My wife and I took our kids to Aruba after she finished running the Boston Marathon last week. Neither of us had been to Aruba before, and we wanted to explore somewhere in the Caribbean neither of us had visited before. Aruba is home to beautiful beaches with welcoming people. We had a great trip. […]Catchy.com

I use Carrd for the landing pages for many of my higher value one and two word .com domain names. I don't know the exact number of landing pages, but it's probably more than 25. I've created and modified a few similar but different versions of the landing pages with the goal of driving traffic […]Catchy.com

Andrew Miller has been sharing a regular post on LinkedIn each week called Random Sunday Thoughts. In each Sunday morning edition, Andrew has shared a mix of insights and news. There is a heavy focus on the domain industry and his Hilco Digital Assets business in particular. Typically, I would see Andrew share a link […]Catchy.com

Icon.com was recently acquired for $12 million, according to a LinkedIn post from the startups Founder, Kennan Davison. The domain name is being used by a new company branded as Icon, which bills itself as the worlds first AI CMO (Chief Marketing Officer). Icon.com was acquired in a deal overseen by Andrew Miller of ATM […]Catchy.com

As I was looking through the upcoming pending delete auctions, I was caught by surprise by an exceptionally valuable domain name. Mine.com went into pending delete status earlier this week. After the domain name made it through the pending delete process, it was caught by DropCatch.com. Mine.com has been entered into a public auction at […]Ca...

Timing is critical with domain name sales. I may have a domain name for 10 years, let it expire, see it picked up by another investor, and it sells within a week. It's that idea that keeps me renewing domain names I might otherwise consider dropping. A domain name may not be in demand until […]Catchy.com

Last week, Spaceship's new SellerHub opened for third party beta testing. Participants were limited to larger portfolio operators. Yesterday, CEO Richard Kirkendall announced the launch date for anyone interested in using the platform: For those that have been asking, Sellerhub will be open to everyone in public beta in just over a week on April [&...

For as long as Ive known the platform, Atom.com has relied on an Expert Review Process to evaluate domain names submitted by prospective sellers. This process, led by a group of experienced Atom sellers, helped accelerate the onboarding of domain names if they received enough positive votes. That review system is now coming to an […]Catchy.co...

I regularly see people discuss the possibility of domain registrar front running. In fact, I've written about this topic before. By and large, I cant imagine any reputable domain registrars doing this today for many reasons. Front-running accusations often stem from someone searching for a domain name at a registrar, seeing that its available, choo...

Transfer lock policies can differ at each domain registrar. Depending on the situation and domain name status, some locks are required by ICANN and others are suggested by the organization. Some registrars are more lenient with transfer locks that aren't required by ICANN and others are more rigid.Some registrars will lock a domain name for […...

I have been using DomainLeads.com on a regular basis since it was introduced last year. I use the tool to see how many domain names are registered and developed for specific keywords. I find it to be helpful when buying and pricing my domain names. I think the primary focus of the tool is on […]Catchy.com

Spaceship CEO Richard Kirkendall recently announced the company's domain name sales platform would soon open to beta testers. With his post, Richard also offered a sneak peak at the back-end control panel for the platform, and a look at the domain names that had leads allowed people to get a look at the landing pages. […]Catchy.com

Artificial intelligence is already having a modest impact on how I run my business. Unlike quite a few colleagues who have been ringing the register because of AI-related domain names, I don't have many AI or .AI domain names in my portfolio. I have been using AI to help with a variety of tasks related […]Catchy.com

In one of the largest publicly reported domain name sales of 2025 so far, Andrew Rosener reported that he sold ABTC.com for $699,999. Andrew shared this sale on the most recent episode of Domain Sherpa, which I have embedded above (discussion starts around the 17 minute mark). Although Andrew Rosener is a domain broker and […]Catchy.com

John Berryhill and I are happy to announce that we will be participating in the 2025 Pan-Mass Challenge to raise funds and awareness for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Joining us this year – and wearing our domain industry team jersey – is my wife, Karen. The Pan-Mass Challenge is August 2-3, 2025, and we will each […]Catchy.com

The Linea.com domain name was in an expiry auction at NameJet that closed this afternoon. The highest bid was $200,000, and I am pretty certain this auction will successfully close. There were two bidders who bid on this domain name past the $70k mark. When this auction closes, it will be the tenth largest domain […]Catchy.com

National Retail Federation owns the https://t.co/DKU1Llpkla domain name. It was registered October 31, 2024. pic.twitter.com/KtC1ILazt1 Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) April 2, 2025 The National Retail Federation (NRF) registered TrumpTariffTax.com at CSC in October of 2024. Shortly thereafter, the trade organization issued a press release highlightin...

The first quarter of the year came to an end yesterday. All in all, the domain aftermarket seems pretty strong from my perspective. I had a solid Q1, recording multiple sales at Afternic, Sedo, Atom.com, and privately. Included in this is four new Lease to Own deals – three via Afternic and one via Atom. […]Catchy.com

My Afternic Lead Center is full of Stalled, Qualifying, Confused, and Unknown leads. As a domain investor, this is pretty confusing and slightly frustrating. I don't blame Afternic brokers for this because I have become familiar with how their platform works, but I do think Afternic and GoDaddy should better educate its sellers on the […]Catc...

I have a bit more than 100 domain names listed for sale on Atom.com, and a handful are listed on its Ultra Premium Marketplace (UPM). This afternoon, I received an email from Atom informing me that "Domain Talk" was added to Tangy.com, which is one of my UPM-listed domain names. According to the email I […]Catchy.com

Namecheap notified its Namecheap Market customers of an adjustment to the end times for auctions and a simplified process for its closeouts. Domain name auctions will all end at the same time each day. The time is 11am Eastern Time and the equivalent times throughout the world. You can do the math to understand when […]Catchy.com

Over the weekend, I was texting some friends about buying tickets for a concert this Summer. One of our friends was suffering from a bit of analysis paralysis as he debated whether to choose tickets that were closer to the stage but towards the side or tickets in the center but a bit further back. […]Catchy.com

My general preference is to register my domain names without Whois privacy enabled. The downside to that is my business phone number is exposed, and it leads to many spam phone calls. This happens frequently after winning domain names at auction and companies send emails trying to sell web development and related services. One thing […]Catchy...

If you bid on auctions at NameJet, you're probably familiar with the up and down arrows in the control panel control panel buttons. These buttons allow you to increase or decrease your bid by the standard bid increments. Bidders can also input their maximum bid amount by hand if they prefer, but sometimes it's just […]Catchy.com

I enabled Afternic's self-brokerage option as soon as I heard it went live. I immediately tested it out with one of my own domain names so I could see how the platform works as a buyer and as a seller. Before I got started, I ran into an issue, and I couldn't tell if it […]Catchy.com

Lease to Own deals have become much more normal in the domain space. LTO deals give buyers the opportunity to use a domain name at a lower upfront cost, and it gives domain name sellers a source of consistent monthly income. There is some risk with LTO deals for a domain investor. I was asked […]Catchy.com

In early February, I noticed that Kicks.com changed hands. The valuable one word .com domain name had been owned by Reflex, and transferred to a registrant called Domain Licenses Limited, which I believe is an entity that acquires and/or holds domain names on behalf of other companies. I detected this Whois change with the help […]Catchy.com

It looks like a UDRP was filed against https://t.co/1tWA9dHQ5m and https://t.co/wlPCjHdTyN at NAF. Both domain names are registered at CSC and owned by IBM. pic.twitter.com/aE6xTXYG2F Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) March 4, 2025 A week and a half ago, I noticed a UDRP filing that appeared to be pretty egregious. A company filed a UDRP against […...

HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah announced another domain name acquisition today. Dharmesh acquired OS.ai for $150,000. He announced the acquisition and shared his rationale for buying the domain name in a post on X: LEAKED NEWS: I acquired the domain name os .ai for $150,000 (just saw the transaction reported on some online sources). It's the […...

This afternoon, I learned about the launch of a new registrar and marketplace brand called Taku – using Taku.com. The brand was launched by GMO Internet Group, a company that is traded publicly on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which operates other brands that primarily operate in Asia. The thing that caught my attention with this […]Catchy....

The aftermarket for .AI domain names has grown tremendously over the last several years. A look at Namebio shows the growing annual dollar volume of sales that were publicly reported in the aftermarket. 2018: $420.8k 2019: $1.1m 2020: $1.1m 2021: $1.2m 2022: $878.7k 2023: $5.6m 2024: $11.7m 2025 YTD: $3.2m (my guess is $20m+ for […]Catchy.com

Namecheap was recently named expiry auction partner for .AI domain names. The first batch of expired .AI auctions concluded last week, and hundreds of .AI domain names were sold. Namebio shows 695 .AI sales on Namecheap worth nearly $800,000 in the last month, although I can't filter down to specifically include the expiry auctions. One […]Ca...

I have a $20/month paid account at OpenAi. I primarily use it to access ChatGPT – and I always use Chat.com to navigate to the website. One of the ways I use the platform is to generate keyword lists that I use to search for and register domain names. Oftentimes, these keyword lists revolve around […]Catchy.com

Dynadot is a domain registrar that is a preferred choice for numerous domain investors. I have been using Dynadot's aftermarket and now have nearly three dozen non-.com domain names registered there. The Dynadot registrar platform is very fast, and it offers investor-focused features in an easy to use user interface. The registrar is now home [R...

One of the unique features at Atom.com is the ability to offer an early payoff option to Lease to Own (LTO) buyers. You can offer a discount that amounts to up to 15% of the remaining balance. The buyer can choose to accept the offer and pay this amount to get control of the domain […]Catchy.com

When a user searches for a domain name at GoDaddy, and it is not listed for sale via its network, the Domain Broker Service offering is shown. To utilize DBS, a customer pays north of $100 and an additional 20% fee if a deal is reached. If a customer pays to utilize a GoDaddy DBS […]Catchy.com

If you pick the right domain names and win the auction for the right amount, there is still plenty of money to be made from expired/deleted domain names. Adam Maysonet illustrated this by sharing the results of a recent sale he made on Afternic: And the first on-hold on @afternic just went through. Hold time […]Catchy.com

A few days ago, I wrote about how the Backpage.com domain name expired and was in pending delete status. Prior to its expiry, Backpage.com had been seized by the US Department of Justice. Backpage.com wasn't renewed, it fully deleted, and DropCatch.com caught the domain name and sent it to a three day auction. The auction […]Catchy.com

Andrew Miller of Hilco Digital has been publishing a weekly update on LinkedIn for the last three years. In his Random Sunday Thoughts posts, he often shares insights and advice for domain name buyers and sellers. Occasionally, he mentions completed deals that may not have been discovered by others. This morning on X, Yinan Wang […]Catchy.com

Backpage.com was once one of the most popular classified advertising websites online. According to Wikipedia, "Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services. It soon became the second largest online classified site in the United States." It was also apparently a hub for illicit activities....

Spaceship is looking for people interested in beta testing its new seller hub. Spaceship Founder (and Namecheap CEO) Richard Kirkendall announced this in a post on X this morning: Just moved a portfolio of about 5000 domains to our seller hub at Spaceship. First offer for 50k just rolled in on pare ai so good […]Catchy.com