Six months ago Ron Jackson of DN Journal announced the NDA sale of Chocolate.com. The domain was brokered by Buckley Media. After there was no movement on the name for a couple weeks one Namepros member started questioning the validity of the sale. A few months later that same member posted: So am I the only one questioning this sale? NDA, Points still a couple months later to a for sale … [Read more...]
Some registrars continue to markup your domains without your permission
Registrars are still marking up our domains without authority of any legal right to do so. So two years ago I wrote about a topic that had bothered me for years and Andrew at DNW had brought it up in a post and that got me to finally take the time to address the situation. Many if not most domainers add their names to Sedo and Afternic who in turn work with their distribution networks to … [Read more...]
Mike said this 8 years ago, is it still true?
8 years ago Mike wrote a very popular post that got a lot of views and over 120 comments. Domain Investing Isn’t Playing The Lottery, It’s Investing When Mike wrote the post it was before new gtlds, it was before cryptocurrency and the blockchain became mainstream fare. There were not as many domain investors back then as there are now. I agree with Mike 100%. But I can say discussions, … [Read more...]
When someone doesn’t pay, name and shame or let it go?
To Shame or not to shame that is the question? I touched upon this subject of name and shame a few years ago, the world is a bit different now has many use doxing as a weapon in many areas of life. You can read here, here and here when it comes to dealing with racists or political differences. Some believe that name and shame is the way to go, that domaining is a small tight knit industry where … [Read more...]
Vote now – Selling a domain name you don’t own fair or foul?
So a debate is starting to stir on a topic I wrote about back in 2015. Selling A Domain Name You Don’t Own – Cool or Not Cool ? My article was sparked by a post written on AntiCareer.com. There was a blog post by AntiCareer.com which talked about buying and selling a name that they did not own. The post titled “Turning A No Into A Yes and a $5,000 profit. Morgan Linton had touched upon this … [Read more...]
Epik announces new and improved marketplace
Ala Dadan from Epik announced a new and improved Epik marketplace. Happy Friday All I'm pleased to announce the new design for Epik Domain Name Marketplace. if you didn't have the chance to view it yet, you could check it out here: https://marketplace.epik.com The new design is a significant improvement from the old Marketplace. While working on the redesign, our goal was to have a … [Read more...]
“please don’t buy any of these domains, they’re all terrible and you’d be supporting asshole domain squatters”
So a gentleman named Martin O'Leary, created a game based on an idea by Holly Gramazio. The site is very simple, it shows two names and it's your job to guess which one costs more? Most of the names I saw were owned by Huge Domains and one of them referring.com was owned by Frank Schilling. I went 8 rounds of the game and it's just meant to be a time waster, (no prizes or … [Read more...]
