When running an auction you need to be meticulous about a lot of things. From marketing the auction, to look at competing inventory closing around the same time, to the time when the auction will close. The time an auction closes is very important, I see people closing auctions on GoDaddy at 2 am on a weekend and wonder why even bother? I just happened to be getting ready to go to bed 5 a.m. … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Kush.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Kush.com led the way at $500,000. Sales volume picked up for .com this week with 59 sales, we had been coming in at 39 to 42 lately. 59 .com sales 16 cctld sales 7 other gtld sales .App took 2 of the 7 other tld sales. Brand.App sold for 5,000 Euros, ($5,685). Domain … [Read more...]
On Namepros and TheDomains Rick Schwartz keeps title of Domain King
Back on November 5th I posted about Mike Mann declaring himself the Domain King, and posted a poll. There was a poll on Namepros as well. Here on TheDomains.com Rick Schwartz won by a 57% to 43% vote. On Namepros the vote was wider with Rick getting a 62.2% of the vote. There were 203 votes here and 111 on Namepros. … [Read more...]
1M.com closes at $140,001 on Flippa
1M.com closed at $140,001 on Flippa. Domain only auction and will be the 4th largest domain sale on Flippa for 2018. Sales data courtesy of Namebio strength.com 300,001 USD 2018-08-15 Flippa gab.com 220,000 USD 2018-09-12 Flippa soulmate.com 160,000 USD 2018-02-27 Flippa Here is a look at the last 10 2 character .com sales. 1m.com 140,001 … [Read more...]
8833.com looks to be stolen
TrueDN posted on Namepros that 8833.com was listed at Sedo for $9,000. The member spoke to the previous owner and they said it was stolen from their account at GoDaddy. The name is no longer showing for sale, and since this happened after regular business hours for Sedo, it might have been purchased. The name moved from GoDaddy to NameSilo. … [Read more...]
Stuart Lawley buys AgePass.com and AgeBlock.com for new blockchain based business
Stuart Lawley who most know from .xxx, (which he sold to MMX for $41million) has a new business and it's called AVSecure.com. The business is using the blockchain to provide age verification. AVSecure enables the consumer to manage access on their local devices rather than through an unrelated remote network. The consumer's browser becomes the central point in the process, not the servers or … [Read more...]
Smoothies, Trump and Domain investing
There is a story that came out today about Daily-Harvest.com, they apparently have filed a lawsuit. The owners of the smoothie company say dailyharvest.com browsers are purposely being directed to seriously off-brand websites because Daily Harvest won’t pay up to acquire the unhyphenated domain name. Apparently Tracy Fogarty and her company enaming have been named in the suit. Tracy Fogarty … [Read more...]