There has been a lot of talk about three letter.com domain names and their value over the last month. Rick Schwartz came out and said domain investor’s were clueless when it came to valuing three letter .coms. Discussion Rick posted on 9/25 As usual domainers sell way too cheap because they are clueless to the […]
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Exchanging a .COM for a .IO Digital Presence
From Slither.io to Clothes.io to CodePen.io to a growing list of personal and company brands, .io domains have become the darling domain of tech startups and domain investors. The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for .io was originally assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory before tech world dubbed it “input/output” domain for the […]
Continue ReadingThe 4L.com chip market is getting it’s butt kicked
Taking a look at four letter Chip .coms shows a market continuing into further decline. Using data from Namebio let’s dive in. Back in 2017 outside of one outlier $210 sale the lowest 4L chips (no aeiouv) were going for $770 – $840 at the low end. Namebio recorded 2129 sales. zrpb.com 201 USD 2017-11-03 […]
Continue ReadingYou have to see the business for what it is
You always have to see things for what they are, if you are going to delve into a business or other opportunity, you need to know the rules or lack of rules of the road. There is a lot of anger in the business, it ratcheted up over the summer from some conversations I have […]
Continue ReadingBrandBucket sales in August up 30% vs July
BrandBucket sent out their September newsletter, and while I know some readers believe if you don’t get the actual names that sold it’s worthless, I respectfully disagree. I would like the names too but I do believe any data you can attain has some value attached to it and is worth the read. Takeaways: When […]
Continue ReadingThe world’s biggest AI startup is from China but its domain is not .cn
My college days at The Chinese University of Hong Kong were about fun, friends, and sometime aimless activities. Yet, to some, it’s a place to germinate great ideas. Take Xiaoou TANG and Li XU, a CUHK professor and a PhD student respectively who in 2014 had an “aha!” moment and founded the AI startup SenseTime. […]
Continue ReadingVerisign trending keywords for August – CryptoCurrency, Fan and Bets
Verisign released the trending keywords for August and it was mostly a random group of names. CryptoCurrency was 10th in .com, with Football coming back fan and bets made the top ten. .COM .NET fan hotels grid hard grad apps email canna shorting bull bets pink orthodontists guy fabric pocket goose gifts cryptocurrency professional
Continue ReadingBranding 2.0 and domains
Image courtesy of various brands While traditional branding (Branding 1.0) focuses on “what”, domains add the “where” dimension to it. Well, I must say that I’m not a branding expert, so my knowledge about branding may be limited. As I understand, Branding 1.0 is about associating a brand with “what”. When you think of a […]
Continue ReadingThe Chinese domain strategy of Walmart
Image courtesy of Walmart.com Apple has moved its Chinese iCloud data to China and India is considering a policy to require data to stay within its country. National governments across the world will likely impose requirements on local residence of local data as time goes on. The “one .com to rule them all” domain strategy […]
Continue ReadingIn 2017 I asked – Could we do a domain auction here on Twitter? The replies were mixed
Twitter auctions have no consequences for bad or illegal behavior There was a secondary discussion point in a post on Namepros about auction houses. @MetBob mentioned he saw that Daryl Lopes auctioned a name off on Twitter and thought it was a good idea. He wrote: For those on Twitter, I see that right now […]
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