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As we say on DomainSherpa – all roads lead to domains! And today we have a Sherpa Shorts segment co-hosted by JT and Drew, who are joined by special guest Paul Nicks, VP of Domain Investors at GoDaddy, to discuss what’s going on at GoDaddy and to dig into their company philosophy. The Sherpas dive into GoDaddy’s focus on the idea of experimentation across a number of fronts including search, domain landers, website building, use of AI, etc.
To explore the latest GoDaddy Consumer Pulse survey on oddly spelled domain names, as highlighted by Paul in the episode: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consumers-say-an-oddly-spelled-domain-name-gives-them-the-ick-302412860.html
All this and more on today’s episode of Sherpa Shorts!
DomainSherpa March 27, 2025
As we say on DomainSherpa – all roads lead to domains! And today we have a Sherpa Shorts segment co-hosted by JT and Drew, who are joined by special guest Matt Barrie, CEO of Freelancer.com, the parent company of Escrow.com, to go over Escrow.com’s Domain Investment Index for the 4th quarter of 2024. The Sherpas discuss interesting data points and trends highlighted by the numbers in the report, talk a little about .ai domains and how they are trending, and they also get into the benefits of using an escrow service instead of a lawyer for domain transactions.
Matt also discusses some things he expects to see drive institutionalization of the domain space, such as the further proliferation of domain financing.
All this and more on today’s episode of Sherpa Shorts!
DomainSherpa March 20, 2025
As we say on DomainSherpa – all roads lead to domains! And today we have a Sherpa Shorts segment, co-hosted by JT, Drew, Chris, & Matthew Zuiker of MediaOptions.com to recap 2024 and discuss some of what they learned, some of the biggest trends they saw, and what they expect in 2025.
All this and more on today’s episode of Sherpa Shorts!
DomainSherpa January 16, 2025
Jason Davis’ wife called him crazy when he bought Recruiting.com for $75,000 in 2002. But four years later Davis sold it to Jobster for a six-figure price. He realizes that his end users – the people who buy his job- and recruiting-related domain names – don’t wake up in the morning thinking about spending five figures on a domain name that day. He knows he must give them a reason to do so – and he does that by framing the price of the domain in terms the buyer best relates to.
In this show, Davis describes how concentrating his efforts on a single domain name niche helps him make stronger industry connections, earn more in sales and find more entrepreneurial opportunities in his area of expertise.
Michael Cyger September 20, 2011
Many of us are addicted to buying domain names. Often times we hold onto them with no likelihood of development, no plans to actively market, and only a slight chance of receiving an unsolicited offer. The problem then is that our domain name portfolios (with their associated renewal fees) become too large for our budget to allow. So we turned to the experts (the folks who have wrestled with this situation multiple times) to ask what they would do.
Michael Cyger March 7, 2011