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. […]
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The 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 […]
Continue ReadingRob Monster’s prediction on Uniregistry on the money
Rob Monster made a prediction thread for the industry at the beginning of the year. Rob predicted Uniregistry would get acquired in 2020 and it took only 42 days to be proved right. Industry consolidation: Look for DAN, Efty, Escrow.com and Uniregistry all to be acquired in 2020. Godaddy will be a buyer of innovation […]
Continue ReadingCountries consider their country code a natural resource
Wired published an article titled, “The Digital Colonialism Behind .tv and .ly” The story deals with country codes starting with .nu. It seems the news driving the story is the lawsuit regarding .nu the country code for the South Pacific island of Niue. I did not know all the history behind .nu, I knew it […]
Continue ReadingNamepros rewrites software to provide better account info
Over the years things like why was someone banned? Or what does partial restriction mean? One of the things I have mentioned over the years was when you see “account auto closed” you did not know if it was the member’s request or they got banned. Namepros has now upgraded their software to provide specific […]
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