Surprisingly there have only been 31 reported 3N.cc sales. 882.cc closed at $42,500 today on GoDaddy auctions and will be the highest sale ever. The previous top sale 722.cc sold for $15,800 and is a Chinese casino website. Top 5 722.cc15,800 USD2016-02-27DropCatch636.cc15,000 USD2018-09-26GoDaddy837.cc15,000 USD2017-10-20NameJet718.cc13,250 USD2019-02-17GoDaddy271.cc12,499 … [Read more...]
Bogus news sites making big money with fake views
BBC.com published a story on websites that are using well known names like Forbes and BusinessInsider.com to make ForbesBusinessInsider.com. The maker of the ForbesBusinessInsider.com site actually replied back to the BBC and said it was a test to find ways of increasing search engine optimisation. There are some other sites listed that seem to have a ton of page views. The BBC actually … [Read more...]
Buyer of Warned.com told the sale was a mistake
We see these things from time to time, remember DomainNames.com purchased for $2,577 by Yinan Wang and then Network Solutions said, yeah, NO! Yinan went on to purchase DomainName.com and DomainNames.com was sold at NamesCon for $370,000 by Uniregistry. A member at Namepros detailed his purchase of Warned.com More info will be added later, but I will share main points now: 1. Today I … [Read more...]
Black Friday special list names for $200 or less
List your Black Friday specials $200 or less, .com only So this post is for .com only and the max price is $200. You may list up to 3 names. There have been a few who have tried to post more names using a different email address/name same IP all submissions will be deleted if caught. Names will get some added exposure on Twitter. The post should consist of the following … [Read more...]
Emerging trends that have sparked cultural shifts
David Cohen wrote an interesting piece on AdWeek about data/trends related to Twitter. Twitter Reveals 18 Emerging Trends That Marked U.S. Cultural Shifts Since 2016 Cohen breaks down the billions of tweet data that Twitter unveiled. Why I think this can be useful for a domainer is it might help to show you where some naming themes you have been interested in, might be falling out of … [Read more...]
Hold up on that whole Twitter deleting inactive accounts
Yesterday Twitter announced they would be deleting inactive accounts. Today they said no so fast. So it turns out that this was really going to be EU centric on the deleting of accounts and now they need to come up with a plan to memorialize accounts before they will even start the process of deleting inactive accounts. … [Read more...]
An update on Pheenix
JudgeMind started a warning thread on Namepros with regards to domain registrar and former drop catcher Pheenix. Apparently he was having a hard time getting authcodes and needed one quick because he had a sale and needed to give it to the buyer. Now, i have sold another name and again i am unable to retrieve transfer auth codes and am getting no support from pheenix. The domain name was … [Read more...]