Very few people realize consistent, profitable success when entering into the domain industry, specifically domain investing.

And even fewer persons can greatly capitalize and realize substantial reward developing services, tools, and platforms for domain investors to use.

The list is few in comparison to the number of domain investors that have come and gone their way, as well as the current domain investing ecosystem.

Remember when the new gTLDs — general top-level domains — came on the scene nearly a decade or so ago, and how they were going to be the nail in the coffin for legacy domain extensions — .com, .org, .net?

Well, that didn’t happen. However, what did happen was that quite a people lost hundreds and thousands of dollars gambling that they would.

Extensions like .vip, .rentals, .forsale, .realestate, and the list go on as long as a hot summer day in the desert.

Now, this is not to say that profitable success hasn’t been realized along the way. It has but by very few people, both buying and selling new gTLDS.

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 in 2021 is shaping up to be a stellar year, in comparison to 2020, as we approach the halfway mark.

Per Rick Schwartz, in 2020, there was $5.27M in domain sales reported on the top 10 list. Only 5 months into 2021, and there is $11.12MM in reported sales.

“It’s another day, another dime, another dollar, another day here in domaining paradise…”

Who proclaims and lives by this moniker?

Well, you’ll have to tune in as today’s podcast guest who truly lives in the sun, sand, and sea in the land of opportunity.

I bet you didn’t know domain registrars have a legal right to lock your domain name or domain portfolio based on a frivolous lawsuit or baseless claim or did you?

Now that I have your attention, today’s podcast dives deep into the details and back story of how one of the most prolific domain investors of our time discovered his multi-million domain portfolio of ultra-premium domains on lockdown by a bad actor filing a lawsuit in India and reporting it to GoDaddy.

GoDaddy, and they’re not the only domain registrar, has long held and enforced the policy that domains can and will be locked when legally challenged.

And what does legally challenged consist of? Well, I’m glad you asked.

What a milestone for every podcast to make it too, now including Kickstart.fm: Episode 100! 🎉

It’s been a great adventure thus far, and I can’t even imagine all the various interviews and stories that await the domain and business worlds.

With that out of the way, today’s milestone interview and the interviewee has roots that find deep origin from the Bluegrass State of Kentucky.

The Bluegrass State is famous for a number of things — breeding horses, tobacco farms, fine bourbon, and, of course, the Kentucky Derby.

While domain professionals hail from all over the globe, none are quite as special as today’s darling of domaining. And who might this darling of domaining be?