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...]
CENTR TLD Market Report 2024
CENTR released their latest TLD report. One of the things I thought that was interesting in the report was toward the bottom as it discussed how ChatGPT and A.I. overall could affect search and also domain names. From the report: The ChatGPT Effect – LLM Challenger to Search? As Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to become more widespread, understanding their impact on domain names … [Read more...]
Afternic Top Keywords sold for November 2023
Afternic released their keyword data for November 2023 and My stayed in the top spot. These are the top keywords sold for the month. Group was in second place and Ai was in the third spot. https://twitter.com/afternic/status/1745800801639862464 A look back at October 2023 Afternic Top Keywords sold … [Read more...]