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...]
A look at the psychology of pricing
Lars Lofgren wrote a very good piece on QuickSprout about the psychology of pricing. The article is very much worth a read for those selling names both actively and passively. While a lot of the techniques are geared more to a tangible product, it still provides some solid insight for domain investors. From the article: Price Vs. Value Is price a measure of value? Not necessarily, … [Read more...]
What are the top 10 names that you have ever owned?
Shane Cultra got things going last week with domainers knowing what and if interested, posting their top 10 domains. This then got DNW to create a post and then Namepros. I thought it would be interesting for people to list the top 10 names they ever owned? Not everyone sells names and puts it back into domains, they might need to fund a retirement account, child's education, or invest it in … [Read more...]
Quite the haircut for JapaneseHotels.com
Geo hotels names have been quite popular in the past but over the last few years there haven't been the big sales like those that took place years ago. I saw a sale a couple days ago JapaneseHotels.com which took quite the haircut from the previous time it sold. On Flippa the name went for $999 vs selling for $6,750 on GoDaddy almost 1 year ago. ThailandHotels.com is on auction at GoDaddy now … [Read more...]
Huge Domains sells Knewz.com to News Corp
So News Corp is looking to start a news aggregation service that will be both a website and a mobile app. They say they are doing this to address concerns publishers have with regards to Google and Facebook. The Wall Street Journal published an article News Corp is developing a news-aggregation service meant to address concerns that Alphabet Inc.’s Google News and other digital platforms … [Read more...]
Pocahontas.com redirecting to ElizabethWarren.com
A reader sent Michael some info on the domain name Pocahontas.com. The domain name is being pointed to ElizabethWarren.com. The domain names was registered in 1995 and was owned by a Christopher Kryzan and it was registered at Network Solutions. In 2016 the domain name moved to Google and went under privacy, Mr. Kryzan could very well still be the owner, and it looks like he is a Democrat, so … [Read more...]
Appear.in to rebrand to whereby.com
Appear.in is a business application that allows you to share video meetings, screen share and video conferences. Appear.in will be changing it's name to Whereby.com. Why did we have to change the name? We had a long-standing trademark dispute over the appear․in name that resulted in no longer being able to use it. The old name has served us and our millions of users very well over the … [Read more...]