While we have a big poll running on Namepros for the title of top registrar in the business for 2019, the folks over at TechRadar put together their list. 1. Domain.com 2. GoDaddy 3. Hover 4. Dynadot 5. Google Domains 6. Namecheap I am not sure I love their breakdown, when talking about Domain.com this is what they said about privacy protection. " You need to pay for privacy … [Read more...]
Do you want to sell your portfolio for a wholesale price?
On Saturday Uniregistry announced their domain liquidity program. Frank added in the comment section of that post yesterday: This is a beta product which Uniregistry has developed to allow our buyer-pool to purchase investment quality names at wholesale clearing-house prices. Using our service, we expect sellers to be able to gain liquidity quickly without paying auction house purchase … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Cooking.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Cooking.com led the way at $402,500. HappyLook.com sold for $40,000. OnlineCasino.me sold for $20,000 one of the largest .me sales lately. 36 .com sales 24 cctld sales 6 other tld sales Domain … [Read more...]
Domain Magnate talks buying and selling websites
Flippa posted an interview with Michael Bereslavsky, the founder of Domain Magnate. I have always seen Michael on Namepros but I was not aware of all the websites he sells. Michael is a broker partner of Flippa. According to the post, Michael has used Flippa for several years and has had 49 transactions on platform totaling $446k. In the video interview below, Michael talks about his … [Read more...]
There is freedom within, there is freedom without
The rock band Crowded House was formed in 1985 and on Sunday the domain name CrowdedHouse.com closed at $12,000 on GoDaddy. The name was owned by the founder Neil Finn who has his website at NeilFinn.com. The domain name was registered at 123 Reg not GoDaddy, now interestingly today the whois shows NameFind as the registrant. I don't know if all 123 Reg names go there first for the registrant … [Read more...]
The good, the bad and the ugly – NameJet – 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...]
Flippa changes pricing again
Last November I posted how Flippa had changed their pricing model. Well just 6 months later and they are changing the pricing model again. Back in November 2018 the pricing changed to the following: Asset Sales including the sale of a domain, app or starter site, i.e. something not generating any revenue, can be sold for a listing fee of $25 and success fee of 10%.Self Service Business … [Read more...]