Kate Buckley published an article on LinkedIn that you might have missed. It’s certainly well worth a read as Kate dives into all the benefits of owning premium domains. The checklist of benefits that I have included below as an excerpt from the article is worth writing down. You can use this in negotiations when […]
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Monsters, Trolls, Spam police, new forum seekers – Just another week in domaining
Another wild week in the online drama that is Namepros. The constant pro Epik members battling anti Epik members continues to drag on. From the poll I have run the last 3 years on best or favorite registrar, with some saying employees should not be allowed to vote. That gets complicated because Epik has several […]
Continue ReadingDonna Mahony GoFundMe goal met in less than 10 hours
Brian Gilbert started a GoFundMe for DomainBoardroom founder Donna Mahony. Sadly Brian lost his wife to the same disease Donna is dealing with. Donna was diagnosed with Pulmonary Hypertension several years ago. The fund raising goal was $7,500 The page includes details: Donna’s case has been accepted by USCD and she is set to arrive […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 2020 Domain Sales Report
Looking back at February 2020 Domain Sales. Here we will examine domain sales and data trends for certain naming categories. February saw Namebio reporting 9,095 sales up from 8,826 sales in January. February saw dollar volumes of $9.9 million up from $8.1 million in January. The average sales price was $1,090 vs $922 in January. […]
Continue ReadingThe ICA is backing Booking.com in their trademark fight
Last November I published an article about the Supreme Court agreeing to hear an appeal by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The case centers around Booking.com and their desire to get a trademark on “Booking.com”. Wendy Davis of MediaPost wrote: The U.S. Patent and Trade Office refused to grant the company a trademark, arguing […]
Continue ReadingWe keep losing domain sales data points
Over the last few months we have been losing more domain sales data points in the domain industry. Interesting factoids, sales data and stats that domain investors crave is drying up. GoDaddy pulls the data plug Many years ago we stopped getting two valuable reports, the Afternic weekly sales and the GoDaddy Auctions Monthly Market […]
Continue ReadingBe careful of possibly stolen domain names starting with “Go”
Namepros member SuperBrander made a post in warnings/alerts of a potential domain theft. Seems like the names have one thing in common, they start with the prefix GO. Recently I bought at Godaddy three domains that are/were also registered at Godaddy: GoSystems dot com, GoToys dot com and GoEducation dot com. A few days ago […]
Continue ReadingNameSilo sells over $800,000 in Bitcoin
NameSilo (an advertiser) was one of the first domain registrars to accept Bitcoin for payment. Today they announced that they liquidated some of their Bitcoin for a net proceeds of $822,592.41. NameSilo trades publicly in Canada and on the OTC market. Here is the full press release: NameSilo sells 84.299 Bitcoin for net proceeds of […]
Continue ReadingWell that’s one way to deal with your haters
AllHipHop.com reported today that T-Pain purchased the domain name FuckTPain.com from a troll. T-Pain has turned it into a clothing site. From the article: T-Pain put his shrewd business skills to use when he defended his brand name from a troll trying to disparage his name. An unknown person bought the domain name FuckTpain.com to […]
Continue Reading“At this stage, .com should be $1,000 a year to hold”
That’s right $1,000 a year. Joe Styler posted a thread on Namepros about the ICANN comment period regarding Verisign increasing prices on .com. Namepros member Keith who is an active domain investor took a contrarian approach if he was not trolling everyone. Keith left two comments An interesting take, $1,000 a year would be ridiculous […]
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