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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3149 - Q&A: “Can you still make money flipping domain names?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Selling digital products internationally? In this episode, we explain what small creators need to know about VAT, global taxes, and how to avoid expensive compliance mistakes.

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0:00.0

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0:21.4

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0:26.3

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0:30.0

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0:45.1

Lemonada.

0:49.8

Can you still make money flipping domain names?

0:57.3

This used to be a thing.

0:58.9

Is it still a thing?

1:00.3

Can you actually go out and try to find a good domain name,

1:03.0

register it, and then resell it?

1:04.8

There was a time way back in the early 2000s

1:07.3

when domain name flipping was like the digital gold rush.

1:12.2

People were trying to buy URLs like pizza.com, cars.com, even silly one-word domains and that could be sold for thousands

1:18.7

of dollars, tens of thousands, sometimes much more than that, millions of dollars in some cases.

1:24.1

But of course, those were the early days and then lots of people started doing it and everybody realized, wow, websites are valuable. So if we fast forward a bit, you might wonder, is there anything left? Like, has the market been picked clean? That's exactly what our caller from Philadelphia wants to know. He is curious if domain flipping is still a viable side hustle, or if it's like an old legend that no longer

1:44.9

works, the truth might be somewhere in between. So let's dig into what's happening in the

1:49.3

domain world and whether there's real opportunity left for newcomers. I'll do my best to give you

1:53.7

a helpful answer, detailed question, and that answer coming right up. As an e-commerce business,

2:00.7

you build trust with your customers one package at a time.

2:04.7

That's why smart retailers use ShipStation, including many of our longtime listeners. We've been

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