On this day back in 2015 Michael Berkens announced that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy. (171 comments). At the time Michael could not give numbers but after things settled the numbers came out, DomainInvesting.com covered the purchase price of $35.5 Million. The credit goes to George Kirikos: According to a series of tweets from George Kirikos this evening, GoDaddy … [Read more...]
TheDomains.com turns 12
TheDomains.com turned 12 on Wednesday and 10,725 posts and 112,592 approved comments later, Mike, Judi and I would like to thank everyone for their support the past 12 years. Thank you to Escrow.com, Radix, 101Domains, DAN.com and all the other companies/persons that have advertised with us throughout the years. While Michael enjoys his retirement from full time domaining he does keep a … [Read more...]
Bogus domain names and spoofed emails lead to $1m theft
Bogus domain names and spoofed emails result in a hacker stealing $1million. Vice reported about a man in the middle attack where a Chinese hacker was able to steal $1millin from a Chinese VC and Israeli startup. From the article: After seeing the original email thread announcing the upcoming multi-million dollar seeding fund, the hacker took action. Instead of monitoring subsequent … [Read more...]
Shares in NNR.com sell out – Do you want to invest in fractional ownership?
Disclaimer: Nothing below is a recommendation or a solicitation to buy or sell any domain name or do business with any of the companies mentioned below. Aron Meystedt announced today that his proof of concept for selling fractional ownership in domain names has sold out. Shares in NNR.com were sold valuing the 3L.com at $30,000. Here was the offering memo: NNR.com - Purchase Shares … [Read more...]
NameJet/Snapnames November monthly sales led by Wanda.com
The NameJet/Snapnames November sales report was released and Wanda.com was the top sale at $83,817. UML.com was second at $21,400. Loxo.com was third at $18,056. There were three 3L.com sales and thirteen 4L.com sales. There were eleven numeric … [Read more...]
How ICANN can intervene in the .org sale
Milton Mueller wrote a piece worth reading over at InternetGovernance.org about the .org sale. Mueller spells out what ICANN could do to intervene. ICANN can intervene ICANN will probably pretend that it has no ability to intervene in this process, but that is clearly not true. The Registry Agreement for .org gives PIR the delegation via a succession of presumptively renewable ten-year … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by BRgroup.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and BRgroup.com led the way at $30,000. Potenzmittel.de was second at 19,000 Euros, ($21,051). German word dealing with potency it looks like, related to erectile dysfunction. Aera.co was third at 14,500 Euros, ($16,068) 38 .com sales 22 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
