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"The legendary domain name investor reflects on new top level domains and talks about his upcoming sale of 23 strings."
Andrew Allemann from DomainNewsWire.ca published his podcast interview with Frank Schilling yesterday and I thought you guys might be interested in listening.
Here's Andrew's summary of the interview, along with a link to it:
For those who might not know, Frank is a legend in the domain industry and while he's well known for many reasons, he's probably best known as the founder of Uniregistry, which he reportedly sold to to GoDaddy for 196.9 million USD in Feb 2020. I say "reportedly" because neither Frank or GD ever confirmed the price, but GD's annual report suggests that was the price. The deal also included Frank's portfolio of 350K domains along with the the acquisition of Brandsight, a corporate domain name management firm (now rebranded as "GoDaddy Corporate Domains" - GCD.com).
The above is just to provide some background info on Frank and not necessarily the focus of the interview. I also can't forget to mention how Frank is Canadian. He was born in Germany but grew up in Canada, and has been living in the Cayman Islands for nearly 2 decades now. If you want to learn more about Frank, this is a good/detailed article (although it's from 2014): Frank Schilling and the rise of the web domain name industry
Andrew Allemann from DomainNewsWire.ca published his podcast interview with Frank Schilling yesterday and I thought you guys might be interested in listening.
Here's Andrew's summary of the interview, along with a link to it:
For those who might not know, Frank is a legend in the domain industry and while he's well known for many reasons, he's probably best known as the founder of Uniregistry, which he reportedly sold to to GoDaddy for 196.9 million USD in Feb 2020. I say "reportedly" because neither Frank or GD ever confirmed the price, but GD's annual report suggests that was the price. The deal also included Frank's portfolio of 350K domains along with the the acquisition of Brandsight, a corporate domain name management firm (now rebranded as "GoDaddy Corporate Domains" - GCD.com).
The above is just to provide some background info on Frank and not necessarily the focus of the interview. I also can't forget to mention how Frank is Canadian. He was born in Germany but grew up in Canada, and has been living in the Cayman Islands for nearly 2 decades now. If you want to learn more about Frank, this is a good/detailed article (although it's from 2014): Frank Schilling and the rise of the web domain name industry
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