The Domain Guru Talks About Valuable Names, IDNs

Published: July 26, 2007, 9:39 am

Tags: expired domains, domain services

Lee Hodgson, who owns Domain Guru, talks about shutting down ValuableNames.com and where he sees value in the domain name market. Depending on whom you asked, Lee Hodgson was either the greatest guy in the world or the bane of your existence in 2001. That’s when he started publishing a series of articles about the domain drop on SitePoint. He outlined how and when the dropped worked, giving ordinary Joes the chance to participate. So how did Hodgson get involved with domain names? “I got into business on New Year’s Eve, 1999″, explains Hodgson. “I was looking for some work I could do in Thailand as opposed to going back to freezing cold UK when I came across an article about business.com selling for $7.5M and I thought “that looks ideal, work from anywhere with an Internet connection, and it could be nicely profitable”. “So my New Years’ Resolution was to become a domainer,” says Hodgson. In 2000 and 2001 he started

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