hall of fame at TRAFFIC 2011. He joins Victor on to discuss the evolution of the industry.
Tim Schumacher, the CEO of Sedo shares his insight to the value of domains, using SEDOs visibility into an inventory of 15 million domain names and global perspective.
Jodi Chamberlain, President of DualEagle.com joins Victor in a discussion about converting domain assets into effective online businesses by outsourcing development to experienced resources.
Victor is on location at the TRAFFIC conference in Fort Lauderdale 2011. Listen to segments of a live domain auction, as well as interviews with attendees John Maurielo from Moniker and both Igor Kuehn and Claus Barche from InterNetX as they report their take-aways from the conference.
Paul Goldstone of iGoldrush.com and Morgan Linton join Victor to discuss professional educational videos targeting domainers turning developers, while made available on iGoldrush for FREE.
Victor reviews recent news in the industry of interest to domainers, then he introduces Joe Domainer aka Mr. Typical. Joe represents the average domainer, and shares his experience and outlook about the future of domaining.
Michael Gilmour, cofounder of ParkLogic joins Victor to examine Yahoo and Googles business rule changes that are affecting domain parking services.
Domain Masters celebrates reaching its 250th podcast with a special 1-hour summary of what the program has offered to this point.
Victor catches with up with the original host, Monte Cahn (who hosted 101 episodes starting with the premiere episode in November 2004 until 2008), Jothan Frakes (hosted 18 episodes in 2009) and Chef Patrick Ruddell (who hosted with co-host Morgan Linton in 2009) share their favorite individual moments on the show.
Victor leads a discussion on how opportunities are limitless for new gTLD registries, but challenges will be difficult without expert assistance, according to guest Minds + Machines CEO Antony Van Couvering.
Guest is Howard Neu, co-founder of Targeted TRAFFIC on the shows legacy of deal making, staying relevant, and the place where domain business happens. This years show in Fort Lauderdale will be a quality show at the Fort Lauderdale Ritz Carlton.
Victor Pitts comments on continued challenges to PPC industry, strength of dotCOM domains, and provides information about the .NXT conference which brings together most of the companies participating in the new gTLDs process.
Victor's guest is Dr. Liz Williams, CEO of Sedari, a new Registry Management Services positioned to help new gTLD applicants through the ICANN application process to full operation as an ICANN accredited registry. Why going at it alone might prove more costly and stressful. Dr. Williams is a wonderful speaker with much insight to the industry. Listen to this show.
Victor speaks with Stuart Lawley - Chairman and CEO of ICM Registry. ICM Registry is the newest company amongst the ranks of domain registries. ICM Registry is leading the charge on new domain TLDs with the new .XXX Top Level Domain scheduled for launch commencing with their Sunrise program for trademark holders on September 7, 2011. While we think of .XXX as being an adult only product, there is some surprising benefit to non-adult oriented brand owners as well.
Victor speaks with Jason Boshoff, CEO of Domain Holdings Group, Inc. Domain Holdings is a new age domain development, marketing, and technology company that was founded by domainers for domainers. Their services represent the advances in technology and thinking triggered by the decline in PPC performance. There are a growing number of alternatives to the status quo, and this interview will shed some light on one of the best.
Victor discusses the recent news of ICANN approval of extending the number of available top-level domain extensions with Domain Names Industry Consultant and ICANN Expert Jothan Frakes.
DownloadTube.org, a domain name that was just re-registered by someone in September of this year sold for $9,000 on Flippa, a site that boasts that their site is where you can buy and sell websites and find websites for sale in the most active auction marketplace.
Kieren McCarthy is the Author of Sex.com: One Domain, Two Men, Twelve Years and the Brutal Battle for the Jewel in the Internets Crown. He fills us on in on his time with ICANN and the creation of the DotNext conference.
Sex.com Domain Sold For 13 Million Dollars plus CO Internet S.A.S — the official operator of the new top level domain — has started auctioning names to the highest bidders, beginning with i.CO at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
Part Time Buying and Selling of Domains for Full Time Profits as Chef Patrick and Morgan speak with Shane Cultra from DomainShane.com.
ICANN new name extensions, by posting a new TLD application guidebook for hopefuls looking to join the ranks of .org, .net and .jobs. Patrick and Morgan also discuss conference trips and more.
Making Big Domain Deals as Richard Lau of DomainManager.com and DomainName.com tells us all about it with guest host Adam Strong. Plus, Moniker Sells ZIP.com for over a million dollars USD at Domainfest in Prague.
Patrick and Morgan look into the number of Domaining conferences coming up before the end of the year from TRAFFIC to DN Cruise to a new IDN event in New York City.
They also look into the headlines that include the potential sale of GoDaddy.com and Google Instant.
Chef Patrick previews the upcoming HuntingMoon auction in Amsterdam with Evan Horowitz. Evan is founder of HuntingMoon.com as well as Essociate.com Affiliate Network, makers of the Patented Real-Time Multi-Commerce Affiliate Pooling System.
Rob Monster, Chairman and CEO of Epik fills us in on the upcoming 1st Annual Epik Domain Development Conference next week in Seattle which boasts to offer Successful Monetization Through Domain Name Development.
Morgan welcomes Braden Pollock, President of Legal Brand Marketing based in Woodland Hills, California. Braden is a lead generation expert and a major Domainer with thousands of domains – hes also managed to do what almost no other Domainer has – created a synergy between online and offline businesses.
Morgan speaks with Steve Chiles, the former CMO of Insurance.com about how Quinstreet Acquired Insurance.com for 36.5 Million Dollars.
We also learn about an exciting new venture, VisitorDay.com. Morgan also fills us in on the results of the Domainfest New York 2010 Domain Auction.
Chef Patrick discusses Internationalized Domain Names with Aaron Krawitz, an active domain investor and a co-owner of IDNTools.com. They discuss IDN sales such РФ.com, and the continued progress towards internationalized .COM names, as well as questions from listeners on parking, sitebuilding, revenue and ccTLDs.
Chef Patrick and Morgan welcome Andrew Alleman of DomainNameWire.com. Along with discussing the latest headlines in the domain industry, Andrew gives us breaking news that Google Now Enables International Targeting of .Co Domain Name.
Chef Patrick and guest co-host Morgan Linton speak with Jonathan Johnson, President of Overstock.com, about the purchase of their unique domain name O.co for 350,000 dollars. We learn the process by how Overstock was approached with the opportunity, plus we get some insight into the success of their operations.
This is one interview you wont want to miss and should give Domainers more insight into how big companies like this view and protect their brands online. Patrick and Morgan also took a live call during the show allowing the audience to join-in on the conversation.
Lori Anne Wardi, Director of Business Development for .Co Internet S.A.S reports on the success of the .co launch with new host Chef Patrick Ruddell and guest co-host Morgan Linton of Linton Investments.
Patrick Ruddell aka Chef Patrick is announced as the new cohost of Domain Masters alongside Victor Pitts. They interview each other and share their insight to the domain industry on the value of dotUS gTLDs and ccTLDs.
Victor is joined by famed intellectual property attorney Dr. John Berryhill as we review the Brussels ICANN meeting for key takeaways. Discussion topics include new gTLDS, the XXX domain, ICANN Accountability.
Michele Van Tilborg, Director of Product Marketing at Moniker and Snapnames talks about pricing and acquiring quality domains, and how the average consumer can purchase unique domains for their brand.
Victor elaborates on a presentation entitled Domain Names - The Future or the Past that he made at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Vancouver, where he discusses possibility of technological or media innovation taking over the role of domain names
Mike Mann is the founder and chairman of Grassroots.org , a Section 501c3 global network that serves as a catalyst for positive social change by leveraging modern technologies and best business practices.
He shares some of his experiences and key decisions that helped him to become one of the most successful people in the industry.
Victor discusses the domain aftermarket, the best way to park undeveloped domains and the impact of the dotCO domain, as he takes questions from Twitter, Facebook and the WebmasterRadio.FM chatroom.
DomainFest FTL preview with John Mauriello, Senior Domain Broker at Moniker. Domainfest arrives in Fort Lauderdale offering a 1-day, high-impact, regional networking event designed for domain investors and online marketing professionals.
Alexa Raad of Public Interest Registry tells us about dotORG domain, how many TLDs are registered and being used, strength or differentiation of this TLD, plus what affect do you believe that new gTLDs will have upon your TLDs and the increase and decrease of demand.
Victor continues our ongoing Meet the Registries series with Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Affilias, the Domain Registry of the dotInfo domain.
Registries are the supply side of domain names. Victor continues an ongoing series of introducing us to the companies running these services and provide insight into what is coming with Phil Kingsland, Director of Marketing and Communications for Nominet UK, the Internet registry for .uk domain names.
Registries are the supply side of domain names. Victor will introduce you to the companies running these services and provide insight into what is coming starting with returning guest dotAsia CEO Edmund Chung.
Victor speaks with Colin Pape, Founder and CEO of ShopCity.com, a simple, effective and cost-effective online marketing platform for small, independent businesses that stimulates local economies by encouraging residents to shop locally.
Victor reports from a Boca Raton, Florida gathering at the South Florida Domainers Group. He interviews group founders Michael Ward and Stu Mayloff, as well as Teen Domainer Ian Lopuch and Brian Diener.
Gathering speakers from both the domaining and the development world, DNCruise sets to be the domain name industrys first conference held on a boat. We learn about it from the organizer Patrick Ruddell or known to the industry as ChefPatrick.
Estibot.com offers a free domain valuation tool which is gaining in popularity, and we learn about it as Victor welcomes guest Esa-Pekka Palvimak, president and co-founder of Estibot.com.
Are ccTLDS a good investment? Victor asks that questions and other as he speaks with guest Bruce Tedeschi, author of the book Domainers Complete Handbook.
14 year Domain Industry Veteran, Web 2.0. and Domain Industry Entrepreneur, Consultant and partner of Domain Name News Frank Michlick discusses the Participation Age and open source based development.
Are Regional Domaining Groups Emerging Influence on the Domain Name Industry? Jason Thompson and Morgan Linton, both from the Southern California Domaining Group discuss their organization's purpose and membership. With the falling of ICA, is this the next voice to represent domainer's collective voice?
On location from DomainFest Global in Santa Monica, Victor reports on the highlights, including preparation for Monikers domain auction and a nighttime event at the Playboy Mansion, plus he reviews TRAFFIC in Las Vegas and preview the upcoming Domainers Mardi Gras.
Jeff Kupietzky, Chief Executive Officer and President of Oversee.net joins Victor to preview the Domainfest Global 2010 conference being held in Santa Monica, California.
Discussing GeoDomains with Skip Hoagland and Steve Morales who run Simply GEO.com. They discuss how others need to build up their respective geodomains.
Domain Bloggers discussion between Michael Berkens of TheDomains.com, Michael Gilmour, publisher of the WhizzBangsBlog, and Elliot Silver from ElliotsBlog.com. These renowned industry bloggers are back this year to review 2009 against their predictions made last January, as well as make some bold predictions for 2010.
Bruce Marler grows his GEO community business while also growing his domain collection. Hear his strategy in this interview with Victor Pitts on location from Affiliate Convention Los Angeles.
Victor interviews Morgan Linton from Affiliate Covention LA 2009. Morgan is the President of Linton Investment has made a career of investing in domain. Morgan talks about sorting domains between good & bad and how to monetizing.
Advanced Strategies in Affiliate Marketing – how do domains fit in? Victor interviews Jay Berkowitz of Ten Golden Rules, winner of the 2009 SoFIE Award in the Most Effective Use of Emerging or Innovative Media, category.
Victor reports from Webmaster World Pubcon 2009 in Las Vegas, and he recaps changes at the TRAFFIC where Rick Latona has taken over the bulk of show organzing in place of Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu who will continue to organize the annual TRAFFIC conference in South Florida. Also Victor gives us his experiences with SMX East, Online Marketing Summit and Adtech.
Victor Pitts interviews Rob Grant of AdirondackRealEstate.com. The storyline tonight is Domain investment from a Real Estate Broker’s perspective.
How do you develop and monetize hundreds or thousands of domains into SEO Friendly Websites with great ease? Find out how on this episode of Domain Masters as host Victor Pitts is joined by Adam Rioux, Co-Founder and CEO of OCTANE360. Alternative Show Name: "Have Your Cake and Eat It Too."
What happens when chocolate meets peanut butter, pizza meets beer, or domainer meets developer? Victor Pitts finds out with Steven Kaziyev, president and founder of NamePursuit.com Inc. and Tony Cassella, president and founder of Website Advertising, Ltd. Steve is a domainer and Tony a developer.
Breht Burri from Toobaroo joins Victor to discuss Enterprise/Corporate level domain management, acquisition and planning services.
Ron Jackson, Editor and Publisher of DN Journal, joins Victor to discuss the domain industry as you have never heard before. Discover what most excites Ron about the future, based upon what he sees today.
Pinky Brand , domain name industry entrepreneur and Director of Global Sales for dotMobi , updates us on the global acceptance and response to the new domain.
Domain Development ,Geo Domain Development and Minisite Development expert Bruce Marler discusses topics ranging from Geo Domain development, alternative extension development, and how domain investors and geo domain developers are making an impact in local communities.
David McGuire,Vice President of 463 Communications, previews the October ICANN meeting in Seoul Korea and some of the current issues that may impact the status quo in the domain world.
Using Blogs for New Domains with Breht Burri, a domainer and the president of the Domain Licensing Corporation a domain monetization and development company that manages a portfolio of approximately 3,000 Generic Domain Names.
Patrick Ruddell aka Chef Patrick of ChefPatrick.com discusses alternative monetization solutions for domain names, plus his fascination of using Wordpress as an easy web development tool on new domain names.
Brian G. Johnson of NetMarketingCourse.net discusses monetization solutions for non PPC quality domains to maximize payouts and how to monetize domains once traffic arrives.
Find out about the Search Attributes and their impact when it comes to selecting domain names with Alex McArthur, Vice President of Search at OrangeSoda.
The ongoing discussion on the Impact of Domaining on SEO continues with a discussion on hyphenated names and how they might be a disadvantage to domainers when with guest Augusto Ellacuriaga of SpanishSEO.org.
SEOP VP of Sales Zach Roth offers insight on the importance of domain names to the leading search engines, and their country code distinctions.
Seattle SEO consultant from UpperLeftPlacement.com John Andrews discusses the importance of domains in your SEO strategy.
A Recap from the ICANN Australia 2009 meeting with 463 Communications Vice President David McGuire including the debates and discussions that came of it like registry and registrar vertical integration.
Victor joins Melissa Dafni of Media Breakaway on this Affiliate Convention 2009 panel called Domain Names: Asset Management And New TLDs. This session outlines critical domain name asset management and covers the emergence of new top level domains.
Top Level Domains in the US and Canada are discussed with Award Winning Blogger and Successful Entrepreneur Elliot Silver and N49 Interactive founder Rick Silver.
Ron Sheridan discusses diversifying your domain name portfolio and his thoughts on the industry and how domainers do not have a major retail platform to seek out a premium domain.
Mike Zappy Zapolin discusses his new project InternetWarrior.com where the widely respected domain investor/developer is offering his guide to web success. He also goes into detail about the site's domain appraisal engine.
Andy Denton, Co-Founder at 140Media, COO at Realty.com discusses how these websites have transformed through the years, as well as his handling of iHomes.com, FindHomes.com, and other real estate related websites.
Stephen Douglas of the Successful Domain Management™ Blog Successclick.com discusses industry topics and his domain name parking service called WhyPark.
Traffic West Silicon Valley 2009 Preview as organizers Rick Schwartz aka "The Domain King" and Howard Neu give us a glimpse as to what to expect at the show.
Andrew Allemann, editor of the popular DomainNameWire.com news site, discusses the interesting recent UDRP cases and their trends that they're showing, including EdibleBrands.com, Fbomb.com, GoDaddy domains, Scalar.com.
He also discusses the updated ICANN process for new gTLDs
including the deadline and overarching issues that matter to domainers.
SnapNames & Moniker Marketplace Director Michele Van Tilborg discusses the state of Snapnames Domain Marketplace, which is a domain acquisition portal for domainers, corporations, and everything in between.
Jessica Bookstaff and Elliot Silver are interviewed by Victor Pitts on this episode of DomainMasters. Jessica is a highly accomplished geodomainer, and she is the owner and operator of PigeonForge.com and Durango.com. Jess was previously Chairman of Associated Cities. Elliot Silver is an award winning blogger and successful entrepreneur. The interview focuses on geodomain development, the SES conference, and the upcoming GeoDomain Expo.
TLDs and Domain Registry Talk with Jothan Frakes who fills us in on his venture in the Domain name industry called Minds and Machines.
55 Surefire Internet Businesses You Can Start for Under $5000 with the author of the self-titled book Melissa Campanelli.
Mason Cole, Vice President of Communications and Industry Relations for Oversee. We will do a preview of the upcoming ICANN meeting , whereby we will discuss issues that will affect domainers and all domain owners.
Domain News Aggregator project DNGator, offers analysis on current domain market conditions
Domain Attorney Enrico Schaefer on the Domain Name News Portal, a site where viewers vote on best news stories.
Toby Hardy, founder of LZ Domains gives his thoughts on how Domains are virtual real estate, plus he discusses his company's geo pure strategies on selling and developing domans, following trends, economic factors and more.
Aaron Kvitek of Oversee.net previews the upcoming Domainfest Global 2009 in Hollywood, including a preview of the pre-event boot camp for beginning & intermediate domainers, including a preview of the pre event boot camp and more...
Alexa Raad, CEO of the Public Interest Registry, and now the CEO of the dotOrg registry, discusses the changes made under her watch such as working on adding value to domains for domain owners to ensure revenue and traffic.
A Domain Bloggers roundtable discussion between Michael Berkens TheDomains.com, Michael Gilmour, publisher of the WhizzBangsBlog, and Elliot Silver from ElliotsBlog.com.
Legal Issues with Domains with UDRP, trademark, domain ownership and more with Derek Newman who has been lead counsel to groundbreaking cases in the arena of Internet policy, and practices in Internet law, intellectual property, advertising law, entertainment and the First Amendment. He also handles complex civil litigation, as well as business deals and corporate transactions.
Jothan runs down the details of Domainfest 2009 that includes a speech by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, a party at the Playboy Mansion, and the latest on the upcoming no reserve domain auction.
dotTel Domain is undergoing its Sunrise period and Jothan speaks with Kash Madhavi and Justin Heyward about the registry launch, plus more interviews on location from the TRAFFIC Down Under Conference in Austrailia.
Hightlights from TRAFFIC Down Under 2008 from Austrailia as Jothan Frakes reports from the conference which features workshops, key industry speakers and social events, and he speaks to attendees
Talking about Online Forum Networks and Communities as Victor Pitts reports from Pubcon Las Vegas 2008 and he talks to the crew from Crowd Gather, which consolidates message board and forum users. By combining the reach of a targeted ad network with passionate user-generated content,Crowd Gather benfits both advertisers and forum owners.
Peter Celeste of Domain Sponsor discusses what the company does for its clients in the areas of domain name monetization, pay per click and online advertising, plus how domain owners and registrants are referred to as publishers, and finally how they help clients with keyword optimization.
Search Engine Land Editor In Chief and Search Marketing Expo Conference Chair Danny Sullivan about how he got started in search, and gives his thoughts on how search marketers look at the domain industry.
Discussing Intellectual Property and Anti Phishing with Mike Rodenbaugh as he discusses his background and recent roles in ICANN, his work with the AntiPhishing Working Group, Dispute Resolution Services and new TLDs
Elliot Silver of Top Notch Domains, LLC discusses his early revenue, his observations on the sales process and some of his success stories which have included PrenuptialAgreement.com and LastWillAndTestament.com.
SEOMoz software engineer Nick Gerner tells about the inside story on Linkscape, the tool utilizes a growing index of 30 billion pages indexed by the SEOmoz team to plot detailed linkage data for SEOs. In the past, SEOs relied on search engine data from APIs or via a scraper.
Ray King tells us how he created AboutUs, a wiki for and about businesses and organizations, containing millions of editable pages about websites as well as other community created topics.
iCrossing Strategy Director Rob Garner, who handles search engine marketing channel strategies discusses how search marketers are looking at domains and trends regarding domain investing
He focuses on search engine marketing channel strategies, plus his background SEO, paid search media, social media, research, and also domain strategy
Jothan Frakes guest hosts and the launch of the dotME Registry is underway, and Montenegro domainer Pedrag Lesic tells us about it, plus Jerry Nolte tells us about Domainers Magazine, and how he got the idea to do a print publication for an online focused industry
Talking Real Estate Domain Names and how real estate broker Rob Grant assembled in 12 years the worlds best collection of real estate names, plus hear about his real estate company that handles Adirondack real estate in New York State
Jothan discusses the launch of the dotME Registry as General Sunrise began for all eligible Trademark holders, plus Farley Cahen of AVN previews an upcoming online adult tradeshow which will feature an domain auction of adult domain names.
Patrick Carleton of Associated Cities previews the 2008 GEO Domain Expo, including the keynotes, sessions and domain auction, plus learn about a new Hot or Not contest by dotAsia where domainers answer trivia questions for a cash prize.
Jothan Frakes and Victor Pitts recap the 2008 ICANN Meeting in Paris, plus we hear interviews with Kash Madhavi of dot Tel discusses what this top level domain is all about plus Domains Bot CEO Emiliano Pasqualetti discusses the aftermarket.
Jothan Frakes reports from the 2008 ICANN Meeting in Paris, a meeting of ICANN members that oversee the huge and complex interconnected network of unique identifiers that allow computers on the Internet to find one another, and he speaks with attendees
A Preview of the 2008 ICANN International Public Meeting, which brings together domainers for the purpose of keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable, and the Domainer Meeting, which brings connects domainers to share knowledge, build new ideas, and explore new avenues
Freddy Schiwek, VP of Domain Invest Luxembourg and EVP of Marketing for EuroDNS, the organizers of Domainermeeting.eu in Paris tells us about the growth of ithe nternet in Europe and why ccTLD holds value for a longer term, plus the clear connection between the two worlds of domainers and ICANN and how they are typically somewhat isolated
Veteran domainer Alf Temme he tell us his strategy of buying domain names, plus he discusses the issue of domain name squatting
Alf Temme is a veteran domainer who has over 37,000 domains and has been collecting them as a hobby since 1996, while he maintains his work building saunas for the past 45 years, and exercise machines for the last 18 years
Edmond Chong updates us on the status of DotAsia Registry, including statisitics and investment value, and how domain names are being sold recently through land rush auctions, plus humantiarian efforts to aid earthquake victims
Ross Rader is the Director of Retail Services at Tucows discusses Top Level Domains, his upcoming coast to coast bicycle ride to help raise funds for the Sears National Kids Cancer Ride charity ,his work with Tucows and tenure in the domain industry,he also discusses dot CAs new whois policy, plus Domain Aftermarket and Auctions.
TRAFFIC Conference organizers Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu preview the upcoming conference in Orlando, including the influence and inspiration of holding the event there, plus they discuss dot mobi and the effect of the recession on acquiring domains.
Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire profiles his publication plus discusses the results of their annual survey which evaluated domain names, and companies that handle auction escrow and other services catering the domain industry
We take you back to an interview with Sandra Brooks, author of the Domain Tax Guide on managing taxes with domain ownership, plus Chris Legett gives us an update on AdTech San Franscisco 2008
Rick Jones bought 15 thousand domains when domains came cheap in 1999, and has used his names to compound and monetize them while succeeding in the ad agency business
Internet Commerce Association representatives Phil Corwin and Michael Collins discuss their efforts plus bills in legislation that are affecting the domain industry, plus preview upcoming domain auctions
Patrick Carleton of Associated Cities discusses last years GeoDomain Expo, plus Michele Neylon discusses his company called Black Knight , a web hosting and colocation service based in Ireland.
Chuck Kisselburg is the Director of ICANNWiki.org; an organization whose focus is on providing value through global collaboration while fostering transparency and positive growth for those within the ICANN community.
Chuck comes to ICANNWiki.org from a non-profit, public/private partnership dedicated to creating programs for the sharing of sensitive information in a highly secure environment. As program manager, Chuck was responsible for driving growth and use of the program, a collaborative program that gained attention internationally. As an avid social networking rainmaker, Chuck is experienced in helping others effectively recognize, develop, learn of and interact with other social networks for purposes of information collaboration.
A.J. Lawrence of the JAR Group, which specializes in SEO, paid search management, concept, creative and social media marketing, talks about his company and his name acquisitions at the Affiliate Summit West Domain Auction.
Rob Monster of Monster Investment Partners discusses discusses his work in investing on recently acquired domain names including internationalized domain names
Andrew Michaels of Moniker fills us in on the value of gaming and gambling domain names, plus TellNetUSA founder Nathan Hart discusses his companys service of 800 Vanity Phone Names and numbers with matching dot com domain names
Mojohost CEO Brad Mitchell whose company specializes in providing businesses with commerce, hosting and web site solutions tells us how he entered domaining as far back as 1999.
Jothan Frakes, Director of Strategic Accounts at Oversee.net, discusses and interviews attendees at Domainfest in Los Angeles, a premier conference for the domain industry.
Igal Lichtman talks about his company, Magic Solutions International, which specializes in help desk automation and asset management software, plus his new parking service DomainSpa ,domain name selection and direct navigation.
AVN Online Publisher Farley Cahen discusses the recent acquisition by Penthouse to acquire the parent company of FriendFinder, plus adult industry issues such as security and piracy, and also previews the upcoming Adult Domaiin Name Auction
Marc Lesnick reports to us about the first first virtual conference for the Social Networking Industry as part of the Social Networking Conference, plus a recap of the Casino Affiliate Convention in China, and a preview of the online dating conference iDate.
Stephen Webb is a life-time entrepreneur who has build several businesses over the years in partnership with his wife. His first company was based on his childhood dream of designing and building furniture. Together, the Webbs built a successful business with several hundred accounts and thriving catalog sales, before selling the company. The pair then developed a successful business in real estate rentals and sales in the active South Carolina market, before recognizing the value of digital real estate (or domain names) approximately 2 years ago. They have since built the largest portfolio of domains preceded with "I Am" and "We Are" in the domain industry.
Casino Affiliate Convention , Social Marketing Conference and Internet Dating Conference founder Marc Lesnick previews the upcoming CAC show, and gives us background on the gaming industry welcomed in China, but recently banned in the United States, plus he give us background on the upcoming iDate conference
Monte talks to Dave Evanson. Dave Evanson started buying domains in 1999, with most of his portfolio purchased by early 2000. To date, because of his Management consultant Business in the strategic planning and Marketing arenas, he has not really haven't been able to devote as much time towards his domain portfolio as he plans to going forward. Dave has extensive strategic marketing experience. Before 1991, he held senior level marketing positions for two of the nation’s largest banks. He founded a consulting company in 1991 and for the past 17 years has been doing marketing, Advertising & direct response consulting, boasting more than 20 Fortune 500 Companies as clients.
Castello Cities Internet Network David Castello speaks with Monte about his impressive city sites portfolio and give some tips on finding the right domain names and the upcoming Associated Cities Geo Domain Auction and Conference in San Franscisco
Monte discusses a roundtable discussion with the founders of the Internet Real Estate Group,a leader in the development of Internet Real Estate and online brands, Andrew Miller and Mike “Zappy” Zapolin and Global Market Insite founder Rob Monster.
Monte speaks with Josh Bourne from Fairwind Partners, who is the President the Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse to speak about domain name abuse and his coalition is cracking down against those who claim Web addresses, or domain names, that include or even resemble a legitimate company's trademark.
Victor Pitts speaks with Dermot O Brien of iCeltic. He explains how he got started into domaining out of nowhere. He also explained his method for registering domain names based on his Irish heritage.
Monte is previewing the Traffic East Domain Auction with organizers Rick Schwartz and Howard Neu.
Guest host Chris Leggett is joined by Moniker senior executive Don Lyons to explain selling domains with assets. Don explains how buyers and sellers should approach these types of domains and if these domains are purchased how are they linked to the business. Also on the show is attorney Steve Sturgeon from DomainNameLawyers.com.
Monte joins Point It Chief Strategist Jon Lisbin, SearchAdNetwork President Andrew Beckman, ,and Yahoo! Search Marketing Director of Business Development Sean Moriarty. They are participated a session on Domaining & Address Bar Driven Traffic at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose.
Victor Pitts reports from the third annual Domain Name Roundtable in Seattle. He speaks with Jay Westerdahl, the CEO of Domain Tools and organizer of the Roundtable. Also on the program is Phil Craig, the owner of DomainsintoDollars, a site that quickly and easily finds and controls profitable domain names.
Monte speaks with David Goldsmith, the President and co founder of MetaMatrix Consulting Group LLC. David gives his thoughts on the domain industry being an owner of over 70 domains. David also talks about how a business manages through change.
Jerril Krowen is a consumer protection attorney in Massachusetts and owner of a Law Firm engaged in a wide range of Civil Litigation matters; including Personal Injury; Workmen's Compensation; Bankruptcy; Creditor-Debtor Litigation; Corporate; Real Estate, both Residential and Commercial, including First and Second Mortgages, Condominium Conversions and related matters.
Direct navigation and domain name driven traffic are discussed as guest host Victor Pitts interviews Mary Ann French from Pixel Media and Moniker Senior Account Executive Chris Leggett.
Monte Cahn talks to two big domainers who had a big presence at the recent Domain Auction during the TRAFFIC East show in New York City.
Monte Cahn prepares for the upcoming Domain Auction and talks to author, Kieren McCarthy. Keiren wrote about the lengthy battle for Sex.com.
Jim Kukral fills us in the upcoming Affiliate Summit Conference in Miami. Also, our own Brandy Shapiro-Babin gives us a update on the SMX Advnaced show in Seattle.
Victor Pitts talks with Mark Lesnick about the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam. They preview the upcoming show and give the listeners what they will benefit from by attending.
Victor broadcasts from the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam.
He speaks first with Jill Meyers, an industry analyst with the wireless research group InStat, and we learn how her research relates back to the domain name.
Victor then speaks with Melissa Campanelli, a leading expert in small business ecommerce. and the author of Open an Online Business in 10 Days and Starting your EBusiness.
Howard Neu, a regular guest on Domain Masters and who is cofounder of the T.R.A.F.F.I.C Conference welcomes Jude Augusta, the Executive Director of The Internet Commerce Association and Phil Corwin, a lawyer and lobbyist with the ICA.
The Internet Commerce Association is a business organization made up of individuals and companies that own, buy, sell, resell, host and manage Internet traffic which comes from search engines, domain names and Internet links.
The mission of the ICA is to promote the value and benefits of Internet traffic, including the value of buying direct navigation traffic, on behalf of our membership to the media, the advertising market, government and regulatory authorities around the world.
Victor Pitts speaks first with Dr. John Berryhill following his return from the ICANN conference in New Zealand.
Andrew Goodman of Page Zero Media also comes on to preview the upcoming Search Engine Strategies New York show and looks ahead to the next conference stop in Toronto.
Monte is joined by domain investor Frank Schilling. Frank Schilling coined the term domain investor, describing those who invest in high value generic domain names for the purpose of future development.
The phrase never really caught on and today industry participants in this space are collectively known as domainers. Frank Schilling patented the Generic Top Level Domain Rerouting System in 2003, financed the Caribbeans first ICANN accredited domain name registrar in 2004, joined as a member of the ICANN business constituency and cofounded the non profit Internet Commerce Association in 2006.
Also on the program is Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer of Afilias. Afilias is a global leader in advanced back end domain name registry services and provides a wide range of advanced capabilities essential to the smooth and efficient operation of any Internet domain name registry.
Monte talks to Aaron Kornblum and Michael White. Aaron E. Kornblum, Senior Attorney, leads Microsofts enforcement programs against spam, phishing, and cybersquatting. Aaron leads a dedicated team of investigators, paralegals, and outside counsel, and works closely with industry and corporate partners as well as government enforcement agencies to protect consumers from unwanted spam and to stop online fraud. Michael White is the Vice President of Business Development for Moniker and oversees the development and processes for several revenue generating business lines, including Marketplace and the Live and Silent Auction events.
Monte speaks with Bob Raines, the Director of Online Marketing of CIDC about how he got into the business, optimization challenges that he faced, nd what kinds of trends nd developments are being made in the industry.
Also on the show is Jeremy Patawire, a Moniker customer with a collection of domains who specializes in creating collector oriented website and benefitted through paid click throughs.
DOMAINfest was created for domainers with an understanding of their goals, and includes a strong session track examining some of the most important issues to the industry today, to be covered through in depth networking sessions, panel discussions, and training labs. Great minds connect and explore complex issues toward the ultimate betterment of the industry.
Today’s show will feature one of Monte’s popular presentations. In his talk, Monte talks about several topics, including how monetization helps the creation of portfolios, the health of the domain industry and what makes a good domain. Also, he talks about types of monetization, creating your own portfolio and how brand is impacted by domain.
Ron Jackson is the Editor and Publisher of DN Journal, the premier trade publication in the domain industry. After majoring in broadcast journalism, Ron began his career as a radio news director at a small station in Ohio. Within a couple of years, he moved on to television as a news reporter with an ABC TV affiliate in Florida. Two years after arriving there, Ron became the stations Sports Director when the previous Sports Director moved on to a bigger market. He later moved on to a Top 20 market himself, doing sports for the CBS TV station in Tampa.
Monte welcomes Steve Crean. Steve is 36 and since 2002 has focused on running his own businesses online dealing with import/export. Since late 2005 he has been focused almost entirely on IDNs. He also brings on Farley Cahen. Farley is both Publisher of AVN Online Magazine and the Director of New Business Development for the AVN Media Network. He began his career with AVN as the Director of Internet Development nearly six years ago. Within two years, he transformed the AVN network of sites into the most visited Adult business to business news and information resources on the Internet. As Publisher of AVN Online Magazine, he grew the circulation to nearly 15,000 monthly BtoB Adult Online Professional subscribers making the magazine the most widely circulated and read Adult Online BtoB magazine in the world.
Monte welcomes Ron Jackson to the show. Ron is currently the President of Internet Edge, Inc., a web publishing company he founded in 2000. Ron began as a radio and TV broadcaster in the late 60's and spent the next 20 years in that profession (most of it as a TV sportscaster in Floridas beautiful Tampa Bay area). In the late 80s he moved into the music business by opening the first in a chain of record stores that operated until 2000. After opening a website for the music business in 1997, he became fascinated with the boundless potential of the internet and by 2000 had decided opportunities on the web were so exciting that he wanted to spend all his time pursuing them.
Monte talk to Attorney Marc Randazza from First Amendment.com. Mr. Randazzas practice is focused on First Amendment, Media, Internet, and Gaming Law. Randazza has experience litigating libel defense cases, drafting online agreements, and counseling internet and land-based gambling operations on various nuances of gaming law. Mr. Randazza handles all aspects of intellectual property matters from trademark registrations to complex intellectual property litigation before federal courts, the USPTO, and in international arbitration actions. Mr. Randazza also handles challenges to unconstitutional zoning restrictions and licensing requirements imposed by local municipalities against First Amendment protected businesses.
Monte returns from the blistering cold in Chicago to speak with Robert Kayian. Robert started Advanced Internet Marketing, LLC, an internet marketing company based in Las Vegas Nevada and has more than 25 years of Marketing experience. AIM is an online magazine, newspaper, yellow pages and full service travel agency. Through AIM, Robert owns and is developing over 800 web sites seen in 41 countries and has another 4,000 plus highly marketable domain names. Robert is also a real estate agent licensed in Florida and California.
Monte brings back Andrew Miller and Mike Zappy Zappolin back to the show. As President and Co-Founder of Internet Real Estate Group, LLC, Andrew Miller focuses on acquiring generic domain names that can serve as the platform for Internet Real Estate Group’s online businesses and investments, creating partnerships to enhance the asset value of Internet Real Estate Group’s businesses, overseeing the management of and playing an integral role in the sale of the businesses. Zappy is the Co-Founder of Music.com, and the visionary behind such Internet brands as Beer.com, Computer.com, Debt.com, and with Deal Jam LLC, Creditcards.com, and Diamond.com.
Monte previews the upcoming Traffic East Conference with the Webfather Rick Schwartz, and TRAFFICs Howard Nue. He also talks to David Costello. David J. Castello is the Chief Operating Officer for the Castello Cities Internet Network (CCIN) which includes some of the most successful city sites in the world including PalmSprings.com, Acapulco.com, Nashville.com, LagunaBeach.com and WestPalmBeach.com as well as prominent non-city sites such as Kennel.com, GolfClub.com, Cost.com and Whisky.com.
Monte talks first to John Bolden. John started buying and developing domains as a side project. In late 2004, he sold his primary business, a small commodity brokerage, and started developing and monetizing domains full-time. In addition to the time he spends working on his own sites, John also provides SEO and Internet development services for a small group of clients. Most of the domains in Johns portfolio are investment, automotive and sports related.. Monte also talks to John Grosshandler who gives us a detailed preview of the upcoming EcomXpo event
Dan Cera is yet another domain name visionary and internet entrepreneur emminating from Vancouver Canada. Dan began registering domain names in the late 90s believing that the then still emerging Internet would bring with it unprecedented opportunity. Understanding that domain names were a requirement of any web presence Dan recognized the analogy to real estate and began securing desireable web addresses that he felt in time could be developed into fully functioning and self supporting ebusinesses.
Stephen Douglas Current Professions Domain industry consultant for Bulkregister.com Past Professions Director of Development for a college community portal including email provider service, domain name purchasing and management (6 years), twenty years experience as a Producer, director of live shows and events, published author, Mac IT Consultant, rock musiciansongwriter, and surfer. Goals Rocking the boat to dislodge despotic domain ideas. People who know him see him as rabble rouser and raconteur Domain Industry souls he admires in no particular order Adam Dicker, Jay Westerdal, Sevan Derderian, Dan Warner, Ron James, Monte Cahn, Sig, Eric Rice, Kevin Leto, Ammar Kuba, Jude Augusta, and many more domainers making a difference in a fair and conscientious way.
Monte talks to Roy Barrett, Business Development Manager for Stormwest Marketing Intelligence, and online marketer, Gary K. Landry. His company has been responsible for providing outstanding Internet ever since 1997. His specialty is in the area of taking small Budgets and producing extraordinary results. His regular customers particularly value his practical approach to difficult problems.
Today's topics include Andrew Beckman, Search Ad Network, domain driven traffic, landing pages, & domain sales.
Christian Van Der Henst has been working in web design, media and education for almost a decade in the latin american market. Mr. Van Der Henst is the founder and director of Maestrosdelweb.com, a portal dedicated to serve the webmaster community with tutorials, news, several tools and services since 1997. As director he is developing e learning programs based on video, podcasts and blogging technology to promote Internet usage among high school and college students. He has served as the keynote speaker at over 50 conferences and seminars in several universities and events in Argentina, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and his natal Guatemala touching on subjects ranging from web design to ebusiness.
Monte chats with Todd Crawford. As vice president of sales Todd Crawford directs the sales team and is responsible for increasing Commission Junctions market share and driving new revenues. His responsibilities also include overseeing the development of agency relationships and evaluating business development opportunities. Todd Crawford first joined Commission Junction in 1998 as vice president of sales, and during his tenure at Commission Junction he has held positions as vice president strategic initiatives and vice president business development, in addition to managing operations in the United Kingdom. Crawford has extensive experience in online performance marketing and speaks often at industry conferences and marketing events.
Mr. Clay has operated as an executive with several high technology businesses, and comes from a long career as a technical manager with Boole and Babbage, Amdahl, Convergent Technologies, Acer America, and since 1996 in the Internet Business Consulting area. Mr. Clay holds a BS in Math/Computer Science and a MBA from Pepperdine University, has had many articles published, has been a speaker at over 100 sessions, and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, PC Week, Wired Magazine, Smart Money, several books, and many more publications. He has personally authored many advanced search engine optimization tools that are available from his company web sites.
Monte provides an update on what is happening in the industry and interviews two great guests. Montes first guest tonight will be Andrew Allemann, editor of Domain Name Wire. Andrew Allemann has been active in the domain name industry since the late 90s. He has bought, sold, traded, and developed hundreds of domain names. Andrew is active in secondary domain name markets and up-to-date with domain policy. Montes second guest is Adam Glazer founder of Glazer Enterprises. Adams 10+ years of experience spans public relations, reputation management, search marketing, affiliate marketing and online media/advertising. Having been in the trenches of online marketing since 1997, Adam is a frequent speaker at a range of leading industry conferences, including Ad:Tech, PRSA, and Jupiters Search Engine Strategies.
There're a lot of trends going on with a lot of online advertising money going towards...or about a traditional media advertising money moving over to the online side. Ron has some interesting statistics regarding that.
Stephen Sinatra and Alan Pinkard discuss trademark properties, and all about registered trademarks
Steve Ursery of Swizzlestick Inc. and Dr. Jerry Brown of INNOVATION are Montes guests tonight. Steve Ursery has developed such sites as CareerColleges.US. OnlineCollegeDegrees.net, and CollegeAffiliates.com in addition to registering industry keyword or branding type domains and has a large collection of excellent .US and .CN domains. Dr. Brown is a Speaker, Author, Trainer, and Consultant. Dr. Jerry Brown is an expert in innovation and creativity. He helps smart companies and the individuals in those companies In the process of becoming more innovative and creative. Dr. Brown is also a domainer with a sizable collection of podcasting and geo targeted domains.
Robert Lewis is the Marketing Director at Webnames.ca and responsible for all aspects of sales, marketing, and Business development. Roberts unique background includes years in International Trade Finance with the Bank of Montreal to founding a small business resource centre dedicated to educating Entrepreneurs about the value of the Internet and e Business. John Demco founded the .CA top level domain and served as registrar and chair of the CA Domain Committee from 1987 to 2000. Delegation of the .CA domain was made to John by Dr. Jonathan Postel, whose office came to be called the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), on May 14, 1987. Jason Kobinski, 32, Founder Continuum Web Solutions. Continuum Web Solutions was founded in 1999 as a web development and Programming company, and has since converted to domain development and marketing of its own domain portfolio.
Victor talks to Patrick Carleton from Associated Cities, which features city domain names.
Ron Sheridan is Director of Business Development for DomainSponsor. Ron has deep experience in internet and online/new media sales and marketing, affiliate marketing and business development for technology companies. He also served as Vice President, Marketing and Sales of DSR Software and founded RGP to provide channel development services to microcomputer consumer software and hardware companies. Jothan leads a wrapup of the Domain Roundtable. Jothan Frakes is the Vice President of Business Development for Name Intelligence, operators of whois.sc and is the executive event producer for the current 2006 Domain Roundtable and 2005 Domain Roundtable Conferences. He has specialized in Domain Name technical operations and DNS since 1993, with a particular career focus on ccTLD and gTLD operations and the ccTLD industry, NANOG, and the ICANN process.
Rick Schwartz has been doing domain names since the early '90s and has some of the most famous domain names in history; has bought and sold domain names as much as anyone. As the founder and creator of TRAFFIC, the targeted TRAFFIC event that occurs now three times a year, one was in Silicon Valley, there's one in the East Coast, in the South Florida area and one in Las Vegas every year.
Pierre Zarokian is the founder and president of Submit Express. With the a degree in Computer Science and web development background, Pierre launched Submit Express in 1998 and it quickly became one of the most popular search engine submission sites. Michael Marshall is Vice President and co founder of Fortune Interactive (a portfolio company of GEI) and CTO of George Enterprise International (GEI). Ramon Rashford comes from an extensive financial services background, with a solid foundation in Institutional Investing.
Monte welcomes Jothan Frakes of Jothan.com and Brian Benko of NoParking.com. In the past decade, Jothan has been Technical Operator of 5 ccTLDs, and CTO of a registrar/registry company. Brian Benko helps monetize your property above and beyond what parking your domains can provide.
Matthew OBrien, 38, is President and CEO of SearchMarketing, LLC, a marketing Technology leader that helps online Business get found through an innovative online and offline marketing process. Their patent pending Site Map software automates search marketing through an easy to use web based tool that drives targeted traffic from search engines to call to action web pages. Monte also welcomes Ron Jackson to the show. Ron is currently the President of Internet Edge, Inc., a web publishing company he founded in 2000. Ron began as a radio/TV broadcaster in the late 60s and spent the next 20 years in that profession (most of it as a TV sportscaster in Floridas beautiful Tampa Bay area).
Monte welcomes Pierre Zarokian, who is the founder and president of Submit Express. Next up is Michael Marshall, Vice President and cofounder of Fortune Interactive (a portfolio company of GEI) and CTO of George Enterprise International (GEI) and also Ramon Rashford, who comes from an extensive financial services background, with a solid foundation in Institutional Investing.
Monte injures himself....again...but does the show anyway LIVE from his bedroom. This weeks guests include: Ramiro Canales, who is an attorney and lobbyist in Austin, Texas. Previously he served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas. He has extensive litigation experience and is very knowledgeable about trademark law and UDRP decisions. His second guest is John Grosshandler, the Founder and Event Director for eComXpo, the virtual tradeshow for ecommerce marketers.
Monte brings on Douglas Burke. Douglas Burke serves as a Managing Director and co head of the Software and Services practice at Pagemill Partners where he is responsible for providing strategic merger and acquisition Advice clients. Doug has particular expertise working with clients in the infrastructure software, security, network and systems Management software, Internet based and on line Businesses and Technology enabled business service companies. He also welcomes Ari Bayme, a Vice President at Milbank, Roy, Zanett & Co., an investment bank that specialize in mergers and acquisitions.
Monte reports in live from SES in New York with two members of the "Pimp my Site" panel. Todd (oilman) Friesen and Dax Herrera. They discuss the specifics of the "Pimp My Site" program and Monte also brings on SES coordinator, Danny Sullivan.
Keith Levinson talks to Monte about his adult sites and Monte reports live from T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Deven Parekh, a top invest banker talks to Monte about mergers, acquisitions and his company, Insight Venture Partners.
10 Tips for Domain Monetization & A Chat with David Warmuz of Trellian about submitwolf.
Today's guests are Rob Grant, & Rob Barbour, talking about Grey Advertising, realestatedirectory.com, Digit Software, & pokerliving.net.
Adam Strong & Mitch Farber talk to Monte about netbilling.com, echeck processing, & strong.net.
Victor Pitts with his guest David Allen from UltimateMagazines.com talk about choosedomain.com & T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
Rick Schwartz & Maurice Tola Interviewed by Monte and discuss SWIDigital.com & domain names.
Monte chats with Heidi Richards from the Women's Ecommerce Assoc. (WECAI.org) & Ron Jackson from DNJournal .
Today's topics include Andrew Miller, Mike Zapolin, Deal Jam, internet real estate, generic domain names, & category killer domain names.
Rick Latona from DigiPawn & consumptionjunction.com Chat with Monte about the sick site network & his partner, Matt Collins.
Monte talks with Dan Polcrano, Executive Editor and CEO: Metro Newspapers, and Brian Null of golfcourses.com about the LA Weekly, Hartford Advocate, San Diego Reader, Beach Farm Nine, officesupply.com, & Logic Blast Inc.
Monte chats about domain sales with Stephanie Lefler of Monster Commerce and Greg Hartnet from botw.org. at SES (Search Engine Strategies) San Jose.
Monte talks to Bill Goss (Mr Lucky) about his book, The Luckiest Unlucky Man Alive, & his stint in the U.S. Navy.
The Future of the Internet & All about Chris Chena , with John Battelle of Wired Magazine & Ron Jackson.
Domain Names, Accountants, .jobs & the Internal Revenue Service are the topics with Evan Brody, Ray Facet.
An enlightening interview with Ron Andruf from the new .Travel extension and a quick domain news update with Ron Jackson.
Max and Dan from DomainsBot & Gary Kremen from sex.com Chat with Monte Cahn about the attempted theft of sex.com
Chargebacks, Fraud Scrubbing, and a Domainers Perspective are today's topics with the CEO of Vindincia.
Matt Cutts of Google, talks about click fraud & expired domains and ranking tips for webmasters to do better in Google..
The inaugural Domain Masters show features Jay Berkowitz, Eric Harrington, & Dr. John Berryhill.