There has been a lot of talk lately about "side hustles" UBER has run commercials talking about everyone needing a side hustle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsbWt6FjlTk Marketwatch published an article about side hustles and included buying and selling domain names. Buying and selling domain names Domain names are the internet equivalent of real estate and, much like with homes, savvy … [Read more...]
Elon Musk tweets about X.com and the Internet loses it’s mind
The big news of the week was Elon Musk getting his old domain back. Elliot Silver detailed the acquisition of X.com. Andrew Rosener commented that Media Options helped with the transaction. Today Elon Musk put out a tweet about x.com and that single tweet has close to 2,000 replies, 4,747 Retweets and 21,895 Likes Excited to announce the launch of https://t.co/J6TuRWIQAA! It's a little … [Read more...]
Mike Mann turns $20 into $10,000 in 3 day flip
Mike Mann turned three very recent $20 purchases into $41,776. He tweeted within the last hour. Things to do near me: sell domains I bought in the last month. Sold https://t.co/eoKFGcM8Va $2888. Purch 06/22/17 $20 — Mike Mann (@mikemanndotcom) July 13, 2017 Wave of wholesale deals, sold https://t.co/xFn04U98nn $10,000. Purch 7/10/17 $20 — Mike Mann (@mikemanndotcom) July 13, … [Read more...]
Covfefe.com would you have taken $15,000?
I have written before about striking while the iron is hot on pop culture and political domain names. Back in April we detailed the Shane Burchett the owner of TrumpPence2016.com, you can read the full story here, but the gist of the story is the registrant thought he could possibly see six figures for the name and currently still owns it. It's 2017 no one cares anymore, the election is … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by AcaiBerry.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and AcaiBerry.com led the way at $18,000. BuTV.com was the second highest sale, LLtv is a niche I have traded in for a long time, I kinda stopped focusing on them over the last year. Nice to see a $15,000 sale. Very light sales in cctld and other new gtlds. No new gtld sales this week. Domain … [Read more...]
GDS awards most popular new gTLDs of China
.Shop (an advertiser on TheDomains) was one of the new gtlds that won most popular new gtld of China at the Global Domain Summit. Proud to bring home the "The most popular new gTLD of China" award from @gdschina What an honor - thank you! #GDS pic.twitter.com/QG7JWNSZYq — .shop TopLevelDomain (@shoptld) July 11, 2017 Another sponsor of ours Radix won for .online. The other winners … [Read more...]
Taking over four of the seven authoritative nameservers for the .io TLD
Matthew Bryant @IAmMandatory of TheHackerBlog.com wrote a very detailed post on how he was able to register domains in .io that would essentially allow him to take over authoritative nameservers for the .io cctld. It's a very interesting post and shows many registries need to beef up their security protocols. From the article: Impact Given the fact that we were able to take over four of … [Read more...]