http://www.domaining.com News and views about the domaining industry. Thu, 04 Mar 2021 18:27:49 +0300 en http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099090&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 15:50:19 +0300 DomainGang http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099090&t=2  DomainGang.com: Domain parking and PPC provider, Bodis, has acquired the domain name DomainParking.com. Announcing the acquisition, Bodis founder Matt Wegrzyn did not disclose the amount involved; the domain was registered in 1997 at a time that the concept of parking domains was new. Its previous registrant appears to be a company in California. As...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099088&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:29:52 +0300 DomainSherpa http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099088&t=2  DomainSherpa.com: What do successful domain name investors think when they value domain names? In this show: • We learn what the Sherpas bought or sold recently: Sports.Cards, Metaverse.io (again), ClassicRap.com; • We discuss domains coming up for auction on NameJet, such as BeltShop.com, BigUmbrella.com, Crowdsourcing.com, and others; &bul...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099087&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:01:01 +0300 Andrew Allemann http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099087&t=2  Domain Name Wire: Company had tried to secure a domain through a UDRP, only to be hit with a lawsuit. Korean fast food chain Mom’s Touch has settled a lawsuit domain name investor GNO, Inc. (Gregg Ostrick) filed against it. Mom’s Touch’s parent company, Haimarrow Food Service, Co., Ltd, filed a UDRP with Asian Domain Name Dispute Res...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099089&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:51:09 +0300 James Iles http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099089&t=2  JamesNames.com: Brent Oxley, the founder of HostGator, has been accruing a portfolio of ultra-premium domain names since he sold his hosting company for close to $300 million in 2013.  With purchases such as Give.com for $500,000, Broker.com for $375,000, and Texas.com… Read more]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099086&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:45:32 +0300 Elliot Silver http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099086&t=2  DomainInvesting.com: Rick Schwartz shared the content of an email he received from Register.com, in which he was given a .Site domain name. A Whois search reveals Rick owns LastLaughs.com, which is registered at Register.com. The email to Rick offered him LastLaughs.Site, under the guise of Register.com’s “Brand Protection Program.” Thi...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099085&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:38:30 +0300 DomainGang http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099085&t=2  DomainGang.com: Drew Rosener is among the few domain investors who can claim access to brokering millions of dollars in domain names. Operating MediaOptions, DomainX, DNX.com, and other domain-focused platforms, Drew Rosener’s personal web site sits comfortably at Drew.com. And now, Drew Rosener announced the acquisition of Few.com, an aged, u...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099084&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 12:31:13 +0300 Rick Schwartz http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099084&t=2  Rick Schwartz: Afternoon Folks!! I received this email this morning and it is DESPERATE, UNETHICAL and DISGUSTING!! But it’s not the first time this .CRAP model has been used to PUMP and DUMP! To inflate registration numbers just to fool and mislead domain investors and the public!! This is one of the biggest gTLD models, STUFFING accounts [&...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099083&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 11:49:18 +0300 DomainGang http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099083&t=2  DomainGang.com: ASSSA.com is a twenty year old domain, that is also a palindrome: It reads the same from left to right and right to left. Registered in 2001, this domain was the subject of a UDRP filed by a Spanish company, Agrupación Sanitaria Seguros S.A. There is no doubt that the acronym of the Complainant’s letters […] Copyright Dom...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099081&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:54:23 +0300 Travis M. http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099081&t=2  DSAD.com: A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on March 3, 2021. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve.  I’m only showing where the price was whe...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099080&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:42:39 +0300 Andrew Allemann http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099080&t=2  Domain Name Wire: A cybersecurity company, office furniture seller, and an insurance company bought domain names. Sedo had a couple of domain name sales this week that I really want to know who bought them. It’s not clear yet, but keep an eye on ThisDoesntSuck.com ($10,000) and Burn.art ($12,500). Here’s what I dug up for recent end user sales [...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099079&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 08:55:00 +0300 Michael Sumner http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099079&t=2  NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise to the top. Today’s list has 186 domains for sale with histo...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099076&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 07:55:00 +0300 Michael Sumner http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099076&t=2  NameBio.com: The top sale of the day was UTXO.com which sold for $20,000 at Sedo. NameBio recorded 431 sales $100+ for a total of $255,571 with an average sale price of $593. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 6% in the number of sales but the total dollar amount decreased by 16%. We also recorded an additional 1,977 sales belo...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099075&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 05:55:00 +0300 ShaneCultra http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099075&t=2  DSAD.com: If you’re getting into the domain industry right now its pretty tough. Yes there is money to be made but you have to have 5 figures to get into the expiry game if you want more than 20 names. Sure there are hand regs and some deals to be had, but wholesale prices have essentially doubled in the last few years. Maybe more. $1000...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099072&t=2 Thu, 04 Mar 2021 01:09:59 +0300 Raymond Hackney http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099072&t=2  TLDInvestors.com: UTXO.com sold for $20,000 at Sedo on Wednesday. At first glance someone might think it’s not the best looking 4L.com, just a random name that hit the jackpot. UTXO has relevance in the crypto world. Investopedia.com has a whole page dedicated to UTXO. What Is UTXO? The term UTXO refers to the amount of digital […] The pos...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099071&t=2 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 23:54:05 +0300 Raymond Hackney http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099071&t=2  TLDInvestors.com: It’s always interesting to see what celebrity or pseudo celebrity domain names sell for. I was looking at DropCatch today and saw that ChrisGardner.com was closing and it went for over $1,000. It closed at $1,039 to be exact. In 2006 Will Smith portrayed Chris Gardner in the Pursuit of Happyness. The movie based on […] Th...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099070&t=2 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 21:26:46 +0300 NamePros Daily http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099070&t=2  TNTNames.com: Today: Buying call-to-action domains – Budget: Up to $200.00 / Registering a Domain That Used To Be An Active Company / Buying NFT related domains – Budget: Up to $250.00 / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught … Continue reading →]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099068&t=2 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:26:56 +0300 Morgan http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099068&t=2  MorganLinton.com: Some interesting data recently became available through Pitchbook and as I was going through it I thought, heck – why not share it with all of you. First things first, and no surprises, .COM is still king and I don’t want anyone reading this to think that I’m suggesting that startups are giving up on […]]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099069&t=2 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 20:23:56 +0300 http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099069&t=2  DNJournal: This week's sales should make everybody happy with two 6-figure .coms, the biggest non .com gTLD sale of the year and more solid ccTLD sales!]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099067&t=2 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 16:15:28 +0300 DomainGang http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099067&t=2  DomainGang.com: DropCatch has been making a killing auctioning off domains it caught after they dropped. The 800 lbs gorilla of domain dropcatching auctioned off PokerUSA.com today, a domain auction that attracted plenty of bidding activity. In the end, PokerUSA.com sold for $19,450 dollars with DropCatch member “rushing” winning it. Now...]]> http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099064&t=2 Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:37:19 +0300 DomainGang http://www.domaining.com/headline/?id=4099064&t=2  DomainGang.com: Desktop.com, the one source platform service converging your apps in one location, has released some exciting news about its immediate launch of account plans. What is Desktop.com? Desktop.com provides an overarching, secure cloud workspace where all applications, content and collaborative conversations can be kept and rapidly organi...]]>