The most critical challenge of any business is prudent cash flow management, especially when the business is buying and selling domain names.

Domain renewal fees are every domain investor’s nemesis. Why? 

In-person conferences (yeah, remember those pre-COVID) can sometimes feel like hundreds or thousands of people descending upon a single space with a common cause, yet as different as the east is from the west.

What a difference 12 months can make when considering relationships. One minute you casually pass by a stranger and neither one of you ever give a first or second thought to one another.

Then with a simple introduction, a meal, phone call, or email exchange, and you soon forget about what life was life before you both entered into one another’s story and life journey.

What a wild ride 2020 was, and for a multitude of reasons. The good, the bad, and ugly, to say the least.

There are many defining moments that touched us all — global pandemic, quarantining, masks, colossal loss, the movements, an election, and a long list of others.

As for the domain industry in general, 2020 will be remembered as the year of digital transformation and revolution. It’s the year of businesses making a mandatory pivot to digital empowerment online, or shutting their doors for good.

Many sales, purchases, and great memories were made domaining in 2020, with many more on the way in 2021.

As we move forward into the great unknown of 2021, take a moment to listen to the most downloaded Kickstart.fm podcasts recapping 2020 from some of the most innovative voices in the domain industry.

Wishing you a Happy New Year, and a year filled with health, wealth, and safe living! 🍾🎉🥳

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Many domain investors unknowingly commit to this is very deadly and costly approach to domain investing.

Whether hand registering domains, or buying domains via forums or auction platforms, this “spray and pray” approach to domain investing costs to the tune of thousands.

There are nearly 4.75 billion people connected via the Internet worldwide. That’s nearly 60 percent of the world’s population.

Once limited to the physical location where we reside, the Internet has vastly opened the door for everyone to connect with one another around the globe with a few simple keystrokes.

The Internet, especially search engines, has forever changed the way we live and do business. In fact, most of us now Google, Bing, or Baidu our way through daily living. But have you heard of The Bulgarian Search Engine?

Many often credit computer engineer Ray Tomlinson as the person to have birthed digital marketing by sending the first-ever email in 1971.

Whether it was him or not, no one can argue the fact that digital marketing has forever changed the way we live and do business across the globe.

Digital marketing has evolved and continues to evolve. From computers to the internet to smartphones and more to come, we live our lives through devices in one way, shape, or form.

What’s most intriguing is that we live bound to the critical undergirding of a numerical label known as the internet protocol address, often disguised as a human-readable, unique domain name.

The better the domain name, the more likely your family, friends, vendors, and customers are apt to remember and visit your name time and time again.

Otherwise, if your domain is hard to remember, then it’s much like building a business miles away from the main thoroughfare.

Not many people will ever know you and your business exists.  In fact, you’ll invest exuberant amounts of time and money introducing your brand over and over again.

For this reason, it’s imperative to qualify, buy, and develop the best representation of your industry or branding for your business or personal brand.

We’re going to party down under with today’s podcast guest. He lives literally the furthest location on earth from Austin, Texas.

If you don’t have a clue as to where he lives and didn’t catch the opening line, then tune in as we journey across the globe to the capital of Western Australia: Perth. Who lives in Perth, you ask?