The art of the deal is the name of the game, and today’s podcast guest has made a name for himself across varying industries for nearly 40-plus years, spanning from the industrial to the information age.

From funerals to insurance to flowers to coffee to search marketing and more, Bill McClure is certainly not shy when it comes to assessing and initiating deals — the good, the bad, and ugly.

Domaining News

In domaining news, here’s what you’ll want to read and know about:

• Top Podcast Downloads for May
• 55.com Was Sold for 7 Figures in 2011
• Harry Hurst: One Word Domains Are the Holy Grail
• Be careful bidding on Vegan.com
• BrokersCrowd offers new platform for domain brokers to connect with each other
• Did Facebook Pay “More Than $6 Million” for Bulletin.com?
• Three domain sales : Uni Market, GoDaddy, and Escrow.com

That’s all for today. Let’s move onto today’s domain auctions.

Below is a hand-picked list of quick-pick domains with NO bids. There are a few sleepers on the list worth NOT BIDDING on, and allowing to enter into buy-it-now closeout status.

Attempting to allow domains with no bids to close in auction can be a bit risky. Once domains enter buy-it-now closeout status is also risky too.

I enjoy sniping and flipping expired domains at $5 pricing (really $13 after renewing it for a year), but be wise and don’t lose out on a good domain in an attempt to wait it out.

As always do your homework and research each domain before you commit to bidding and buying.

Below is a compiled list of expiring emoji domain auctions. This specific auction list may not become a norm, so enjoy it while it lasts.

For expiring emoji domain auctions with bids, I’ve included emoji. For auctions without bids at the time of this writing, emoji not included, but do feel free to use PunyCoder.com (copy and paste the list).

That’s all for today. Let’s move onto today’s emoji domain auctions.

Below is a compiled list of Register.To domain auctions.