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Andrew Rosener — The Path from Scallop Kingpin to Promoting 8-Determine Domains, Attaining Monetary Freedom, and Methods to Stay a Contrarian Life (#711)

20 December 2023
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“So far as I can inform, all greatness is achieved by means of novelty. It’s doing issues that different folks don’t need to do, doing issues that different individuals are afraid to do, doing issues that different folks wouldn’t even take into consideration doing.”

— Andrew Rosener

Andrew Rosener (@andrewrosener) is the founder and CEO of MediaOptions, which has been the #1 area dealer on the planet for the final six consecutive years. Since 2008, Andrew has been concerned in additional than $600 million {dollars} in area gross sales and has performed a pivotal position in quite a few high-profile domain-name transactions, together with X.com to Elon Musk, Zoom.com to Zoom, and Prime.com and Podcast.com to Amazon, in addition to 1000’s of others. 

Andrew is an inductee of the Area Identify Corridor of Fame; he was named Area Investor of the 12 months by TRAFFIC; and he’s the creator of the Rosener Equation, a system for objectively valuing domains, extensively adopted by the trade.

Andrew can be the proprietor of DomainSherpa.com, the trade’s main academic podcast. 

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#711: Andrew Rosener — The Path from Scallop Kingpin to Promoting 8-Determine Domains, Attaining Monetary Freedom, and Methods to Stay a Contrarian Life

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

  • Join with Andrew Rosener:

Web site | Twitter

Web site | YouTube | Twitter | Fb | LinkedIn

  • The ten (now 15) Tenets of Charlie Tuna:
  1. I’m not Mom Teresa; I’m right here for a revenue.
  2. You possibly can’t run a whorehouse with none whores.
  3. Get your geese in a row earlier than you pull the set off.
  4. Pay for the mic, say what you need (as Reagan mentioned to Bush throughout a debate, “I paid for this microphone”).
  5. Don’t crowd the mourners (a reference to not overstepping your boundaries).
  6. Don’t offend my sense of logic.
  7. Play silly and see what you’ll be able to be taught (go play Mickey the Dunce).
  8. Don’t be backward about going ahead.
  9. If you wakened at the moment, what did you inform your self?
  10. Tire-kickers are like leeches, they suck your time.
  11. As soon as the toothpaste is out of the tube, you’ll be able to’t put it again in.
  12. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
  13. Low cost is at all times the costliest possibility.
  14. Do what you say you’re going to do.
  15. Gutter cash is sweet cash.

SHOW NOTES

  • [07:06] Who’s Charlie Tuna, and what are his tenets?
  • [30:11] Presidential ham and the worth of proudly owning coveted domains.
  • [34:35] Tess Diaz enters the image.
  • [39:25] A site trade overview.
  • [43:14] Area traders vs. area squatters.
  • [46:21] Getting a late begin within the recreation.
  • [50:16] Brokering the sale of pizza.internet.
  • [56:50] Why relocate to Panama within the midst of constructing a enterprise that wanted to make $250 per day?
  • [1:00:40] Leasing vs. shopping for a site as a startup.
  • [1:10:36] Leasing vs. promoting a site as a holder.
  • [1:13:42] How essential is securing your model as a .com?
  • [1:15:50] Negotiating fairness in lieu of money.
  • [1:19:35] Are we within the early levels of a digital actual property increase?
  • [1:22:03] Why did Andrew purchase Fuckyourself.com?
  • [1:25:29] Anger administration.
  • [1:31:18] Electronic mail administration.
  • [1:33:57] How will AI have an effect on the area trade and web optimization enterprise?
  • [1:39:53] Various makes use of for domains.
  • [1:48:35] Discovering Andrew and his initiatives on-line.
  • [1:49:28] Pursuit of happiness.
  • [1:55:08] Avoiding attraction to pointless ache.
  • [2:03:13] Three most essential influences.
  • [2:06:05] Parting ideas.
  • [2:08:15] Looking greater fish.

MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW

“So far as I can inform, all greatness is achieved by means of novelty. It’s doing issues that different folks don’t need to do, doing issues that different individuals are afraid to do, doing issues that different folks wouldn’t even take into consideration doing.”

— Andrew Rosener

“Present me one significant piece of artwork that got here because of rainbows and butterflies and happiness. Nice artwork comes from ache, struggling, heartache, psychological sickness, simply horrible circumstances. Nice artwork comes from the darkness, not from the sunshine, however you want each. And when you ignore the darkness, you’ll by no means get the sunshine — otherwise you’ll at all times be chasing the sunshine. The sunshine will at all times be within the distance, however it’s a must to lean into the ache.”

— Andrew Rosener

“I used to be in a position to construct a enterprise that makes some huge cash and matches my life-style. I’ve optimized it for precisely the way in which I need to dwell. I don’t need to construct, I don’t need to scale it. I don’t need to have 60 workers. I need to have 4, 5. I need to simply hold doing what I’m doing.”

— Andrew Rosener

“I don’t essentially pursue happiness, I pursue contentment.”

— Andrew Rosener

“I essentially imagine that we’re nonetheless within the early levels of domains and area worth, the early levels of digital commerce and the web.

Most individuals on the planet have been on-line for lower than 25 years. That’s a fairly quick time frame. As we see business actual property form of dying and all of the misery in business actual property, we’re seeing digital actual property increase. And there’s a direct correlation there — I need to say a causation.”

— Andrew Rosener

“You’d be hard-pressed to inform me an organization valued over $1 billion that isn’t on a .com. I believe there’s just one Fortune 1000 firm that isn’t on a .com.”

— Andrew Rosener

“I believe {that a} long-enduring, largely loving marriage is without doubt one of the most underrated parts of success on the planet. Perhaps probably the most underrated.”

— Andrew Rosener

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