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?

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:

Sometimes one can stumble and bumble their way into domain investing due to launching a side venture.

Today’s podcast guest is the very epitome of stumbling into domain investing by way of having launched a basketball camp for kids.

What is the next “big thing” on the horizon? This often tends to be the never-ending question about many things in life, domains included, decade after decade, year after year.

There are many big moments in and throughout the history of tech, especially when considering domains and their role in the existence of the Internet.

One of the latest topics up for discussion admits a world of civil unrest and #CancelCulture is the birthing and formation of a decentralized internet — the web 3.0.

From the legacy domains in a centralized structure of management to the decentralized management of handshake domains, the Handshake domain ecosystem is steadily growing day after day.

Can legacy and Handshake domains coexist in a new web ecosystem?