Kalin Karakehayov
Founder & CEO at SEO.Domains
Sofia, Bulgaria · Bulgarian
Kalin Karakehayov is a Bulgarian entrepreneur who describes himself as an SEO marketer, domainer, and giver, and who often notes that he has never held a traditional day job. He is the founder of SEO.Domains, widely regarded as one of the largest providers of expired and aged domains in the world, and of the domain startup Edoms, which runs a portfolio of more than 200,000 domains.
Kalin moved into SEO around 2008 and into domain investing around 2012. After private blog networks were hit by search engine penalties, he and his team built a large-scale operation around catching expired domains and reselling those with existing SEO value to marketers, agencies, and affiliates. SEO.Domains operates as an ICANN-accredited registrar out of Sofia, Bulgaria.
A former competitive chess player, Kalin credits the strategic, long-game thinking of chess for his approach to the domain market. Alongside his businesses he has founded non-profit initiatives including No Cheap Traffic, which targets harmful online advertising, and I Grow Younger, focused on personal development and mental health. He shared his playbook with the Fajela audience in the SEOBox episode below.
Key facts about Kalin Karakehayov
- Founder of SEO.Domains and the domain startup Edoms, which together run a portfolio of more than 200,000 domains.
- SEO.Domains is an ICANN-accredited registrar based in Sofia, Bulgaria, and one of the largest providers of expired and aged domains in the world.
- Moved into SEO around 2008 and into domain investing around 2012, and says he has never had a traditional day job.
- Former competitive chess player who credits long-game chess thinking for his approach to the domain market.
- Founder of the non-profit initiatives No Cheap Traffic and I Grow Younger.
- Spoke on 'The Economics of SEO' at the SEO Mastery Summit.
What Kalin Karakehayov is famous for
Kalin Karakehayov is best known for turning expired and aged domains into a large-scale business through SEO.Domains. He is one of the most quoted authorities on domain dropcatching and on how aged domains can be used to build SEO authority, a topic he broke down for the Fajela audience in his popular session on the economics of expired domains.
Notable work
- Company: SEO.Domains
- Company: Edoms
- Community: No Cheap Traffic (non-profit)
- Community: I Grow Younger (non-profit)
- Talk: The Economics of SEO (SEO Mastery Summit)
