Sometimes there are no words for a domain investor related video. You just let the cheesy waft over you. So sit back and watch a couple videos and relax. "I would say these videos are not appropriate if you have your children around, nothing terrible, but some language you might not want your kids hearing." Jamie Lewis is an Internet marketer and is the guy behind domainerelite.com. His video … [Read more...]
Would you like to own a domain name forever?
Epik announced forever registrations, a registration where you can secure a domain name in perpetuity. .COM can be secured at Epik.com for the one-time, all-inclusive fee of $420 regardless of where a domain is presently registered. Eligible forever registrations at Epik include free privacy protection, theft protection, forwarding services and unlimited subdomains all at no additional … [Read more...]
How do you define brandable?
There seems to be a never ending array of domain investors looking for "brandable" names. One of the dominant themes of domain wanted threads on Namepros. I think that the broad request of brandable might be wasting a lot of people's time. I see people argue all the time what is brandable and what is not, someone told me the mattress company that acquired Purple.com was stupid. They said, … [Read more...]
NameJet September sales see only 3 sales that reach 5 figures
NameJet reported September sales and it was a slow month. Only 61 sales over $2,000 and only 3 were in the five figure range. For those who think that 3L.com are being sold cheap they should be scooping them up at NameJet as the two 3L.com sales in September could not even reach $17,000. There were only two 4L.com sales over $2,000. I thought August.net was a decent buy at … [Read more...]
Domain name registrations grow by approximately 2.4%, year over year
Verisign released their Q2 2018 DOMAIN NAME INDUSTRY BRIEF. There was an increase of approximately 6.0 million domain name registrations, or 1.8 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2018 From the report: .COM AND .NET BREAKDOWN The .com and .net TLDs had a combined total of approximately 149.7 million domain name registrations in the domain name base3 at the end of the second quarter of … [Read more...]
Is .co starting to hold back mediocre domain names?
Holding back and reserving what one would consider "premium" names is nothing new in domaining. Verisign has taken back drops on premium .tv domains many a time. Certain new gtld registries have done the same. There is usually not a desire to hold back average or what some might even consider below average names. I was reading a post on Namepros and a member (Crysis) uncovered a bunch of .co … [Read more...]
Buyer of Vacation.Rentals believes the days of high priced .com sales are coming to an end
Mike Kugler is the gentleman that purchased Vacation.Rentals for $500,300. Currently the highest reported new gtld sale. Yes Gay.app has been touted as being sold for $1million. No confirmation by any source that industry participants rely on. A website by the name of AMAfeed.com did a Reddit style ask me anything with Mike. Some of the questions were about the website, others about vacation … [Read more...]