Last week I wrote about the $75,000 sale of Speechify.com and this week we have Newsify.com closing at $45,944 at GoDaddy auctions. There are developed websites at Newsify.co and TheNewsify.com. TheNewsify.com has a page on Crunchbase and describes itself as: Newsify is a judicious assemblage of the latest updates about what’s happening around you. From gaming to fashion, we cover each and … [Read more...]
GetSpeechify.com paid $75K to upgrade to Speechify.com
The suffix ify is used to form verbs meaning to cause an increase in the stated quality; to become. It has been a popular naming category sought out and registered by those in the brandable domain name space. BrandBucket has 166 names ending in "ify" for sale. Of course two of the most well known companies on the Internet use this naming convention. Spotify and Shopify. There is an … [Read more...]
Branders Union publishes it’s Brandable Marketplace Report for Summer, 2020
For all the brandable domain investors out there, you might be interested in the Branders Union. An organization started by Alan August that is essentially a union of brandable investors having a collective voice. They have just published their Brandable Marketplace Report for Summer, 2020. It's a nice report, well done and explains the background of the group and then delves into their … [Read more...]
Mask.com is now the highest priced domain name at BrandBucket
Last November I took a look at the highest priced domain names on BrandBucket. Lend.com was the highest at $2.5 million and Nude.com at $1.5 million. Neither name is now listed for sale at BrandBucket. Mask.com is now listed on BrandBucket and has the highest asking price at $2 million. The domain name registered in 1995 was owned by The Mask Group out of San Mateo, California. It went … [Read more...]
How do you define brandable?
There seems to be a never ending array of domain investors looking for "brandable" names. One of the dominant themes of domain wanted threads on Namepros. I think that the broad request of brandable might be wasting a lot of people's time. I see people argue all the time what is brandable and what is not, someone told me the mattress company that acquired Purple.com was stupid. They said, … [Read more...]
Now that they got funding time to change the name?
Peoople is a friend & influencer recommendation based app that enables its users to discover restaurants, books, movies and more. They just closed their first round of funding for 500,000 Euros. They are using Peoople.co The name is a bit clunky, even with the trend of spelling brandables with an extra letter like Smiile.com or Fiverr.com. I am not sure that the double o works. Plus … [Read more...]
List your best brandable name for sale
This post should be used to sell a name where you are making some money with no commission, and leave a little for the next buyer. So this post is for the best brandable.com name you are willing to sell right now. 1 name listed only. There have been a few who have tried to post more names using a different email address/name same IP all submissions will be deleted if caught. Names will get … [Read more...]