James Kim @blaknames on X created a pretty cool all inclusive website that domain investors can use to quickly navigate to industry sites and tools. Having everything all at one place is pretty convenient, and James will continue to add to the site as users make suggestions about viable tools and services. You can checkout everything at ProKiller.com. 🚀 Essential Bookmark Site for Domainers … [Read more...]
Dofo.com now forwards to DeepInfo.com
Dofo.com will be shut down in February. The website provided a lot of data on things like the number of extensions registered for a keyword. Links to where a name could be purchased, etc… The domain name now forwards to DeepInfo.com. Macit Tuna who was behind Dofo.com looks to be the CEO of DeepInfo.com as well. DeepInfo.com is not cheap, the price per month for access for an organization … [Read more...]
Escrow.com Domain Investment Index Q3 2022
Escrow.com released their Domain Investment Index for Q3 2022. Data from the report shows: Domain name sales saw a 28% decrease in total transactions in 3Q22, dropping from $105M in 3Q21 to $75M, domain name sales have increased by 8%, from $449M in 2021 to $489M in 2022, trailing twelve months up to September this year. That being said, domain name sales through Escrow.com have also seen … [Read more...]
Should sales landers have a sales pitch?
John Berryhill started an interesting thread about sales landers. While the prominent attorney is usually discussing legal issues like UDRP's and trademarks, this was about sales landers. John showed some examples he liked and went on to say in another post: A "for sale" page doesn't really convey what might motivate someone to buy a domain name. However, a sales page with a sales pitch … [Read more...]
What they do right – what do they do wrong – Efty
Over the last few years we have published a series The good, the bad and the ugly. Readers have been able to leave their feedback and some companies have reached out over the years and let me know they took the posts to heart. This year I want to try to change it up a bit and, What they do right and what they do wrong. Focusing in a little deeper to give better feedback to industry … [Read more...]
New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission wins appeal in lawsuit against Domain Tools
Domain Tools lost a case against New Zealand's Domain Name Commission (DNC). The issue is over Domain Tools publishing personal data of .nz registrants. Reseller.co.nz wrote: New Zealand’s Domain Name Commission (DNC) has had its injunction blocking a US company from "scraping" details of domain owners upheld by a higher court.The US Court of Appeals' decision prevents DomainTools from … [Read more...]
Another example of how automated appraisals miss the mark by a mile
Tonight Sedo sold CasinoEngine.com for $40,000, the Australian company that owned the name since 2003 cashed in big time. EveryMatrix a company based out of Romania is involved in iGaming and has a product called "Casino Engine". EveryMatrix is an independent company offering award-winning software solutions to the iGaming industry. It was founded in 2008 by a team of innovative and … [Read more...]