Every day when I wake up, I motivate myself by thinking that today is going to be the day a big sale hits. Domain name sales come in with no rhyme or reason. Sometimes they develop from inbound inquiries and sometimes a bit of outbound marketing yields positive results. Just about every important domain name […]

Earlier today on Twitter, Rick Schwartz posted something I agree with and want to amplify – cash is king right now: When people start buying things other people start buying When people stop buying things other people stop buying When people start selling things other people start selling When nobody is buying & nobody is […]

Back in the day, I collected Kenner Starting Lineup figurines. There was a point, I recall, that some of them has some value. Even with the rising value of sports collectibles over the last couple of years, I don't think Starting Lineup figurines grew much in value. In fact, I gave several of my figurines […]

This morning I received an inbound offer for one of my domain names. The email address used was a person's name @companyname.info. I did a Google search for the person and the company name, and there was a match. The person is a senior executive at the company in the email. The .info extension set […]

This morning, I received an email from Dan.com announcing its new in-house domain brokerage offering. Dan sellers can now utilize brokers when they receive an offer and prefer to have a third party broker the sale on their behalf. The brokerage offering is powered by GoDaddy's broker services. Here are the details that were shared […]

Axle Payments, a company that has raised $165.2 million in funding according to Crunchbase, announced that it has rebranded itself as Denim. The company acquired the Denim.com domain name in advance of the rebranding. The news was announced on LinkedIn by Co-Founder and CEO Bharath Krishnamoorthy. TechCrunch published an article about the company's...

If you visit Push.com, you will be forwarded to a Twitter account seemingly operated by the owner of the domain name. A few years ago, I wrote about all the interest the Push.com domain name receives on Twitter. People visit Push.com, land on its Twitter page, and inquire about whether the domain name is available […]

A company called Kosmos Global Holding, S.L. from Spain filed and lost a UDRP against the Kosmos.com domain name. A three member WIPO panel also found that this was a case of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking. Attorney John Berryhill successfully defended the domain name. This is the second time John defended Kosmos.com, as another company […]

@NewfoldDigital has agreed to acquire @MarkMonitor, the leading global provider of domain management solutions, from @Clarivate, underscoring our commitment to delivering market-leading web presence solutions to our customers. Learn more: https://t.co/WdSpCXMOq0 Newfold Digital (@NewfoldDigital) September 12, 2022 A major domain industry acquisiti...

The US Dollar has been very strong lately. $1 USD is nearly equal to 1 Euro, and the Euro has been falling for nearly two years, as you can see in the above graphic courtesy of XE.com. Similarly, the GBP and other currencies have also been declining in value against the USD. The stronger dollar […]

I've been sharing some of the testing I have been doing with my inventory domain names. After moving just about all inventory-quality domain names to Embrace.com landing pages, I am tweaking my strategy a bit by moving many back to Dan.com BIN landing pages. Within the last few days, I moved nearly everything priced at […]

GoDaddy is looking to hire a Senior Manager who will be responsible for connecting with and networking with domain investors. The aim of the position is to attract new GoDaddy customers from the domain investing community while driving revenue growth from current investor clients. Here's an excerpt from the job listing, which was posted on […...

Domains By Proxy, LLC (DomainsByProxy.com) may be one of the most prolific domain registrants. Domains By Proxy isn't actually the owner of most domain names registered to the entity. Domains By Proxy, LLC is the Whois privacy service operated by GoDaddy. Customers of GoDaddy who do not want their contact information shown on a public […]...

The ICA presented the 2022 Lonnie Borck Memorial Award today during NamesCon. The deserving winner of this year's award is Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire. Congratulations to Andrew Allemann @DomainNameWire for being named the @ICADomains Lonnie Borck Memorial Award winner! Well deserved! pic.twitter.com/iqqwb2iEgF Fred Kauber (@fredkauber) Se...

Yesterday morning, I read an article that refuted reports that Zomato, an India-based food delivery service, would rebrand itself as Eternal. This article made me curious about the Eternal.com domain name that may have been necessary had the company opted for this rebrand. There is some circumstantial evidence that leads me to believe that the [...

2022 started off on a very strong note. I closed some great deals, and things were looking positive, despite some dire economic predictions. The Summer has been quite slow, and I am sure it is not isolated to my business. As a result of this roller coaster year so far, I have been maintaining the […]

Scott Pruitt from Right of the Dot sent me the details for this years upcoming NamesCon domain name auction. The live portion of the auction will take place at the Downtown Omni Hotel on September 1 at 3:00 PM CDT. Wayne Wheat will be conducting the live auction, which is being managed by Right of […]

According to NameBio, the Calpers.com domain name was sold for $1,718 in December of 2021 at NameJet. The California Public Employees Retirement System, commonly known as "CALPERS," filed a UDRP against the domain name at the National Arbitration Forum and won the decision. The domain registrant did not submit a response. In looking through the [&#...

For the last couple of weeks, I have been forwarding the bulk of my domain names to domain name-specific inquiry forms on Embrace.com. I am doing this in an effort to induce more sales that may have been lost because the minimum offer amount was set too high on Dan.com and to retain more control […]

In a blog post on August 18th, Sav reported that its PayPal account had been inexplicably closed by the payment provider. I am sure this would have impacted the registrar's ability to collect payments from some clients, and importantly, it would have impacted the ability to pay clients proceeds from domain name sales. This has […]

Shortly after publishing my article about the Medal.com auction on DropCatch.com that ended at $185,728, I saw that my Twitter account had a new follower: Pim de Witte, CEO of Medal. Medal is a platform that allows gamers to record, edit, and share gaming clips and videos. The company uses the Medal.tv domain name for […]

Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from Sav announcing that there is some expected downtime coming for updates to its website. Sav expects its website to be down on August 21st from 4pm to 9pm CST (9pm to 2am UTC). Here's the email message I received from the company: New things coming: 24 hour outage […]

Blue chip domain names like Medal.com don't hit the auction block very often. As I shared on Twitter last weekend, a company called Ciox Health acquired Medal, Inc., which owned the Medal.com domain name. For an unknown reason, the domain name expired. Likely because the name was registered at Gandi, it was deleted rather than […]

George Kirikos is the best at sleuthing out domain name sales from SEC filings. While some domain name sales may look easy to spot because they are fairly obvious when you know where and when to look, it can be difficult to connect dots and confirm a domain name acquisition. Sometimes it is impossible to […]

I've always been curious about the best day of the week for domain name sales. Afternic shared that the busiest day of the week for domain name sales across its network is Thursday. Tuesday and Wednesday follow closely behind Thursday: Which day has the most domain name sales? The answer: Thursday (Although Tuesday & Wednesday […]

Last night, I spent some time searching the SEC database to see if I could find some domain name sales data. I believe I found a large sale that has not yet been reported elsewhere. It looks like the Connection.com domain name was acquired for $450,000 by PC Connection in 2015. The PC Connection website […]

One of the biggest advantages of using my own landing pages is the ability to track visitors in the way that works best for me. To track website visits, I have a paid StatCounter account. Being able to track visitors and visits is invaluable to me when negotiating with a prospective buyer. I use the […]

A couple of weeks ago, I shared that I began forwarding myinventory-quality domain names to Embrace.com landing pages. I respond directly to offers and inquiries, and I push prospective buyers to Dan.com landing pages to complete the purchase. I don't do this for higher value domain names. I am testing this to save time and […]

Another publicly reported 7 figure domain name sale has closed this year. The Call.com domain name was sold via Sedo for $1.6 million USD. The domain name sale was reported by Sedo broker Frank Tillmanns on Twitter this morning: It was a great pleasure to broker the sale of https://t.co/xkePP8HUWy at $1.6M USD. Congratulations to […]

In April, I reported on HubSpot's acquisition of Connect.com. At the time of the sale, the acquisition price was not shared publicly by either buyer or seller. On Sunday, George Kirikos uncovered a SEC filing with the $10 million sale price, and he was the first to publish an article about it. I reached out […]

George Kirikos published a lengthy article on FreeSpeech.com about the ICANN public comment period for the domain name transfer policy review. George also submitted a comment on behalf of his company on the ICANN website. One of the reasons I am a member of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is because I rely on their […]

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is set to host an AMA session with domain broker Kate Buckley. The Zoom session will be held on August 10th. This AMA session is only open to ICA members. The ICA has hosted several AMA sessions with other members of the domain investment community. Andrew Rosener, Braden Pollock, Monte […]

Tom Glover, President of Northwest Registered Agent, LLC, asked me to share a job posting that might be of interest to someone with experience and expertise in the domain name space. The company is looking to hire a Director of Domain Name Registrar for its registrar business. The job listing was posted on TwoBarrels.com. Northwest […]

Logan Flatt has been engaging with someone on Twitter who apparently left a one star review for Dan.com. I can't speak for Logan, but it appears that he believes the issue is out of the control of Dan.com and the review is unfair to the platform. You might be wondering why Logan is going to […]

Identity Digital is the registry management company that had been known as Donuts until its' rebrand in June. This afternoon, the company shared a video on social media promoting alternative extensions to .com. "Don't stop at the dot," is the call to action in the video found in the tweet below: Check out the new […]

I caught a LinkedIn post from Rick Schwartz this morning announcing a special domain investing segment on Clubhouse called "Domaining ‘Shark Tank'." The event will be held this evening, and it will offer participants the opportunity to "pitch" a domain name or project during the Clubhouse event: Domain investor participants leading the Clubho...

Hiring a buyer's broker can be a smart decision a company makes when attempting to acquire a domain name. A buyer's broker can anonymize the buyer and potentially save in acquisition costs. Simply using a domain broker for an acquisition may not be enough to get a good deal for a buyer. A domain broker […]

The next time I go over the Bourne Bridge, it will be during the @PanMass in a week and a half. Thank you to Bill Doshier from @dotstrategy for donating to my fundraiser today! Support from my domain industry colleagues has me close to the $18k goal: https://t.co/Q3HTryN43j pic.twitter.com/c24JtSaBV3 Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) July 28, […]

It's no secret that I like using Dan.com and have found success on the platform. A large percentage of my portfolio forwards directly to Dan.com pages. I use a combination of BIN, BIN+Make Offer, and LTO options shown to prospective buyers. As we seem to be headed into a recession, I decided to test something […]

Many years ago right after I graduated from college, I went to graduate school and earned a Master's Degree in Direct and Interactive Marketing. The program no longer exists as it was, and it was rolled up into another program at NYU. Nearly every one of my other classmates but had already started their professional […]

When I went to review domain names on NameJet last night, I was unable to do so because of a maintenance notice on the website. According to a message on the back-end of the platform, there were some "technical difficulties" on NameJet yesterday. As a result, some of the auctions that ended have been extended […]