Joan Verdon wrote a great story on Forbes about Swag.com and detailed the history of the company, from staking out Facebook’s offices to get a $3,400 order to closing in on sales north of $6 million this year. From the article: The HBO series Silicon Valley included several memorable moments featuring characters rhapsodizing about the […]
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.brand domains: to be or not to be?
In 2010, a growing list of well-known brands began to speculate on the future of the internet and its hopeful acceptance of new domain extensions. While .com and other legacy domain extensions have long been accepted, many of the brands couldn’t turn a blind eye to the possibility of .brand domains becoming the next big […]
Continue ReadingI’m puzzled by the prices of numeric domains
Travis at DSAD provides a good service by reporting domain auction prices daily. By using dotDB and Google search, I can roughly understand why specific domains are sold for the prices. The only exception is long numeric domains. For example, Travis reported a few days ago that 703888.com was sold for $4,600. dotDB gives 33 […]
Continue ReadingDomain Sales and Trends report for October 2019
Looking back at October 2019 Domain Sales here we will examine domain sales and data trends for certain naming categories. October saw a bounce up in dollars vs September while seeing close to 1,400 less sales. Overall Namebio recorded 8,672 sales down from 10,033 total sales ($100 or more) in September. This was for a […]
Continue ReadingA bid at GoDaddy Auctions does not prevent the name from being renewed
With all the discussion about Examiner.com and it getting renewed the conversation on Namepros started mentioning a myth about GoDaddy Auctions that is apparently not true and now confirmed by me with Paul Nicks. Some members started mentioning that they were told or heard that once there was a bid, the domain could not be […]
Continue ReadingExaminer.com gets renewed will GoDaddy ever fix their auctions?
Well it looks like Examiner.com got renewed, the auction was over $131,000 and earlier today the name got renewed. While typing in Examiner.com I get a security warning. Whois updated Registrant Name: Domain Manager Registrant Organization: Axs Digital Media Group, LLC Registrant Address: Co, US Creation Date: September 13, 1994 Update Date: October 30, 2019 […]
Continue ReadingExaminer.com up to $126,000 as some wonder about what’s going on with the name
Examiner.com is now up to $126,000 on GoDaddy auctions. While the auction is going on, one Namepros member spotted something. The former domain name that was tied to the email address for examiner.com was registered two days ago. Domains@clarityDG.com was the admin email for examiner.com. After being owned for a year by Huge Domains of […]
Continue ReadingUniregistry weekly sales led by Squeezed.com
Uniregistry released their top 20 sales for the week and Squeezed.com led the way at $50,000. TravelAdvantage.com was second at $33,000 and WeDog.com was third at $25,000. Faculty.net was the only non .com sale at $10,000. Here are the Top 20 sales 1. squeezed.com $50,000 2. traveladvantage.com $33,000 3. wedog.com $25,000 4. recoverit.com $16,000 5. halva.com $15,000 6. moderncare.com $15,000 7. barramundi.com $11,000 8. faculty.net $10,000 9. fotc.com $10,000 10. manforce.com $10,000 11. groomen.com $8,500 12. cotc.com $7,500 13. principio.com $6,700 […]
Continue ReadingCorporate China loves .com
I enjoy studying domains used by Chinese companies. The reason is very simple. As China grows to become the largest economy in the world, corporate demand for domains will increase. Knowing what domains are sought after will be very useful when selling domains to China. Baidu is a valuable tool. It helps me understand domains […]
Continue ReadingLightning in a Bottle: $64.85 Single Click from Parking Revenue
There’s been much talk in the last few weeks about parking revenue and its impact on the domain industry in its entirety. While it’s safe to say that domain parking revenue may not ever return to the “good old days”, I found what Mike Berkens had to say about parking revenue and the role it […]
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