The first quarter of the year came to an end yesterday. All in all, the domain aftermarket seems pretty strong from my perspective. I had a solid Q1, recording multiple sales at Afternic, Sedo, Atom.com, and privately. Included in this is four new Lease to Own deals – three via Afternic and one via Atom. […]Catchy.com

My Afternic Lead Center is full of Stalled, Qualifying, Confused, and Unknown leads. As a domain investor, this is pretty confusing and slightly frustrating. I don't blame Afternic brokers for this because I have become familiar with how their platform works, but I do think Afternic and GoDaddy should better educate its sellers on the […]Catc...

I have a bit more than 100 domain names listed for sale on Atom.com, and a handful are listed on its Ultra Premium Marketplace (UPM). This afternoon, I received an email from Atom informing me that "Domain Talk" was added to Tangy.com, which is one of my UPM-listed domain names. According to the email I […]Catchy.com

Namecheap notified its Namecheap Market customers of an adjustment to the end times for auctions and a simplified process for its closeouts. Domain name auctions will all end at the same time each day. The time is 11am Eastern Time and the equivalent times throughout the world. You can do the math to understand when […]Catchy.com

Over the weekend, I was texting some friends about buying tickets for a concert this Summer. One of our friends was suffering from a bit of analysis paralysis as he debated whether to choose tickets that were closer to the stage but towards the side or tickets in the center but a bit further back. […]Catchy.com

My general preference is to register my domain names without Whois privacy enabled. The downside to that is my business phone number is exposed, and it leads to many spam phone calls. This happens frequently after winning domain names at auction and companies send emails trying to sell web development and related services. One thing […]Catchy...

If you bid on auctions at NameJet, you're probably familiar with the up and down arrows in the control panel control panel buttons. These buttons allow you to increase or decrease your bid by the standard bid increments. Bidders can also input their maximum bid amount by hand if they prefer, but sometimes it's just […]Catchy.com

I enabled Afternic's self-brokerage option as soon as I heard it went live. I immediately tested it out with one of my own domain names so I could see how the platform works as a buyer and as a seller. Before I got started, I ran into an issue, and I couldn't tell if it […]Catchy.com

Lease to Own deals have become much more normal in the domain space. LTO deals give buyers the opportunity to use a domain name at a lower upfront cost, and it gives domain name sellers a source of consistent monthly income. There is some risk with LTO deals for a domain investor. I was asked […]Catchy.com

In early February, I noticed that Kicks.com changed hands. The valuable one word .com domain name had been owned by Reflex, and transferred to a registrant called Domain Licenses Limited, which I believe is an entity that acquires and/or holds domain names on behalf of other companies. I detected this Whois change with the help […]Catchy.com

It looks like a UDRP was filed against https://t.co/1tWA9dHQ5m and https://t.co/wlPCjHdTyN at NAF. Both domain names are registered at CSC and owned by IBM. pic.twitter.com/aE6xTXYG2F Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) March 4, 2025 A week and a half ago, I noticed a UDRP filing that appeared to be pretty egregious. A company filed a UDRP against […...

HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah announced another domain name acquisition today. Dharmesh acquired OS.ai for $150,000. He announced the acquisition and shared his rationale for buying the domain name in a post on X: LEAKED NEWS: I acquired the domain name os .ai for $150,000 (just saw the transaction reported on some online sources). It's the […...

This afternoon, I learned about the launch of a new registrar and marketplace brand called Taku – using Taku.com. The brand was launched by GMO Internet Group, a company that is traded publicly on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which operates other brands that primarily operate in Asia. The thing that caught my attention with this […]Catchy....

The aftermarket for .AI domain names has grown tremendously over the last several years. A look at Namebio shows the growing annual dollar volume of sales that were publicly reported in the aftermarket. 2018: $420.8k 2019: $1.1m 2020: $1.1m 2021: $1.2m 2022: $878.7k 2023: $5.6m 2024: $11.7m 2025 YTD: $3.2m (my guess is $20m+ for […]Catchy.com

Namecheap was recently named expiry auction partner for .AI domain names. The first batch of expired .AI auctions concluded last week, and hundreds of .AI domain names were sold. Namebio shows 695 .AI sales on Namecheap worth nearly $800,000 in the last month, although I can't filter down to specifically include the expiry auctions. One […]Ca...

I have a $20/month paid account at OpenAi. I primarily use it to access ChatGPT – and I always use Chat.com to navigate to the website. One of the ways I use the platform is to generate keyword lists that I use to search for and register domain names. Oftentimes, these keyword lists revolve around […]Catchy.com

Dynadot is a domain registrar that is a preferred choice for numerous domain investors. I have been using Dynadot's aftermarket and now have nearly three dozen non-.com domain names registered there. The Dynadot registrar platform is very fast, and it offers investor-focused features in an easy to use user interface. The registrar is now home [R...

One of the unique features at Atom.com is the ability to offer an early payoff option to Lease to Own (LTO) buyers. You can offer a discount that amounts to up to 15% of the remaining balance. The buyer can choose to accept the offer and pay this amount to get control of the domain […]Catchy.com

When a user searches for a domain name at GoDaddy, and it is not listed for sale via its network, the Domain Broker Service offering is shown. To utilize DBS, a customer pays north of $100 and an additional 20% fee if a deal is reached. If a customer pays to utilize a GoDaddy DBS […]Catchy.com

If you pick the right domain names and win the auction for the right amount, there is still plenty of money to be made from expired/deleted domain names. Adam Maysonet illustrated this by sharing the results of a recent sale he made on Afternic: And the first on-hold on @afternic just went through. Hold time […]Catchy.com

A few days ago, I wrote about how the Backpage.com domain name expired and was in pending delete status. Prior to its expiry, Backpage.com had been seized by the US Department of Justice. Backpage.com wasn't renewed, it fully deleted, and DropCatch.com caught the domain name and sent it to a three day auction. The auction […]Catchy.com

Andrew Miller of Hilco Digital has been publishing a weekly update on LinkedIn for the last three years. In his Random Sunday Thoughts posts, he often shares insights and advice for domain name buyers and sellers. Occasionally, he mentions completed deals that may not have been discovered by others. This morning on X, Yinan Wang […]Catchy.com

Backpage.com was once one of the most popular classified advertising websites online. According to Wikipedia, "Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services. It soon became the second largest online classified site in the United States." It was also apparently a hub for illicit activities....

Spaceship is looking for people interested in beta testing its new seller hub. Spaceship Founder (and Namecheap CEO) Richard Kirkendall announced this in a post on X this morning: Just moved a portfolio of about 5000 domains to our seller hub at Spaceship. First offer for 50k just rolled in on pare ai so good […]Catchy.com

Last week, James Booth announced that he sold the Nugget.com domain name, which was listed for sale via Atom.com. He was unable to share the sale price due to a non-disclosure agreement, but he speculated it was bought by a casino or something similar. https://t.co/Br67QiZmVV sold – NDA on price Im going to guess this […]Catchy.com

TRC.com expired at the end of November 2024. The domain name was apparently registered at a domain registrar that doesn't have a deal with an expiry auction platform, so it was fully deleted from the registry. As a result, drop catching auction platforms competed to catch the domain name once it made it through the […]Catchy.com

I use several different domain name purchase or sale agreements depending on the situation. Each of these agreements references "WHOIS" as a means of confirming ownership of a domain name before or after a sale. With the sunsetting of WHOIS in favor of the new RDAP, it might make sense for domain investors, brokers, and […]Catchy.com...

The Gong Show was a television talent show on ABC in the late 1970s. Contestants would perform a variety of acts while being judged by a panel of celebrity guests. If a judge found an act particularly bad, they could hit a large gong, abruptly ending the performance. It's too bad there isn't a gigantic […]Catchy.com

The Super Bowl was played last night, and a great deal of attention was on the Super Bowl commercials. In the recent past, domain names played a more minor role in the commercials, but that was not the case this year. There were quite a few standout domain names that played a prominent role. I […]Catchy.com

Three weeks ago, Samba.com sold for $143,000 in a NameJet expiry auction. Samba.com is an exceptional domain name, and there are many branded companies that would benefit from owning it. At $143k, it wasn't out of the realm of possibility that an aggressive domain investor acquired the domain name to be a portfolio asset. That […]Catchy.com...

If you use Afternic and its landing pages for your domain names, chances are good that you have a Lead Center filled with leads that look similar to this: If you're lucky, you have one or two sold domain names amongst many Stalled and Confused leads. This can be frustrating, particularly since sellers don't get […]Catchy.com

Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall has shared many .AI domain name sales over the last year or so. NameBio lists more than 1,000 .AI domain name sales at Namecheap in its database. This afternoon, Richard shared a handful of high value .AI domain name sales. He also shared some pretty big news about .AI expiry auctions […]Catchy.com

I went to the ICA meeting in Las Vegas last week. I don't particularly enjoy leaving my family when they have many different activities and events at happening home, but the trip was well worth that inconvenience. At around 200 attendees, the ICA event is fairly small and manageable. I was able to connect with […]Catchy.com

One of the things I like about DropCatch.com auctions is that I get control of the domain names almost immediately after I pay for them. I'll win an auction or receive the backorder success emails, visit the account to pay, and the names appear instantly in my associated NameBright account. That's what typically happens. Yesterday, […]Catchy....

Last year, I won a non-.com auction at Dynadot. The domain name may be considered a typo of another word word, but this "typo" has 100+/- TLDs registered, which is what caught my attention. In fact, at least 15 of those TLDs are developed, so there's quite a bit of usage around this brandable term. […]Catchy.com

I hand registered around 40 domain names this month. This is abnormally high, but I had a couple of recent sales in the category and figured I would use some of the income from those sales to try and generate additional sales. I registered these domain names in two groups – one of about 30 […]Catchy.com

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) held its awards presentation last night during its annual meeting in Las Vegas. The domain industry at-large nominated people from within the industry for the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award and nominated companies for the new Trailblazer Award. ICA membership then voted on the winners, which were announced last ...

One of the nice things about having an Account Manager at GoDaddy is that he can help pull reports for me that would take longer for me to pull. At the beginning of the year, I ask my Account Manager to send me a report of all renewals I paid the previous year so I […]Catchy.com

When I was following the end of the DropCatch auction of Spend.com, I was unable to visit the landing page due to a website error. Observing the auction from the homepage, bidding had surpassed $700,000, and it appeared to be closing at $702,500 with more than 300 bids placed. Due to the technical errors that […]Catchy.com

Attending the ICA member meeting in Las Vegas last January was one of my business highlights of 2024. It's always nice to catch up with colleagues and friends who I haven't seen in a long time. I am heading out to Las Vegas for this year's meeting on Sunday. I appreciate the advocacy work the […]Catchy.com

DropCatch.com has won the sweepstakes to catch Spend.com, a domain name that was fully deleted by its former registrar, Amazon. The domain name will now be sold to the highest bidder when the auction concludes in a little less than 3 days. Spend.com was previously acquired for $275,000 in 2017 via Sedo. Prior to that, […]Catchy.com

Over the past few days, I received quite a few emails from GoDaddy with the subject "A product's been removed from your GoDaddy account." Jamie Zoch mentioned this on X, and I am sure there are many other GoDaddy customers who received the same email. This email is typically one I receive after letting a […]Catchy.com