Meet the Realtors of the Web - Andrew Miller and Mike Zapolin

Globes Magazine recently featured an acticle on domainers Andrew Miller and Mike “Zappy” Zapolin titled “Realtors of the Web”. The article focuses on the duos transformation from being suit-and-tie Wall Street brokers to becoming a couple of cool and creative guys that buy and sell domain names for a living.

Highlights of the article inlcude how Miller and Zapolin created a “Super Bowl test” to determine the top selling products and their related most valuable domain names, how they put together a deal to buy Beer.com for $80,000 before reselling it for $7 million, how they managed to survived the dot-com bubble burst and what their views are for the future of domaining.

“Even though it sometimes seems as if the internet has reached saturation, Miller (43) and Zapolin (41), are convinced that these are still early days and that there are big opportunities of the Web with a lot virgin territory still left to conquer. Domain names, they assert, are likely to become a huge opportunity for anyone, even if they lack a financial background and have little cash in hand.”

Their company, Internet Real Estate, currently owns a long list of high-end domains including:

• Software.com
• Phone.com
• Chocolate.com
• Podcast.com
• Patents.com
• Jeans.com
• Alerts.com

Although currently investing their time and energy into developing key domain names, in the past they have sold serveral high profile domain names for multi-million dollar deals, such as:

• Beer.com
• Computer.com
• CreditCard.com
• Diamond.com

You have view the article here. It's worth a read.

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