GoDaddy is looking to hire a Senior Manager who will be responsible for connecting with and networking with domain investors. The aim of the position is to attract new GoDaddy customers from the domain investing community while driving revenue growth from current investor clients. Here's an excerpt from the job listing, which was posted on […...

Domains By Proxy, LLC (DomainsByProxy.com) may be one of the most prolific domain registrants. Domains By Proxy isn't actually the owner of most domain names registered to the entity. Domains By Proxy, LLC is the Whois privacy service operated by GoDaddy. Customers of GoDaddy who do not want their contact information shown on a public […]...

The ICA presented the 2022 Lonnie Borck Memorial Award today during NamesCon. The deserving winner of this year's award is Andrew Allemann of Domain Name Wire. Congratulations to Andrew Allemann @DomainNameWire for being named the @ICADomains Lonnie Borck Memorial Award winner! Well deserved! pic.twitter.com/iqqwb2iEgF Fred Kauber (@fredkauber) Se...

Yesterday morning, I read an article that refuted reports that Zomato, an India-based food delivery service, would rebrand itself as Eternal. This article made me curious about the Eternal.com domain name that may have been necessary had the company opted for this rebrand. There is some circumstantial evidence that leads me to believe that the [...

2022 started off on a very strong note. I closed some great deals, and things were looking positive, despite some dire economic predictions. The Summer has been quite slow, and I am sure it is not isolated to my business. As a result of this roller coaster year so far, I have been maintaining the […]

Scott Pruitt from Right of the Dot sent me the details for this years upcoming NamesCon domain name auction. The live portion of the auction will take place at the Downtown Omni Hotel on September 1 at 3:00 PM CDT. Wayne Wheat will be conducting the live auction, which is being managed by Right of […]

According to NameBio, the Calpers.com domain name was sold for $1,718 in December of 2021 at NameJet. The California Public Employees Retirement System, commonly known as "CALPERS," filed a UDRP against the domain name at the National Arbitration Forum and won the decision. The domain registrant did not submit a response. In looking through the [&#...

For the last couple of weeks, I have been forwarding the bulk of my domain names to domain name-specific inquiry forms on Embrace.com. I am doing this in an effort to induce more sales that may have been lost because the minimum offer amount was set too high on Dan.com and to retain more control […]

In a blog post on August 18th, Sav reported that its PayPal account had been inexplicably closed by the payment provider. I am sure this would have impacted the registrar's ability to collect payments from some clients, and importantly, it would have impacted the ability to pay clients proceeds from domain name sales. This has […]

Shortly after publishing my article about the Medal.com auction on DropCatch.com that ended at $185,728, I saw that my Twitter account had a new follower: Pim de Witte, CEO of Medal. Medal is a platform that allows gamers to record, edit, and share gaming clips and videos. The company uses the Medal.tv domain name for […]

Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from Sav announcing that there is some expected downtime coming for updates to its website. Sav expects its website to be down on August 21st from 4pm to 9pm CST (9pm to 2am UTC). Here's the email message I received from the company: New things coming: 24 hour outage […]

Blue chip domain names like Medal.com don't hit the auction block very often. As I shared on Twitter last weekend, a company called Ciox Health acquired Medal, Inc., which owned the Medal.com domain name. For an unknown reason, the domain name expired. Likely because the name was registered at Gandi, it was deleted rather than […]

George Kirikos is the best at sleuthing out domain name sales from SEC filings. While some domain name sales may look easy to spot because they are fairly obvious when you know where and when to look, it can be difficult to connect dots and confirm a domain name acquisition. Sometimes it is impossible to […]

I've always been curious about the best day of the week for domain name sales. Afternic shared that the busiest day of the week for domain name sales across its network is Thursday. Tuesday and Wednesday follow closely behind Thursday: Which day has the most domain name sales? The answer: Thursday (Although Tuesday & Wednesday […]

Last night, I spent some time searching the SEC database to see if I could find some domain name sales data. I believe I found a large sale that has not yet been reported elsewhere. It looks like the Connection.com domain name was acquired for $450,000 by PC Connection in 2015. The PC Connection website […]

One of the biggest advantages of using my own landing pages is the ability to track visitors in the way that works best for me. To track website visits, I have a paid StatCounter account. Being able to track visitors and visits is invaluable to me when negotiating with a prospective buyer. I use the […]

A couple of weeks ago, I shared that I began forwarding myinventory-quality domain names to Embrace.com landing pages. I respond directly to offers and inquiries, and I push prospective buyers to Dan.com landing pages to complete the purchase. I don't do this for higher value domain names. I am testing this to save time and […]

Another publicly reported 7 figure domain name sale has closed this year. The Call.com domain name was sold via Sedo for $1.6 million USD. The domain name sale was reported by Sedo broker Frank Tillmanns on Twitter this morning: It was a great pleasure to broker the sale of https://t.co/xkePP8HUWy at $1.6M USD. Congratulations to […]

In April, I reported on HubSpot's acquisition of Connect.com. At the time of the sale, the acquisition price was not shared publicly by either buyer or seller. On Sunday, George Kirikos uncovered a SEC filing with the $10 million sale price, and he was the first to publish an article about it. I reached out […]

George Kirikos published a lengthy article on FreeSpeech.com about the ICANN public comment period for the domain name transfer policy review. George also submitted a comment on behalf of his company on the ICANN website. One of the reasons I am a member of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is because I rely on their […]

The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) is set to host an AMA session with domain broker Kate Buckley. The Zoom session will be held on August 10th. This AMA session is only open to ICA members. The ICA has hosted several AMA sessions with other members of the domain investment community. Andrew Rosener, Braden Pollock, Monte […]

Tom Glover, President of Northwest Registered Agent, LLC, asked me to share a job posting that might be of interest to someone with experience and expertise in the domain name space. The company is looking to hire a Director of Domain Name Registrar for its registrar business. The job listing was posted on TwoBarrels.com. Northwest […]

Logan Flatt has been engaging with someone on Twitter who apparently left a one star review for Dan.com. I can't speak for Logan, but it appears that he believes the issue is out of the control of Dan.com and the review is unfair to the platform. You might be wondering why Logan is going to […]

Identity Digital is the registry management company that had been known as Donuts until its' rebrand in June. This afternoon, the company shared a video on social media promoting alternative extensions to .com. "Don't stop at the dot," is the call to action in the video found in the tweet below: Check out the new […]

I caught a LinkedIn post from Rick Schwartz this morning announcing a special domain investing segment on Clubhouse called "Domaining ‘Shark Tank'." The event will be held this evening, and it will offer participants the opportunity to "pitch" a domain name or project during the Clubhouse event: Domain investor participants leading the Clubho...

Hiring a buyer's broker can be a smart decision a company makes when attempting to acquire a domain name. A buyer's broker can anonymize the buyer and potentially save in acquisition costs. Simply using a domain broker for an acquisition may not be enough to get a good deal for a buyer. A domain broker […]

The next time I go over the Bourne Bridge, it will be during the @PanMass in a week and a half. Thank you to Bill Doshier from @dotstrategy for donating to my fundraiser today! Support from my domain industry colleagues has me close to the $18k goal: https://t.co/Q3HTryN43j pic.twitter.com/c24JtSaBV3 Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) July 28, […]

It's no secret that I like using Dan.com and have found success on the platform. A large percentage of my portfolio forwards directly to Dan.com pages. I use a combination of BIN, BIN+Make Offer, and LTO options shown to prospective buyers. As we seem to be headed into a recession, I decided to test something […]

Many years ago right after I graduated from college, I went to graduate school and earned a Master's Degree in Direct and Interactive Marketing. The program no longer exists as it was, and it was rolled up into another program at NYU. Nearly every one of my other classmates but had already started their professional […]

When I went to review domain names on NameJet last night, I was unable to do so because of a maintenance notice on the website. According to a message on the back-end of the platform, there were some "technical difficulties" on NameJet yesterday. As a result, some of the auctions that ended have been extended […]

Every day, I receive emails from other domain name registrants offering a domain name or multiple domain names for sale. Sorry to say, but I ignore almost all of these emails. The domain names are either uninteresting to me, the email doesn't have the domain names or prices listed, or the price is far beyond […]

The Walt Disney Company posted a job listing on LinkedIn and is looking to hire a Domain Names Management Program Manager. This is an important corporate domain name management role as Disney operates many different brands and companies in a wide variety of industries. Here's an excerpt from the overview of this job post: "Domain […]...

In a recession, there are a few levers a domain investor can do to preserve capital and increase runway if it becomes necessary. Slowing or halting domain name acquisitions, portfolio downsizing, and selling domain names at reduced prices are the three levers that will have the biggest impact on cash preservation for a typical domain […]

In the small city in New Hampshire where I grew up, we would get a lot of snow in the Winter. Each Winter, we would get a handful of "snow days" off from school when enough snow fell overnight to make it difficult for the school buses to pick up kids and drive them to […]

The Afternic Twitter account posted an image of an Afternic sales notification email informing the owner of Byte.xyz that the domain name was sold via its network for $129,888: Top tier .xyz domains continue to sell around the six figure mark!https://t.co/8655VjxSDt Congrats @DomainNameGear! Afternic (@afternic) July 18, 2022 From what I can tell...

The domain registrar is the most important domain industry company. My domain registrars are tasked with keeping my domain names safe and resolving to the right location. My registrar choice is based on several factors in varying order: Security Customer Service User Interface Ease of Use Pricing My preference is to keep my domain names […]

I have an account at Bodis, but I don't believe I have ever used it before because I don't do much PPC parking. Because I have an account though, I received an email from the company this afternoon linking to a corporate blog post announcing a "security incident." While it does not appear that Bodis […]

One of the biggest gripes at GoDaddy auctions seems to be the high number of post-auction refunds. If a domain name is registered at a partner domain registrar, auctioned at GoDaddy Auctions, and then renewed by the domain registrant, the auction is canceled and high bidder is refunded. Any time spent on research and bidding […]

I think CliffsNotes is a fairly well-known trademark. In fact, several people have mentioned "Cliff's Notes" or "Cliff Notes" in various comments on this blog over the years to ask for a summary of something. My CliffsNotes version of the brand is that CliffsNotes is a brand of study guides that gives a synopsis of […]...