NameJet released their April sales data, Kohl.com was the top sale at $144,500. Three 3L.coms made the top ten, TRF.com being the highest at … [Read more...]
You never let someone else control your business
As a domain owner you have enough to deal with from ICANN moves to price increases. You never ever develop anything of importance to you on someone else's property. Use social media and other apps to feed your website, but the CentralNic retirement of several LL.com domains illustrates why you never trust anyone else with your business. From links to SEO, social mentions etc... A sub-domain is … [Read more...]
AYDACFU ? Guess the meaning and win $500
When you go to Gen.xyz the homepage shows a little graphic with an off button with the acronym AYDACFU. When the button is on the homepage has the following text: For every website, everywhere® When you click this link you are taken to a page that has a countdown clock, .XYZ will have it's reveal on June 1, 2017. What does AYDACFU stand for ? Well the first reader that guesses correctly will … [Read more...]
What do you have for sale ? $1,500 max
Well two week’s ago our $1,000 post was very successful, a number of sales took place and it brought about members engaging with one another to get some deals done below the stated price as well. The $3,000 post no so much, there were a couple sales but not at $3,000. Just picking a name and we say $1,000 max you price it at $1,000 and if we say $5,000 max you price it at that, doesn't work. … [Read more...]
The downside to losing a UDRP
Companies and organizations have to think real hard before filing a UDRP. They need to weigh the cost of losing and seeing a name become unobtainable versus just buying the name from the get go. If you get an experienced domain investor angry you are going to get a price adjustment that will be pretty expensive. Mike Mann just won a UDRP and tweeted the following: We just won UDRP for … [Read more...]
Is Startup sentiment changing with regards to .com ?
There was an interesting article by Christopher Steiner on Forbes. The article titled, "Most Startups Still Believe They Need A Dot-Com Domain, But That Is Changing." Steiner seems to be a bit all over the place with both data supporting securing a non com and some reasons why to stick with .com. He also seems to be a bit mistaken when he describes domain owners. From the article: Is this … [Read more...]
Here are the names tweeted at Rick for million dollar Wednesday
As we mentioned earlier in the week, it was million dollar Wednesday, yesterday. Here are the names that were tweeted at Rick yesterday: Paradise.com $1MM Homework.com $800k Hearing.com $990k RoadsideAssistance.com OSWZ (.com) $120,000.00 USD DrugImpairedDriving.com $699k DrugImpaired.com $599k Que.com 1M pussy.com $750,000 FreshStart(.)com - … [Read more...]