This morning on LinkedIn, Sedo’s Chief Marketing Officer Christian Voss announced he is leaving the company. Christian began his tenure at the company as Head of Sales and CMO back in 2013. He has been a mainstay at domain industry conferences and events. Along with some of the company’s standout brokers, Christian has been the […]

Falcons.com is an exceptional one word .com domain name that has long been owned by Future Media Architects (FMA). Like other domain names owned by FMA, Falcons.com has been for sale via Saw.com. In a post on X this afternoon, the brokerage announced that Falcons.com was sold for $400,000: We’re proud to have helped Falcons […]

In July of last year, Meta (formerly known as Facebook) launched a social networking service to compete with Twitter, now known as X. The service was branded Threads, and the company used the Threads.net domain name for its platform. Threads.com was owned by another business, which was highlighted in Fast Company following Meta’s Threads launch. […]

I was doing some acquisition research the other day when I came across a domain name that has the Afternic landing page stating “This domain is registered, but may still be available.” A Whois search showed me the domain name uses UNIREGISTRYMARKET.LINK nameservers and not the Afternic nameservers I expected to see given the landing […]

This comic posted on X today is something domain investors should think about when working with a domain broker. Who does the broker represent? Ultimately, it boils down to whether or not the domain name is already listed for sale via Afternic or not. Something to think about: Domain Brokers pic.twitter.com/SgA8I8nL3p — ARIYAS (@domainretail) September […]

I’ve been asked to look at numerous domain name sales landing pages lately. I will generally be happy to take a look if I have the time, but I thought I would share what I think are the most important elements to a BIN landing page for domain name sales. 1) Domain name quality 2) […]

As you know, GoDaddy is shutting down Dan.com in October. Yesterday, Afternic and Dan launched a “Migration center” to help domain name sellers move domain names to Afternic and archive account data before October 15. Buyers were also emailed about the migration process. I have heard from many domain investors who sell on Dan, but […]

Tim Hargis alerted me about a recent corporate rebrand. A company called Stride Funding, which had previously been funded to the tune of $20 million, announced it was rebranding itself as Clasp. In addition, the company announced a $10 million oversubscribed venture funding round. Wisely, the company acquired the brand match Clasp.com domain name prior […]

In June, with the help of DomainTools, I noticed that the Engine.com domain name was pending transfer and the nameservers had recently changed to Cloudflare. This valuable domain name transferred to Cloudflare, where it is currently registered under Whois privacy. According to my @DomainTools Domain Monitor alert email, https://t.co/skWspkn2bF is pending transfer and the nameservers […]

If you’ve been involved in the domain name investment space for more than a minute, you know – or at least know of – Divyank Turakhia. Div, as well as his brother Bhavin Turakhia, is a billionaire who got his start in the domain space. I am pretty sure he is still involved with the […]

The image above is a GoDaddy landing page that is shown when the domain name has Afternic nameservers but is not listed for sale via Afternic. The visitor is encouraged to “Get this domain,” and clicking the link opens a new browser window with a GoDaddy search page searching for that domain name. If a […]

The ASAP.com domain name was sold in a bankruptcy auction managed by Heritage Global Partners (HGP). The sale price was $340,000, plus an additional 19% buyer’s premium. The total paid for the domain name was $404,600. David Barkoff, Senior Vice President at Heritage Global Partners, confirmed the sale has fully transacted. David also let me […]

I was attempting to place bid on an auction at GoDaddy Auctions this morning when I was shown this message on the bid confirmation page. My proxy bid amount was just above $100, and the GoDaddy Estimated Value was just shy of $2,000. When I first saw the highlighted copy within the bid confirmation screen, […]

GoDaddy acquired Dan.com in 2022. The company reportedly spent north of $71 million USD to acquire the domain name sales platform. This morning, GoDaddy announced it is “merging” the Dan.com platform with Afternic. The announcement was made in a blog post, and the company provided answers to numerous questions domain investors and Dan customers will […]

I spend quite a bit of time trying to buy domain names. Some of the best deals I’ve made have come on domain names I privately acquired that had not been on the market. Sometimes you have to overpay to buy a domain name that will end up looking like a steal. Yesterday on X, […]

A UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against the valuable 2 letter QW.com domain name. The complaint was a bit confusing, pitting the Complainant, Quickware, Inc. / Williams Fred, against Quickware, represented by Fred Williams, as the Respondent. The sole panelist, Scott Blackmer, ruled in favor of the domain registrant in […]

Afternic recently began offering Dan.com-lookalike landing pages with GoDaddy branding. I liked them enough to move inventory to them away from Dan.com. Afternic followed this up with the ability to allow prospects to make an offer to buy a domain name in addition to the BIN and LTO options. Unlike how the Make Offer process […]

Jen Sale of Evergreen.com posted an email Google sent to its Google Ads advertisers. It looks like Google Ads will automatically opting-out new advertisers from advertising on parked domain names: Interesting 🤔#domains @DInvesting @DomainNameWire @DNJournal @DomainSherpa pic.twitter.com/5FkyjeJfcG — jen (@JenSale) September 4, 2024 Domain name parking revenue has been on the decline for quite some […]

In what I believe could be one of the top domain name sales of all-time, Hilco Digital Assets brokered the sale of Rocket.com. The domain name is currently pending transfer away from Network Solutions, Whois records at DomainTools show. This morning, I reached out to Andrew Miller, Managing Director of Hilco Digital Assets, who had […]