Andrew Rosener — The Path from Scallop Kingpin to Selling 8-Figure Domains, Achieving Financial Freedom, and How to Live a Contrarian Life (#711)

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“As far as I can tell, all greatness is achieved through novelty. It’s doing things that other people don’t want to do, doing things that other people are afraid to do, doing things that other people wouldn’t even think about doing.”
— Andrew Rosener



Andrew Rosener  ( @andrewrosener ) is the founder and CEO of  MediaOptions , which has been the #1 domain broker in the world for the last six consecutive years. Since 2008, Andrew has been involved in more than $600 million dollars in domain sales and has played a pivotal role in numerous high-profile domain-name transactions, including X.com to Elon Musk, Zoom.com to Zoom, and Prime.com and Podcast.com to Amazon, as well as thousands of others. 



Andrew is an inductee of the Domain Name Hall of Fame; he was named Domain Investor of the Year by TRAFFIC; and he is the creator of the Rosener Equation, a formula for objectively valuing domain names, widely adopted by the industry.



Andrew is also the owner of  DomainSherpa.com , the industry’s leading educational podcast. 



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#711: Andrew Rosener — The Path from Scallop Kingpin to Selling 8-Figure Domains, Achieving Financial Freedom, and How to Live a Contrarian Life







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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE




Connect with Andrew Rosener:




Website | Twitter




DomainSherpa Links:




Website | YouTube | Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn




The 10 (now 15) Tenets of Charlie Tuna:





I’m not Mother Teresa; I’m here for a profit.



You can’t run a whorehouse without any whores.



Get your ducks in a row before you pull the trigger.



Pay for the mic, say what you want (as Reagan said to Bush during a debate, “I paid for this microphone”).



Don’t crowd the mourners (a reference to not overstepping your boundaries).



Don’t offend my sense of logic.



Play stupid and see what you can learn (go play Mickey the Dunce).



Don’t be backward about going forward.



When you woke up today, what did you tell yourself?



Tire-kickers are like leeches, they suck your time.



Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, you can’t put it back in.



Pay peanuts, get monkeys.



Cheap is always the most expensive option.



Do what you say you are going to do.



Gutter money is good money.





The Industry Leading Domain Broker | Media Options



Memento | Prime Video



Forrest Gump | Prime Video



Andrew Rosener’s Amazing Ride From Historic New England to Domain Sales Nirvana | Domain Name Journal



The University of Rhode Island



Exactitude Definition and Meaning | Merriam-Webster



Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand | Amazon



What Is Arbitrage? | Investopedia



Mizuhopecten Yessoensis | Wikipedia



Teppanyaki Restaurant | Benihana



Top Five Best Nicaraguan Cigars in 2023 | Atlantic Cigar Co



Jamón Ibérico | Wikipedia



Quiet Please Farm | Sweet House Dreams



Buy, Sell, and Talk Domain Names | DN Forum



Domain Name Industry News | Domain Name Wire



The Domain Industry News Magazine | Domain Name Journal



Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)



Confirmed: Amazon Acquires Prime.com | Domain Investing



What is Domain Squatting and How Can You Protect Your Brand? | Intercap Registry



Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP) | ICANN



The Net | Prime Video



Media Options Inc Completes the Sale of Domain Name Pizza.net | PR.com



Back When SCO and Pizza Hut Made Headlines with PizzaNet | Santa Cruz Tech Beat



Single-Letter Second-Level Domain | Wikipedia



The Pros and Cons of Living in Panama | International Living



Domain Names: Rent, Lease, or Buy? | DomainSherpa



Everything You Need to Know About Domain Name Leasing (Including Example Agreement) with Zak Muscovitch | DomainSherpa



Buy and Sell Anything Safely without the Risk of Chargebacks | Escrow.com



Hire Freelancers and Find Freelance Jobs Online | Freelancer



Diabetes and Obesity Outcomes Guaranteed | Vida Health



Why You Should Use the .com for Your Domain | Name Experts



Facebook Paid Farm Bureau $8.5 Million To Acquire Fb.com | TechCrunch



Absolut’s Approach to Marketing: Then and Now | Banknotes



Don’t Grow Your Garden in Someone Else’s Yard | Paul Jun



Fuckyourself.com Now Points to Bob Iger’s Wikipedia Page | Kim Dotcom, Twitter



The Big Lebowski | Prime Video



Jackie Treehorn’s Doodle Pad | The Big Lebowski



Hotel Biron



Dr. Gabor Maté — The Myth of Normal, Metabolizing Anger, Processing Trauma, and Finding the Still Voice Within | The Tim Ferriss Show #620



How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management by Seneca and James S. Romm | Amazon



De Ira | Wikipedia



The Easy Way to Quit Caffeine: Live a Healthier, Happier Life by Allen Carr | Amazon



Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking by Allen Carr | Amazon



Round 2: We Test the New Gemini-Powered Bard against ChatGPT | Ars Technica



Know Your Client (KYC): What It Means, Compliance Requirements | Investopedia



Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs | The Tim Ferriss Show #542



One Stop Shop for Web3 Domains | Unstoppable Domains



No, There Isn’t Child Porn on the Bitcoin Blockchain | Bitcoin News



Five Ways You Can Use Web3 Domains | Unstoppable Domains



In the Valley of Novelty by Terence McKenna | The Library of Consciousness



Ronald Reagan at 1980 GOP Debate: “I Am Paying for This Microphone” | Face the Nation



Inception | Prime Video



A Summary and Analysis of the David and Goliath Story | Interesting Literature



Dots Of Thoughts On Where AI Is Headed | Agent.ai




SHOW NOTES




[07:06] Who is Charlie Tuna, and what are his tenets?



[30:11] Presidential ham and the value of owning coveted domains.



[34:35] Tess Diaz enters the picture.



[39:25] A domain industry overview.



[43:14] Domain investors vs. domain squatters.



[46:21] Getting a late start in the game.



[50:16] Brokering the sale of pizza.net.



[56:50] Why relocate to Panama in the midst of building a business that needed to make $250 per day?



[1:00:40] Leasing vs. buying a domain as a startup.



[1:10:36] Leasing vs. selling a domain as a holder.



[1:13:42] How important is securing your brand as a .com?



[1:15:50] Negotiating equity in lieu of cash.



[1:19:35] Are we in the early stages of a digital real estate boom?



[1:22:03] Why did Andrew buy Fuckyourself.com?



[1:25:29] Anger management.



[1:31:18] Email management.



[1:33:57] How will AI affect the domain industry and SEO business?



[1:39:53] Alternative uses for domains.



[1:48:35] Finding Andrew and his projects online.



[1:49:28] Pursuit of happiness.



[1:55:08] Avoiding attraction to unnecessary pain.



[2:03:13] Three most important influences.



[2:06:05] Parting thoughts.



[2:08:15] Hunting bigger fish.




MORE GUEST QUOTES FROM THE INTERVIEW



“As far as I can tell, all greatness is achieved through novelty. It’s doing things that other people don’t want to do, doing things that other people are afraid to do, doing things that other people wouldn’t even think about doing.”



— Andrew Rosener



“Show me one meaningful piece of art that came as a result of rainbows and butterflies and happiness. Great art comes from pain, suffering, heartache, mental illness, just terrible circumstances. Great art comes from the darkness, not from the light, but you need both. And if you ignore the darkness, you will never get the light — or you’ll always be chasing the light. The light will always be in the distance, but you have to lean into the pain.”



— Andrew Rosener



“I was able to build a business that makes a lot of money and fits my lifestyle. I’ve optimized it for exactly the way I want to live. I don’t want to build, I don’t want to scale it. I don’t want to have 60 employees. I want to have four, five. I want to just keep doing what I’m doing.”



— Andrew Rosener



“I don’t necessarily pursue happiness, I pursue contentment.”



— Andrew Rosener



“I fundamentally believe that we are still in the early stages of domain names and domain value, the early stages of digital commerce and the internet. Most people in the world have been online for less than 25 years. That’s a pretty short period of time. As we see commercial real estate sort of dying and all the distress in commercial real estate, we’re seeing digital real estate boom. And there’s a direct correlation there — I want to say a causation.”



— Andrew Rosener



“You’d be hard-pressed to tell me a company valued over $1 billion that isn’t on a .com. I think there’s only one Fortune 1000 company that is not on a .com.”



— Andrew Rosener



“I think that a long-enduring, mostly loving marriage is one of the most underrated elements of success in the world. Maybe the most underrated.”



— Andrew Rosener



PEOPLE MENTIONED




Peter Moehrke



Mini-Me



Ayn Rand



Batman/Bruce Wayne



Mother Teresa



Anna Droeghoff-Rosener



George W. Bush



Tess Diaz



Sandra Bullock



Elon Musk



Peter Thiel



Stephanie Tilenius



Seneca the Younger



Dale Carnegie



Jack Dorsey



Terence McKenna



Jason Statham



Ronald Reagan



George H.W. Bush



Wayne Griffin



Howard Hughes



Andrew’s Parents



Leonardo DiCaprio



David



Goliath



Dharmesh Shah



Jeff Bezos

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