Rob: I start every day with a good cup of coffee… looking out from my deck over beautiful Mirror Lake and the Adirondack mountains. I try to start every day in peace. WhoAPI: What does your typical day look like, and what are you working on? No other industry changes as rapidly and without warning as technology. Its the only space where you can go to bed at night feeling on top of the world… and wake up the next morning to discover your entire business model is dead. This is especially true in the internet space. The moment you think you are… the game is over. WhoAPI: What excites you most in domaining? Now that you are on top, where are you motivated to keep competing? Great names like, ,, , , , & thousands of other premium generic domains. Rob: All of my earliest domains were hand-registered back in 1996. WhoAPI: What is the oldest domain you currently own? WhoAPI: How big is your domain portfolio? However, I can disclose select real estate domain sales: $60,000. Rob: My biggest sales are restricted by NDAs. Rob: WhoAPI: What was the biggest sale you made? Rob: WhoAPI: What was the first domain you sold? WhoAPI: What was the first domain name you registered? Rob’s company is currently operating around 1600 websites and around 8000 domain names. You imagined how good the commission would feel, now imagine the guts it takes to pull that off and do the complete opposite everybody is doing. Well, during the dot com bust, when everything was collapsing, and everybody was giving up on internet services and domain names, Rob purchased even more of them, and back then, he still wasn’t making any money. A single lead to a licensed broker in Hawaii can be worth up to $45,000. Now guess how much money you can make for getting a buyer of real estate that’s worth 750 000$? That amount is the average home sale in Hawaii, and when you own, great things happen. com domains, starting with a city, state, or country and ending with “real estate.” Although you may be late for that party, you can make that sort of massive check with WhoAPI.
It was a great move since that place was going up in the real estate world.īut Rob didn’t stop there! He bought thousands of. But even more importantly, he found that was also available. When he and his team were working on one of their websites, his developer suggested Rob should get a domain name, which he did. So when Rob combined his two experiences, he thought he could get a hold of it, and boy, he did. And marketing and branding are deeply tied to domain names.
Well, when you think about it, domains are virtual real estate. You are probably wondering what happened next, and how does a guy from a marketing agency – turned “Real estate agent” go to a domainer? He went there into the Real Estate business, which gave him security after moving there and giving up his great job at perhaps the best marketing agency in the world. Moving away from New York was the best move Rob ever made. Quitting from a renowned company to start domaining
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