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...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by LightBet.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and LightBet.com led the way at $74,999. Pafikotobogor.org was second at $35,000. Specter.com was third at $33,000. 27 .com sales 18 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
This is how you make sure you never get the domain name you want
In 28 years of domaining you see a lot, I have been on forums where people believed domain investors should be thrown off a mountain because they were sitting on a domain name they wanted. Others resorting to the traditional reverse domain name hijacking. But it seems like someone has started a Change.org petition to get a domain investor to sell them a domain name. The company is called Devco, … [Read more...]