An update on some sales that actually didn't take place and Michael from Namebio has been contacted so he will remove them from Namebio. I wrote about Roy Flanders' names expiring after GreatNames.com sold for $25,000 and echecking.com sold for $1,325 on GoDaddy auctions. I confirmed that Roy's daughter was able to recover the names and the names are back to pointing to where they were before … [Read more...]
NameSilo wins Namepros best registrar 2019
The best registrar poll for 2019 on Namepros concluded today with NameSilo coming in first place. GoDaddy was second and Dynadot third. This is a poll ran roughly every 18 months, with 915 votes this time. The last two competitions GoDaddy won, taking 52% of the vote 3 years ago, and then beating NameSilo 253 votes vs 191 or 29.8% vs 22.5% roughly 18 months ago. For some registrars it's … [Read more...]
Why are people bidding on these names?
So I was looking at GoDaddy auctions just now and a bunch of names that seem to make no sense have a few bids and are around $30+. I would speculate these are all Chinese based bidders, but even when searching Google and using the translate with Pinyin enabled returned nothing. Some of these names have been regged for 14 years so who knows? The number to the far right if there is one, that … [Read more...]
Someone needs to stop Roy Flanders’ domain names from expiring
Hopefully Enom or someone else can step up but the domains of a domain investor who passed away are expiring and it needs to stop. Ron Jackson wrote about Roy Flanders back in December of 2016. sadly Roy passed away. I did not know the man personally but for those that did he seemed to be really a great guy. In 2012 he donated $250,000 to the Nantucket Cottage Hospital's Annual Fund. It was a … [Read more...]
Can NameSilo hold off GoDaddy?
Every 18 months or so there has been a best registrar poll on Namepros. GoDaddy won the last two, the last one was closer with @namesilo coming in second, 253 votes vs 191 or 29.8% vs 22.5%. The previous big poll saw GoDaddy run away with it 303 votes or 52%. This time around NameSilo and Dynadot are the leaders, NameSilo has a decent lead with 26% of the vote. Dynadot is actually second and … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – GoDaddy 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also encouraged. One … [Read more...]
That’s a swift kick to the nads
So a new member at Namepros has the story of the day, maybe the month,it is early. They got news from GoDaddy that they sold a premium listing for $99,999. GLOBALHEMPSOCIETY.COM regged last August. Happy story right? Well it seems payment was taking a bit of time but GoDaddy takes a bit longer to verify a sale of this amount. Then the shot to the man zone came The member … [Read more...]