001 Page Howe - The domain investor who sold Seniors.com for $1.8 million and Guy.com for $1 million

[00:00:00] : Good evening, agent. Good evening. How about how are you? Excited and really? Really good. What about you? I'm doing well today. It's a good day to be a domain investor. Yes, so good evening. Good evening, everybody. Or good afternoon or good morning depending on the place you are. 27 dot b e Live streams have started on the very, very first guest is one off the most positive. I would say the most positive. The main industry veteran and and investor page hug Green. Oh, ailment page. Do you remember the first domain name you bought? I dio it was in, I think 1997. And I wish I could say I bought a two letter and, uh and it would be awesome, but I I was doing a lot of stock market work and the movie Wall Street had come out. And there's a scene in the movie Wall Street where one of the key characters calls into the equivalent of the Wall Street Journal and they made up a navy, and he gives him this code word that says Blue Horseshoe loves Anna Kat Steel and Anna Kat Steel was a stock that the character was going to start buying stock in, and he wanted to kind of get the word out for everyone else to start buying stock in it. So that was his code word. Blue Horseshoe loves Anna Kat Steel. And so, as I looked at doing a stock research recommendation side, I thought, Wow, wouldn't blue horseshoe dot com be a fantastic thing? Because everybody in the stock market world had seen the movie and would recognize that? And so I went and I called network Solutions, or I went on the site Network Solutions, and I got blue horseshoe dot com and at the time they would reserve it for you. And there was a $35 your charge. So that's $70. And then I think there was, ah, $40 charge to set up an account. So that was $110 and they would mail you an invoice that you had been received and maybe send back a check or you fill it out with your credit card number. So you had reserved the name up front, and then you send that in, and so I had blue horseshoe dot com and sure enough. Over the next three or four years, I would call companies like during the first Internet bubble, I say. I just paid out from blue horseshoe dot com. No, that's a cool name. I love that movie. And so, you know, he gave you It really proved out to me the value of, ah, of a good domain name because I made in my company name and it gave me a new initial boost or that initial something to talk about before you just get into the Why are you calling or what do you want? And so it always gave me that that little thing to talk about on. But I got to inherit the power in essence of the global awareness both global, More US Awareness A Z The movie went around the world of blue horseshoe dot com, so that was probably my first one. I had some other investments at the time. I worked for a family office that had some investments in different companies, and I went ahead and got the domain names for those companies. So that was probably my start. Um, and that's probably about all I did is get some related company domain names from 97 until 99. Do you still hold the name? I don't I think I sold it, but I haven't used it for five or six years, and hopefully I sold it. There's always a chance I let it drop. But anyway, I you know, it became less a part of my life, but it's it's always my first love. So on at the moment you mentioned that you hold how many domains? Oh, no. We don't like to kiss and tell, but it's probably about 6500 names. And I'm probably down from, uh, maybe as many as 30,000 seven years ago. So, um, become much more focused. Not caring as high of a renewal is because of the competition in our space, about 6500. So now, now 6500. So 6500 on before that, Like a couple of years ago or more. You had 30,000. Yeah, that was probably my high marks. That's 300 k in the renewals. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's eight bucks a name, so that's 240 k. He cost me. Yeah, No. I mean, there's no doubt I when I had sold my two big names for millions of dollars, um, I co