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...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Trajectory.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Trajectory.com led the way at $50,000. WOWCasino.co.uk was second at 23,900 GBP, ($30,450). OneCare.com was third at $25,000. 34 .com sales 21 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · cloudautomation.com at 9,500 USD · orandaya.com at 7,999 USD · wonder.art at 6,300 … [Read more...]
ThePirateBay.com closes at $35,150 at DropCatch
A few days ago I wrote about PirateBay.org closing at $50,000 on DropCatch. Next in line was ThePirateBay.com, also caught by DropCatch and closed at $35,150. ( The .net brought in 10% or $3,550) ThePirateBay.com was originally registered in 2004. Metrics Ahrefs domain rating of 33 Backlinks 7,973 78% dofollow Referring Domains 1,212 68% dofollow Majestic.com shows a … [Read more...]
Where are the 10 highest reported new gtld domain name sales in 2020?
There have been 7,064 reported new gtld sales at Namebio. These sales total $26.6 million. The top 10 brought home $3,169,431 or approximately 12% of all reported sales. .Top and .Games both placed multiple entries in the top 10, with 2 each. Online.Casino and Casino.Online both made the top 10. Online.Casino is a developed directory of online casinos. There are many casino websites that … [Read more...]