TrueDN posted on Namepros that 8833.com was listed at Sedo for $9,000. The member spoke to the previous owner and they said it was stolen from their account at GoDaddy. The name is no longer showing for sale, and since this happened after regular business hours for Sedo, it might have been purchased. The name moved from GoDaddy to NameSilo. … [Read more...]
Stuart Lawley buys AgePass.com and AgeBlock.com for new blockchain based business
Stuart Lawley who most know from .xxx, (which he sold to MMX for $41million) has a new business and it's called AVSecure.com. The business is using the blockchain to provide age verification. AVSecure enables the consumer to manage access on their local devices rather than through an unrelated remote network. The consumer's browser becomes the central point in the process, not the servers or … [Read more...]
Smoothies, Trump and Domain investing
There is a story that came out today about Daily-Harvest.com, they apparently have filed a lawsuit. The owners of the smoothie company say dailyharvest.com browsers are purposely being directed to seriously off-brand websites because Daily Harvest won’t pay up to acquire the unhyphenated domain name. Apparently Tracy Fogarty and her company enaming have been named in the suit. Tracy Fogarty … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by PickPack.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and PickPack.com led the way at $59,000. Payen.com was in second place at 25,000 Euros, ($28,215). A couple 3L.coms sold with Yal.com at $20,500 and PXO.com at $16,000. 38 .com sale 24 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Shoe.cloud sold for $3,500 WhatisADomain.com got $2,000. Domain … [Read more...]
Are mobile apps on their way out?
A few years ago there were some that liked to spread the narrative that apps would make domain names less valuable, possibly obsolete. There is not as much talk about that scenario over the last couple years. Josh Metnick forwarded me an article about how Lance Ng sees mobile apps actually becoming obsolete. From an article on Medium Ng writes: In the next three to seven years, I expect … [Read more...]
Flippa has a new pricing in place and looking to add ID verification
I have to be honest since Kevin Fink left Flippa, I have not spent a ton of time there, looking at a domain auction that stood out once in awhile. I had a friend who wanted to list a business for sale and told me he wanted to use Flippa. While on the site checking out the price for business listings, I noticed a couple days ago Flippa changed their pricing. It will now cost $25 to list a … [Read more...]
Translate.com with 2million monthly visitors on auction at Flippa (no reserve)
Translate.com is up on auction at Flippa and is currently at $201,000. This is a no reserve auction and is also a real business built on a premium domain name. Where do you think it closes? Translate.com: almost 2M monthly visitors, Translation website with ~2M monthly visitors generating $469k annual revenue Premium domain and translation site servicing nearly 2m monthly visitors … [Read more...]
