Nic.at published a look at domain name trading and referenced some words of wisdom from Rick Schwartz and contrasted them with a new trader starting out, Niels Buntrock. From the article: Several hours a week dedicated to domain trading Schwartz has to be something of an outlier in this industry, though. In an interview with domain.com he shares a number of his hottest tips for people … [Read more...]
Who would you choose?
Someone posed this question to me yesterday, "If you could only list at one aftermarket marketplace which would it be?" In this hypothetical the exclusivity that a BrandBucket demands would be in place for every marketplace. My vote would be GoDaddy/Afternic under this hypothetical example. So many people outside the business associate domain names with GoDaddy. I said to the person who … [Read more...]
Online.Casino the largest reported new gtld sale of all time is now live
On June 12, 2018 Donuts announced the largest reported new gtld sale. The registry sold Online.Casino for $510,000. A year later Marek from Brands.International posted a link on Namepros to a Domain Sherpa show about the SEO experts building the site. Meet the Team of SEO Experts Building Online.Casino Meet the team of SEO experts behind last year’s record-breaking new gTLD acquisition of … [Read more...]
Moving from a .com to a .us
You don't see this everyday a domain change from a .com to a .us. Sipree.com changed their name to DigitalPay which is a solid brand name for what they do. The .com is sitting parked on a GoDaddy lander registered since 1999. The .co is at DAN.com with $15,000 buy it now. Press release: San Francisco, Ca. Sipree, a leader in facilitating business payments to consumers, announced today it … [Read more...]
Perch.com raises $36m rebrands to Orchard without the .com
So here is an interesting rebrand, Perch.com has rebranded to Orchard, the domain they are using is OrchardHomes.com. Perch.com already redirects to OrchardHomes.com. The company is an iBuyer for those not familiar with what an iBuyer is, An iBuyer is a real estate investor that uses an automated valuation model (known as an AVM) and other technology to make cash offers on homes quickly. … [Read more...]
Blockchain gaming company moves from .io to .games
In a post written on Medium, Chase Freo reported that Alto.io is pivoting to Outplay Games. Chase wrote, this is a complete overhaul of the product and services it is developing. This pivot is taking Outplay Games to an entirely different direction from its last year’s offering of NFT centric tool sets. These are the types of rebrands that many who are fans of new gtld domains like to … [Read more...]
A look at the history of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking
With the news out today that Lotto.com was saved in a UDRP complaint, though there was no finding of reverse domain name hijacking. There is an article published by Gerald M. Levine a few weeks back at IPlegalCorner.com that's worth reading. Mr. Levine takes a look back at the history of RDNH and provides some other stats on UDRP's as a whole. From the article: Between 2000 and 2019 (with … [Read more...]