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? 

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

In-person conferences (yeah, remember that 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 one another a second thought.

Then with a simple introduction, a meal, a phone call, or an email exchange, you soon forget about what life was like 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! 🍾🎉🥳

It’s that time of the year to look back to see how those lofty predictions actually turned out. After all, we’re only hours away from 2020 literally being hindsight.

For 2020, I made 9 predictions pertaining to domain sales, domain extensions, registrars and services, conferences, and the overall economics of the domain industry in general.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Many domain investors unknowingly commit to this is a 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.

Podcasting has been around for quite some time, nearly 15 or more years and counting. In 2004, the term “podcasting was coined by newspaper journalist Ben Hammersly as he wrote about the potential for boom in amateur radio.

Due to cheap MP3 players, blogging, and audio software, online radio became a thing. A year or so later, Apple releases iTunes in 2005 and hits 1 billion subscribers in 2013.

One of the most recent milestones of 2020 in podcasting is the Spotify and Joe Rogan $100 million licensing deal for his podcast and podcast content.