Would you like people to pay to make an offer on your name? Would you like to pay to make an offer on someone else's domain name? I read a tweet from George Kirikos about low ballers (someone offered him $500 for Orderly.com) George wrote: What sucks is the time wasters trying to buy domains at 1% of the floor price, spamming their lowball offers. I think Webmagic has it right, charging … [Read more...]
What percentage of reported domain sales do you believe?
The domain industry can only prove so much, domain sales are reported to DN Journal, recorded by and sometimes reported to Namebio. Blogs will sometimes break a story with a domain sale that no one else knew about. All these platforms rely on trust to a great degree, there is not forensic accounting done to verify every sale. From time to time I have had someone say they can tell me a lot about … [Read more...]
Berkens Bits – Mike on domain offers circa November 2009
Here is another look back at a post from Mike a decade ago. This was published in November of 2009. The post generated a lot of traffic and 65 comments. 1st Rule Of Dealing With Domain Offers Is: People Lie We generally receive 10-15 offers a day, everyday so several thousand a year, and here is the 1st general rule of thumb. Buyer’s lie. Yes people on the Internet often lie. Yes … [Read more...]
Three Halloween domain names developed and doing business
Today is Halloween and here is a look at three Halloween based domain names that all have been built out and are doing real business. Halloween.com the website is a gateway to all things Halloween, from links to costumes, supplies, masks, candy, haunted houses. The site has an Alexa ranking of 404,079 Three months ago it was in the 927,000 range. Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS Creation … [Read more...]
A look back at the sites that went with the “smarter” new gtlds
So I came across an old post on Key-Systems.net that dealt with new gtlds. The title of the article, "These 87 sites dropped their .com for a smarter new TLD (New data)" It was written in 2015. The first thing of note was that there were only 52 names listed, with the number 51 being repeated twice. So I took a look at each name to see who kept their new gtld, who switched and who closed … [Read more...]
Trump beats Biden to TodosConBiden.com
The BBC published a piece about political domain names. It seems that the Trump administration decided to register the domain name TodosConBiden.com. The Biden campaign is marketing to Hispanics on Twitter using Todos Con Biden (Everyone with Biden). From the article: On Wednesday the Biden campaign took to Twitter to announce its "Todos Con Biden" (Everyone with Biden) drive.The Trump camp … [Read more...]
“Anticipatory cybersquatting” It’s an idea that isn’t going anywhere.”
There was an article published on AmericanBar.org from June that dealt with one lawyer's interpretation of domain investing. Tamara Kurtzman titled her article The Continued Hijacking and Ransoming of the Domain Name System by Modern-Day Corporate Privateers. Ms. Kurtzman coined the phrase "Anticipatory Cybersquatting" From the article: Anticipatory cybersquatting is the practice of … [Read more...]
