Welcome to the first edition of WTF? Domains. A look at the ridiculous, the funny, the sometimes obscene. Domains that make you go WTF? Here is the first list of names that have expired that I have been compiling, future posts will be the previous weeks names. Some of the names were registered for over […]
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The Chinese domain strategy of Walmart
Image courtesy of Walmart.com Apple has moved its Chinese iCloud data to China and India is considering a policy to require data to stay within its country. National governments across the world will likely impose requirements on local residence of local data as time goes on. The “one .com to rule them all” domain strategy […]
Continue ReadingIn 2017 I asked – Could we do a domain auction here on Twitter? The replies were mixed
Twitter auctions have no consequences for bad or illegal behavior There was a secondary discussion point in a post on Namepros about auction houses. @MetBob mentioned he saw that Daryl Lopes auctioned a name off on Twitter and thought it was a good idea. He wrote: For those on Twitter, I see that right now […]
Continue ReadingWhy do Chinese companies like acronym domains?
China is the largest owner of liquid domains according to the quarterly market report by GGRG.com. These are very short .com domains such as LL (letter-letter), NN (number-number), and LN (letter-number) .com which can be sold at any time because of a large pool of ready buyers. In this article, I’ll focus on the acronym […]
Continue ReadingOne Critical Action to Take Before Starting a Blog
While settling down and preparing for the next day, I took a quick break to visit Domaining.com to discover any breaking domain industry news. If you’re not familiar with Domaining.com, it’s a curation of publishers and bloggers that produce newsworthy content in regards to the domain industry news. In fact, you’ll likely find a few […]
Continue ReadingFacebook, China, and Domains
He married a Chinese woman. He learned Chinese. And he connects with young Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg has made a lot of efforts to win friendship in China, including giving a talk completely in Mandarin at a top-notch Chinese university. Yet, Facebook is not in the Middle Kingdom. Well, it actually was in China – only […]
Continue ReadingKQ.net sells on Namepros
A couple weeks ago I wrote about QM.net selling on Namepros for $13,777 and KQ.net being up next. The same seller put KQ.net up for auction with the same $1 start no reserve. It closed at $12,400 with ClarkeMarketing winning the name. Two of the bigger auction closes on Namepros, especially with $1 start, no […]
Continue ReadingBidder who cost GoDaddy $27,000 was permanently banned
It has now been a week or so since all the Dispute.com drama. The auction closed at $65,000 High bidder could not pay on time Elliot Silver posted about what happened I wrote a piece on TheDomains.com where Joe Styler added more context in a comment. OnlineDomain.com wrote an article that discussed the topic as […]
Continue ReadingTwo word.com names dominate BrandBucket July sales
BrandBucket sent out their latest newsletter and provided some detail into July sale. No sales figures were released but they did provide category data. Two word keywords dominated with 55% of all sales. A Quick Look Back at July: July was a great month for our sellers! We stayed on track to our sales goals […]
Continue ReadingEspresso.net closes at $10,001 in a battle between two bidders
As I mentioned earlier today I started tracking GoDaddy public auctions lately. I had another domainer ask why they didn’t seem to do as well as expired auctions. (People would rather donate to GoDaddy than another domainer?). In talking with Michael Sumner he explained that Namebio has not tracked GoDaddy public auctions, no real way […]
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