Thoughts

Andrew Miller

October 5, 2025

Wednesday’s Post On Dealmaking

On Wednesday, I posted a special edition Random Thoughts, inspired by the exciting end to the Red Sox game, a reputable editor for a large publisher recently asking me if I would write a book on “connecting, networking, negotiating, and closing deals”, and domains we are actively working to close. The topic was “sharing important points on closing high value domain name transactions.” Closing high stakes deals of any kind, and especially domain names, where the outcome is the buyer and seller both win, is really hard and often complex. Two realities; 1) a deal can often get to the 1 yard line, get sacked, and not score the touchdown; 2) the subtlest of things, even hinging on the wrong word, can turn a $5m transaction into a $2m or even dead one instantly. We all have our strengths and areas of expertise. For me, negotiating and closing these deals is one of those, built from many years of training from the best mentors, and thousands of situational experiences. As promised and asked by several, I am resharing the post here: https://shorturl.at/Q90ck, I hope it is helpful to some of my readers.

Check Out The Latest Episode of Domain Sherpa!

After an insightful “state of the world” chat with Drew before we recorded, I enjoyed hopping on DomainSherpa this week with Shane, JT, and Drew, https://shorturl.at/UScXh

An AI Bubble?

Last Sunday, I discussed my belief that we are in an AI bubble, one that in so many ways reminds me of the 1998-2000 Internet. To be clear, I am beyond bullish on AI being transformative to so much of what we do, but there is too much money flowing into too many companies fast and furiously, that there is no way that there will not be a major shakeout. It is ok and healthy for this to happen, as the strongest, best businesses will flourish and then, there will be a more measured wave of new AI companies. It will be interesting as I expect a lot of the most valuable domain names to also recirculate from this for investment and resale in the next 1-3 years, which is also an opportunity. Yesterday, I saw this pointed post from Jeff Bezos which echoed my thinking, https://lnkd.in/exUrnf59.

Welcome Bret!

I am excited as my son Bret Miller is joining us for a short term stint to help us facilitate Q4-Q1 domain transactions. He had an incredibly successful year+ at his first job after college, crushing it, as a top 1% revenue driver for his large company, while being exceptionally trained in the school of hard work and hard knocks, project and people management, sales and bus dev. He was ready for a change and I said, “it’s a really busy, exciting time for us, come help”. He will do so in a big way, while also taking several high level AI courses, to surely end up, in early 2026, in an exciting AI start up focused  in an area where he is passionate, but I am lucky to have him join me at Namescon and this opportunity together now.

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