Ala Dadan from Epik announced a new and improved Epik marketplace. Happy Friday All I'm pleased to announce the new design for Epik Domain Name Marketplace. if you didn't have the chance to view it yet, you could check it out here: https://marketplace.epik.com The new design is a significant improvement from the old Marketplace. While working on the redesign, our goal was to have a … [Read more...]
Liquid Domains Overview Q2 2019
Giuseppe Graziano released his liquid domains report for Q2 2019. The report focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key statistics and generate a debate amongst the industry stakeholders about the fair value of such domains. We hope you enjoy it and we encourage your feedback and participation for the next reports. Escrow.com saw … [Read more...]
“please don’t buy any of these domains, they’re all terrible and you’d be supporting asshole domain squatters”
So a gentleman named Martin O'Leary, created a game based on an idea by Holly Gramazio. The site is very simple, it shows two names and it's your job to guess which one costs more? Most of the names I saw were owned by Huge Domains and one of them referring.com was owned by Frank Schilling. I went 8 rounds of the game and it's just meant to be a time waster, (no prizes or … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – namecheap 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 at the psychology of pricing
Lars Lofgren wrote a very good piece on QuickSprout about the psychology of pricing. The article is very much worth a read for those selling names both actively and passively. While a lot of the techniques are geared more to a tangible product, it still provides some solid insight for domain investors. From the article: Price Vs. Value Is price a measure of value? Not necessarily, … [Read more...]
What are the top 10 names that you have ever owned?
Shane Cultra got things going last week with domainers knowing what and if interested, posting their top 10 domains. This then got DNW to create a post and then Namepros. I thought it would be interesting for people to list the top 10 names they ever owned? Not everyone sells names and puts it back into domains, they might need to fund a retirement account, child's education, or invest it in … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by AceTech.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and AceTech.com led the way at 75,000 Euros, ($83,165). Homee.com was seconad at $40,000. Beauty.co led the cctlds at $10,000. It was a typical late August week with fewer .com sales than the norm. 30 .com sales 19 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]