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.
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.
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?
I sometimes use Namebee.com for recent headlines and news. Seems to have most of the same bloggers.
I bet it’s Andrew Rosener..
I bet it was the Diaz Brothers.
The smart move would be one of the GTLD companies with deep pockets. If I would pick one it would be Uniregistry.
Oh man, my thoughts exactly, I said this to Mike Berkens when it was first mentioned in the newsletter.
I’d be more interested to know the sale price and whether all the related assets (cax etc) are included.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.