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Domaining.com Sold ? How will it change and who will it affect ?

January 16, 2015 by Raymond Hackney

Francois has finally succeeded it seems in selling off his most prime asset, Domaining.com. In the newsletter today he has stated that he will announce the new owner Monday. The site has an Alexa ranking of 29,546 worldwide and is one of the most popular domain related resources on the Internet.

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From a look at the Alexa graph it seems the popularity of the site has been in a downtrend lately, the site however does bring a lot of traffic to newer and smaller domain blogs that without Domaining.com, would have little visibility.

The site is not free to get listed on, I will be interested to see who the new buyer is, how they treat new blogs not on the site yet, and also to see what they do with existing blogs. It is not always easy to monetize a site like Domaining.com and I will be interested to see what the new owners do to make a return on their investment.

I wish Francois the best of luck with his new venture and wish the new owners a successful new beginning with Domaining.com.

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. Tom says

    January 16, 2015 at 2:35 pm

    This was a nice cash cow for him on the premium listings, I hope his new venture works out, they can eat up alot of capital, last time I saw it a few years back he wanted $1M.

    Wonder how much Frank paid him lol?

  2. M. Menius says

    January 16, 2015 at 3:46 pm

    I sometimes use Namebee.com for recent headlines and news. Seems to have most of the same bloggers.

  3. Mike says

    January 16, 2015 at 4:09 pm

    I bet it’s Andrew Rosener..

    • Frank Lopez says

      January 16, 2015 at 10:04 pm

      I bet it was the Diaz Brothers.

  4. todd says

    January 16, 2015 at 6:26 pm

    The smart move would be one of the GTLD companies with deep pockets. If I would pick one it would be Uniregistry.

    • Raymond Hackney says

      January 16, 2015 at 8:20 pm

      Oh man, my thoughts exactly, I said this to Mike Berkens when it was first mentioned in the newsletter.

  5. Samit says

    January 16, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    I’d be more interested to know the sale price and whether all the related assets (cax etc) are included.

  6. Doron Vermaat says

    January 17, 2015 at 9:11 am

    Alexa is very unreliable and inaccurate. The best tool these days to monitor other site’s their traffic is Similarweb. According the them Domaining reaches around 350k visitors/month: http://www.similarweb.com/website/domaining.com

    • Raymond Hackney says

      January 17, 2015 at 12:28 pm

      Alexa is still the same for everyone unless someone manipulating. Without manipulation if I am 26,000 and you are 260,000 I have more traffic than you, Alexa may not be accurate but it would still work out the same, same thing for the trend. I have found SimilarWeb to over state traffic too, I would bet Domaining.com gets nowhere close to 350,000. I just checked TheDomains.com the stats they show for December, way off not close to being accurate. It sucks none of these tools are accurate.

  7. Francois says

    January 18, 2015 at 6:19 am

    Hi Raymond,

    Thanks for the article.

    FYI:

    There is absolutely no traffic down at Domaining.com in fact it is growing quietly since launched.

    Alexa from time to time revise the references in which they base traffic.

    Look for example this graph:
    http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/domaintools.com
    And you will see the same fall down in October for DomainTools.com

    Alexa is not accurate to watch absolute traffic, it is only of interest to compare traffic (and I wil say in the same vertical).

    Generally they do several reference change like that in the year which can be disapointing for people who do not know what I explained above.

    …

    I do not expect to announce any official sale probably until the end of next week, not Monday like I have read sin some sites.

  8. todd says

    January 18, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    Interesting to note that the day before this story broke the site GeekWire.com posted it’s first feed on Domaining.com

    This is a large site that would never normally be on Domaining.com

    Could this be a clue? Hmmm

    • Raymond Hackney says

      January 19, 2015 at 3:26 am

      No and the site is currently not sold, there is no done deal, Francois posted he is still negotiating, Francois added other publication feeds outside domaining at the suggestion of Frank Schilling.

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