Before we turn the page on 2025, we took a look back at what resonated most with listeners this year.

These are Kickstart Commerce’s top 10 most listened-to podcast episodes of 2025.

Why the bulk-reg question still lingers, and what prior years have taught and keep teaching us.

Years ago, I asked a simple question: Is bulk hand-registering domains actually worth the time and money?

At the time, the domain world was in full hand-reg mode. Ali Zandi registered 4,600 domains in one shot. Josh at DSAD was treating bulk regs like a daily workout. Rick Schwartz was mining the phonebook for custom domains. It wasn’t just a strategy—it was the strategy.

Fast-forward years later, and the question hasn’t gone away. If anything, it’s gotten more complicated.

Why do businesses ignore the problems, continuing to cost them the most?

Years ago, I wrote about the most overlooked and expensive mistake businesses make: forgetting to renew their domain.

And here we are years later, and the story hasn’t changed much. Domain renewal failures still happen every single day, and they still cost companies real money, real customers, and real credibility.

But here’s the thing. Renewal lapses aren’t the only threat anymore. Today, businesses are losing traffic, email, security, and revenue for a whole new set of reasons hiding in plain sight.

If missed renewals were “the big one,” today’s overlooked risks are death by a thousand cuts. Let’s walk through the most common problems I see from clients, expired domain auctions, and everyday search marketing work.

Eight years ago, I warned that posting domains with prices on Twitter might feel exciting but could quietly work against you when it came time to negotiate.

So there I was, trying to export domain names from my GoDaddy Auctions Watchlist, and bam—I hit a wall. Right at the top of the Watchlist page, this cryptic little error popped up:

“Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).”

The ever-changing domain industry has evolved in leaps and bounds over the past 15 years.

Platforms have come and gone, some transforming while others have reinvented themselves to thrive as prominent aftermarket domain platforms for buying and selling domains.

With nearly 15 years in this space, I’ve seen and tried many buy-and-sell platforms, including my own landing pages, in an effort to sell domains expeditiously at a profit.

Today, I’ll guide you through some of the most widely used and innovative aftermarket platforms, spanning established legacy marketplaces to emerging players offering fresh twists on proven models.

Here are a few you’ll likely encounter with a quick search.

Hey, Kickstart community!

A lot of time has passed since our last tutorial, but this one is too important not to share. Today, we’re tackling a common issue: fixing a domain registered at GoDaddy that isn’t forwarding properly.

Whether you’re new to domain registration or, like me, frequently purchase expired domains at auction, you might run into this frustrating error when trying to use GoDaddy’s domain forwarding services: Your attempt to forward domain(s) has failed.  Please retry, if the problem persists contact support, 1-480-505-8877.