Web.com released their NameJet/Snapnames monthly sales report for October. KnowYourStuff.org led the way at $30,600. CFAH.org was second at $24,300. PhoneCases.com was the first .com on the list at … [Read more...]
Bidding war for Gambling-law-us.com just ended at $57,000
The bidding was fast and furious for about 20 minutes on Gambling-law-us.com. The name closed at $57,000. The 16 year old domain was another link profile play like YMCDN.com and Recipe4Living.com. Majestic.com reports a Trust flow of 27 and a Citation flow of 19. Information Homepage TitleN/ACrawled URLs75Indexed URLs257Educational Ref. Backlinks34Governmental Ref. … [Read more...]
Supply.co gets $300,000 deal on Shark Tank
So back on October 16, Patrick Coddou announced his company was making the move from GetSupply.com to Supply.co. The back and forth on Twitter was interesting, sometimes funny, along with those who just made a plug to pitch their own services. Coddou also called out the "Domain Bros" and called Shane Cultra an idiot. Shane had tweeted, And tomorrow you will learn what http://O.co and … [Read more...]
How To Value Organic Traffic
Dan Fries wrote an interesting article on how to value organic traffic. Dan wrote the article with a slant on valuation as it pertains to a website acquisition. I think the article can benefit those that own traffic domains in helping to support their asking price. The article should benefit those that build websites too. From the article: Valuing organic traffic can be tricky, whether … [Read more...]
Three Halloween domain names developed and doing business
Today is Halloween and here is a look at three Halloween based domain names that all have been built out and are doing real business. Halloween.com the website is a gateway to all things Halloween, from links to costumes, supplies, masks, candy, haunted houses. The site has an Alexa ranking of 404,079 Three months ago it was in the 927,000 range. Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS Creation … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – GoDaddy Auctions 2019 Edition
Back in 2016 we started a series here that looked at the best and worst about companies in the domain industry. Over the last 30 months a lot has changed at many companies so we are revisiting the good, the bad and the ugly. Each post will deal with just one company, readers are encouraged to share their positive and negative experiences. Suggestions for improvement are also … [Read more...]
A look back at the sites that went with the “smarter” new gtlds
So I came across an old post on Key-Systems.net that dealt with new gtlds. The title of the article, "These 87 sites dropped their .com for a smarter new TLD (New data)" It was written in 2015. The first thing of note was that there were only 52 names listed, with the number 51 being repeated twice. So I took a look at each name to see who kept their new gtld, who switched and who closed … [Read more...]