Welcome to this cryptocurrency podcast with Mike Carson, founder of Park.io, which lets users backorder expiring domain names, and Gateway.io, which facilitates the sale of second-level domains off of Handshake top-level domains or TLDs. Handshake (HNS) is a blockchain-based protocol that enables anyone to own a TLD. As Mike explains, it "opens the floodgates to the TLD space."

The conversation is split into 3 chapters:

1. The domain name industry


2. Business opportunities for owners of Handshake TLDs


3. TLD security, Gateway.io & Mike's hopes for the future of the space

It also covers:

• Mike’s journey from working in tech support to launching WizeHive


• ICANN’s role in managing the TLD system


• How the current system stifles innovation


• The story behind .io


• How top-level domains are like neighborhoods

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