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...]
TheDomains.com turns 12
TheDomains.com turned 12 on Wednesday and 10,725 posts and 112,592 approved comments later, Mike, Judi and I would like to thank everyone for their support the past 12 years. Thank you to Escrow.com, Radix, 101Domains, DAN.com and all the other companies/persons that have advertised with us throughout the years. While Michael enjoys his retirement from full time domaining he does keep a … [Read more...]
Bogus domain names and spoofed emails lead to $1m theft
Bogus domain names and spoofed emails result in a hacker stealing $1million. Vice reported about a man in the middle attack where a Chinese hacker was able to steal $1millin from a Chinese VC and Israeli startup. From the article: After seeing the original email thread announcing the upcoming multi-million dollar seeding fund, the hacker took action. Instead of monitoring subsequent … [Read more...]
Shares in NNR.com sell out – Do you want to invest in fractional ownership?
Disclaimer: Nothing below is a recommendation or a solicitation to buy or sell any domain name or do business with any of the companies mentioned below. Aron Meystedt announced today that his proof of concept for selling fractional ownership in domain names has sold out. Shares in NNR.com were sold valuing the 3L.com at $30,000. Here was the offering memo: NNR.com - Purchase Shares … [Read more...]