A member on Namepros posted the launch of their new project on Rat.com. The service will charge users $2.99 a month for an ad free experience. Rat.com was conceived of by a group of developers who grew tired with the amount of trolls and fake profiles populating social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn today, themselves a broader extension of what many call "fake news". … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Meals2Go.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Meals2Go.com led the way at $44,200. 265.cc was second at $25,000. Asia.Casino sold for $10,000. 43 .com sales 19 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
Domaining.com launches monthly brokerage newsletter
Francois at Domaining.com is rolling out a monthly newsletter for Domain Brokerages. Good idea not everyone in the business is in touch with all the brokerages or gets all their newsletters. This is the first issue of a new monthly bulletin which exclusively features names for sale by brokers. If you want to buy one please contact the associated broker directly. VPN.com Apology.com … [Read more...]
Who would you choose?
Someone posed this question to me yesterday, "If you could only list at one aftermarket marketplace which would it be?" In this hypothetical the exclusivity that a BrandBucket demands would be in place for every marketplace. My vote would be GoDaddy/Afternic under this hypothetical example. So many people outside the business associate domain names with GoDaddy. I said to the person who … [Read more...]
Trends of future passed
Looking back of past "future" trends Many domain investors stake their claim in the areas of future trends and technologies. Whether it be vr, ar, ai, autonomous vehicles, defi, crypto, etc.. The debates then rage on domain forums about what will succeed and what will fail? Rebecca Sentance wrote an article on econsultancy.com that looks back at the past decades hype and failures. The … [Read more...]
Reported domain sales 2019 vs 2018 GoDaddy up – Sedo and Park.io down
Now that all the reported sales data for 2019 is in, it looks like 2019 reported sales for GoDaddy were up big in 2019 vs 2018. Sedo on the other hand saw sales slip by $2.5million. Park.io had a down year in 2019 vs 2018 as well. Reported sales were off by $343,300 or 31%. A few notes about the Namebio data that are important for context include: Sedo does not report sales lower than $2,000 … [Read more...]
Online.Casino the largest reported new gtld sale of all time is now live
On June 12, 2018 Donuts announced the largest reported new gtld sale. The registry sold Online.Casino for $510,000. A year later Marek from Brands.International posted a link on Namepros to a Domain Sherpa show about the SEO experts building the site. Meet the Team of SEO Experts Building Online.Casino Meet the team of SEO experts behind last year’s record-breaking new gTLD acquisition of … [Read more...]