Restaurants and Domain Names There is so much going on with restaurants during this pandemic. Most restaurants have had to switch to take out and delivery. A lot of restaurants use companies like GrubHub and DoorDash to facilitate these deliveries. All I ever read is that these restaurants feel like they are getting squeezed by the commissions charged by these companies. I believe there … [Read more...]
Google parent Alphabet Q1 2020 earnings – $6.8 billion profit
Alphabet Inc, (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) the parent company of Google reported Q1 2020 earnings. Alphabet earned $6.8 billion in profit on sales of $41.2 billion. The stock was down 3.3% on the day and now up in after hours, After hours 1,286.50 +52.83 (4.28%) The Verge reports: Google Cloud and YouTube revenues, which Alphabet began disclosing for the first time back in February after the US … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Punks.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Punks.com led the way at $60,000. Fww.com came in second at $35,000. Be.de was third at $23,000. 47 .com sales 21 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of SedoMLS sales are: · a-k.com at 14,888 USD · digitalfabric.com at 8,586 EUR · filescan.com at 5,500 USD Domain … [Read more...]
Radix Temporarily Waives Off Domain Restoration Fee
Radix (an advertiser here) is temporarily waiving the restore fee on all their strings. This is being supported by 75 registrars who have enrolled in the program. Here is the full release In an effort to reduce customer burden on domain-related spending during current market conditions, we are supporting a temporary waiver on the Restore Fee for all Radix TLDs. This waiver is in effect … [Read more...]
NameSilo March 2020 marketplace and registration stats
NameSilo (an advertiser here) released Marketplace Stats for March 2020. Two posts broke down marketplace stats and domain registrations stats. On the marketplace side, 84% of all domain sold were .com. The highest sale was $10,500. The average sale was $265. Oddly the character length that generated the most sales was 15. Read all the marketplace related stats on the NameSilo … [Read more...]
.CLUB to postpone wholesale price increase in 2020
Last year .club announced modest price increases for their wholesale registration fees to be implemented July 1, 2019, July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021. In light of the current situation they have decided to postpone the wholesale price increase that had been scheduled for July 1, 2020.To clarify, there will not be any .CLUB wholesale price increase during 2020 at all. Jeff Sass told me, We … [Read more...]
Where are your thoughts on 4L.coms?
One of the most discussed and traded categories in domaining is the 4L.com space. Providing access to a wider number of investors as opposed to 2L.com and 3L.com which many don't have the budget for. In 2018 there were 7,862 reported 4L.com sales on Namebio. 2019 saw a drop to 5,514 reported names. Now if you look at 2018, Andrew Rosener successfully sold Zoom.com for $2million. If we remove … [Read more...]