Many people like to make their opinions known when it comes to domaining. Some attach their name to it and can provide hard data on what they have done and why they see things the way they do. Others speak anonymously from behind a keyboard with just a username and avatar. Most don’t provide any […]
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The 15 year anniversary of YouTube.com
Today marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most important and well know domain names. YouTube.com was registered 2/15/05 according to whois. Technically it was activated on February 14, 2005 with video upload options being integrated on April 23, 2005. The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, was uploaded on April 23, […]
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 ReadingSeller gives details on $30,000 sale of LearnCrypto.com
LearnCrypto.com sold for $30,000, this was not reported on Namebio or DNJournal. Namepros member @DnFolk made the sale and he was kind enough to discuss the details of the sale in a post on Namepros. I had bought this for mid xxx in 2017, you will find 7k+ sale on namebio.com but i had waited […]
Continue ReadingUniregistry weekly sales led by HoloCare.com
Uniregistry released their top 20 sales for the week and HoloCare.com led the way at $22,200. AutoZen.com was second at $15,000 and ElectricCycle.com came in third at $11,000. This week had four non com sales led by Cricket.bet for $8,500. Here are the Top 20 sales: 1. holocare.com $22,200 2. autozen.com $15,000 3. electriccycle.com $11,000 4. jacobeach.com $10,000 5. goodpurpose.com $10,000 6. vietnamcasino.com $10,000 7. cicatricure.com $9,500 8. […]
Continue ReadingFrom $41 to $9,500 sale in less than a year
Another Philadelphia domainer Barman tweeted out a great sale he made on DAN today. He sold Momcation.com for $9,500, a name that he bought for just $41. Registered in 6 extensions. Momcations. It’s a Thing. – The New York Times There is a whole industry around Momcation, including apparel here is one seller on Etsy. […]
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 ReadingSome new gtld sales you probably missed
Here is another look at some domain name sales that are not recorded on Namebio. The reason being these were generated from the GoDaddy domain appraisal tool, so more than likely these were sales generated through Afternic or Namefind. When you search for a domain name using the GoDaddy appraisal tool, you will […]
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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