Maxim magazine has been around since 1995, started in the U.K. and then headquartered in New York since 1997. The magazine has gone through some ownership changes but it's the intellectual property, specifically domain names, that I want to dive into. Maxim.com is the home of the magazine. Earlier this year the domain name MaximOnline.com expired and sold for $32,000. At the time I … [Read more...]
4 years ago today Mr. Berkens rang the register, a look back
On this day back in 2015 Michael Berkens announced that he sold the majority of his portfolio to GoDaddy. (171 comments). At the time Michael could not give numbers but after things settled the numbers came out, DomainInvesting.com covered the purchase price of $35.5 Million. The credit goes to George Kirikos: According to a series of tweets from George Kirikos this evening, GoDaddy … [Read more...]
Bogus domain names and spoofed emails lead to $1m theft
Bogus domain names and spoofed emails result in a hacker stealing $1million. Vice reported about a man in the middle attack where a Chinese hacker was able to steal $1millin from a Chinese VC and Israeli startup. From the article: After seeing the original email thread announcing the upcoming multi-million dollar seeding fund, the hacker took action. Instead of monitoring subsequent … [Read more...]
Shares in NNR.com sell out – Do you want to invest in fractional ownership?
Disclaimer: Nothing below is a recommendation or a solicitation to buy or sell any domain name or do business with any of the companies mentioned below. Aron Meystedt announced today that his proof of concept for selling fractional ownership in domain names has sold out. Shares in NNR.com were sold valuing the 3L.com at $30,000. Here was the offering memo: NNR.com - Purchase Shares … [Read more...]
Warned.com was not a garden variety “pricing mistake”
Four days ago I wrote an article about Warned.com and the buyer being told the price was not correct. The sale was not going to complete and the buyer refunded. The buyer stated they paid x,xxx for the domain name Warned.com, a domain name owned by Frank Schilling's Name Administration Inc. The price may have been $2,000 and I say that because another member on Namepros said they saw the … [Read more...]
Emerging trends that have sparked cultural shifts
David Cohen wrote an interesting piece on AdWeek about data/trends related to Twitter. Twitter Reveals 18 Emerging Trends That Marked U.S. Cultural Shifts Since 2016 Cohen breaks down the billions of tweet data that Twitter unveiled. Why I think this can be useful for a domainer is it might help to show you where some naming themes you have been interested in, might be falling out of … [Read more...]
Apparently it’s not hard to get a .gov domain
Would you like a .gov address? It might be easier than you think to secure one, and that's not a good thing. KrebsonSecurity.com published an article about how a researcher filled out a form, grabbed some letterhead and impersonated a mayor of a small U.S. city. Basically they committed wire fraud to secure a .gov domain. From the article: “I used a fake Google Voice number and fake Gmail … [Read more...]