Giuseppe Graziano released his Liquid Market Report for Q1 2025. I listed a few highlights below, they include a healthy increase in public sales while Escrow.com sales were down 2.11% quarter over quarter. … [Read more...]
Fractionalized domain ownership – Is it a scam, a long term play, brilliant?
Fractional domain ownership has been having quite the conversation the last couple days. John Berryhill started it off by replying to a 3 year old post written by the incomparable Bob Hawkes. Bob who is always very humble and respectful of all opinions, asked someone to remind him in 3 years if he was wrong about there being a Domain Investment Trust that would be publicly traded in 3 … [Read more...]
InterNetX publishes their All About Domains 2024 interview roundup
InterNetX published an interview series called "All About Domains 2024" the piece features 10 industry participants. I was most interested in hearing what Ron Jackson had to say. Ron mentions he is not at the widely cited 1 to 2 percent STR but rather at 3 to 4 percent. From the article: What examples of successful domainname investments have you made or seenin the industry? As a … [Read more...]
Atom “77% of consumers say trust is damaged when other brands use the same name at a different domain extension”
Atom.com published a very comprehensive research piece on audience data. They polled consumers and investors in the U.S. and asked them 12 questions. The headline I used here I thought was very interesting. I have written before about a name like Pandora where the .com and .net are both advertised on TV here. Key takeaways: Read and bookmark the full article here … [Read more...]
Giuseppe Graziano gives some insights from the Breakfast Club
(Image Credit Giuseppe Graziano) Giuseppe Graziano who publishes the Liquid Market Report but out a very detailed post on the business of domain investing. He added in commentary from legends in the business along with ChatGPT. The article touches upon some comments that are a few years old but still relevant. Nat Cohen remarked during the burst of the Chinese short domain bubble, ‘A market … [Read more...]
Liquid Market Report for Q2 2024 – $20M in liquid sales at Escrow.com
Giuseppe Graziano released the Liquid Market Report for Q2 2024. Sales at Escrow.com were stronger than the publicly disclosed sales according to the report. The star of Q2 2024 was GoDaddy shares up 17.72 for Q2 2024. - Q2 was another solid quarter with almost $20M in liquid domain sales as reported by Escrow.com (+9.86%) - 5th percentile values of the most liquid categories (4Ls, 5Ns, … [Read more...]
ChatGPT is now registered in over 530 extensions
Michael Santiago detailed his sale of ChatGPT.com for $85,000. Back in January 2023 I published here on TheDomains that Ryan from Domain Buy App, Inc. sold ChatGPT.net for $8,900. The domain name is now on a parked page, though I do believe Ryan sold it to OpenAi so it's odd that they have not updated nameservers. At the time of that posting the term "chatgpt" was registered in 370 extensions. … [Read more...]