A couple of days ago I mentioned there were 3 public auctions closing at 2am Eastern time on Sunday. These were three letter .coms, ZTD.com, UDA.com and BPS.com. Only one met reserve and that was BPS.com. ztd.com $9,588 not met uda.com $17,600 not met BPS.com $51,000 met at $50,000 I emailed Michael at Namebio for BPS.com so it can be listed. I am surprised that ZTD.com could not do better … [Read more...]
Not the best time to auction off valuable domain names
You usually don't see three 3L.coms closing at once on GoDaddy auctions, yesterday SWP.com was a public auction that met reserve at $14,500 and I saw it at $15,500 but did not see the close as my browser crashed. This was a public auction so there is no record on Namebio. Tomorrow there are three separate 3L.com public auctions, UDA.com, BPS.com and ZTD.com. Looking at the histories here it … [Read more...]
“Anticipatory cybersquatting” It’s an idea that isn’t going anywhere.”
There was an article published on AmericanBar.org from June that dealt with one lawyer's interpretation of domain investing. Tamara Kurtzman titled her article The Continued Hijacking and Ransoming of the Domain Name System by Modern-Day Corporate Privateers. Ms. Kurtzman coined the phrase "Anticipatory Cybersquatting" From the article: Anticipatory cybersquatting is the practice of … [Read more...]
Mike expressed these concerns about parking a decade ago
Whether You Park Your Domains Or Not, You Better Hope Parking Stays Around Michael expressed the following: It troubles me that so many people so willing to causally write off the parking industry.Whether you park your domains or not, domain parking has a huge impact on the domain industry in many ways. Live domain auctions have gone from over $10M in sales to under $2M in less than a … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Sudoku.net
Sedo released their weekly sales and Sudoku.net led the way at 42,500 GBP, ($54,308). Ntwk.com was second at $49,999 and Tide.co.uk was third at 35,400 GBP ($45,231). 39 .com sales 22 cctld sales 5 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
Uniregistry weekly sales led by Extasy.com
Uniregistry released their top 20 sales for the week and Extasy.com led the way at $18,000. MyTips.com was second at $17,000 and Ohne.com was third at $15,000. Wig.ca was the highest of the two non .com sales at $10,000. Here are the Top 20 sales: 1. extasy.com $18,0002. mytips.com $17,0003. ohne.com $15,0004. plantastic.com $12,0005. earlyedition.com $10,5006. wig.ca $10,0007. … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – Flippa 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...]