Domaining 2021 For some 5 or 6 years of middling .coms or new gtlds has not panned out. Some have told me they really wished they had abandoned domain names and put all their time and money into crypto. 2020 certainly has been a trying year around the globe in dealing with things much more important than domain names. But this is a domain blog so I am going to keep the topic on domain … [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...]
VPN.com Announces University.com Sold for $1.11 Million to Tsunami VR in 2020
VPN.com put out a press release today and it details the sale of University.com. Registered in 1999 it was dropped previous to that. ATLANTA and SAN DIEGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- University.com was sold to Tsunami VR, Inc. for $1,111,555 on March 7, 2020. Tsunami VR is a subsidiary of Tsunami XR, Inc., a California technology company that has raised … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Spectacle.com
Sedo released their last weekly domain name sales report of 2020. Spectacle.com led the way at $100,000. Sleepwave.com was second at $50,000 (great job by the seller). Heal.me was third at $43,000. 50 .com sales 43 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · prestige.io at 10,495 USD · 5qr.com at 7,988 USD · furniture.de at … [Read more...]
Voice.com seller buys $650 million in Bitcoin
In domain industry circles MicroStrategy (Stock price: MSTR (NASDAQ) $317.60 +16.40) is known for being the company that sold Voice.com for $30,000,000. While the company still owns a nice portfolio of domain names, they are a big believer and big holder in Bitcoin. They now hold more Bitcoin than the U.S. government. CoinTelegraph wrote: Business intelligence company MicroStrategy has added … [Read more...]
Selling early and leaving $1.3 billion on the table
Many early domain name investors sold a name way too early or knew of someone else who was not going to pay for a domain registration back in the day. Years ago I was talking to someone who was into domain names real early and he said a friend at one time was basically on a suicide watch. He owned some great domain names when they were free. When registration fees were introduced he balked … [Read more...]
Niue wants .nu redelegated
Niue wants it's country code back! This is not something new as I have written before about how countries view their country code as a natural resource and want to control their own digital identity. Back in February Wired wrote a piece on several small countries and their fight to be in control of their cctld. Ending what they deem a digital colonization. The Chagossians want .io back as I … [Read more...]