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#034 – Making $125,000 a Month as a Solo Founder with Mike Carson of Park.io

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Synopsis

Mike Carson runs Park.io, a service that catches and resells expired .io domain names, and was making roughly $125,000/month solo at the time of recording. He describes how the .io registry's drop/auction mechanics created a one-person arbitrage window and the lawsuits and policy changes that threatened the business.

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    Mike Carson describes building Park.io, a service catching and reselling expired .io domain names at registry drop/auction, doing roughly $125,000/month solo and the legal threats it faced.