Dirty.com was one of the one word generics that GoDaddy acquired in the Michael Berkens/Most Wanted Domains portfolio purchase. There is a popular website on TheDirty.com which has a long and interesting history. Last week Elliot Silver mentioned in a tweet that he thought the name was on the move. https://twitter.com/DInvesting/status/1243496982766858241 It now looks like […]
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Epik wins the Namepros 2020 Best registrar
Epik wins the Namepros 2020 Best registrar As I have stated before this year’s poll was pretty contentious for the first time the poll was public. This allowed for everyone to see who voted in the interest of transparency. Over 28,000 views and over 500 replies. The number of votes this year was almost identical […]
Continue ReadingBuyDomains sells ventilators.net
BuyDomains.com sells another domain fresh out of the headlines. Anyone who is not living in hibernation knows the demand for ventilators is high. 17 days after selling HomeQuarantine.com for $2,000 the company has sold ventilators.net for $1,500. Medtronic owns the .com. Registered in 2002 the domain looks to have been purchased by someone in Jiangsu, […]
Continue Reading24 hours left in the most contentious, heated, best registrar poll ever
Things got quite spicy in this year’s Namepros best registrar in the business poll. I have run a poll the last three years, this one was started a little earlier because I was just having some fun timing it with March madness. As with most things in domaining it can never just be a smooth […]
Continue ReadingKhols.com already lost once in a UDRP closes at $81,559 on NameJet
Kohl’s is a department store with over 1,100 stores making it one of if not thee largest department store chain in the U.S. According to marketwatch Kohl’s have about 5 months of cash available, so the extended closures caused by Covid-19 are affecting them big time. So it’s interesting to see someone win an auction […]
Continue ReadingNamepros updates their commenting system
Namepros made a change today that has been a long time coming. For some it’s trivial, others they wish to see it disappear and for others it’s about time. When someone comments on Namepros, members could like, dislike or thank. Much debate took place for years on whether disagree is more palatable than dislike. Members […]
Continue ReadingThe slope is getting even more slippery
Didn’t take long for the slope to get a bit more slippery. Yesterday I wrote about the industry going down an interesting path. Elliot Silver published the news this morning that GoDaddy the 800 pound gorilla is not going to allow Coronavirus/Covid names to be sold. GoDaddy clarified its policy regarding the registration of coronavirus […]
Continue ReadingShop.app just one of 3 sales $60,000 or more on Thursday
It was a busy day on Thursday with 4 five figure closes or better. shop.app 200,000 USD 2020-03-26 Sedo uhr.de 77,483 USD 2020-03-26 Sedo stagram.com 61,000 USD 2020-03-26 GoDaddy newgamernation.com 10,055 USD 2020-03-26 DropCatch Shop.app sold for $200,000 and it was an investor sale not a registry sale. UHR.de sold for $77,483 and Stagram.com closed […]
Continue ReadingYesterday’s Corona related registrations – Would have been better to have used the cash as toilet paper
via GIPHY From typos of coronavirus names to names like coronalicious.com it seems that this money would have been better spent on toilet paper or donations to a food bank. Forget morality, forget your stance on regging these kinds of names. Just look at the business of domain investing, people are just wasting money. Absolute […]
Continue ReadingAre registrars and marketplaces going down a slippery slope with Covid-19?
So a couple days ago I wrote a post about Covid names and how people feel about those who register them. The conversation got a tad nasty on both sides. So now DAN.com (an advertiser here) tweeted today they are removing Coronavirus/Covid-19 from their platform. Starting from today, we will be removing all Corona Virus […]
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