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This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Punchbowl Founder and CEO Matt Douglas. Punchbowl is an online invitation and digital greeting card company that has gone from strength to strength since opening for business in 2007.

What...

In 2002, Brent Oxley founded the web hosting company HostGator in his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University, and he quickly grew it from a small business with just 100 customers into one of the largest providers of reseller hosting.

In 2012...

In the sixth issue of my regular series of Inside Interviews, I speak to Rob Rawson, the owner of Staff.com - a platform for remote job opportunities. In this interview, Rob discusses many topics such as how he acquired Staff.com, his views...

In this week's Inside Interview, I had the pleasure of chatting with Blain Reinkensmeyer; a partner at Reink Media Group. Along with a team of three others, Blain runs the popular StockBrokers.com service, which provides unbiased reviews and...

In 2011, the domain name Nuts.com was acquired by Jeff Braverman, the CEO of a family nut shop first set up in 1929. As a college freshman, Jeff created NutsOnline.com which helped Nuts.com become what it is today. Since 2002, the company...

In 2011, an inventor named Jamie Siminoff brought together a team of 5 engineers to work out of his garage to create a product that would become DoorBot; a doorbell system that allows you to see and speak to visitors from your smartphone.

This...

In my second "Inside Interview," I chat with the owners of Malls.com; a domain name they purchased for $320,000 in 2014.


1. For some of our readers who aren't aware of your company's background, could you give us a brief overview?...

Last year, Castello Cities Internet Network's CEO Michael Castello announced the sale of one of his most prized domain names: Whisky.com for $3.1m. In the first of a weekly feature entitled "Inside Interviews," I talk to the new owner...

Verisign are running a competition that you may have heard about; The Internet Official Competition, where entrants can win up to $35,000 for registering a .COM domain name. This competition is celebrating 30 years of .COM. I had a brief chat...

I read earlier this week that BrandBucket - a popular domain marketplace for brandable domain names has appointed a new Managing Director - Michael Krell. Michael has been the brand ambassador for BrandBucket.com since last year and is also...

If you read domain blogs, you most likely know the name Shane Cultra. But before he was known to us as Domain Shane trading names, he was a self-starter trading notes and bonds for a living. Shane also has grounded experience with how brick and...

In the first part of the interview with @Eric_Lyon, the administrator of NamePros, we were able to learn some basic business fundamentals. In the final segment, we hear more, including his back story.

Previously, Eric discussed...

NamesCon 2015 was a conference for domain name speculators, such as Shane Cultra, to get out there and meet with people in the industry. It was also a great opportunity for one of Seattle’s domain investors, and member of NamePros...

Today we sat down with Kate (sdsinc) owner of NameNewsletter.com for a one on one interview.

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Eric - As an avid droplister, spending so much time each day compiling and...

Today we sat down with Brad Mugford (bmugford) owner of DataCube.com for a one on one interview.

1. I noticed you had a rather large portfolio with mostly .com, .net, .org, .us, and a few .Mobi extensions. Which extension do you...

Today we sat down with Michael Rose (SnowBird) owner of RegisterBird.com for a one on one interview.

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Eric - You have been a member of NamePros since 2004 and seen lots of...

Today we sat down with Vito (The Dot Stop) owner of DomainSales.tv for a one on one interview.

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Eric - I couldn't help but notice that you have a VERY large .TV portfolio, What made...

Today we sat down with Nick Rushkovsky (TwoMoon) owner of Voodoo.tv for a one on one interview.

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Eric - When did you buy your very first domain and what motivated you to...

Today we sat down with Samit Madan for a one on one interview.

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Eric - When did you buy your very first domain name and what was the motivation behind it?
Samit -...