A couple of days ago I wrote a piece about Efty and GDPR. I might have used the wrong wording in the title of the post here, it might have misled some to think Efty was GDPR compliant. The title of Efty's post was Here’s why Efty users are best prepared for GDPR Frank Michlick asked a question about the post at hand: How does Efty verify domain ownership without public whois when people list their … [Read more...]
Amazon to acquire Ring
From not getting a deal on Shark Tank as Doorbot to rebranding as Ring and getting the premium name Ring.com to being acquired for more than $1billion. Jamie Siminoff the founder of the company was interviewed by James Iles of Namepros awhile back. Venture Beat covered the acquisition: Amazon has acquired Ring, maker of smart home doorbells, cameras, and security systems, according to GeekWire. … [Read more...]
NameJet January sales led by PY.net
NameJet released their January sales and PY.net was the top sale at $27,000. NamesCon results are not included in the list. ZSV.com was the first 3L.com sold and it went for only $11,100. The first non .com sale after Py.net was onyx.io for $6,100. Overall January looked slow to me, hopefully with NamesCon over things get … [Read more...]
Where did those 6 figure offers go for FakeNews.com?
We wrote a year ago about FakeNews.com and it's owner receiving 6 figure offers. There is a story on DallasNews.com today about a California man, George Bacon who purchased FakeNews.com 11 years ago for $250. From the article: Fakenews.com isn’t the only domain Bacon owns — he buys and sells them regularly as a hobby — but soon, it will be the most profitable. The address is currently up for sale. … [Read more...]
Eric Lyon provides an update and his latest venture OfficeDrift.com
Eric Lyon provided an update and some pics about his maiden voyage set to take place. Eric also has a new project where he will be detailing him and his family hitting the road. The site will be called OfficeDrift.com. Update: getting ready for the maiden voyage on the 22nd we decided to add 2 more features. On the driver side, we added a smartphone/GPS mount so I can use GPS, FaceTime … [Read more...]
BrandBucket.org rebrands to a .shop and gets a trademark approved
Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article about BrandBucket.org. It seemed odd for a brandable marketplace to use the same name as the leader in that niche. A Norwegian man has filed a trademark application for brandbucket. The applicant has registered the domain name brandbucket.org. From Trademarkia: Status Update! On Saturday, December 3, 2016, status on the BRANDBUCKET trademark changed to … [Read more...]
Longtime Namepros member Randy Pendleton has passed away
I was saddened to see a post by Michelle on Namepros that longtime member Randy Pendleton (Archangel) had passed away. Randy was a bright guy who dealt with a lot of health problems in his life. Randy was a member since June of 2004 and had over 10,000 posts. Randy was a published writer and it's amazing he could do all that with some of the ailments Randy suffered. This was an open letter to … [Read more...]
GoDaddy really needs to scrap these valuations
Anyone who has been in this business for just a solid year, knows that artificially generated valuations are crap 99% of the time. I had an interesting conversation about a week ago where someone asked me about the GoDaddy valuations. I said they are mostly for entertainment purposes but I do think they do harm to new domain investors and non domainers. If GoDaddy believes in their valuations, they do … [Read more...]
Namepros/NameJet user creates fake accounts to show how to shill bid
Namepros member Hookbox posted that to test NameJet's system, he created three accounts and could be set up to shill if need be. I want to make clear before people lose their minds, he did it to point out the problems with monitoring for shill bids. Here is the post: So now I have 3 accounts at Namejet. My original account and two more I just opened. The second and third account are totally fake with … [Read more...]
Whether something is legal or not, optics matter
I think one thing that needs to be discussed internally at all the auction houses is, "How does this look?" Something can be legal, but the optics don't look good. I will say point blank, if I ran an auction site, I would have in the TOS that you cannot bid on a family member or other related party's domain auctions. I am not saying anyone in the business has done it that I have seen proved. I accuse … [Read more...]
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