(Image Credit Giuseppe Graziano) Giuseppe Graziano who publishes the Liquid Market Report but out a very detailed post on the business of domain investing. He added in commentary from legends in the business along with ChatGPT. The article touches upon some comments that are a few years old but still relevant. Nat Cohen remarked during the burst of the Chinese short domain bubble, ‘A market … [Read more...]
Friend.com sells for $1.88M
404Media.co covered some big news on Friend.com. The sale of Friend.com for $1,887,843. Friend, an AI companion company announced today, spent $1.8 million out of a total of $2.5 million it raised to start the company on its domain name, friend.com, according to its founder Avi Schiffmann and a screenshot of the transaction shared with 404 Media. The domain name is on a payment plan. That … [Read more...]
The Castello Brothers, Daycare.com and a chance to see Taylor Swift for free
Michael and David Castello have one of the best domain name portfolios in the history of domaining. They also have developed a lot of their top properties. Daycare.com has just been revamped, a new business model and platform. Now you might not need Daycare services but you probably know someone who would like to see Taylor Swift in Miami for free. The time and place Saturday, October 19, … [Read more...]
Someone at Chill knows the value of a premium one word .com
Wild story on Reuters today as it appears there is a Vape company called Chill that smartly operates on Chill.com. Well it seems Chief Commercial Officer Antonio Russo and Chief Operating Officer Trevor Taylor transferred the name to an account owned by Russo. From the article: Tip of the cap to Namepros member Silentg … [Read more...]
Google adds Expired Domains Abuse to their report spam tools
Weeks ago Google came out and addressed the topic of expired domain names. On their blog "TheKeyword" they wrote: Expired domain abuse Occasionally, expired domains are purchased and repurposed with the primary intention of boosting search ranking of low-quality or unoriginal content. This can mislead users into thinking the new content is part of the older site, which may not be the case. … [Read more...]
Debanked.com “Coming Soon: Domain Names as Loan Collateral”
Debanked.com published an interesting piece on Domain Names as Loan Collateral. A company called Teller created a DeFi product to use domain names as collateral. From the article: a DeFi Cash Advance, a collateralized loan with 1-30 day terms. It’s just one of many products created by Teller, a peer-to-peer lending platform that relies on smart contracts to facilitate the transactions. The … [Read more...]
Gold.com acquired by JM Bullion, Inc
JM Bullion Inc acquired the premium domain name Gold.com. They already owned Silver.com. The company put out a press release. Congrats to Andrew Miller who brokered the deal. Press Release: JM Bullion, Inc. (JMB), a leading e-commerce retailer of precious metals and wholly-owned subsidiary of A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMRK) (A-Mark), has acquired the gold.com domain. With this … [Read more...]