The last day of 2024 has been a great day for new gtlds. From People.love to Newton.xyz the last sale of 2024 looks to be RWA.art which was sold for $20,000 at Afternic. RWA or Real World Assets has gotten some traction in the upcoming or future trends domaining category. This will be the second highest reported .art sale of all time. .Art is an advertiser here so I am glad for the seller and … [Read more...]
After taking most of domain owners parking revenue Google might be coming for your affiliate income
Roger Montti published a very interesting article tonight on Google and it's Gemini Deep Research. The article is a real wake up call if you run a website and earn a living through ads and affiliate programs. From the article: Deep Research presents a report that features a summary and recommendations. If searching for a product it will summarize the pros and cons with enough data that a … [Read more...]
Search Engine Land’s Top 15 SEO stories of 2024
SearchEngineLand.com published their 15 top stories for SEO in 2024. The two I was most interested in were number 8 and number 10. Organic traffic dropping by 25% by 2026 is a big number, this is of course because of AI. It will be interesting to see how things play out there. 10. Organic traffic predicted to drop by 25% Gartner made headlines with this prediction: “By 2026, traditional … [Read more...]
Custom Checkout Link Moves to GoDaddy URLs
James Iles announced today that the custom checkout link at Afternic is moving to a GoDaddy url. I think that makes sense, the world knows GoDaddy, domain investors know Afternic. How do I create a Custom Checkout Link? Creating a Custom Checkout Link for your domain name hasn’t changed. It remains a simple process. Here’s how. … [Read more...]
Green.earth sold for 82,000 Euro
Phil Harris informed me that Green.earth sold for 82,000 Euro. This was not a one time payment. The final 12k euro payment they paid the last 6 months early to be done by year end. The total received in payments was 82k euro. We sold in under synergy.media like all our Gtld sales. You don't see many .earth sales, congrats to Phil … [Read more...]
Finding Trending Domain Keywords and using them to search for deals on Afternic.com
GoDaddy released a video to help find keywords that are trending and take the info and use it to search for names on Afternic. You do need to have a Domain Academy membership for this to be doable. From the video: In this video we discuss how to find important words in domain names that are selling to end user buyers in various sales venues and then taking those keywords and using a tool in … [Read more...]
Unstoppable Domains launches direct negotiations
I think it's safe to say Unstoppable Domains is one of the new players that's looking to be the new DAN. They are now giving customers complete control over negotiations on their marketplace. It's something that a lot of domain investors have been requesting from all marketplaces and it's good to see some are listening. We just launched direct negotiation on our marketplace, giving you even … [Read more...]