Luc Biggs scored a bulk sale in .ai. I have not seen that before maybe others have. Luc put together a portfolio of 68 LLL.ai domain names, the price worked out to $495 each or $33,660. He posted the sales pitch yesterday and today said that it was sold using Escrow.com. I believe but not sure, that Luc only posted this on Twitter/X so it's nice to see the platform generate a nice domain sale. … [Read more...]
Web3 funding in Q1 2024 sees it’s first uptick since Q4 2021
Crunchbase news is out with a report today on Web3 and the number of deals getting done. While there was an uptick in Q1 2024 they point out that venture dollars well off the highs seen in 2021-22. From the article: Web3, once the buzziest of all buzz words in the venture landscape, saw its funding slightly increase in the first quarter of the year compared to last year’s fourth quarter — … [Read more...]
AI Girlfriends will create a billion dollar business
When I interviewed Rick Schwartz at the beginning of the year he mentioned he purchased female first names in .ai including $20K for Betty.ai. Rick mentioned: Well, let me put it this way. One of the big sectors of Ai is virtual girlfriends. And so I have four female first names ending in Ai. Like Betty.Ai and Selina.Ai for example. Greg Isenberg who I follow on Twitter is now featured … [Read more...]
John Berryhill “Generic means nothing absent context of “for what”
One of the best participants at Namepros in my opinion is John Berryhill. John takes the time to help out on matters of intellectual property, udrp's and other industry news. Every once in awhile he makes a reply that is worthy of a post and I think it's important for those who don't participate at Namepros to read. In a thread about James Booth's $275K sale of Galatea.com. John chimed in with … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Xash.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Xash.com led the way at $39,000. PokerPlus.com was second at 25,000 Euro, ($26,801) seller acquired for just $737. Kiffen.com was third at 22,450, ($23,885). 23 .com sales 20 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
Global investment in AI fell for the second year in a row in 2023
Every end user for your .ai domain name may not be looking to pay you that lotto winning price. TechCrunch published a piece today on how investors in AI are getting a tad weary. For those setting 6 and 7 figure price tags for their .ai domain names, this is worth reading. From the article: A new report from Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), which … [Read more...]
Liquid Market Report Q1 2024
Giuseppe Graziano released the liquid domain report for Q1 2024 - The volume of sales for liquid domains reported by escrow.com went up by 89% (QoQ) to 18M. - The most notable categories in terms of sales volume were the 2L and 3L .com domains, reporting sales volumes in the $5.3M and $9.3M range respectively, according to escrow.com. - There were dips across all … [Read more...]