Another clueless “buyer” has arrived. What else is new? He asked if I was selling one of my domain names and what the price was. I replied with a $9,500 quote. All good this far… …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in January: Topcoin, GoDaddy, CryptoWorld.com, New gTLDs, Home.Loans
In January the most popular articles were about Topcoin, GoDaddy violating ICANN rules AND having no mobile APP, CryptoWorld.com selling for $195,000, New gTLDs, Home.Loans selling for $500,000 and some other subjects. About 220 comments …
Read More »Top 5 domain name articles of 2017 (Frank Schilling, bitcoin and .xyz, Rick Schwartz, Uniregistry, .XYZ)
These are the top 5 domain name articles from 2017. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions and few people got distracted from domains but that is another story. It was a …
Read More »Top domain name articles of 2017 (part 2) (Uniregistry, Mike Mann, Rick Schwartz, New gTLDs)
These are the top domain name articles from 2017. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions and few people got distracted from domains but that is another story. It was a busy …
Read More »Top domain name articles of 2017 (part 1) (domaining, Namejet, best domains, brokers, Google, Mike Mann, GoDaddy)
These are the top domain name articles from 2017. It was a year full of controversial news and opinions ana few people got distracted from domains but that is another story. It was a busy …
Read More »Top 10 domain articles in December: Mike Mann moving his domains to GoDaddy, brokers, the GoDaddy valuation tool, DropCatch, Domaining.com
December was a slower month but still had some important articles. The most popular articles were about Mike Mann moving his domains to GoDaddy, brokers, the GoDaddy valuation tool, DropCatch, Domaining.com and some other subjects. …
Read More »Topcoin sale has started – Anybody that buys TopCoin is simply an idiot.
Topcoin conversion and sale round started yesterday Tuesday 1/16/18. Topcoin is distributing 1 billion tokens in a Token Distribution Event (“TDE”) scheduled to run from December 1st, 2017 until March 1st of 2018. Existing Topcoin …
Read More »GoDaddy violates ICANN whois rules and now makes it official
GoDaddy has been blocking whois access at Port 43 for years… It returns the date related information of each domain name, nameserver info and the registrant name. It has been blocking address, telephone and email …
Read More »Please don’t change the deal terms after the agreement!
Twice in the past month I had 2 buyers change the terms of the domain name transaction after we had agreed and I had setup the escrow transaction. In these 2 cases both changed their …
Read More »The state of domain name brokers
I have been really worried lately with the current state of domain name brokers. You may have read how “I don’t like brokers”. The problem is that most of the brokers know very little about …
Read More »SocialApp.com sold for $25,000 – Was the price too high? (plus the top 100 *app.com domain sales)
Yesterday the domain name SocialApp.com sold for $25,000 at GoDaddy auctions and that is an all time record price for a *app.com domain name. (together with wapp.com that also sold for $25k last year) Of …
Read More »When Rick Schwartz met Mark Cuban
Rick Schwartz talked today about the time he met Mark Cuban. 11 years ago Rick Schwartz won an auction for Make a Wish Foundation Children’s Charity on Ebay. The winning bidder ($6500) got to have …
Read More »Only buy what (domains) you need
I got inspired to write this post by a tweet made by Peter Sunde, founder of Njalla (and Pirate Bay), a privacy domain name registration service, about black Friday purchases: This Friday it’s “black friday”. …
Read More »Thinking to renew or not a New gTLD led to a $9,600 .com domain sale!
This is a domain name story that almost never happens. Or is it? So the story starts with this domain name that was coming up for renewal. It was a New gTLD domain: Hollywood.Agency. The …
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