2020 has been the year of the online conference. Thanks to Covid-19 many conferences including NamesCon moved online. With that move has come a greater use for .online as the conference website. Radix (an advertiser here) published a post showing 8 conferences using their .online extension. From the Radix Blog: Virtual Events 2020: 8 Major Events That Are Now … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Blog.co.uk
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Blog.co.uk led the way at 54,000 Euro, ($63,404). Dalmatia.com was second at $22,800. Republic.de was third at 13,920 Euro, ($16,345). 45 .com sales 22 cctld sales 7 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · staratlas.com at 14,999 USD · maze.co at 7,999 USD · monta.com at 7,999 … [Read more...]
How Matt Paulson Grew MarketBeat.com to $10 Million a Year
MarketBeat.com is a website I have stumbled upon a few times while searching Google. I was reading NichePursuits.com and came across a recent podcast interview with the founder. It's a pretty interesting story and a good listen for anyone looking to start an online business. The founder Matt Paulson was running a bunch of online sites and then honed in on one site, MarketBeat.com. He now … [Read more...]
“Domain Name Disputes: A Masterclass”
Doug Isenberg over at Giga.Law has started a UDRP masterclass. “Domain Name Disputes: A Masterclass” is a YouTube video series from attorney Doug Isenberg of GigaLaw that provides basic and advanced information about the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and other topics helpful to trademark owners fighting cybersquatters. Watch each episode below or on GigaLaw’s YouTube … [Read more...]
Making a profit with aged domain names
Domain names like WebMonkey.com, PDFzone.com and most recently ConstitutionUS.com are all aged domain names that went for big money at auction. These domain names were all aged, with a solid backlink profile and strong in other metrics like domain authority and trust flow. Richard Patey published a very good article on the topic for anyone interested in building sites on aged domains. … [Read more...]
How Chris Snyder acquired Banks.com
Banks.com was once a publicly traded company. Elliot Silver reported in 2010 about an agreement with Domain Capital. I just learned that Banks.com, a company that is publicly traded on the American Stock Exchange under ticker symbol BNX, has entered into a “sale-leaseback” agreement with domain financing company, Domain Capital. It appears that Domain Capital financed the Banks.com domain … [Read more...]
Just bidding on domain names for shits and giggles
Not every bid is a bid to win MapleDots came back to Namepros and detailed an auction battle that he had with Huge Domains. The domain name was CanadianRed.com and he won the auction at $1,280. Huge Domain bid $1255 USD for CanadianRed.comI had to go to $1,280 to get the domain. I posted this for all the folks that keep saying Huge Domain bots stop bidding at $150-$250 There you have … [Read more...]