DomainSherpa Review – April 10, 2025 – Trust But Verify Your Gut

DomainSherpa Review – April 10, 2025 – Trust But Verify Your Gut

DomainSherpa Review is the flagship show on the DomainSherpa Network where we get into the minds of successful domain name investors – who we call Sherpas – and talk about the value of domain names. By listening to the Sherpas, we expand our knowledge and understanding so that we can become more successful domain investors ourselves.

JT is joined by Drew, Braden, and Josh, and in this episode:

– The Sherpas play The Domain Game (starting at the 41:20 mark) where they guess what certain domains were bought and sold for by the Sherpas and discuss the reasons behind their evaluations. Today’s domains are Untouchable.com, FreeTime.com, AprilFool.com, AprilFools.com, and Ventures.org.
– They also review a list of domains about to come up for auction on NameJet.com, including OEMParts.com, InternetSales.com, Energetic.org, and Pickle.org.
– The Sherpas dig into the potential impact of tariffs on domain names and the macroeconomic picture in general.
– They also talk how to develop gut instinct in domaining and why it can be important when acquiring and selling domain names.
– And for those available around the LA area, there is a SoCal domainers meetup on April 23rd. Contact Braden for more details.
– Also, DomainSherpa is now integrating with Muse.ai for episode transcripts and an AI-driven video player to easily look for topics, words, phrases, etc., and jump to the points in the video where they occur. Let us know your feedback!
– Plus all DomainSherpa podcasts are now up on our YouTube channel at DS.tv, and much more!

If you don’t know, now you know – so be sure to tune in!

Episode Transcript
[0:00] Hi, everyone. Welcome to Domain Sherpa, and thank you for tuning into the podcast with the best domain name and digital asset content in the world. Today’s episode is a Domain Sherpa review titled Trust, But Verify Your Gut, featuring Brayden, Josh, and Drew. On today’s show, we play the domain game featuring Untouchable.com, Freetime.com, AprilFool.com, AprilFools.com, and Ventures.org. And then we’ve got the NameJet and the Jet segment sponsored by NameJet, And we talk about some domains coming up for auction, including oemparts.com, internetsales.com, energetic.org, and pickle.org. We also talk about the potential impact of the tariffs on domains and how they might also impact the macroeconomic picture in general. We also talk about how to develop gut instinct in domaining and why that’s important when it comes to acquiring and selling domain names. And remember, if you’re listening to the audio version of this podcast, you can also watch the video version at domainsherpa.com and on our YouTube channel at ds.tv. You can also listen to the shows on Apple and Spotify and other podcast platforms as well. So please make sure to hit the like button and the subscribe button and all that good stuff everywhere that you can and help DomainSherpa grow the pie. We also integrate our shows with Muse.ai, which provides search functionality for the shows and transcripts as well. So definitely check all that out. And huge shout out to D-N-W-E, short for Domain Name Wholesale Exchange. It’s a trading platform designed specifically for domain investors.

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[2:45] Music.

[3:06] What’s up, Sherpa Network? Thank you for tuning in today. My name is Jonathan Tenenbaum, aka JT, aka Jayon, aka Sherpa Winfrey, the host and producer of Domain Sherpa, where all roads lead to domains. Today’s show is a Domain Sherpa Review, where we get into the minds of successful domain investors using real examples so we can learn strategies and tactics to become more successful domain name investors ourselves. Yeah, these are the experts, the OGs, the best in the biz, my personal friends, not even guests, really, they’re all co-hosts when it comes down to it. There are four segments to a Domain Sherpa Review. We’ve got the grand opening. That’s where I intro the Sherpas. We see what’s going on with them. Talk about some related things, maybe some unrelated things. It’s all good. That’s where we’ll hit them with the AKAs. Then we got the domain game. That’s what we hear about with the Sherpas recently bought or sold. Everybody guesses on the price. We keep score and somehow, someway, someday get some swag to the winners. Then we got Namejet and a Jet sponsored by Namejet where we review a list of domains coming up for auction, see what the Sherpas like and what they don’t like. And last but not least, we got grand closing where we discuss anything we have not already covered, what’s going on in the domain space looking at market trends current events allowing our guests to mention or promote anything they want to talk about that we’ve not already discussed with that let’s go ahead and introduce the sherpas over to my right got my boy andrew rosner aka morpheus aka the dirk diggler digital assets aka bob lee swagger the sniper aka gray beer the domain pirate what’s going on man how are you uh i am good i’m good uh i am uh.

[4:34] Gearing up for a little holiday, going to see some Lenny Kravitz tonight, and, you know, that’s it. That’s it. Lenny Kravitz live from Lisbon on a Tuesday. He’s just gearing up on a Tuesday. People don’t gear up on Tuesdays, man. Listen. Yeah, they do. The ballers do. Not the weekend. I know. The ballers. But you’ve got to be more relatable, man. Come on. You know who talks about Tuesday? That’s what his publicist keeps telling him, but he’s like, he doesn’t care. You know who talks about Tuesday? Poor people.

[5:12] You don’t distinguish, man. Tuesday is the same as Saturday. It’s the same as Thursday. It’s all the same. You wake up. You grind. You have a little fun. You know what I mean? Try to make your family a little better than it was the day before. Go see a little Lenny Kravitz, and you go to bed. We do the same thing the next day. It doesn’t matter. Tuesday, Sunday, Monday, Friday. It doesn’t matter. Same shit. Thursday, I’m in love, baby. Let’s go. If Lenny Kravitz was performing here tonight, I’d be going. I’m just saying. I’ve seen him before. See, Brayden? Brayden looked poor to you.

[5:51] Brayden’s got so much money. He’s got money hanging on his wall like curbs. Brayden is the opposite of someone that looks poor. Yeah. No doubt you know lenny kravitz is from la he grew up here in culver city i thought he was a new york guy um i mean maybe when he was a kid kid but like he was pretty young he was still his mom i think is still here too i liked him until he told me that i thought he was a new york guy, oh man you’re making judgment i said i’m out i’m selling my tickets but i mean back back in the day like when i was in college like we’d see him around like he was a local dude like seeing like the grocery store kind of like yeah back when you were an undergrad grocery store as you, Yeah, this is when we were all poor.

[6:46] All right. Well, good stuff. Good stuff. Shout out to Lenny Kravitz. All right. Let’s keep it moving. We got Josh Reason below me to the right, a.k.a. Bjorn Borg, a.k.a. Prince Harry, a.k.a. Harry Kane, a.k.a. Prince Harry Kane, a.k.a. DNX. It’s dark and hell is hot, a.k.a. X gonna give it to you, a.k.a. Mr. P. X gonna give it to you.

[7:08] Stop drop shut it down open up shop what’s going on dude how are you what’s up what’s up i’m good i’m good i’m happy to be here it’s been a little while uh was expecting an invite much sooner but it is what it is oh man you know you say that but you know is it back i mean it’s like we last week you know what it was we had like two weeks where we didn’t do sherpa review where we did like we We had Paul on the show. You know, we had Matt Barry from Escrow. You know, we were doing, like, that style of show. I mean, there’s an excuse for everything, you know, but it’s all good. It’s all good. Come on, man. You know what it is, man. Shit. Even we’re getting flack from the homies. All right, let’s keep it moving. Below me, we have the one and only Brayden Pollock, a.k.a. Tony Stark, a.k.a. Benjamin Button, a.k.a. Ebray Love, a.k.a. Brayden Pollockton, the Archduke of Calabasas, and the Viscount of Woodland Hills. It’s not that your domain is worthless it’s just that it’s worth less you know i’m saying so what’s up dude how are you, i’m all right man good to be back yeah i mean good to be back you guys it’s been like three weeks.

[8:18] Time moves so slow in the domain space it’s crazy though when uh you know when the markets are doing what they’re doing it feels like you know it definitely we are in and i remember this like you know at various points nft web3 craziness you know when i whenever you have all this turmoil, the time is just you know you get this time distortion where it’s like oh every day feels like it’s a week or a month you know and i feel like we’re kind of into that mode at the moment because things are so wild but uh but speaking of which how’s everybody feeling i mean that was a question that came up on the internet you know i think a shout out to michael dooner who asked the question like what do you guys think the impact let’s dive right into what do you guys think is the impact of potential tariffs on domain names people need to just chill the fuck out just take a deep breath chill the fuck out and just sit back and wait just sit back and wait and just watch what’s going to happen. This is all, people don’t understand. People are like, ooh, Scott Pesce, Treasuries. First off, people think Trump made this plan. Trump didn’t make this plan. Trump doesn’t even know what half these words mean.

[9:21] Like, Scott Pesce is the Treasury Secretary, and in case everybody forgot or didn’t know, like, first off, motherfucker was a Democrat. Second of all, this dude is literally this dude was partners. He worked for George Soros. Okay. With Stanley Druckenmiller, him and Stanley Druckenmiller, two of the absolute unequivocal top macro investors of all time ever. Okay. These guys single-handedly broke the bank of England by forcing the bank of England to fucking.

[10:03] Uh, basically let the bond market go in order to fucking protect the currency. Okay. These guys put, you know, basically, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, an enormous amount of pressure through a very calculated bet that forced the bond, uh, the, the, the bank of England to, um, uh, to cover a bluff. Okay. And so.

[10:31] These are This is literally one of the most Intelligent people in the world Of finance globally This is one of the very few People that understands the plumbing Of the global financial system In ways that the cumulative Audience of this show, Will never know how much He forgot yesterday So like everybody Needs to chill the fuck out and understand that there actually is an adult steering the ship and he knows exactly what the fuck he’s doing. One thing that I’ve actually come to understand, and I don’t claim to be like some expert on, on debt markets, but I am intrigued enough that I spent an awful lot of time reading about it and understanding it and looking back historically at how things react to various, you know, confluence of events. And I.

[11:22] What I can tell you for sure is that most people don’t know how to prioritize, okay? So they look at everything in a very linear way. And so they look at the world and they go, oh, my God, 25% tariff here, 34%. And they just start freaking out. Oh, my God, my cars are going to go up 34%. Oh, my God. And they just start freaking the fuck out. And they don’t even understand what any of this shit means, okay? But actually what it means, first off, most of these products are already being tariffed anyways, okay, in other various forms.

[12:02] Yes, for sure, some prices are going to go up on certain things. Most of the things that prices are going to go up on are things we probably shouldn’t be consuming or we should be consuming less of. So in my personal opinion all these people who want the world to be green should shut the fuck up and be grateful that we’re tariffing shit that’s coming in from countries that we’ve exported our pollution to okay because all we’re doing is saying we are going to regulate this shit we are not going to burn coal anymore but we’re also going to stop manufacturing we’re going to send all our manufacturing to china we’re going to burn dirty coal instead of our clean coal And Germany’s not going to build anything with clean coal or energy. They’re going to export that shit to India and China, Vietnam, where there’s no regulation. And people can create the same exact shit for less cost because there’s no regulation. And they dump all the pollutants into the ocean, into the rivers, into the sea, into the sky, or into your fucking food. But let’s just get back to the main point. The main point is priorities. And at the top of the pyramid of priorities is bond rates. And the reason that that’s the number one priority above all else, including the cost of your goddamn eggs, is because the American government is literally on the verge of defaulting, not defaulting, but.

[13:28] Basically being insolvent. Okay. Unsustainable. It won’t solve. It won’t, it won’t go. It won’t default because it’ll just print money. But believe me, the last thing on earth you want is the government printing 30, 40% of its GDP in new dollars in order to pay the interest on the debt to places like China or Saudi Arabia or the federal reserve. What you don’t want is that because that means the end of america that means that your quality of life goes from a very slow decline that we’ve been on to an exceedingly steep decline because your dollars don’t purchase anything anymore and that is what real inflation is real inflation.

[14:19] Uh uh what is the quote uh inflation is and always it uh it is always a monetary i don’t know i’m messing up the quote but anyways basically the only way inflation happens inflation isn’t from tariffs inflation is always which is where the derivative of the word comes from, from inflating the monetary supply. When the money supply goes up and the number of goods and services stays the same or goes down, you get inflation because you have more money chasing the same amount of goods and services. Okay.

[15:00] This is a multi-step process. We need, we need terrorists. It’s not even a, you know, there maybe was other ways of going about it, but those have been tried. The diplomatic things have been tried. It doesn’t, nobody’s making progress over the last, I mean, you can go back, you can look at it. You can see, you can see Bush talking about it. You can see Clinton talking about it. You can see Obama talking about it. You’re the only one that didn’t want to see Biden. Biden’s like, oh, let’s just destroy America and let’s make everything in China. Let’s make China own America. so um anyways every single president has attempted something along these lines trump is just saying look our backs against the wall and he’s going you know and when i say trump it’s really percent um latnik to a lesser extent but um they are going to force a global realignment of trade. They’re going to force new trade agreements with every country in the world so that America is getting a better deal, period, full stop. Now that, like I said, will have some price impacts in certain things on a semi-temporary basis. Okay.

[16:10] But that is going to be way offset by the fact that if they can accomplish what they’re setting out to do, which it seems like they are, we had the bond rate at 4.8%, came all the way down to 3.9. Then it came down yesterday morning to 3.5 and now it’s gone back up which I actually don’t understand why but the 10 year rate has gone from 4.8 down to 3.5 you know now back up to around 4.

[16:39] The 3 point the initial move from 4.8 down to 3.9 that move alone okay just for all the freaking morons out there that are so upset about this.

[16:51] That move alone, just getting the interest rate from 4.8 to 3.9 saved America $150 billion in interest expense in one week. Just that move. The goal is to get it down to, let’s say, three, three and a half. If they can get it down to three, three and a half rapidly, the Fed is going to do the rest of the work. They’re going to be forced to cut rates themselves. you’re going to see a massive amount of liquidity come into the market you’re going to see uh the administration cut taxes on everybody that’s earning 150 000 or less and everybody that’s on social security which is so logical and uh but my parents on social security they get a check and then they pay taxes back to the government on that so it’s like what what what world does that make any sense it’s like you know that that’s ass backwards so anyways the quality of life for the people who inflation actually matters uh their quality of life is going to increase significantly above the minor inflation on mostly uh uh uh voluntary purchase goods these are not you know, goods that are necessary.

[18:12] And, um, uh, this, the tax savings are going to far exceed whatever extra you’re paying for your dozen eggs. Okay. And then secondly, um, if that was just the, all that was just the first point. If we can do the lows with 0.1 and 0.2, 0.1 is tariffs, right? Because we need to get the interest rate down. Once we accomplish that, then we can use those savings to allow for the tax credit of Americans who are on $150,000 or less and Social Security. This is huge. People are like, just ignore this.

[18:53] I don’t think other people understand what a big impact that will have on the quality of life of most Americans. That one thing alone. Ignore this. Like, wow, you’re free. What you earn is yours. Up to 150 grand, that is to me like, wow, that’s really an American dream. Okay. Third, if we can do all of those things. And we can raise, let’s say 500 billion to a trillion dollars in, in, in revenue from tariffs. We can cut 500 billion to a trillion dollars in, uh, fraud, waste and abuse, which seems like that’s going to be a layup.

[19:36] Um uh we can we actually have a shot and if we can roll over the nine trillion dollars in debt that america needs to refinance this is the thing nobody understands we need to refinance nine trillion dollars in debt in the next nine months and uh i’ve yet to see anybody explain to me how we’re going to do that at rate with rates at five percent or four percent you can’t do it This debt was taken out when interest rates were zero. You can’t roll it over at 4% or 5% because you’re going to literally, the interest expense will be $3 trillion a year. Our interest expense, just paying interest, will be double what we spend or triple what we spend in defense. It’ll be double what we spend in Medicare and Social Security. In what world is that okay? If you think that’s okay, you should move to China, where they have communism, and it’ll be great for you. You will thoroughly enjoy it. But that world in which the government is printing all the money to pay all this stuff, that’s a world that becomes totalitarian, communist. Everything you do is going to be dictated. Because without complete control, that train goes off the tracks. So that becomes a complete control world. So number one priority Above all else I don’t give a shit about Any of your personal problems.

[21:03] Number one problem for America as a collective is getting the interest rate down so that it can roll over its debt. If we don’t do that, all the other stuff doesn’t matter. It literally doesn’t matter. I can’t emphasize that enough. So anyways, that’s the story on tariffs. Everything else is narrative. Nothing else matters. The only thing you need to watch is the bond market. And hopefully we’re going to get the bond market to stay happy and keep gradually falling or rapidly falling. Uh, rapidly probably means we’re, you know, creating a little more economic, uh, uh, dislodging than, than, than may be necessary. But, um, I, again, I don’t think that that even really matters relative to the priority of getting that, that interest rate down. So that’s the story. That’s the only story that matters. Watch the bond rate. Ideally we get that down to three and a half, three. And then in the next days or weeks, the Fed comes in, they have an emergency rate cut probably by 75 basis points.

[22:05] And, uh, you know, now we’re in the twos and, you know, now, now we can start rolling over some of that debt. Now we can start issuing some longer duration debt. Now, maybe we introduced some stable coin regulation that’s backed by a 50 year treasury note. There’s an idea, get interest rates down into the twos or even below that and issue some very long maturity debt that’s backing stable coins. And guess what? Nobody will give a shit because they’re not sitting on the stable coin as a way of earning an interest. They’re sitting on the stable coin for convenience and for trade purposes and for all sorts of other things that nobody really cares whether it’s a 50-year note at 2%. And so if we can introduce… By the way, that that would basically be the government issuing money that wasn’t issued by the fed that has all that’s a whole nother story that we only get into to make your heads explode today but.

[23:07] These are all very positive things. Like, like I literally couldn’t give a shit Republican Democrat. If this was Obama doing it, I would say, holy shit, brilliant strategy. Now I’m not saying this is all going to work, but this, the path we were on was certain death. And this is a path that to me, if they can execute, which again, I look at the data, the data is the bond market. So far, the data looks like it’s working, okay? So if they can execute this strategy effectively and they can knock all three rungs of the stool out.

[23:50] What you’re going to see is an unbelievable bull market and prosperity for American companies and most American people starting in three to six months, and lasting for quite a long time. Yes, and that would be good for domains. And I believe the quote that you had referred to was, inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. Shout out to Milton Friedman. And yeah, look, I think a lot of what you’re saying makes sense. I think without question, we’re carrying way too much debt and the rates are too high to be able to do anything with it. In fact, the debt service would just be pretty untenable. So, yeah, we’ll see. I mean, in the meantime, it’s definitely some pain, at least in the short term. But I think that the idea that it ultimately will be bullish for domains is good. Josh, Brayden, thoughts? I agree. Remember, we’re on a show. That’s why.

[24:52] I agree all right um do you guys have but seriously like trump be like it’s a i just think that’s a personal question i like i like all the bible passages and uh uh old testament new test um i like i like them both equally i think yeah i like them both equally he doesn’t even know what a bible looks like he’s never read the bible um josh i think that michael do know you deserve um you deserve to pay for this show because of all that information that you just acquired for the first 35 minutes well and i think the cool thing or you know um no look it’s it’s obviously very insightful and i think it’s worth mentioning that when drew was uh you know dropping been some some insults in the beginning it was not at michael but at the pundits who are belly aching about all the terrorists right yes i was not directed at michael in fact i even forgot that the whole thing was premised on michael’s question but i i uh i am directing a little bit of hate and a little bit of of you know little jab at all of the people who are literally just shouting out the pocket without knowing a goddamn thing about how debt works, without knowing anything about sovereign debt, without knowing anything about how actual global trade works.

[26:21] Without understanding that these are negotiation tactics.

[26:25] This is not, oh, we’re shedding these tariffs and this is a permanent, like, look, I don’t even care about the politics anymore. I don’t even think this is a political thing. This is a, this is a geopolitical thing. It doesn’t matter Republicans or Democrats. None of that shit matters This is literally about Our children’s future This is about the future of a country This is literally about the prosperity The future prosperity of a country And honestly like I don’t know.

[26:53] I think everybody needs to suck it up and shut up and just let the administration do what it’s trying to do. It has told you exactly what the plan is. Let them execute it and let’s see what happens to me. This seems like an actually really intelligent and strategic plan. If they can execute it effectively, I think every single person, young, old, Chinese, gay, black, I don’t give a fuck who you are. You’re going to benefit. So, and if anything, to be honest, it’s the people who are rich, they’re going to benefit the least now, maybe the longterm they benefit, but in the short term, the people that are going to benefit the most are actually your average American. And so I actually think that this is a very good strategy that I, uh, uh, and I don’t wholeheartedly support much of anything in the world, but I, I really believe that given where we’re at the circumstances i think this is actually the best possible strategy to go forward.

[27:52] And create a better future for america and americans i really do i’m with it man i uh yeah i hope that there are adults in the room i mean obviously you know we have some very what you know seasoned intelligent people in the mix you know it’s tough you get mixed uh sort of reports about you know well the plan was this but then it became this or this or trump’s doing that like there is a lot of the political sort of overflow that creates a lot of noise around this stuff and that’s just because you’re listening to mainstream media like i can’t listen to mainstream i’m just saying i’m on i’m on x man i’m on x i don’t watch i don’t watch mainstream i don’t consume mainstream media i’m just getting my i get my my both sides you know like we listen i don’t give a shit about which side mainstream media is on both sides if you’re mainstream mainstream media post-COVID.

[28:43] Then, like, again, you’re not happy. I just follow the same people that you follow, you know what I’m saying? You’re stupid. You’re literally stupid. You’re literally ignorant. Now, if you do it with the intention of this is entertainment, and I love watching talking heads make fool of themselves, then God bless. Get your popcorn. But if you actually watch the news and think I’m watching news and I’m not watching editorial commentary from extraordinarily biased people that have been selected to be at the far extreme of either side in order to stoke emotional response, in order to generate more viewing minutes, in order to generate more ad dollars. That’s the only purpose of mainstream media. And if you don’t understand that, again, you’re fucking stupid and you should go do something about that. You should say, oh shit, this dude just told me I’m stupid, but actually I do all the things he said I do. So maybe I am stupid and I should go do something about it. I’m going to go learn about macroeconomics. I’m going to go read a biography about Scott Bessett. I’m going to go find out what happened in all of the other trade wars.

[29:44] Go educate yourself. Five words. Um, let’s get into some domains. You know what I’m saying? Let’s talk some domains. This all dovetails right into domains. I know it does. That was the whole point of the initial question. Is we’re in phase one. We’re in the pain. Okay. There needs to be pain. There needs to be pain because it’s a negotiation tactic and you need to create pain. So everybody else shows up at the table, which seems to be happening. EU bending the knee. Israel bend the knee. Vietnam bend the knee, right? Everybody’s bending the knee. Thailand bend the knee. Everybody’s lining up to bend the knee. Now, the only one that actually matters is China. And that’ll obviously be last. But obviously it’s working because everybody’s lining up to bend the knee and bond rates are coming down. So I would say 10 out of 10 working.

[30:29] And what’s going to happen is once we get past this period and the Fed cuts rates and liquidity starts coming into the markets, listen to me, we’re going to be back in that May 2021 with Bored Apes launched And it was basically all up all the time on all assets. And that includes domains. That includes crypto. Might even be NFTs again. Who knows? But all of this is going to be very good for domains. Because you’re going to see massive capital flowing out of China because of currency controls. I think we are actually setting up on the Chinese side. I think we’re actually setting up to see a repeat of what we saw in 2014, 15, 16, when the Chinese were just buying up, you know, that’s when the chips, you know, the four letter.coms were basically trading at very stable prices. They became basically fungible. Um, three letter.coms, two letter, you know, all this stuff. I think we’re actually setting up for exactly that.

[31:38] Um, because what the United States is doing. With .ai this time instead of .com? What? Just with .ai instead of .com? No, highly unlikely. I’m joking. I’m just joking. Highly unlikely.

[31:52] Um, but no, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re, you’re, watch, just watch, watch, watch the, the, the currency peg between the yuan and the dollar. And if that starts to decouple, you’re going to see massive outflows of capital, looking, going through every rat hole it can find to get out of China and into any asset it classic can, um.

[32:18] That can be sold in a foreign currency. So, um, I think, I think we’re setting up for a really, really big Q2, Q3, um, yeah, just on some throwback, right? This was the app back in at that time where the different buckets of inventory you know fueled by china this was the app that you could get on the iphone it literally broke down the different buckets of inventory i didn’t even know there was an app i was doing all that shit with no app yeah this was at the end of 15 early 16 was when this thing was available and it basically had the floor prices the current up down i mean it’s basically the stocks app but with domain buckets based off of all those uh you know those different groupings oh see y’all needed to get hip to that back in the day that was a that was a great that was a fun time in domaining it was really cool and uh it was i don’t i’m not even you know i’m not gonna go so far as like i’m predicting that to happen again because i feel like that was so wild i don’t know if it can happen twice but.

[33:23] The conditions are setting up for something like that. Now, it could be that the money’s flowing not into domains this time. It’s going into crypto or it’s going into whatever. But most likely it will go into crypto because it’s more liquid. It’s, you know. But the conditions are setting up for a very good environment to be selling domains.

[33:44] And I’m very optimistic. Even though in the short term, yes, deals are going to get a little more friction. Yes, some things might fall through. Yes, people are getting a hard time making decisions on big purchases because there’s so much economic uncertainty. But I think that we’re going to see basically a V-shaped recovery. I think it could even be today, tomorrow, this week, where we actually are seeing the bottom. I think markets are opening up today. I think they’ll probably close down is my guess. And um i think we’re there or we’re close to a bottom and then i think as soon as you see the fed cut rates and liquidity enter i think we’re going to see a massive bull market in crypto and in domains and in everything i think it’s just going to be you know liquidity bazooka there’s a lot of debt that needs to be rolled there’s a lot of you know potentially china dumping their treasuries that needs to be absorbed by the fed so there’s a lot there’s a lot of play here and And all of it points to massive easing of financial conditions, massive liquidity entering markets.

[34:56] China getting very restrictive on capital flows. All of that points to super positive for Western assets and, uh.

[35:09] Um, particularly shit like stocks, uh, well, technology stocks, um, uh, domain names and crypto. Sure. Well, even if you just see Bitcoin, well, and even if you just see a drop in rates in general, right? Because then, you know, people will have to start getting a little bit more, you know, risk on, right? I mean, because then your money’s not going to earn 4%, 5%, 6% just by sitting there in the bank. Now you’ve got to get active, right? And when you talk about additional liquidity and now people are going to be investing and buying and, you know, all the everything. Everything, everywhere all at once. So, yeah. So, well, hey, let’s hope that that’s the way it plays out. Let’s hope that, uh, you know, sausage getting made is not always the, uh, the prettiest process. So I think there is definitely something to be said for that. And, uh, we shall see. Well, it’s also, especially if you’re trying to make sausage out of a fricking cow that just got hit by a fucking 16 wheeler, you know what I’m saying? If you got some roadkill, which is basically what the America American society and, and, and, you know, from a macroeconomic standpoint was, it was basically roadkill. If that’s what you’re starting from yeah it’ll be a messy sausage, yeah but sausage all the same so anyway that shit’s gonna sizzle although Brayden’s like I don’t even know what you’re talking about vegan sausage is made completely differently made out of vegetables I don’t know.

[36:38] So alright well let’s get into the domain game unless you guys have any other thoughts or comments Josh, Brayden, you guys just want to talk at all, let’s get into it do we get to talk, for what it’s worth by the way for those of you who are listening and not watching before i was holding up a screenshot of the uh the old uh domain app or that was out of china during the big wave when you know all the different buckets of domains three character four character.com five character numerics all had a baseline floor price that day that would go up and down based on market activity at the various marketplaces and things like that. So, um, pretty cool to think back to that time. I mean, almost 10 years ago, it’s pretty wild that that’s how long ago it was. It was exactly 10 years ago. It was like literally that, that, that transition from 14 into 15, it lasted all of 15 and it sputtered out the beginning of 16. So it was literally exactly 10 years ago. Yeah. So that’s, that’s a interesting timing thing. And, uh, so yeah. alright well it’s a decade later and it just feels like one of the stars of the show just for shits and giggles I’m going to go back I want to see what kind of emails was I getting, on this day in 2015 let’s see, alright or.

[38:06] I mean look keep moving I’m just curious we’re going to do the domain game it actually starts with you because you’re in the upper right. The main game? Drew, you know what? Seriously, you have this infrastructure with this show. You should do another podcast. We’re like, I don’t know, call it world according to Drew or some shit. And then you could just talk about politics and your thoughts. Well, but this is the problem is you should be interested in this. This is what ultimately drives the market, the domain market the most.

[38:42] Everything else is narrative. It really is. The only thing that really matters in the world is global liquidity. And when that rises, good for domains, good for Bitcoin, good for stocks, good for your house price, good for everything. When it’s falling, bad for everything. And so it matters. And I do, I sincerely wish more people paid attention. I sincerely wish people took the time to understand this stuff, even at a high level, because most of the narrative that you hear and that people make decisions on is wrong. them. It’s literally flat and raw. And people make poor judgment decisions.

[39:21] Uh, they sell things when they shouldn’t, they discount when they shouldn’t, they, they, they, you know, and it goes the other way too. But, uh, I wish I look, this is an educational show and I hear you. I understand some people get upset or turned off because I go on a rant, but I think it’s important. I really do. I think it’s important. I wish more people understood it. And so I try to interject with a little bit of, uh, little knowledge and I try to make it, you know, I I’m aggressive because if I tell you you’re retarded and you’re stupid, maybe you’re going to pay attention and be like, well, what’s this fool talking about? So I’m not trying to be insulting, but I do want to slap people around a little bit and go, wake up, wake up. You’re passionate, man. We appreciate the passion. All right. Well, so give us a buy or sell that you’re passionate about so that we can see what everybody thinks that the number was and then we’ll go from there but no but i do think make sure it’s it is important it is why the question was asked and it is why we addressed it and uh yeah so all good.

[40:25] I’m just buying names right now on DNX. I love it. DNX, baby. I keep talking so you buy more names. Yeah, the funny thing is it’s actually one of Merlin’s names. He’s got underpriced. Sorry, buddy. Sorry, Merlin. You’ve had it for over 10 years. Oh, I know what you’re buying. And it’s about to move over to your side of the ledger. Wait, do you see it? Does it begin with Pete? it does yeah oh Josh Josh is speaking of P he’s on the pulse you know what I’m saying Josh knows, I can I mean I guess I can say what it is because I’m buying it so I’ll say it yeah you could use it as your buy, wait what okay let’s go with let’s go with a let’s go with a buy Error Why is there an error, Josh? Oh This is in real time Yeah, click through it again I’m doing it right now, Log in Log in to wherever you were Purchasing it from Wherever it forwarded to And then go back to DNX and click again.

[41:53] It’s got to get resolved somehow though yeah this is going to be arrogant just do it through the okay I’m locked in let me go back to oh is it doing a 404 is it doing a 404 no it just says error process who knows maybe it’s my credit card, tapped out this month what’s that you tapped out this month too much buying, Tapped out while Drew was doing all the talking Alright, listen We’re going with a bye, Let’s hear it. Untouchable.com Untouchable. Wow. It’s kind of like unstoppable, but untouchable. Can’t touch this.

[42:49] Can’t touch this. The music hits me so hard. If I launched a company on untouchable.com it’s literally 100% I would get MC Hammer. Is he alive? Yeah, man. He’s doing his thing. I bet you hire him for like a grand.

[43:11] MC Hammer’s a G, man. All the stories about him, everyone’s like, yo, people get it twisted because he’s like, you know, with the hammer pants and all the sequin stuff when he was into that can’t touch this era. But he is like, he’s a G, man. He’s legit. Shout out to MC Hammer. legit but i mean you know like you know i ain’t seen him at the clearport you know what i mean like well i haven’t heard any new mc hammer music oh same cases right we got the same no no like mine does this oh okay well i like that i like that it is actually pretty cool where do you get that well how what’s that called this is uh it’s a it’s actually pretty dope case it’s called uh i just ordered the new 16 iphone 16 today i haven’t bought the last three generations same i stepped up today same did exactly the same i got the new one just the other day and i have the thing on the back this is the new one the large one here’s the i have that.

[44:15] T-O-R-R-A-S. Toros. Yeah, it’s a quality case. All right, hey guys, put your numbers up. All right, Josh is at 22,388. Brayden is now changing his number based on Josh’s number. No, I’m not. Just because I was messing with it. I can show you what it says, but it’s like, it’s 45,000. But you see what happened? Oh, yeah, look at all that. So 45,000, Josh.

[44:44] Josh, you also got some profile views. Alright, $45,000 for Brayden. Josh is at $22,388. I cannot bet because I know what it sold for, what we bought it for, so I know also who won the point. Go ahead, Drew. Brayden won. Price was $43,000. Oh! I feel like Brayden may have been offered this domain name prior to my purchase. Of course, but yeah yeah no it definitely was but it was much higher that it was a higher price yeah it was brought to me at 55 000 you know what i really like about this name is uh you know untouchable is cool it’s like unstoppable unbeatable you know it’s got like a very positive strong connotation but i also love it for like a hands-free kind of situation you know untouchable and some kind of a hands-free deal i mean i like it for a lot of things like you know, any form of insurance protection uh security iphone cases right yeah phone i mean just everything like hands off hands free you know just a flex just all sorts of stuff so what do you probably what do you now try to sell it for, i think untouchable is a 500 to 750 type of name.

[46:07] Wiz, what do you guys think? I mean, you’re not going to sell it $750 if you got it priced at $500. I didn’t price it for $500. That’s probably whoever I bought it from.

[46:19] I don’t know. I think that’s a little high. They need to take it off GoDaddy.

[46:27] I agree with Brayden I think it’s like a 350 to 400 name, which is still he still bought it fine but I just don’t think it’s a I don’t think it’s a mid to high six figure name it’s a good meaning but it’s a little too long and too clunky to be that high, I’m not talking shit I like the name.

[46:55] Yeah yeah you know that’s cool whatever you just hate my stuff it’s all good um not no, all right cool well braden gets the point we got to get it pulled off after nick um, so uh i’ll make a note about that for post-show all right cool josh let me let me ask let me ask a couple questions i have to ask please um you’re not you’re not concerned at all about current usage, from that brand, Drew? Because that feels like it’s 100% based on gut and the fact that it is a cool name. But there isn’t a lot. There’s like no usage. Zero, pretty much. Which, you know, when you see that, that’s a barbell strategy. So, obviously, it’s low-hanging fruit if there’s a ton of usage and you’ve got out of the gate a bunch of potential buyers. But on the other end of the barbell is the clean slate argument, which is that, okay, this is actually not something that’s been trampled on. There’s not a lot of confusion in the marketplace because of the namespace. And I can actually go build a blue ocean. Right. And so, you know, it’s interesting. I think that what you trade off in that.

[48:14] Space is with that barbell strategy is, you know, on the one hand, you’ve got a faster sale. You’re going to turn it over quickly. Most likely you’re going to turn it over quicker. You know, you’re going to get a, a, a, a, a, you know, good return, but you’re probably going to pay a higher price to get the name. And on this side, I think that there’s just more alpha. If you’re willing to hold the name longer and wait for the right opportunity, because the big, big buyer wants that open field, that blue ocean. They want to be able to come in and own that space.

[48:48] And so I, you know, I agree with you. It’s not an obvious low hanging fruit. It’s not a quick flip by any stretch, but I think it is a really cool name that has really good multiple industry, uh commercial uh use cases and um i don’t know i like it i just want you know it’s 100% what you said it’s gut it’s instinct it says sometimes the name resonates for me and i don’t really care what the numbers say i don’t really care what the adoption looks like if the name resonates it’s like i know eventually i’m gonna i’m gonna you know get a win there yeah yeah it’s a really I think it’s an interesting, I think it’s an interesting topic too, because I, I, I do both, right? There’s instinct and there’s, and there’s stats. And sometimes the stats don’t support, I feel about the name. And there is this kind of like open field perspective, like, well, nobody’s using it. So, you know, go to town. Yeah. Uh, you know, easier to get the trademark, probably easier to pick up multiple extensions. Uh, you don’t have, uh, you know, confusion in the marketplace, uh.

[49:58] But on the other hand, the stats will say, well, like, nobody likes this brand. So it’s, and I think for the new investor, that’s really a tough call. It’s hard. It really takes a lot of experience, buy names and sell names, seeing what sells in the marketplace, not just what you sell, right? But, you know, you should read what sells every day and get a feel. You can create a gut instinct. I did. Like when I first got into it and people were like, well, kind of, you know, know it’s a kind of a gut instinct what things because i was like how do you buy a name people like it’s a gut i’m like well i don’t have that so how do i develop that and so i just looked at sales every day i’ll go to the auctions the live auctions at the conferences and literally write down what everything sold for 100 percent i didn’t think if it was if it was wholesale retail and i also went through literally line by line ron uh ron’s uh uh uh you know uh dn journal report every week and I go line by line looking at all the names that sold, even the small ones. I go see who bought it, try to understand why would they buy this? Why did it sell for a certain price? I try to compare it to like sales and see, all right, was it a bigger company that bought the other one that sold for hire or was it just somebody that priced it wrong?

[51:16] That’s it. That’s the only way you can develop your gut. Right. If you just hope it’s going to come, it’s going to take you forever. Like you need to supercharge that. More importantly, not only is it going to take you forever, but you also, you’re not going to know it when it comes. True. And I think the biggest problem when you’re studying sales is it a wholesale or retail. You have two entirely different markets, right? And that’s really a problem because it’s hard to know. But if you see like where it sold, you can kind of figure out. You look up who the buyer was, see if it’s an end user, if it just ended up with an investor, if it’s back on a lander, it’s an investor, you know, back on a lander at a higher price. So you really have to determine, did it sell into the wholesale market or was it an end user buy, right? And that’s how you can kind of develop that gut. But that’s the biggest problem in developing that gut is in learning what the values are. You have two different valuations.

[52:17] Developing the gut i like that i think that’s important and i think you’re right i mean i think when you know spend decades your domain microbiome but when you spend time you know i mean i look we used to watch the domain auctions obviously so closely every day we would you know have even like in-house bets about hey which name is going to be the higher selling name of multiple big names that might be closing in a day or whatever like you know you’re hyper focused on results and seeing what’s happening and seeing what’s happening in different marketplaces and seeing what’s happening with different domain extensions and you know like we talked about the china wave seeing what’s happening with different buckets of domains on a daily basis to know hey oh you have this opportunity to buy 54 character dot coms having some sense quickly what that floor is currently looking like to know is this a good deal or not right and and a lot of times too because you’re buying names that are being shopped around sometimes those windows are short and small, and you’ve got to have some ability to be able to take advantage of those without putting yourself in a position where you’re going to lose a bunch of money. So developing your gut, I think it’s key. And for what it’s worth, I think maybe Brayden, when you were on Andrew Alleman’s podcast.

[53:29] This was a little bit of action I saw on Twitter, on X, talking about how there are a lot of, this is what DomainSherpa provides, right? This is what some of the, the Domain Name Wire blog, the Domain Name Wire podcast, Elliot Silver, Name Bio, Domain Academy, like, you know, the tools that are free or pretty cheap to learn what domain values really look like, where those opportunities are. You know, one of the things that Josh is extremely good at, he understands the market better than almost everybody in the space, right? Based on, you know, a combination of data and gut feel, you know, so I think that’s a great, great topic. That was really good, guys. I like that a lot. All right, so let’s keep it moving. Uh josh it is on you with the domain game do you have a buy or a sell or what’s what’s what’s good, i’ve been talking i i always tell you guys about all my all my stuff so um then come on the show and i haven’t got so much to talk about but i i can do like a buy from earlier this year that i don’t think i told anyone like i didn’t i’m pretty sure i didn’t tell anyone about or I definitely didn’t reveal the price. So.

[54:45] Well, tell me if I’m wrong. Freetime.com? Freetime.com? Nope. Freetime.com? Yep. Love that. All right, no. Let me… All right, boys, let’s get it. Let’s put it in there. So, Freetime. So, this was a buy or a sell? Buy. Oh, this is a buy. So, Freetime.com. All right, Drew. Sorry, what is it? FreeTime.com. FreeTime? FreeTime.com. It was a buy. Like leisure time, free time. Yeah, that’s right. FreeTime.com. That’s great. It was a buy.

[55:35] Okay. All right, here we go. Ready? Three, two, one, turn it. All right. Okay. Braden’s at $15,000. Oh, I got sandwiched. Braden’s at $15,000. Drew is $22,369, and I’m at $25,000. We’re all in a nice little bunch. Josh, who’s the winner? True whoa 20 20 ah i had 20 i had 30 25 20 and then back to 25, what was it 20 20 20 great domain so great domain great domain thanks how much more sell to me for, you keep trying when was the last time i’ve done i’ve sold to you man this is not 2018 anymore you know domain the domain industry is not what it used to be you know you all you young bucks you know you used to do the work you go find names and then you sell to me and you know you take a little cut and everybody was happy but now everybody got greedy now everybody wants to you know milk these names for the maximum value maximum extraction, Everyone’s just got to stay in their own lane Right Drew stay in your lane Stay in your lane Know your role Stay in your lane.

[57:00] I remember when you said I remember when you started saying that to Andy Because he would That’s when I had a big blowout Because that’s exactly what happened Years and years and years My best names came from Andy And then all of a sudden Andy was like You know what I’m going to start keeping these domains And he went from being my Number one basically business partner To being my Primary competitor Overnight and it was like, Know your role You were happy I was happy The world was good He’s still selling me I know I can’t blame him He started making a lot more money Once he started holding on to the names, He’s still flipping I just bought a name for him last week, Well, that’s only because he got distracted. Now he buys stupid names like .ai. Yeah. Oh, man. No, but he still… He still buys .ai. Yeah. Now he sells his best names to fund the renewals of his expensive hobby.

[58:05] That’s not entirely untrue. It’s not entirely untrue. It’s also a little bit like… Look, again, I got mad respect. Andy, I literally think Andy is like… If I were to create my own domain hall of fame, Andy’s way up there, but he’s the greatest domain. Yeah, he’s the picker. He knows. And the way you pick apples. You know what I’m saying? He knows how to shake the tree. Nobody can shake the tree like a booth, but you know. That booth blood is something else. That booth blood. I mean, Mama Booth. Forget about the two degenerate sons. You know what I’m saying? We got to put Mama Booth in the Hall of Fame. Let’s get her up on this Sherpa Exactly 100% Let’s put that on the docket Let’s get Mama Booth on Sherpa, Hey, big shout out to Andy Big shout out to James Big shout out to Mama Booth, Untouchable, by the way Shout out to James That name came from you Yeah, there we go Give him credit What credit’s due Credits due That name came from you The only reason he sold it to me Is because he was like Oh, look, there’s no usage So I’ll sell it to Drew.

[59:18] Exactly he’s like it’s been picked over i can’t sell it easy for a big big money i’ll just sell it to drew he’ll take it um all right let’s see so right now let’s who got the first who got the first point um i did untouchable all right so braden’s got a point drew’s got a point now we’re up to braden having to put a name on the table if drew gets this he gets the win that’s it all right josh you see my text.

[59:45] No, should I? Yeah, go ahead. All right. Okay. All right, so I’m going to give you some options. Okay? All right. I sold a dot capital, believe it or not. Wow. Okay. So there’s one, a weird one.

[1:00:09] A one word dot com. Not a big one. And then I sold the set but I talked about it a little bit aprilfools.com and aprilfool.com, sold on April 1st yeah I mean I don’t know did you talk about the price I didn’t see anything about the price I thought I saw a price out there but I don’t remember alright well then let’s skip it, you’re not going to win anyway you know what I’ll stay out of it because technically if one of you Josh do you know the price, which one was it April Fool and April Fool’s? No, I don’t know, Bryce. Okay. We’ll do that one. Yeah, let’s do it. So I’m going package price? Yeah, package price.

[1:00:58] What? I get a little bit of a preamble. I think I still have a little preamble. So, Drew, you had posted going all in on AIs, right? That was your April Fool’s joke. So I just, it was obviously an April Fool’s joke. So I just wrote aprilfools.com. I’ve had that name just like, I think I’ve had it for like more than 10 years. I sold you aprilfool.com. No, you sold me both. Oh, I did? Okay. Yeah, yeah. In that Blue Cora portfolio, which has crushed. We talked about another name that you sold from that portfolio. I’m going to give you props for that in a minute. I’ll come back to it. So I just randomly, so full circle, right? Like you sold me the name. I just wrote that because it’s April Fool’s joke. And then somebody hit the bin on both those. Okay, so go ahead. What’s the guess? Okay. So it’s the package you two. I think I know what they sold. I’m going to lose this. I know it.

[1:02:07] I don’t know if I 100% remember, but I feel like I get, you know, it’s fine. Ready? Click. Go. Oh, my gosh. What? Josh is going to get the point here. Josh is definitely getting the point. I was going to be at 20K, by the way. On April Fool and April Fool’s? Yeah. All right. Josh was 22,000. Wait.

[1:02:31] Josh was 22,000. Drew was, what were you? You were like 149,000? 169. 169 which was down from my previous 175 that i initially put yeah i thought it was like 20 i thought it was like 15 and 5 or something but go ahead brayden yeah that’s what it was it was 15 and 5 yeah so it was 20 grand yeah but april fools.com you had it at 15, i’ve had it i’ve had it for like 10 years or 11 years or something and are you kidding me.

[1:03:02] And zero interest. I want to pay you more than that. I thought you paid more than that to buy the names of the first. No, no. So this portfolio was like, I’d have to look up my notes, but I wanted to pay like 60 grand for this portfolio. It had lobby.com in it. This is many years ago when everybody saw this name. So it wasn’t like it was a student. No, listen, we’d already gone out. And tried to sell individually these names for six months. And then they basically said, look, you know, I don’t remember the details and, you know, I probably can’t speak out of class, but, you know, would they have their own reasons why they said, you know, okay, you know, we’ve given it the, the runway that we, you know, you work with investors, right. And so we went out, we talked to a bunch of investors. The only name that was the only good name that was left was lobby only like one word.com yeah and so i offered 60 grand for it and they wouldn’t take it because you said like it you have to take the other what like 25 names like that’s that’s what they want to sell the whole set and it was.

[1:04:18] 79 000 like that was the bottom line and i went back and forth i didn’t want to pay it i was and you’re like just take them i’m like these are shit names i don’t want those other names and And you’re like, no, they’re decent. Just take them. And so eventually I was like, fine. I’ll take them. And I signed like, basically like 60 grand a lobby or something or 70 grand a lobby and then like 500 or a thousand dollars per name i attributed to each of the others so april fool and april fools were like 500 to a thousand dollars each um attributed purchase value and um anyways like two weeks later two weeks later i sold i think it was hobbymarket.com for a few thousand dollars and And then another one, another one, loveletter.com for $35,000 came out of that. And dearmom.com. And last time I talked, last show I was on, it was e-cash.com. That’s right. Which I sold for 15 Gs. So, like, I have made all my money back. I still have Lobby I’m already in the green In the black.

[1:05:32] On that portfolio Just selling all these small names That I didn’t want in the first place And so April Fool’s came out of that portfolio, Damn I remember when you sold Love Letter as well E-Cash has actually got pretty solid Usage as well That’s a good old portfolio I sold the same day he sold E-Cash dot com, I sold eCash dot net to the same people. Really?

[1:06:01] They bought eCash dot com, eCash dot net, eCash dot org, eCash dot everything, it seemed like. What did you sell eCash dot net for? I don’t remember. I think five grand?

[1:06:14] Six grand? Something like that? With the dash or without? It’s Bitcoin. It was the Bitcoin Foundation. The Bitcoin Foundation is the one that bought it. Yeah. Yeah I mean it forwards to the Bitcoin, it forwards to bitcoin.org right yeah yeah yeah to the white paper yeah which isn’t necessarily the Bitcoin foundation I can’t remember who controls that now it could be but I don’t remember who controls it I bought that portfolio eight years ago, yeah ecash.net I sold for five grand roughly, so we got a tie huh we got a tie jt we have a three-way tie so between you three so the way we’re gonna break this is i’m gonna i’m gonna mention a name that uh sold on namejet that we talked about previously uh you guys need to let me know if you were participating in that auction uh omai.com omai uh yeah i was i was in there i was there too all right then hold on i went for a lot of money. What about autorent.com autorent.com.

[1:07:29] Anybody in that one? No, I didn’t even know about it. All right, Drew, you good on that one? You were not in that one? No, I definitely was not in that one. Perfect. So autorent.com, I believe it was on a name jet list. So we talked about it on the show. And then it sold. Either that or ventures.org. Were you guys in ventures.org? No. Which one would you guys rather do? Autorent.com or ventures.org? Ventures.org. All right, let’s do that. Were you guys good? Everybody good? Level playing field. All right. Ventures.org. Go ahead. Put a number. We’re going to get to a winner here. Okay. So somebody over to Ventures.org. Somebody over to Ventures.org. Don’t look it up, though. Don’t look it up. No, no, no, no. We don’t give out swag anyway. We just say we do.

[1:08:25] Just a question. By how much, right and by how much did they really let’s go let’s see it all right flip it ready three two one all right so here we go we’ve got drew at 2369 we’ve got brayden at 8500 we’ve got josh 12 111 the winner of today’s domain game based on the closest to the pin for ventures.org is, Brayden Pollock and the Archduke of Calabasas. What did he go for? Sold for $6,350. $6,300. I’ll tell you what, these .orgs are making a comeback. I’m seeing a lot of strong action in .org. Well, think about that, right? That’s the wholesale… I’ve been here for years.

[1:09:15] So, yep, you’re looking at… That’s a wholesale price of a solid one-word .org on Namejet, right? So, I mean, that’s pretty healthy. Yeah, that is. That’s pretty impressive. And Brayden wins a domain game. Yeah. Again. Good job. Again, again, again, and again. Tang, again? Again, and again. All right, well, good stuff. So that’s the domain game. I got my swag here. Oh, sorry, wrong swag. Hey, shout out to Darpin. You know what I’m saying? It’s all good. All right, now we’re going to pause. We got to pause Brayden for a month. Brain just got disassociated brain just got a yellow card what did i do no i’m just playing man we had a call with darpen a couple like literally like two weeks ago i got nothing we got a lot of love for them and everything they’re doing over there not not competitive i know it’s not it’s just you talk about anybody else’s swag um so no no it’s it’s it’s legit we could talk about swag like not receiving swag here on on domain jerba because we do not receive swag, Josh I got you What are you doing tonight Josh We’ll grab dinner I’ll bring you The swag is fake news, I’ll bring you a hoodie Josh I promise Josh Seriously straight up.

[1:10:30] When I come in May I want some swag I want some cool swag Wait you’re coming in May, I didn’t Even he doesn’t get it And he pays for it Well, shipping to Europe is a pain, man. You know, those tariffs are for real, dude. Well, yeah, can we come back to the tariffs? It’s like everybody’s bitching and moaning, but let me tell you something. As an American who lives in Europe, trying to buy things from America to bring into Europe is like, it’s basically just an absolute no-go because they don’t call it a tariff, but they put nine different little stupid taxes on it and you end up paying 25%, In VAT and a bunch of other bullshit, you end up somewhere between 20 and 35%. By the time you get something to your door in Europe from America. So.

[1:11:27] It really is. Like, people are just overreacting because they don’t understand. I remember one time we were at a conference in Vegas, and you were leaving. This is when you lived in Panama. And you’re walking out, and you had, like, these. I know, full suitcases. So much, like, you had giant bags that you could throw the box. And that was before I even had kids. I couldn’t have kids yet. And I’d be, it was my wife and I, we’d be rolling with, like, six giant suitcases. You had huge, you had, like, porters helping you. Like, I was like, what are you, like, is this going to be, like, a wagon trip? You like are you are you like leaving for six months with like trunks what is and and you’re like i just went to costco i can’t get this shit back in panama it was so funny oh dude i mean that was the thing i remember the one time yeah we’re in vegas with the whole foods dude you would have he’d have literally a room a hotel room dedicated to just all this luggage that’s just open with all this stuff you’re like thinking he’s smuggling like blue jeans into russia you know what i’m, It was like, yo, this is crazy. He’s got Levi’s and Marlboros and a bunch of fucking Beastie Boys CDs, you know? I was like, what’s going on?

[1:12:34] Anyway, yeah, that’s what’s up. So some more swag. And Josh, I got you, man. Just swing by the house, dude. Come by today. You know what I’m saying? Let’s, you know, grab dinner, man. It’s all good, you know? Hit me up. We got to do that soon. I mean, I’m around tonight, you know? Maybe Thursday, too, actually, too. But anyway, we’ll talk post-show. Media Options is the industry’s leading domain broker specializing in domain acquisitions, high-value domain sales, and domain name consultation. As pioneers and thought leaders on the subject of the domain aftermarket and domain name value, plus through their clear domain acquisition service, Media Options offers startups and established corporations an unparalleled scope.

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[1:14:04] I guess pickle.org. I mean, I put that on. Pickle.org, especially after pickle.com just sold.

[1:14:14] And, oh, yeah. What do you think about that? Pickle.com, by the way. I love the name. I don’t know what he paid for it, but I love the name. I was talking to Josh about this. we have a sneaky suspicion that they got a steal on pickle.com they bought it from pickle design a company that was that had bought it but i’m i’m i’m concerned that they may have paid like low low six figures for that or something like that which is obviously ridiculous um so you, domain hunters failed on that one i think um but uh what you mean you i’m not the i’m i’m not the big hunter you know you guys know who you are um i like that as like the name of a reality show um i achieve i love i love pickled org as well i feel that i feel like that’s a feel that’s a good name it’s been it’s been priced at like 15k for a really long time so i don’t know if it’s now like i don’t know just like an old name that’s expiring or something i don’t know what it looks like you know and we’re about two weeks out from uh you know so i think it’s uh it might actually go gpt was one that was on last week but that’s gone like that got renewed so yeah, yeah yeah so i wanted to talk about it.

[1:15:39] Um i think pickle.org will probably go for uh like around that 5k range as well and if it went if it went for like if it went for like 5k though i prefer i think i would prefer to own pickle.org at 5k than like ventures.org at 6,900 for example i think it’s gonna go for more actually and i think especially because you do have pickle.com that just sold pickleball is huge you know i I think it’s a cool name. It’s a cool brand. Pickle will go for more than five. Can you guys stop, please? Sorry.

[1:16:16] I’m buying that name. With GBT, Drew, didn’t you want to talk about it? I was like, what do you think? He’s like, I don’t know. It’s cool, I guess. I’m like, you motherfucker. I know it’s just because you want to bid on it, and you’re now just going to literally just try to avoid the whole car. You look like Matrix. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It’s cool. that’s cool not that good yeah so internet sales.com i feel like it’s like it was like frank shilling’s name right it’s just like there’s something about that something about that well yeah domain names.com you know and uh like the main name domain name sales was this yeah, okay i got you yeah yeah yeah so that one kind of like resonates but it’s not that valuable, um uh i’ll talk about one that i do like uh is and again energetic.org uh it’s a cool name i think that that one is gonna go a little cheaper like probably like i i would want to be like under 2k on that name uh but if you can get it under 2k i think it’s a really cool name oh great.

[1:17:31] Alright what about you Brayden what do you think what do you like what don’t you like just first of all I think Pickle.org would get renewed just putting that out there I don’t think it’s going to expire, um what are you saying uh oem parts i think that’s a decent name.

[1:18:00] Um does everybody know what energetic.org because you know i like original equipment manufacturer, yeah yeah uh you know it’s it’s and it’s not just cars it’s anything everything as opposed to like, aftermarket like unofficial parts it’s like the original parts and so it’s a big thing particularly in cars but in everything, and then I like energetic.org I like them word.orgs but it’ll probably go too high, alright that’s it okay I’m leaving a few, anything you don’t anything you particularly don’t like or you think will be go be overvalued on namejet that you will um waitress is a weird i don’t know what you’re gonna do with that um that’s fair like waitress i suppose could be something but waitresses, yeah it’s weird i mean i guess it could be a porn site but but everything could be a porn site.

[1:19:05] Vegas Trip it looks like Vegas Strip yeah well that’s an interesting one I thought because it looks like Vegas Strip but it’s actually Vegas Trip Vegas Trip is a thing, it’s also very specific it’s a little weird all good that’s two that you don’t like we can push it to Drew now Drew what about you man what don’t you like um.

[1:19:37] Um, I think the only name on here that I really like is Casa Grande. Uh, that’s like, that’s a, that’s a, you kind of name. Yeah. We left it. We left it for Drew. I like pickle.org for all the reasons, but, um, that’s pretty much it. I mean, like sweet creations, that could be a really nice name. You know, that, that space is a little saturated. So that’s a porn site too. The buyer for that is probably small like you know what i mean like you’ve got tasty um which by the way this is actually a worthy discussion um what what’s that called what’s the company called the edible arrangements yeah so edible arrangements you know it sells you like it’s like a it looks like an arrangement of flowers but it’s like fruit inedible enough okay um i always kind of liked that i always thought edible arrangements was a kind of a cool idea you know It was a good brand. It was a cool idea. It was a good business. It turned into a big business.

[1:20:38] Well, the Mofos just launched, and it’s literally from Edible Arrangements. They just launched Edibles.com, which I’d love to know what they paid for that. I mean, I had my fingers on that name a couple times. But they launched, I think I actually sold them Edibles.org moons ago, like a decade ago. But anyways, they launched edibles.com And it’s like, I don’t even know how they’re doing it But it seems to be a nationwide.

[1:21:10] Cannabis edibles marketplace And you can go on there and buy you some Cannabis edibles drinks Cannabis edibles gummies Cannabis edibles chewing gum Yummy, you name it They got, you like edibles? They got you So anyways, shout out to Edible Arrangements for You know, getting ahead of the curve and supplying all of America’s underage children with cannabis animals. Well, they do ask for age verification. Yeah, you’re right. And where you live. Yeah, people under 21 years old don’t know how to click yes. Wait. So they created a whole new they’re not associating themselves with Are you shocked by that? But yes, it is wholly owned by them. It’s wholly owned by Edible Interventions. I saw that too. I feel like they’re like, well, we should be edibles too. And then it’s like, well, then we’ll be cannabis edibles, and then they were like, fuck it. Can’t beat them, join them.

[1:22:21] They’re like, people keep coming to us for looking for edibles anyway. Edible arrangements, people looking for edibles, we should buy edibles. It’s kind of like GameStop. It’s like, yeah, nobody really cares about our fucking strawberry baskets anymore, but maybe we should just lean into this cannabis wave, well I mean I think they probably identified their audience they’re like well people keep coming to us for cannabis because we’re edible arrangements it turns out their best day of the year used to be 420 yeah now they’re just right we’re like let’s just let’s just sell them what they’re looking for exactly, and no I mean hey it’s cool JT do a little BizDev, reach out, see if we can get somebody from Edible Arrangements to come on and talk about edibles.com. That would be a great conversation to have.

[1:23:17] It would be. All right. Yep. Made a note. Reach out. Um, I think they actually also own some other, I don’t remember offhand and we don’t need to spend a lot of time on it, but I, if I remember correctly, I think they actually do own a bunch of good domains or several good domains. Well, they own at least one. Yeah. Um, all right. Well, good stuff. So, all right. So is that all while you’re at it? While you’re at it, you can sell them a fruit basket.com. You have fruitbasket.com yeah nice um all right well you still on that we off that yeah we don’t do fruit baskets we’ll take weedbasket.com fruit basket is that called my THC.

[1:24:05] Weed basket um all right well that’s what’s good all right well I think we covered a lot of the names on here um so that’s what’s up I um, two names that didn’t get mentioned that I like I guess we could save them and talk about them another time, but whatever. I think diggity.com is kind of cool. Nobody likes diggity. I think the bomb diggity. No diggity? Oh, wow. Interesting. Edibles.com was owned in the world.com portfolio, which I thought they never sold anything. Because that whole portfolio was kind of weird. They scripted off on the MX record rights And it was like It was weird I remember they wanted to borrow A bunch of cash a while ago And put up a bunch of names as collateral So maybe they just Maybe they do They sell, They sell names I mean they sell at high prices, Yeah I thought they were kind of like You know Kevin Hamm Doing primarily like joint ventures, equity deals, but they never really turned over names. No, World does sell names. Okay.

[1:25:24] What an insane name that is. World.com? So good. So good. Alright, well. World.co? How high is that going to go? Well, .co probably has got some kind of premium pricing or some bullshit. I don’t know actually but it’s at what is that in auction? Yeah it’s on auction world.com yep where? GoDaddy? Catched, I mean, it was already going to go high, but now that I mentioned it, it’s going to blow up. Yeah. Is it on the end of, is there like a time? So it’s an auction, not just a listing? It’s got like a week to go. I hate it when like good names go to Sav and Catched. Just hate it. I’m not joking. This is the first time I’ve heard of Catched. I didn’t even know Catched was a… I’ve never seen this website. You’ve never heard of Catched? Never.

[1:26:29] A little bit I mean I don’t want to be disrespectful now you have I’m glad I could bring you some domain industry knowledge interesting my dark co-backs are so heavy though, I know I’ve got I’ve got strong dark co’s you know they just, oh god you’re gonna make me buy this shit it’s gonna go too high I mean what’s too high like, What’s too high? I mean, it’s a unique offering because you know World.com is effectively not for sale, and if it is for sale it’s tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, so, Yeah, like, that’s an easy I’d drop ten grand on World.com Oh yeah, ten for sure, but it won’t go for ten, it’ll go for twenty, twenty-five Yeah, it’s gonna go higher than, Maybe not on catch, because literally I didn’t even know it existed until right now Yeah, except now we’re talking about So now everybody knows it exists True. It’s going to be some people. If you’re listening, we want a sponsorship because we just brought you like probably $20,000 just in this one auction. I’ve got a bunch of, I’ve got a bunch of AI’s or doc, doc, doc. Co’s also.

[1:27:50] I like .co .xyz.co these are really the only two I’ve ever had any relationship to and I like them 30 of them but some of them it’s because I got the .com and so I just picked it up.

[1:28:06] Defensively you know my problem with searching for .co is if you search for .co it automatically picks up all the .coms so I can’t really search for .co in my inventory. What? You don’t have a… It’s so annoying. You don’t have a… Wait, in your inventory? Yeah. Like in your spreadsheet? Yeah, in my spreadsheet. You don’t have a… But you don’t have a TLD column? Of course we do. What are you talking about? Talk to this guy. Talk to this guy. Of course we do. What do you mean? You’re talking about our inventory? Of course we have that. Yeah. Find me the list of all of our .co domains. Dude, I mean… You should have a… We do. We do. We have a tld filter dude come on man you have to have a tld filter of course we do come on bro you’ve learned two things today hatch.com is the seo domains guys, they’re the particular guys that have catch own catch.com josh what’s your what’s your best uh doc co true same question, My best.co? Yeah. I have so many good ones. Oh, you don’t know because you can’t. You can find it. I just filtered the list. Go look at the list literally right now in real time. I just filtered it by .co, man. All right. Yeah, look. There we go. Now I can actually look. All right.

[1:29:22] Man, we got some great .cos. There. I just sent you. I just emailed you the whole list as well. That it took you to complain that we can’t do it. Josh, what’s yours? Sorry. We got on the German version. We owned it.co, which is world.co in German. That.co probably probably wise.co uh solid we’ve got pink.co i like that name wise.co did you just let me go say i’m the one that people don’t realize this i didn’t just sell wise.com to transfer wise i literally presented to the board presented to the ceo and convinced them because they had come to me looking for a name they were going to rebrand and i said you’re out of your mind people love transfer wise and they said well but we don’t want to be known as just wider transfers and i said okay but you built up all this goodwill you should stick with wise and i said let’s go get wise.com and it was owned by semantic and um and um and uh they were like that could work but i had one guy internally he was my internal champion he liked the idea he said can you pitch this to the board i pitched it to the ceo i pitched it to the board they all got on board they said let’s go and we went and negotiated with semantic it took a long time.

[1:30:41] Uh i had to make some friends over there and uh i got him good and uh we made a deal and uh it was it was an amazing deal then they rebranded the whole company yeah well let’s see if you want You can give them wise.co as well.

[1:30:58] Happy for you to do it. Okay, so anyways, I’ve got… Let’s see uh my favorite.co uh, you know we got bees.co we got yellow.co nature.co yellow yellow yellow is your best one yeah i mean i sold i used to own yellow.com i sold that for millions wait you like yellow.co better than pink.co yeah we got pink.co also yeah we got beekeeper nature sunset gram gram is a big one yeah i don’t know we got playground.co we have doge.co we got doge.co um bullrun.co biometric.co i have a law as well we got jibouti jibouti.co jibouti Djibouti. Do you know what the capital of Djibouti is? What’s your best one, Brayden? Capital of Djibouti is Djibouti.

[1:32:10] Shake Djibouti. So I’ve got, my most value is probably sex.co. Oh, yeah.

[1:32:17] But my favorite is probably Tiger. Tiger. I remember you got that one, too. That’s a great name. You got Kling, Automarket, Reinshugger, Secondhand, Wiz.co is a nice one. Now that you said tiger though Strain.co I can’t like any other name now Now that you said tiger.co Because tiger is good right? It’s super cool I like that a lot Strippy.

[1:32:45] Bloodtest I can’t say groupie Oh we have Mamba Mamba.co, I’m just kidding we got a ton Puro, Gary Jane, Naranha Which is orange, Mamba It was about your favorite or your best one. And then it was like, oh, we don’t have any because I can’t filter the list. And then he’s like, oh, now that the list is filtered, let me say them all. Kiwi.co, which is shocking me because there’s actually a company called KiwiCo. Oh, dude. Why are we not? Where’s Chris at, man? What’s Chris doing? I think I asked him to contact him once. I don’t know what happened. Kiwi.com is somebody, right? Put that on the list. Kiwi.com is… Oh, yeah. Travel. Travel. That’s right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. It’s a booking engine. Yeah, we’ve got a really nice list of these. I mean, that’s great when you can filter them in seconds and see them all. It’s pretty cool. All right. So that… I think Sunset is probably my favorite.

[1:33:50] I like Nature, too. Nature.co. Didn’t Sunset.com recently sell? I sold it. So that’s a yes.

[1:34:03] Oh, that’s good. Yeah. Tiger.com. Oh, and I’ve got Yellow.com and Amarillo, which is yellow in Spanish.

[1:34:14] And that’s not very mean. Just saying. Can we move on from… I mean, I’m ready when you are. I didn’t think it was… All right, let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go. Moving on. What’s next? Is there a moderator here? There used to be. There used to be.

[1:34:33] All right, well, look, that was the Name Jack and the Jet segment. So thank you. Big shout out to Name Jack. You can go to our site. Go to domainshurpa.com. Go to the page for this particular episode. Download the spreadsheet. That’ll give you a bunch of information on the domains if you have any interest. We don’t get any affiliate revenue, So it’s just at your, you know, no finance, not financial advice, but happy to help if it helps. So Maximus.co, you know, he’s going to keep going. I got the dog. Nice. I like the both of those. Maximus. Maximus. Maximus. Extract my, my, my new a, my new, my new AKA is going to be extracticus Maximus. Extractic is max max extraction baby max extraction that’s what that’s what they’re all right we’re good let’s say we’re good all right hey uh yeah one more around the horn because we’re about to shut it down um but appreciate you guys but real quick before we go drew i think you’ve covered all the bases you need to cover um but if you have anything else you want to say now would be the time um.

[1:35:47] The only thing to fear is fear itself oh there we go that’s it deep deep very good, Josh what about you man what’s good what’s your next pickleball tournament what else is happening what else is what’s up nah all good man like same old same old go to dnx.com I’ll make all your dreams come true that’s it dnx D and X I mean Joss made two people dreams come true on this show while we were here Brady’s dream came true buying a name and Merlin’s dream came true by underselling a name there we go X go and give it to you know what I’m just trying to get some of that NFT money back that’s it from his uh what was that, shout out Merlin, newlywed congratulations, Sorry to the bride.

[1:36:45] Ouch. We love you, Merlin. Oh, man. X gonna give it to you. All right. Great. DNX.com. Check it out. All right. Brayden, anything else on your end? Yeah. On the 23rd, if you are in or around LA, we have our SoCal Domainer meetup, which i do occasionally irregularly um but it’s gonna be in downtown la at the wayfair downtown la um bar the hell sponsored by d3 it’s yeah d3 is gonna um they’re gonna sponsor it so and they’re gonna talk a little about their uh domain 5 blueprint right anyway they’re paying, If anybody wants to come, I tweeted the link to register. So go ahead and check out my tweet and register and everyone’s welcome. And then the 25th, I’m on a plane to Stockholm for Nordic Domain Days. Nice. Billy, in the show notes, throw the link to the SoCal meetup on the 23rd. And Nordic Domain Days, when is that? Like the 27th?

[1:38:00] Yeah, 26th or 27th it starts. i’m not sure yeah stockholm in stockholm sweden let’s go uh starts yeah starts on 27 under the 27 all right well good stuff well safe travels for all of that um in the meantime thank you for being here uh josh as always as well thank you for being here um and uh drew thank you for being here and sharing how you feel about everything um always appreciate it.

[1:38:29] And to the audience guys for those of you for the I just noticed a little a nice arbitrage for those who want to go check out dnx.com you can get panic.org mad cheap which could you know ride on the whole Trump panicking party thing, Uh, so for all you DGN, you know, domainers, you can pick up panic.org and dnf.com for very little panic. It’s perfect for the panic token. That’s coming out. That’s it. Exactly. Baby. Oh yeah. Let’s go panic token. I’m in, I’m in on panic token. Um, always down for a little band in the nineties. Well, there’s panic at the disco. Yeah. Panic at the disco. And then there’s widespread panic also. Oh, why? I was going to get a widespread panic. Yeah. So both bands with the name panic in it and, uh, you know, but it’s all good, man. It’s all good. Um, so yeah. And to the audience for the four or five of you that have stuck this out this far, thank you so much. Oh God, we got four or five this time. Last time it was one. Right. Thanks to both of you. Thanks to the two of you. The panel is now bigger than the audience.

[1:39:42] Oh man. Good stuff. And no, Hey, without you guys, there is no us. We say it on every show. Thank you so much. We do really, really appreciate it. But look, as you saw, look, you know, Dooner hit us up, had a question. We addressed it. We went off on it. And, you know, and I would hope that that’s at least insightful. And if nothing else, get some folks to do a little bit of research, do a little bit of edumacation, do a little bit of thinking on topics. And, you know, and hopefully it helps to shift perspective or at least get you started on a path to enlightenment and understanding. And if nothing else, hopefully it’s at least entertaining. And so, yeah, we’re not hard to find. Hit us up. Let us know. Good bad ugly questions comments or otherwise i’ll let your boys um otherwise we will catch everybody next time here on domain sherpa where all roads lead to domains peace out everybody love you.

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