With 10 days til Christmas what would you like Domainer Clause to bring you for Christmas? What changes or new tools would you like to receive this year? My list would consist of: GoDaddy reporting sales from Namefind and Afternic All registrars to give registrants a % of the money they generate off that registrant's expired domain names. … [Read more...]
Who is in charge of domains at Maxim?
Maxim magazine has been around since 1995, started in the U.K. and then headquartered in New York since 1997. The magazine has gone through some ownership changes but it's the intellectual property, specifically domain names, that I want to dive into. Maxim.com is the home of the magazine. Earlier this year the domain name MaximOnline.com expired and sold for $32,000. At the time I … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – The Domain Industry
We have been running a series for a few years, The good, the bad and the ugly” An opportunity for readers to discuss what they like and don’t like about a particular company in the domain space. In this post give your thoughts on the whole domain industry. What is not allowed: Personal attacks on individuals at the chosen companyPromoting a competitorPosting domains for sale … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by OneHome.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and OneHome.com led the way at $70,000. Quaestor.com was second at $26,000. nutztierhaltung.de was third at 22,000 Euros, ($24,409). 35 .com sales 20 cctld sales 5 other tld sales CrowdFunded.com at $2,500 nice buy .Org dominated other tld sales with Can.org leading a trio of sales at $20,000. Domain … [Read more...]
“Fast Transfer means Fast Transfer not Fast Payment”
Richard Dynas started a thread on Namepros about his dissatisfaction with Afternic's Fast Transfer. Other posters pointed out that fast transfer does not = fast payment. While I always knew that, I think many forget that platforms take the risk of fraud and have to spend the time to make sure funds are good as best they can. Joe Styler just posted and gave the history of Fast Transfer and … [Read more...]
ICYMI: November 2019 – Top stories
The top posts of November 2019 on TheDomains November had a lot of action whether it was .org or the Namepros/Buckley matter. GetSupply.com rebranding to Supply.co brought about a lot of discussion. Looking back at November our top story traffic wise was about OK Boomer, the meme that has sparked a lot of domain registrations. GetSupply.com rebranding and the CEO calling domainers idiots … [Read more...]
4 years ago today Mr. Berkens rang the register, a look back
On this day back in 2015 Michael Berkens announced that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy. (171 comments). At the time Michael could not give numbers but after things settled the numbers came out, DomainInvesting.com covered the purchase price of $35.5 Million. The credit goes to George Kirikos: According to a series of tweets from George Kirikos this evening, GoDaddy … [Read more...]