Good buy, Bad buy, Crazy buy? BarclaysBank.com sold for $3,003 on NameJet a couple days ago. Barclays is a British multinational investment bank and financial services company. One of the most powerful institutions in the world. Back in 2015 we wrote about Barclays redirecting their .com to .barclays. They said they would be transitioning away from the .com and the .co.uk. They said … [Read more...]
What they do right – what do they do wrong – NameJet
Over the last few years we have published a series The good, the bad and the ugly. Readers have been able to leave their feedback and some companies have reached out over the years and let me know they took the posts to heart. This year I want to try to change it up a bit and, What they do right and what they do wrong. Focusing in a little deeper to give better feedback to industry … [Read more...]
Post the best .com you have for sale for $250 or less
$250 or less .COM ONLY Let's try to blow out some names this week, on the daily $250 or less makes up at least half of the .coms being reported by Namebio. They should preferably be two and three word.coms but you are free to list any .com you want. With the $250 max you can list 10 names this week. READ EVERYTHING FIRST so you are not surprised if your comment is not published or … [Read more...]
NameJet/Snapnames April sales led by Khols.com
NameJet/Snapnames released their April sales $2,000 and above. Khols.com was the top sale at $81,559. The domain which was lost in a UDRP to Kohl's the department store chain. More on that here. 999555.com was second at $44,000. 1740.com was third at $20,508. 72 out of the 82 sales were … [Read more...]
A bunch more of Jane Both’s blockchain domain names expire
Sadly it's Deja Vu for the estate of Jane Angela Maginsky Pantalone Both. I wrote about her passing and her blockchain related domains expiring in January of 2018. Back then over 100 domains and $100,000 in expired domain auction sales transacted. After this took place Paul Nicks and I talked and GoDaddy did donate some of the proceeds to charity. I wanted to publish that, but Paul said they … [Read more...]
Tema.com just closed at $128,938
Tema.com just closed at $128,938 at DropCatch. The domain name was owned by a Swedish company named Rectus for years. Rectus was acquired by Parker Hannafin in 2007. The bidding popped from $109,137 to $128,888 by namecatching but the bidder determined all along 888bbb had them covered. Spanish translation to the word Theme, or Subject. Hungarian for topic. Looks to be a couple other uses. … [Read more...]
GoDaddy valuations changed – they took $3k off one of my names
I was looking at GoDaddy valuations and I had a name in there of mine. I then was doing some stuff for a few hours and came back and hit refresh for whatever reason. The value of the name dropped by like $900, I was like that's weird not that automated appraisals mean much. In a poll I did on Namepros, 0 was the majority of votes given when asked their importance on a scale of 0 to 10. So … [Read more...]