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Domain industry evolution: Global Domain Report | 2024 edition | Mark As Read |
Fresh from Sedo and InterNetX arrives the Global Domain Report for 2024. It's not just a pretty bundle of information and charts; it's the quintessential representation of the domain industry's evolutionary path. The report does not just present data but it's backed by raw data that both InterNetX and Sedotwo large companies in the domain […]...
Negotiate with BuyDomains via Sedo if you can | Mark As Read |
The art of negotiation is a learning process and domain investors benefit from such knowledge, both for financial reasons and for the purpose of overall engagement. In a recent transaction that took place via Sedo, I was able to acquire a domain name that BuyDomains had listed across several marketplaces. I chose Sedo as it's […]
An interesting glitch at Dan.com locks down the BIN price | Mark As Read |
Dan.com provides several options to domain investors, including selling with a BIN price, making an offer, and lease to own options. In the past few months I've completed 3 LTO deals successfully, which means that three entrepreneurs are now using these domains under full ownership. Dan has been instrumental in creating a niche market for […]...
Dan.com delivers excellent back-end support for domain transactions | Mark As Read |
Last week I completed my first domain sale in October, for a domain I acquired for a few hundred dollars almost 15 years ago. It's not the first time this long hold of a domain leads to a substantial ROI. The art of determining which assets are worthy of holding long term is part of […]
Potential issue with Dan sales of Uni/GoDaddy domains | Mark As Read |
I've been using Dan.com with great success in the past two years and its acquisition by GoDaddy was disappointing. The Dutch start-up was about to roll out its own domain registrar, as a white label of Metaregistrar BV. A domain registrar/marketplace combo had tremendous potential; it also posed extreme danger to GoDaddy: Dan.com was already [̷...
Uniregistry to GoDaddy transition: Few glitches, how do services compare? | Mark As Read |
Today I woke up to an email from Uniregistry, informing me that my portfolio of domain names was successfully migrated to GoDaddy. To complete the transition and take control of it, I had to take control of a new account number and set up a password. In the process, I had to verify my email […]
Uniregistry domain accounts moving to GoDaddy; one important thing to do | Mark As Read |
Domain investors with their portfolios still at Uniregistry were informed today that the transition of accounts to GoDaddy will take place in 30 days. The end of April is thus the end of Uniregistry, following the end of the Uni Market on April 18th. For almost a decade, Uniregistry held the scepter of the most […]
Global Domain Report 2023: Expert analysis including my positions | Mark As Read |
InterNetX and Sedo are sister companies under the United Internet AG umbrella and often collaborate on domain industry reports. This year, the Global Domain Report "2023 edition" presents data, metrics, and expert analysis produced by the two companies. I'm truly impressed by the report's presentation, wealth of information, and visually pleasing p...
Great drop-catching alternative: You can catch domains using Sav.com | Mark As Read |
Sav.com has been my go-to domain registrar for several months now. Transitioning away from GoDaddy-operated properties such as Uniregistry, is my personal and professional decision, based on extensive use and understanding of the domain industry. Disclaimer: Sav sponsors my publication DomainGang but as a full time user of their services, capable o...
LTO domain sales: Dan.com and Escrow.com compared | Mark As Read |
Merry Christmas! Lease-to-own domain sales, often abbreviated as "LTO," are becoming popular among domain investors, that offer a flexible payment plan to their prospective buyers. The option to pay for the acquisition of domain names in installments is not new but it's the automation that wins customers. If the process is bulletproof then more dom...
Domains at Uniregistry: Check the auth code before transferring out | Mark As Read |
After a decade at Uniregistry as my domain registrar of choice, I've been migrating my portfolio elsewhere. The acquisition of Uniregistry by GoDaddy presents complex issues such as the forced addition of Uni domains to Afternic, with no direct management of these listings via the Uni Market. Currently, I'm transferring domain names (and registerin...
DropCatch domain auctions can expose you to spammers; heres how to fix it | Mark As Read |
Participating in domain name auctions at DropCatch is a business activity that I partake in weekly, enhancing and expanding my domain portfolio. DropCatch auctions are popular among other domain investors and I do attend the auction at its closing moments. This approach offers two benefits: deciding whether I want to win "must-have" domains and to ...
Fake sales: Hitting the BIN button at the Uni Market | Mark As Read |
Setting a "buy it now" (BIN) price for your domains is one established approach. Instead of providing a contact form where visitors can make an offer, you can skip endless negotiations by simply defining the asking price. It's not a secret that many such domain sales take place on popular marketplaces, when the buyer finds […]...
Can someone else add your for sale domain on Dan.com? | Mark As Read |
Dan.com is a domain marketplace that in recent years propelled itself onto the top list of favorite platforms for domain investors. Domain sellers and buyers engage through its well-planned interface and exchange process of funds/domain, making the process a cinch. After testing the Dan.com for a while, my first domain sale on Dan.com was almost [&...
Feel good about selling: Ted Olsons upcoming book | Mark As Read |
Ted Olson is a veteran sales expert, having worked with NameMedia, Afternic prior to its sale to GoDaddy, and Endurance International. I had the pleasure of meeting Ted in the late 2000s during one of the Targeted TRAFFIC conferences; if memory doesn't fail me, it was in 2008. Ted's positive demeanor, engagement as a listener […]
GoDaddy appraisals an obstacle for domain sellers | Mark As Read |
Recently, I closed my first sale on the Dan.com platform. In recent months I've been transferring in bulk my domain names away from the Uni Market, simply because the platform's association with GoDaddy creates a slew of problems. Don't get me wrong; the platform created by Frank Schilling's excellent team in 2012 still performs great […]...
Are we on the same page? | Mark As Read |
Part of the domain investing game is waiting for inbound inquiries. Also known as "the waiting game," this is the part that often challenges a domainer's patience. Having sold domains I held for almost two decades, waiting on offers can become exhaustive. At some point, a re-assessment of one's domain portfolio and a repricing might […]...
DAN 3.0 is coming so heres a handy tip for your domain selling settings | Mark As Read |
In recent months I've been using DAN.com, formerly known as Undeveloped, as a domain marketplace alongside the Uni Market. As a long haul beta tester and user of the Uniregistry platform, I am always looking for ways to "fail" the DAN platform, mostly by accident and sometimes intentionally. DAN has a great range of settings […]...
No idea who bought another meta domain from me | Mark As Read |
This is the 3rd post in a row about "meta" domains and that's a good indication about the increased interest in the keyword, and Metaverse domains in general. A couple of weeks after my last story about "meta" domains that I registered or acquired years ago, I completed one more domain sale. The deal closed […]
My meta domains were registered years ago | Mark As Read |
Facebook rebranded its umbrella company as Meta, moving away from strictly social media and marketing and onto a more complex company. Brands in the US but also globally tend to be short vs. long words, and Meta is a simplified form of Metaverse – the online universe that arrives next. As I explained recently, the […]
Meta meaning: How to use meta correctly with domains and words | Mark As Read |
Domains that begin with "meta" are extremely popular currently; the Greek prefix is very easy to pronounce and write, for a change. Using letters that are common between the Greek and Latin alphabets helps, no doubt, along with the consonant/vowel/consonant/vowel (CVCV) structure. Today I'll share the meanings of "meta" and its uses in the Greek [&...
HL2.com: LLN and LNN domain availability lists | Mark As Read |
Two decades ago I was busy hand-registering domains from droplists provided by DomainsBot, an excellent daily email service. The rush for daily drops was competitive among those targeting dictionary words but the market was wide open for seemingly "random" combinations of letter/letter/number and letter/number/number domains. I focused on these two...
Domain inquiries: I have cheaper alternatives | Mark As Read |
Would you walk into a car dealership with a cocky attitude? Probably not. In most cases, when someone wants to buy a car they take a look at the sticker price and state their intentions to the dealer. Negotiations are good to have, especially if you want to get low APR financing, or to take […]
Three domain sales : Uni Market, GoDaddy, and Escrow.com | Mark As Read |
It's been a fun May as far as domain sales go; today I'll be comparing three popular domain aftermarket platforms, based on my recent experience. The Uni Market needs no introduction, I've used it since 2012 when it was called Domain Name Sales. Now a part of the GoDaddy brand, it's still where the majority […]
American Rescue Plan : Selling the .com was easy, getting paid was not | Mark As Read |
The American Rescue Plan is a huge financial stimulus package aimed at transitioning the US through and after the pandemic. Valued at just under $2 trillion dollars, the plan's name was first announced by government officials on social media on the evening of January 14, 2021. Moments after that tweet, I registered the matching .com. […]...
Greece: The first 200 years are the toughest ones | Mark As Read |
Greece celebrated its bicentennial today, commemorating 200 years since the war of independence began in 1821. As a Greek, I'm proud of my heritage and despite the physical distance I'm well aware of what March 25, 1821 signifies for all Greeks around the world. A nation that was placed under four centuries of Ottoman oppression […]...
Uniregistry : Payouts are faster, cheaper with Tipalti | Mark As Read |
Having just completed my first domain sale using Tipalti, the new payout processor for Uniregistry, I'm about to share my experience. When negotiations take a while to complete, the last thing one needs is some additional delay with the delivery of the final "check." Fortunately, that wasn't the case; less than 36 hours after the […]...
Blocked an entire TLD for the spam it produced | Mark As Read |
There is a tremendous amount of spam circulating 24/7 and domain investors often receive hundreds of emails daily. In recent years I've identified the two primary reasons unsolicited email has increased in volume: Cheap, throwaway domain names, and Spam servers hiding behind free proxy DNS services With that in mind, the type of spam that […]...
Dont fall for this double offer domain trickery | Mark As Read |
Got an active inbound interest for one of your domains? That's great. Then again, unless your minimum asking price is met, that might not be a good sign. Assuming you're using a third party platform to sell your domains, such as the Uni Market, offers arrive with some information about the prospective buyer. In recent […]
Prospective domain buyers (ab)using GoDaddy to circumvent asking price | Mark As Read |
When GoDaddy acquired Uniregistry and its Uni Market, I had high hopes. The promise for an improved, combined market with "millions of eyeballs" was shared exactly one year ago, in February 2020. Fast forward a year later, and from a personal standpoint the combined Uni Market / Afternic has not produced much. I still use […]
GoDaddy broke one great Uniregistry feature I liked | Mark As Read |
One of the many great features I liked at Uniregistry was its support system. The acquisition of Uniregistry by GoDaddy has broken that part, and it's a big loss in my opinion. For starters, the GoDaddy ticketing system is by email only. It creates an email chain that includes unnecessary elements like signature graphics, HTML […]
Sedo : Dealing with well-known domainers on neutral platforms | Mark As Read |
Today's most established domain investors span about 25 years of trading domain names for profit, if we account for a 1995 launch of the commercial Internet. Hello, Rick Schwartz! Some of us began their journey a bit later on, and are close to clocking two full decades of active domain investing. Activity status isn't gauged […]
GoDaddy is on the right path | Mark As Read |
It took a lot of effort for GoDaddy to provide a token report of sales, earlier today. Personally, I lost track of time; was it really in 2015 such numbers were last shared? Although the format isn't perfect – very small sample of sales, four month delayed release of the monthly report – you can […]
Domain inquiries: Is being nice a sign of weakness? | Mark As Read |
It's been 20 years since my first domain sale took place in the summer of 2000, and boy, do I feel like it was yesterday. Despite not using any type of escrow and receiving a check from overseas in exchange for the domain, that first experience was a smooth event. The reason: I was dealing […]
SedoPRO World Tour : A great experience 10 years ago | Mark As Read |
It's been exactly 10 years since SedoPRO World Tour took place in Boston, Massachusetts. Attending the two day event was a tremendous experience, which I shared at the time, emphasizing the remarkable side of Sedo: its people. Reflecting on the past decade since 2010 and the challenges it has brought forth, both to the domain […]
Zero force point: Dont bend your own arm into buying that domain name | Mark As Read |
Every domain inquiry begins with the best intentions, as buyer and seller negotiate. It's not just the price that affects the outcome of a negotiation on a domain name, but it's the most important element of the exchange. If there is no agreement on the price, there will be no sale. When negotiations hit a […]
Stolen domain names : The ethics of brokering stolen assets | Mark As Read |
Domain names have been stolen since the early days of the commercial Internet. The most known case involves the hijacking of Sex.com, a domain that was "milked" for its traffic, before it was returned via a court order to its registrant. There are thousands of domain names that have been stolen in the 25 years […]
Uniregistry affiliate plus payouts update | Mark As Read |
As shared by Uniregistry, all affiliate earnings balances are to be paid by the end of this month, as the Affiliate Plus program was terminated. Today, I received my final payment from the program, and plan to use my "check" to buy more domains – that's what domain investors do! It was a good revenue […]
Recycling Mike Manns domains: Thanks Konstantinos! | Mark As Read |
Querying Mike Mann's domain droplist was a herculean task, but Konstantinos of Online Domain delivered! Fifty thousand domains, or about 16% of Mike Mann's portfolio dropped recently, and Konstantinos shared those that became available, along with a separate list of upcoming deletes at the time. Perusing thousands of domains "by hand" reminded me o...
Domain sob stories: Should I feel sorry for your political mess? | Mark As Read |
An increasing number of businesses produce "sob stories" in order to usurp domain names on the aftermarket. The usual excuses involve using a company's status as a start-up or as a non-profit to indicate an inability to budget up for a domain name. By default, these excuses are not true; start-ups and non-profits can have […]...
Affiliate program no more at Uniregistry | Mark As Read |
As a beta tester at Uniregistry, I opened one of the first accounts for its Affiliate Program, six years ago. The program paid handsomely, with 20% being standard on domain registrations, renewals and transfers done with one's ID. Retention of products (domain names) was dependent on how faithful registrants were to the Registrar. Sadly, the [̷...
Domain inquiries : Coming back to buy the domain | Mark As Read |
Engaging with a potential buyer doesn't always result in a sale, but domain names that get renewed continue to work their magic in that person's mind. In other words, inquiries that end due to a difference in pricing, often get a second chance at a later time, sometimes at a price considerably higher than the […]
Domain registrants are not landlords | Mark As Read |
Every time I hear how domains are exactly like real estate, I shake my head at the dissimilarities. Comparing domains and domain investing to real estate and landlords is a convenient choice. Sounds familiar? It's because I covered the subject before, except for the landlord reference. In a recent message for a domain inquiry, the […]
Getting the right offer : A waiting game worth playing | Mark As Read |
Earlier this week I closed on yet another domain sale on the Uniregistry market platform. The agreement was reached last week, but a small glitch caused a short delay with the buyer's funds at Uniregistry. This single word .ORG domain was registered in 1999 and I acquired it a decade ago on NameJet. It's my […]
The Uniregistry registrar is alive and kicking | Mark As Read |
One of the reasons I moved my domain names to Uniregistry several years ago, is their knowledgeable support department. Uniregistry is now a GoDaddy company, and great days are looming ahead through this well-planned acquisition. Uniregistry remains an elite destination of choice for domain investors and end-users alike. It has a solid footprint in...
Maximize your domain capital thanks to the new federal tax filing deadline | Mark As Read |
Domain investors, like millions of other professionals in the US and around the globe, are adjusting to the Coronavirus pandemic. The economy is taking a hit, but it's not the end of the road. There are plenty of opportunities to stretch your investments, and if you're looking for extended capital the federal government is getting […]...
How Sedo, SnapNames, and Afternic helped me sell a domain name twice | Mark As Read |
This article is about how Sedo, SnapNames, and Afternic, helped me sell a domain name twice over the course of a decade, for several thousand dollars in total. During this Coronavirus pandemic, sharing positive news about the domain industry is a must! The domain market deals with intangible assets, and no-one needs to wash their […]
Five important things to follow up on after you score a domain name sale | Mark As Read |
Congratulations. You just sold a domain name, and now it's time to rest on your laurels and forget about it allright? Wrong. Selling a domain name isn't the endit's the beginning of a grand new relationship with your buyer. It's the moment that presents the most potential you ever had with this domain, other than […]
A thank you note goes a long way | Mark As Read |
There are many ways to show gratitude to others, and share your appreciation with them. In the case of strangers that never made it into each other's life, a "thank you" note goes a long way. A few weeks ago I shared a story about how I found a USB drive on a flight, located […]
Domain price increases : Gave ICANN a piece of my mind, and so should you | Mark As Read |
Domain prices increase, and that's a fact of the industry's regulatory direction. A contract renewal by ICANN has given extensive rights to Verisign, managers of the .com and .net TLDs, to jack up prices at rates unseen before. Normally, ICANN is expected to regulate prices so that the public's interest in domain names is safeguarded. […]...
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