Josh Kopelman is a venture capitalist at First Round Capital, he is considered one of the top venture capitalists around. I know of Josh because he is from my area. One of the companies Josh co-founded was Half.com. But before Half.com he co-founded a Wayne, Pa based company called Infonautics. I remember trading the stock back in the day. Infonautics has a bit of a tie to the domain … [Read more...]
LMX.com releases Liquid Market Report for Q2 2020
Giuseppe Graziano is out with the liquid market report for the second quarter of 2020. A detailed look at liquid domain name sales broken down by category. Public Disclosed Liquid Sales Q2 2020 down ▼ 42.70% at $2,992,927 Escrow.com Liquid Sales Q2 2020 ▲ 21.89% to $9,018,715. You can read the full report here … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Movies.net
Sedo released their weekly sales and Movies.net led the way at $45,000. Medicannabis.com was second at $25,770 and Reality.app third at $24,000. 32 .com sales 27 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · yjjt.info at 9,000 USD · nationalopinion.com at 3,988 USD · velaxa.com at 3,695 USD Domain … [Read more...]
DropCatch continues to profit from GoDaddy non paying bidders
Last week I wrote about EveryDaycounts.com a domain name that closed at GoDaddy for $2,601 and then expired because of non paying winner and DropCatch pocketed $3,150. Over the last week I found a couple other names, that followed the same path. OUTTHEREINTERIORS.COM closed at $5,250 on GoDaddy auctions, non paying bidder and DropCatch got $601 for it when it dropped. SafeServices.com … [Read more...]
It’s not just domain squatting but trademark squatting as well
The Washington football team of the NFL will be making an announcement today that they will being moving on from the name "Redskins" The new name will not be announced today but there has been a lot of speculation. Some have thought Washington Warriors, the interesting thing here, Daniel Snyder the majority owner of the Washington football organization, had purchased the rights to a Washington … [Read more...]
Googles vs Google
It seems before the search juggernaut came along there was a children's company called Googles Children’s Workshop. In 1997 they registered the trademark GOOGLES. They of course also registered the domain name Googles.com. The website did not launch until 1998 when that little company in Mountain View came on the scene. While they have many tm's Google's first tm looks to have been given in … [Read more...]
GoDaddy’s loss is DropCatch’s gain on EveryDayCounts.com
Well this is a weird one, back in May I wrote about everydaycounts.com closing at auction on GoDaddy for $2,601. The domain name was at Tucows not GoDaddy. I would imagine the winner did not pay and the domain was left to expire. So now DropCatch gets the windfall. It's a little higher this time around as the auction closed at $3,150. History on the name Every.Day.Counts was a fashion … [Read more...]