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Above.com Becomes 1st Registrar To Share Profits Of Sold Expired Domains

May 30, 2013 by Michael Berkens

Above.com just announced this morning a new program where it will become the first domain name registrar to share the revenue generated from the sales of expired domain names.

The Expiring Domain Sales Program is an opt-in program offered to clients with more than ten domain names registered at Above.com.

Participants of the program would retain 60% of the profit from the sale of any domains that they let expire at Above.

All expiring domains will be auctioned in the Above Marketplace.

“We recognize that not all domains will be renewed each month,” says Victor Pitts, Director of Domain Services at Above.  “Domain investors will frequently allow some of their inventory to expire in order to register domains that will perform better in their business model.”

Most registrars will sell what expired inventory they can and keep 100% of the profits.

Above.com would like give most of the profit back.

“We want to reward our customers for their business they do in our ICANN accredited domain registrar,” says David Warmuz President and Founder of Above.com.  “

We like the idea of giving our registrar clients a new source of income. “

About Above.com

Above.com Pty Ltd is a Domain Investment Platform combining three core services important to the domain investor. Above.com is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar, offering easy and secure domain management for ANY size domain portfolio. Above.com is an Intelligent Domain Monetization Management Service, enabling clients to maximize parking revenues and productivity by automatically optimizing traffic across multiple parking services, while retaining control and using their existing parking accounts. Above.com is an advanced Auction Marketplace that gives the seller full control over their auctions. Above all – Above.com is committed to serving the evolving business needs of domain investors.

For more information contact:
Victor Pitts, Director of Domain Services
victor@above.com
(310) 734-4490

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About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Michael says

    May 30, 2013 at 10:44 am

    Fabulous has been doing that for a while, above wasn’t the first.

  2. Adam Strong says

    May 30, 2013 at 11:50 am

    Network Solutions used to do this too, even before Fabulous. 🙂

  3. hybriddomainer says

    May 30, 2013 at 12:16 pm

    Right Michael, Fabulous was doing this for awhile.

  4. Michael Berkens says

    May 30, 2013 at 12:32 pm

    NSI that was a LONG time ago

  5. Frank Michlick says

    May 30, 2013 at 6:34 pm

    Sign in with LinkedIn to comment does not work 🙁

    Tucows used to share the parking revenue of expired domains with their resellers and I think when they had their own expired domain auction they also shared revenue with resellers, but I cannot recall if that was only on the buying side.

  6. Francois Carrillo says

    May 31, 2013 at 3:34 am

    First, second, third, …
    The important is that’s a great move and more registrars should do the same.

    Now I would love above.com becomes more domaining friendly…

  7. David says

    June 3, 2013 at 12:46 am

    Thanks Francois,

    We are as “domaining” friendly as they come. We only do tools and solutions that help domainers, so if we can do more, happy to get feedback we can work on.

  8. Francois Carrillo says

    June 3, 2013 at 3:26 pm

    David

    above domaining is domaining.com


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