Late last year, I tried to hand register domain names related to a certain trend. I spent a fair amount of time on keyword tool websites and on GoDaddy's bulk domain registration page, and I ended up finding one domain name that seemed worth buying for the $10 hand registration cost. Shortly after the registration […]

John Berryhill and I are raising money for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute this year by riding nearly 200 miles in the Pan-Mass Challenge. Dana-Farber has an important cancer fighting mission John and I support wholeheartedly. For the last several years, we created a custom domain industry Pan-Mass Challenge jersey with the logos of generous supporter...

I use ExpiredDomains.net on a daily basis to find domain names to bid on and purchase. There is no cost to use ExpiredDomains.net, so I make a conscious effort to click on their affiliate links. In fact, I noticed and reported a bug at GoDaddy Auctions because I do not receive bid confirmation emails when […]

A couple of years ago, my longtime accountant retired and my wife and I hired a new accountant. One of the things she asked me was to get a full list of my domain name inventory with acquisition costs and date of acquisition. I had never tracked my inventory on a master inventory list before, […]

Following its $218 million acquisition of the Neustar registry business, GoDaddy has been making a push into the registry operations business. GoDaddy Registry works with brands to manage their .brand extension, and the company also works with countries on their ccTLD registry operations, including the registries for .US, .CO, and .IN. Last night, ...

Later on this Summer, John Berryhill and I will participate in the Pan-Mass Challenge ride to raise funds and awareness for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dana-Farber is one of the leading cancer organizations in the world, and we are happy and honored to be able to support its mission of providing exceptional cancer treatment […]

Yesterday morning, Dave Evanson, Senior Broker at Sedo, reported the sale of GCP.com for $550,000. The domain name was sold via Sedo: Just sold GCP .com for $550,000! Congrats to seller and buyer! dave evanson (@SedoDaveEvanson) March 28, 2022 At the present time, GCP.com is registered to Sedo's transfer service email address, so the […]...

In my morning DomainTools Domain Monitor alert email I received this morning, I noticed a registrar and registrant change for the LA.com domain name. LA.com had been registered at GoDaddy Corporate Domains (formerly Brandsite), and it transferred to GoDaddy under Whois privacy. Using Screenshots.com – and also Archive.org, I could see the dom...

Earlier this week, I noticed a non profit organizations domain name had expired and was set to be auctioned if it was not renewed promptly. Over the years, I have tried to help a number of organizations save domain names that had expired without their awareness.I have found that it can be a bit difficult […]

Peter Askew is one of the most prominent domain name-first web developers I know. His company owns several Internet properties that operate on domain names that tell visitors exactly what they would expect to find on the website. He has successfully built niche brands like RanchWork.com, DudeRanch.com, and VidaliaOnions.com (my personal favorite). ...

Adam Eisner, General Manager of Registry Services at the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), posted a job opportunity that might be of interest to someone who has domain name industry experience and expertise. CIRA is looking to hire a General Manager for the .CA extension: The job opportunity is listed on the Career page within [̷...

Last night, ICANN broke the news that 11 domain extensions that were operated and sold by UNR have been reassigned upon approval from ICANN. The .HipHop extension was reassigned to Dot Hip Hop LLC (a company started by Monte Cahn and Jeff Neuman), and ten extensions were assigned to XYZ.COM LLC, the company operating .XYZ […]

TechCrunch reported on the $95 million Series A funding round of a company called Finally. Originally, the company was known as Back Office, and it used the BackOffice.CO domain name for its business. Along with the rebrand to Finally, the company is using Finally.com for its website. It is unclear to me when Finally.com was […]

When a company has a huge portfolio of domain names like HugeDomains, it is bound to see its fair share of UDRP filings. A pair of Spanish companies called Bookker Corporate S.L.U and The Graffter SL filed a UDRP against Bookker.com, a domain name owned by HugeDomains. The UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual […]

A UDRP was recently filed against the high value Skill.com domain name at the World Intellectual Property Organization. Skill.com is a fully developed business, and the complainant in the UDRP is a company called Skillful Communications, Inc. You don't often see such a valuable domain name become the target of a UDRP proceeding. John Berryhill [...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is a somewhat frequent UDRP filer. The organization, which manages the Olympic Games, has filed dozens of UDRP proceedings, according to UDRPSearch.com. I took a quick look at the domain names that were subject of these UDRP filings, and none of them are as huge as the one that was […]

I was having lunch with my wife earlier today when I received an email from one of my favorite senders: Afternic Transaction Assurance. The email was sent to let me know one of my domain names listed for sale on Afternic was just sold. It is always nice to receive these emails. Surprisingly, the domain […]

Loser.com is an infamous domain name that has been used many times for forwarding. In the past, Loser.com has forwarded to Donald Trump's Wikipedia page, Kanye West's Wikipedia page, a Republican Voters Against Trump video, and quite a few other websites and landing pages over the years. It looks like there's a new redirect on […]...

One of the selling points for a one word .com domain name is email deliverability. What I mean is that many people assume a company called X will be found at X.com, and their associated email addresses will be [email protected]. A company called X that uses X.io or GetX.com will almost certainly lose at least […]

Earlier this week, Jamie Zoch reported that the Deel.com domain name was acquired by a startup called Deel. Deel.com had been owned by Francois Carillo, and the startup called Deel has been using LetsDeel.com for its website. Judging by a few Twitter comments, it looks like the acquisition of Deel.com will be well-received by the […]

According to an email I received from Lars "LG" Forsberg, Nordic Domain Days is scheduled to be held May 9-10, 2022 at the Clarion Stockholm in Stockholm, Sweden. I believe this will be the first in-person domain industry event in more than two years. According to the event website, Nordic Domain Days "is where Registries, […]...

The last couple of years have been abnormal for just about everyone. Between the effects of the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine, just about everything has gotten much more expensive. Demand for most things is higher and supplies are dwindling. With domain names, the best domain names are in stronger hands, and there […]

In a blog post earlier today, ICANN announced that it will assist domain name registrants in Ukraine and the surrounding area to ensure their domain names do not accidentally expire during these horrific times: Read #ICANN VP Russ Weinstein's latest blog about how ICANN is enacting relief for registrants in Ukraine and the surrounding region [̷...

In the video testimonial below, Shri Ganeshram, founder of Awning, discussed the benefit of his company's Awning.com domain name. In particular, Shri mentions the credibility that is earned by the brand for having a premium domain name like Awning.com. A Whois search shows that Awning.com has been registered under Whois privacy at Uniregistry for q...

In order to email a domain registrant who has Whois privacy enabled at Network Solutions, people now need to send a message via the contact form found on the Network Solutions Whois search page. I learned this when I sent a follow-up email to a Network Solutions privacy proxy email address. In September of last […]

Over the weekend, I reported that GoDaddy would "soon" offer a financing option for aftermarket domain name purchases, per a comment from Paul Nicks. The company is now testing a buy now pay later (BNPL) option via Klarna on aftermarket domain names. This allows a buyer to purchase a domain name and pay for it […]

Tyler Mason, Senior Director of Strategy and Advisory at GoDaddy Corporate Domains (GCD) put together a list of domain extensions used by the "Top 100 NFT projects" ranked by volume, and he shared it on his LinkedIn page last week. With Tyler's permission, I embedded his post with the graph and his commentary: Tyler used […]

Namecheap has a large presence in Ukraine, and many of its employees work in offices around the country. A look at Namecheap's job opening page gives an idea of the breadth of the company's footprint in Ukraine. Over the weekend, Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall spoke out about the Russian invasion of Ukraine: War is always […]

According to a tweet posted by Alex Verdea this afternoon, GoDaddy is now allowing customers use Klarna to purchase GoDaddy products and services. Klarna is buy now pay later (BNPL) financing service that has become very popular and more mainstream over the past couple of years. You can see a screenshot of the BNPL offering […]

In January, I reported that the Make.com domain name appeared to have been sold. Make.com is a high value domain name asset that had been long-owned by Digimedia. At the time of publication, the domain name was registered under Whois privacy, and there wasn't an active website operating on it. Earlier this week on Twitter, […]

This morning, I was looking through a list of newly registered domain names and I noticed a registration trend. A whole bunch of domain names appear to be registered related to Abbott and formula litigation. The domain names are registered to DNStination Inc., MarkMonitor's privacy proxy service. To give you and idea about the types […]

Domain investors take varying amounts of time when responding to a purchase inquiry or offer. Some people feel that responding quickly can yield better results and others believe waiting to respond to an offer for a certain amount of time can yield better results. I'm not a sales expert, so I've sort of done what […]

Many people who want to buy a good domain name have no idea about domain name values. For this reason, domain investors receive countless lowball offers for their domain names. Its an annoying aspect of the business, but I try to reply to everyone who inquiries about a domain name as a courtesy. Over the […]

Last week before going on a quick family trip, I received a $1,000 offer to buy one of my domain names via Dan.com. I proposed a counteroffer to the prospective buyer, and he quickly declined. Because there was enough margin, I proposed a slightly better offer and did not hear back. I also increased the […]

I received an email this morning from NamesCon announcing that an in-person event is happening at the end of this Summer. NamesCon Global 2022 will be held in Austin, Texas from August 31 through September 3 at the Omni Austin Hotel Downtown. It marks the first in-person domain industry conference since NamesCon Global in January […]

Sedo released its weekly domain name sales report yesterday, and the $100,000 sale of WordPlay.com was the largest public sale of the week on the platform. HubSpot CTO and Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah was the buyer of WordPlay.com. I follow Dharmesh on Twitter, and like me, he is a big fan of the Wordle word guessing […]

Alaska Oil and Gas Association filed a UDRP against the AOGA.com domain name, and the organization prevailed. In reading the decision, I can see both sides of the case and think it's a tough situation. I think it was probably the right call, but I think the rationale for the decision was bad. Alaska Oil […]

When one domain name forwards to another website, people often assume the forwarded domain name is owned or controlled by the operator of the destination website. While this is often the case for companies and businesses, it is not necessarily so. Nat Cohen drew my attention to a tweet about an alleged scam involving domain […]

Paul Nicks, who has been a Senior Vice President and GM of the Aftermarket at GoDaddy has been promoted. His new position is President of the Domain division at the publicly traded company. He will still oversee the groups that matter most to domain investors. It is unclear to me who has taken his role […]

Whether youre a child telling a parent you didnt eat the bag of candy or a parent telling a child the bag of candy must have accidentally been thrown away, getting caught telling a lie is uncomfortable. In a business situation, such as a negotiation, being caught in a lie can create distrust and kill […]