Monte Cahn is Founder and President of Right of the Dot, LLC, a domain name and digital asset licensed auction business, specializing in contention resolution, Internet consulting and strategic advisement, new and existing TLD strategy, premium domain name investing and market positioning, sales and services. He is a Managing Member/Managing Director of Dot Hip Hop, LLC which operates the ICANN accredited .HipHop domain extension. He founded and was former CEO / President of Coolhandle Hosting and Moniker.com [moniker.com], which was a Top 7 ICANN Accredited Registrar under his leadership. He was the former President of SnapNames.com [snapnames.com], a leading online domain auction and expired names business on the web. Together these made up the Aftermarket & Registrar Division of Oversee.net [oversee.net], where he also managed more than 10 million domains, and 117 ICANN Accredited Registrars. Monte became president of SnapNames and VP of Sales for DomainSponsor, previously the internet’s leading domain monetization company, in 2007, shortly after Moniker was purchased by Oversee.
Monte has been pioneering domain names, digital assets and virtual property aftermarket services since 1995, with an extraordinary focus on delivering customer satisfaction through creating and pioneering industry innovations such as Whois Privacy Protection, Domain Name Auctions and Brokerage, Domain Monetization, Domain Escrow Services, Domain Name Security, along with other value added products and services. During his time with Moniker.com [moniker.com], Monte helped many new and existing TLD’s of all types, have successful launches through registrar promotions, sales and auctions of premium domains, as well as continued marketing and sales support for those TLD’s through various touch points through the companies he operated and partnered with. Monte has more than 30 years of experience in the healthcare, high technology and Internet fields. He is an expert in auction strategy and theory. He is an aggressive and successful sales and management professional with experience in marketing and selling Internet and branding services, intellectual property, digital assets and domain names.
He started investing in domain names in 1995 and started the first online domain brokerage business on the Internet in 1996 where he sold the very first domain name in the industry. Success includes participating in the sale of more than $575,000,000 in domain name and digital asset sales & brokerage, including the industry’s first domain name sale for over $1 million dollars with the sale of Wallstreet.com [wallstreet.com] and the industries first $2 million dollar plus domain sale with the sale of Autos.com [autos.com] in 1999. Many feel that these two industry record sales were responsible for dot com buying and selling frenzy that started in late 1999. Later, he sold the highest dollar domain in history with the sale of Porn.com [porn.com] for $9.5M and additional 6,7, and 8 figure sales of Sex.com [sex.com], Gorilla.com [gorilla.com], Computer.com [computer.com], Slots.com [slots.com], Super.com [super.com], Great.com [great.com], Scores.com [scores.com], Seniors.com [seniors.com], Tinder.com [tinder.com], and many others. He is also the visionary behind live and online Domain Auctions, bringing transparency and an open market mentality to the domain industry, and spearheaded the development of the only true Domain Escrow and Appraisal services available in the market. Monte has also owned several businesses and significantly contributed to the successful initial public offerings of Pyxis Corporation and MedicaLogic, Inc. in the healthcare capital equipment sector.
Monte is or has been an active investor, advisor, and partner in the following businesses: Bidtellect.com [bidtellect.com] / DomainHoldings Group, DiamanteEcoAdventurePark.com [diamanteecoadventurepark.com], WeedClub.com/FarmHouse [weedclub.com], S3 Restaurant, Courtyard Marriott, Palm Beach Jupiter, Fl., Desktop.com [desktop.com], Reddyport, CrashNBurn/Aero Vegas, ONR, InternetEquity.com [internetequity.com], and HaciendaDiamante.com [haciendadiamante.com]
Consistently pioneering and inventing new products and services for the domain industry along with generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for his companies and his clients, Monte was voted into the 2010 Domain Hall of Fame by his industry peers. He has spoken and presented at more than 150 industry conferences such as Ad-Tech, WebMasterWorld/PubCon, Search Engine Strategies/SES, Internext, The Strategic Forum, SMX, T.R.A.F.F.I.C., NamesCon, and DomainFest on the subject of domain names, digital assets, branding, and intellectual property.
Monte Cahn created and was host of the Internet radio show “Domain Masters” on www.WebmasterRadio.fm . [wmr.fm] Monte graduated from University of Kentucky with degrees in marketing, biology, and business administration.
