In October a lot of the focus was on registrars, and on all the definitions when it comes to brandables. The top 5 posts by views for October: Gab.com lands at Uniregistry Would you like to own a domain forever? It would have been better to lose this UDRP How do you define brandable? Uniregistry Perks have some scratching their heads Thank you for reading and … [Read more...]
Where will one of the best names at auction in 2018 close?
One of the best domains at no reserve, public auction this year at GoDaddy is running currently. Lane.com, this is a public auction. I live in Philadelphia and a local retailer for many years was a company called Charming Shoppes out of Bensalem. The company was founded in 1940 and was acquired by Ascena Retail Group, the parent company of DressBarn, in 2012 for $900 million in a combination of … [Read more...]
John Berryhill explains why moving to an offshore registrar is not always a good idea
One of the thoughts behind the reason why Gab.com moved to Uniregistry was that they wanted to get out from U.S. jurisdiction, a common thought among many when dealing with a controversial website. John Berryhill explained why that is not really a great idea. In the case of Uniregistry which resides in the Cayman Islands, Mr. Berryhill wrote: Kate said: ↑ Uni is offshore, that must have … [Read more...]
Now that’s a quick flip from $310 to $9,680
While looking at the top sales from yesterday on Namebio, I saw that MyEthWallet.com sold for $9,680. The domain was just registered in August of this year after being caught on the drop by DropCatch. The name sold for $310 and it looks like Media Options was the winner, from looking at whois history. The name then went into privacy on the sale. Congrats to Andrew on a super fast flip for … [Read more...]
VeriSign’s potential long term goal
Mike and I were discussing the VeriSign blog post today and the subsequent outrage in the domain investor community. Mike might be onto something though, these were his takes about the post, the disparaging language of calling some of your biggest customers "scalpers." and the long game for Verisign. The long game for VeriSign is about removing price caps, while these increases are nice, … [Read more...]
Without domain speculators VeriSign’s profit outlook would look a lot different
Reading the blog post by Jeannie McPherson VeriSign's Director of Product Management, Social Media and Mobile Applications, one has to wonder if she understands the business of domain names. Ms. McPherson doesn't like that TurnCommerce the company behind HugeDomains, DropCatch and NameBright is lobbying Congress And yet, TurnCommerce has been actively lobbying our government to freeze the … [Read more...]
Wall Street is showing Verisign a lot of love today
With the news of Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) getting the ok to raise prices on .com shares are taking off today. The stock is currently up close to 30 points. Here is the statement from the NTIA NTIA and Verisign have agreed to extend and modify the Cooperative Agreement. These modifications are in line with policy priorities of the Trump Administration. The changes create a new commitment … [Read more...]