There are a multitude of places to sell your domains names. Popular aftermarket sites like Sedo and Afternic have been around for years. GoDaddy gives sellers a variety of ways to sell, from 7 day auctions to premium listings. Specialty sites such as BrandBucket and Brandroot offer sellers of brandable domains a boutique experience to market their names. Efty allows it's customers to find a … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2017
Social Media companies on notice in Germany as new legislation passes
Back in March we wrote about a proposed German law to fine social media companies that did not remove hate speech. The New York Times reported that the law has passed and things are about to get tricky for social media companies doing business in Germany. There is plenty of speech that is obviously wrong to any reasonable person, but there might be some instances where things are gray. That … [Read more...]
GoDaddy takes down auction for RapeKids.com
GoDaddy removed the auction for RapeKids.com on their platform today. Lance @tldn had tweeted @WtfDomains with a link to the auction, @DNUpdate retweeted it with a message and Noah Plumb who has the super cool handle of @no took care of the situation. That’s not right. We took it down and are looking into how it happened so it doesn’t happen again. Thanks for keeping us in check — Noah Plumb ? … [Read more...]
If sale seems fishy, leave a comment
It's always beneficial to have a lot of eyes looking at sales reports. Sometimes there is an unbelievable buy you may have missed, or there might be something that seems odd and might not have really sold. There was a comment left a couple days ago about a name listed for sale on a previous Sedo weekly sales report. Commenter Mary said: mary says June 25, 2017 at 10:28 … [Read more...]
XYB.com sold for $100,000
Namerpros member BetTheLot (Graham Haynes) announced on Namepros that he sold XYB.com for $100,000. The transaction was completed with a broker named Ivy at ename. BetTheLot mentioned It will be a shortening of a pinyin phrase. He cited Xiao long Bao. Which is a very famous type of food which has many restaurants in every town in China. Kassey Lee wrote: For example, it'll be an … [Read more...]
Politico takes a look at the Trump domain portfolio
Politico used three writers and put together an interactive article on the domain names registered by the Trump Organization. The writers are hoping to show a road map to where the Trump Organization has been and where it is going. From the article: Three weeks before Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican nomination last year, the Trump Organization renewed licenses on … [Read more...]
PayPal Is Getting Some Competition As Zelle Launches Through Major Banks
Paypal is about to get some competition as a new service called Zelle has teamed up with several national banks including Bank of America, Capital One, BB&T, Chase, Citi, TD Bank, Sun Trust and US Bank to name a few. According to its site which is located at the domain name ZellePay.com, its "the new, easy way to send money in minutes directly between U.S. bank accounts — right from your … [Read more...]