The domain industry is quite small when compared to most industry and market segments. It’s mostly been a male-dominated industry, lacking ethnic and gender diversity.

However, the industry is growing, reaching and connecting with new audiences that look, live, and think differently than the status quo western-centric domain investor.

In fact, a number of domain investors are popping up around the globe, making not only a name for themselves but transfiguring their lives as they master buying and selling domain names to create generational wealth.

But with everything in life, buying and selling domain names is full of ups, downs, twists, turns, and everything in between. You win some. You lose some. And then, there are those that are simply a draw.

We rarely hear about these types of stories, if ever, but this is not the case for today’s podcast.

Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in March, ranked by the total number of monthly downloads:

Stay in school is the common mantra one hears early in life. Go to school. Make good grades. Get a good job.

It’s very rare to discover someone that drops out of high school at the age of 16 and MIT a few years later, especially a highly studious person.

But if dropping out of school twice doesn’t drop your jaw, then maybe being a Y-Combinator alum as well as receiving a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship grant after successfully founded Nambase.io — the premier domain registrar built on top of the new DNS protocol Handshake — just might grab your attention, a little more.

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?

Today’s podcast guest is a long-time mover and shaker as a top leader, visionary, and strategist in the domain industry.

A bridge-builder with innate gifting in establishing and sustaining relationships with a wide range of people and personality types, she’s a one-of-a-kind personality that leaves an impressionable mark on one’s life upon encountering and engaging her.

With just over 2 billion websites on the world wide web, forever increasing second by second and minute by minute, a high percentage of websites don a .com domain. In fact, almost 75% of all globally registered TLDs are .com — that’s just over 150 million.

While most tend to choose and use .com as their preferred extension, there’s a growing number of personal and corporate brands selecting non .com domains to represent their digital presence.

Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in February, ranked by the total number of monthly downloads: