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Toby Hardy bought FrenchRiviera.com in 2009 and is turning it into the ultimate online destination for the rich and famous who visit cities such as Monte Carlo, Cannes and the like.

After three failed attempts over a period of several years to gain approval through the ICANN system for the new top-level domain .XXX, most people would have thrown in the towel. Not Stuart Lawley, who started as a minority investor in ICM Registry at the time of the initial ICANN application and eventually became its CEO and chairman.

What do startups and entrepreneurs need to know about domain names? Find out in this interview with domain name veteran Steve Jones.

Over his many years of acquiring, building and selling businesses, Bill McClure has learned one simple fact: You can always trust your family. Listen along as Bill discusses how he targets markets, how much he purchases domain names for, how he develops them, and what kind of leaders he is looking for to continue building more businesses in the future.

It's relatively straightforward to build a geodomain into a directory or blog. But where most people fall short in making their venture a successful business is the sales process. Shane Wells, on the other hand, loves to sell. His enthusiasm for sales (and his success) speaks for itself – he went from $50,000 in sales to more than $250,000 per year in sales.

Listen in as Danny Sullivan discusses the often-debated relationship between domain names and search engine optimization.

In this interview, Paolo DiVincenzo describes four steps to increase domain name PPC parking revenue by more than 70 percent, as well as how to implement the four steps in your own portfolio.

In the midst of a recession and with domain name parking revenue down, what can you do today to maximize your domain name pay-per-click (PPC) income?

Jennifer Manz of Mannix Marketing shares the content and marketing strategies that made GlensFallsRegion.com – an $8 hand-registered domain name run by three full-time equivalent employees – profitable after only three months of operation.

Whether you are buying a domain name that is $20,000 or $200, using an escrow service to eliminate the risk of fraud and guarantee that you receive the domain name can be money well spent. Brandon Abbey, president of Escrow.com, provides detailed advice and explanations of the domain name escrow process.

In this interview, conducted live at the TRAFFIC conference in Fort Lauderdale Beach, Florida, in October 2011, Bill Karamouzis recalls the strategy and tactics that led him to his latest successful business exit at Hallpass Media.

An entrepreneur and investor, Michael Gilmour started his domain name business by placing a big bet: his last $100 on a single domain name that he immediately parked. Learn how Gilmour parlayed his earnings from that single domain into a portfolio that at its peak generated thousands of dollars a day in parking revenue.

Andrew Hazen shares how he turned 90 admittedly marginal hand-registered .com domain names and one .info domain into $56,000 per month.

In this show, Steve Jones walks us through the 11 steps of his process for domain name due diligence, which will keep you from buying a domain name that infringes on someone else's trademarks, that is stolen, or that was previously used for an unscrupulous purpose and might be on blacklists.

The Ferber brothers built the largest ad network based on an at-the-time new concept of cost-per-click advertising. When they sold the company to AOL/Time Warner in 2004, Advertising.com reached 90 percent of people on the Internet, an average of 20 times per day.

Some people complain that if you did not buy domains in the mid-1990s you missed the window of opportunity. But what if you could hand register 12,450 domain names today for $7.87 each and build a million-dollar business? Adam Hawley, president of Zipsurance.com, did exactly that. By leasing insurance-related domain names and providing associated services, Hawley connects insurance agents to clients and is on track to bring in more than $1 million in sales in 2012.

Are you interested in knowing all the inner workings and insider tips for navigating auctions at Go Daddy? Paul Nicks, the director of Go Daddy Aftermarket, answers questions about Go Daddy Auctions, including how the company sells more than 36,000 domain names per month and how domain name investors can take advantage of its massive customer roster.

How do you leverage 8,000 domain names to create the largest buy-local network in the world? Colin Pape, president of ShopCity.com, answers this question and more as he describes how he built ShopMidland.com – serving a town of only 16,000 residents – into a $100,000+ business, and is now scaling it across thousands of Shop[CityName].com domain names. Pape is also taking on Google by filing a U.S. Federal Trade Commission complaint for anti-competitive behavior.

How do three college students go from developing a software game to creating the largest domain name marketplace in the world? Find out in this interview as the CEO of Sedo, Tim Schumacher, describes how he and his co-founders assembled the world's largest database of domain names for sale, with more than 15 million listings, and grew the company’s revenue to over $135 million.

Anticipating the oversupply of condominiums in the United States, Richard Swerdlow bought Condo.com in 2005, and later added Houses.com and Property.com to his portfolio. He developed these premium domains into the world’s largest online marketplaces for real estate.