LiveWell.com was one of the 200,000 names GoDaddy purchased from Marchex back in April of 2015. A few months later LiveWell.com was acquired by Live Well Financial. Here was a blurb from RichmondBizSense.com: Richmond, VA – Live Well Financial is excited to report the relaunch of their website on a new website domain, LiveWell.com. The […]
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Avoiding trademark trouble is always the right advice
So there is a member on Namepros that asked for advice on a name that they thought might be a problem intellectual property wise. The name was getvisacard.com, members of the community advised against the name and the member had the registration cancelled. Now they are having second thoughts, wondering if they made a mistake […]
Continue ReadingA tale of two Chinese unicorns and their domain strategies
One night in the cold winter of 2015, several engineers went to the streets of Shanghai to test a crazy idea: Would someone rent a bike left on the street without operator assistance? They placed some 50 bikes on the sidewalks and went home. When they opened their computers the next day, they were excited […]
Continue ReadingGDPR is taking a bite out of European ecommerce
GDPR is taking a hit out of European website traffic and e-commerce. A recent study shows that since GDPR went into effect, page views are down by 9.7% and revenue decreased by 8.3% due to GDPR. European ecommerce is taking a hit at a time when it’s already hard competing with the likes of Amazon. […]
Continue ReadingSales and Trends report for July 2019
Looking back at July here we will examine sales data trends for certain naming categories. July was a strong month for the domain business that especially ended strong. Overall Namebio recorded 10,400 sales up from 9,562 total sales ($100 or more) in June. This was for a total dollar amount of $10.4 million. This is […]
Continue ReadingWill a domain be worth a billion dollar?
A domain investor friend called me the other day. During our conversation, I was reminded that I once said that many domains would one day be priced in millions of dollars. So, what do I think now? Let’s talk about addresses first. In 1989, Japan-based Mitsubishi Estate invested $1.6 billion to acquire a number of […]
Continue ReadingTest.Center sale did not complete according to Sedo
Last week there was big news in the world of new gtld sales, Test.Center was reported sold at $195,000. Elliot Silver had tweeted that he contacted Sedo and they could not confirm the sale yet. Namebio removed the sale from their database waiting for confirmation. Sedo posted on Namepros today: Hope everyone’s week is already […]
Continue ReadingA domain with two faces
When you see the word “danke”, what do you think of? Well, it depends on your native tongue. German speakers may smile because it means thank-you but Chinese speakers may simply draw a mental picture of an eggshell or ammunition case. Such phenomenon happens because many languages have been Romanized. In the case of Chinese, […]
Continue ReadingWhy this startup structured their 3L.com acquisition as a lease to own
Startup acquires perfect domain name for their business. Mux builds powerful APIs for video encoding, hosting, streaming and data. Last year an employee there wrote a very interesting and in depth post on how they acquired Mux.com. They started out on Mux.co which they paid $1,200 for, they then stalked someone on Reddit to get […]
Continue ReadingWill China’s IPO darling SMZDM make 5L acronym domains popular?
You could pick up a 3L (letter) domain years ago for $100 but now it costs 5 figures or more. Similarly, 4L domains had little interest but now every one of them can sell. So the question is obvious: Will the IPO of SMZDM bring 5L domains to the forefront? It all began years ago […]
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