Efty’s co-founder Lionel Petitiaux talked about how scaling the platform was the hardest thing to do. “Building a product that people love isn’t easy, there’s no doubt about that. It takes most start-ups a long …
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DropCatch has a new domain marketplace for sellers – Here is how to get in
DropCatch recently launched a new marketplace for private domain name sellers. The Marketplace for Sellers launched by invitation only but there are about 1,000 private seller domain auctions ending in the next 2 weeks. Most …
Read More »The 2nd “Brands and Domains” conference is coming up on October 2-3
The 2nd “Brands and Domains” conference will be held on October 2-3 at The Hague, Netherlands. The objectives of the conference according to the organizers are: Inform brands about the existing use cases so that …
Read More »GoDaddy’s CEO Blake Irving will soon retire
GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY), announced Blake Irving’s retirement from the role of CEO, effective December 31, 2017. Scott Wagner, GoDaddy’s president and chief operating officer, will assume the CEO role upon Blake’s departure. Irving will …
Read More »BrandBucket marketplace statistics: 1017 domains sold for a total of $3+ million
BrandBucket shared some statistics on how its marketplace performed in 2016. Overall Domain Name Sales 1017 domain names sold $3070 average sale price $2295 median sale price Average price went up year-over-year, and even with …
Read More »GoDaddy will stop offering all Uniregistry domain names
GoDaddy will stop offering all Uniregistry domain names and extensions on August 29, 2017. A few months back GoDaddy suspended all Uniregistry extensions after the price increases were announced but then reinstated (some and then) …
Read More »Is Taylor Swift launching her new album website on Timeless.com?
Taylor Swift is probably preparing the launch of her new album on a new website that will be on Timeless.com. “Timeless” will probably be the name of the new Taylor Swift album and the name …
Read More »Mike Mann repricing 150,000 .Com domains
Mike Mann talked on Facebook about his 150,000 .Com domain repricing project and the difficulties he is having. “My 150,000 .Com domain repricing project is working sort of but not really. I buy new ones …
Read More »Namecheap CEO: “Inciting Violence vs Freedom of Speech”
Richard Kirkendall, CEO of Namecheap, wrote an article about suspending the domain name DailyStormer.lol. The article called “Inciting Violence vs Freedom of Speech” was written (and later edited) the Namecheap CEO can be summarized in …
Read More »Video Interview: Due diligence before buying a website
In a series of interviews with website investor Joe Burrill, Flippa uncovers his secrets for website due diligence and talks about mistakes he has made in the past. Watch the video below with Tony Barrett, …
Read More »A must read domain name management handbook written by a brand protection agency
MarkMonitor, a brand protection agency, published the updated (2017 version) domain name management handbook that everyone working with domain names (including domain name investors) should read at least once. Even if you are familiar with most …
Read More »Namecheap will discontinue several Uniregistry and XYZ domain extensions
Namecheap announced that it will be discontinuing several of the Uniregistry and XYZ domain name extensions (plus .rich and .luxury) on September 7, 2017. Kudos to Namecheap! The domain name registrar said that it has …
Read More »Video from NameSummit 2017: “Naming Your Startup? Stop Drppng Vwls and Making Sh*t Up!”
The first ever NameSummit conference was held this week at the Hilton Midtown in New York City. The .CLUB team participated in this new conference with CMO, Jeff Sass giving a keynote presentation on Monday …
Read More »Liquid Domains Market: Quality is in, Quantity is out
GGRG Brokerage Consulting and Giuseppe Graziano published the 2nd quarter of 2017 Liquid Domains Market Overview partnering with Escrow.com and Estibot’s parent company Intelium and ShortNames.com. QUALITY IS IN, QUANTITY IS OUT. Increased end user …
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