Sit.ai was acquired for just $582 in 2019 at an auction on Whois.ai. The domain was flipped for $12,000 on Sedo on Friday. This sale makes Sit.ai tied for the 8th highest reported .ai sale. .Ai continues to be a country code extension that is seeing strong sales volume. The extension has 668 reported sales […]
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How one entrepreneur acquired his premium domain name
The search for the perfect name can be a long and arduous task. Here is a look at how Glen Allsopp acquired Gaps.com and all the stops he made along the way. Glen Allsopp according to his Twitter account does SEO mostly. He is the founder of Detailed.com and Gaps.com. The story of the acquisition […]
Continue ReadingVerisign DNIB Q1 2020 (Registrations up 1.2% compared to Q4 2019)
Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief for Q1 2020. From the looks of the report it was a good quarter for new gtlds. An increase of 3 million registrations over Q4 2019. NEW GTLD DETAIL Total new gTLDs (ngTLDs) domain name registrations were 32.3 million at the end of the first quarter of 2020, […]
Continue ReadingBuyDomains flips GetAdeal.com and sells ZoomSecurity.com
BuyDomains made a nice flip on Wednesday with GetAdeal.com selling for $9,999. The domain name was acquired back in 2014 for $2,322. Oversee Domain Management, LLC was the owner back then. GetADeal.com highest reported sale in years for BuyDomains. BuyDomains.com also sold ZoomSecurity.com for $4,688. While Zoom has seen it’s usage sky rocket during the […]
Continue ReadingMore sales you probably missed (Color +Keyword) edition
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 see comparable […]
Continue ReadingLong .com names that brought in the money
We want short, catchy, memorable! But what about long and sometimes hard to spell? There was a time when exact match domains were very popular. Many exact match domain names were pretty long. Google and EMD’s In 2010 articles started coming out from places like Moz, with titles such as The Problems With Exact Match Domains […]
Continue ReadingLifestyle.com auction cancelled
On May 22 I wrote about Lifestyle.com getting a bid of 2,000,000 GBP, ($2,436,480). It looked like there was one offer made and the owner pushed to auction. A few hours ago it looks like the auction was cancelled and now there is a minimum offer set of 2,000,000 GBP. Looking at the attention the […]
Continue Reading2020 Market Trends with Flippa CEO Blake Hutchison
EbusinessInstitute.com sat down with Blake Hutchison the CEO of Flippa. In the just under 20 minute video they delved into what’s hot and what’s not in 2020. For the month of April 2020, website buyer registration was up 32%. Key takeaway from the article and interview: If we look at last month April 2020, there […]
Continue ReadingIs it time for Domain Aftermarkets to clean house?
Since the severity of the Covid-19 pandemic ramped up certain players in the industry have cracked down on covid and corona related domain names. March 26 – DAN (an advertising partner here) tweeted that they would be removing all coronavirus related domain names. Namecheap announced and reported upon by The Verge: That it would no […]
Continue ReadingLifestyle.com has a 2 million pound bid on Sedo
Lifestyle.com is at auction on Sedo and a bid was made for 2,000,000 GBP, ($2,436,480). The domain looks like it was pushed to auction, with this bid as it just happened and has 6 days to run. Seems like a risky strategy if it’s a legit bid. You would hope Sedo has something in place […]
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