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Podcast: Domain Name Wire Podcast
Episode: Why Mike Kugler spent $500k on Vacation.Rentals - DNW Podcast
Description: Mike Kugler is CEO of VacaRent, a company that just paid a record price for a domain under a new top level domain: $500,300 for vacation.rentals. On today's show, Kugler gives the interesting story about how he negotiated for the domain and why he was willing to pay so much. There are lessons in his story for both how domains are sold to end users and the power of syndicated domain listings.