Since Facebook announced it's plans for Libra in June, many domain investors climbed on board the Libra domain name train. With a lot of excitement for both Facebook Libra and domain registrations, optimism was high. That optimism might need to be tempered a bit, an article in the Wall Street Journal speaks of financial partners like Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc., and others are having second … [Read more...]
Mike said this 8 years ago, is it still true?
8 years ago Mike wrote a very popular post that got a lot of views and over 120 comments. Domain Investing Isn’t Playing The Lottery, It’s Investing When Mike wrote the post it was before new gtlds, it was before cryptocurrency and the blockchain became mainstream fare. There were not as many domain investors back then as there are now. I agree with Mike 100%. But I can say discussions, … [Read more...]
Liquid Domains Overview Q2 2019
Giuseppe Graziano released his liquid domains report for Q2 2019. The report focuses on the 614,928 .com domains we call “liquid”. The objective of the report is to present key statistics and generate a debate amongst the industry stakeholders about the fair value of such domains. We hope you enjoy it and we encourage your feedback and participation for the next reports. Escrow.com saw … [Read more...]
Bitcoin.com publishes a piece on crypto domain names
Jamie Redman wrote a pretty long piece about the buying, selling and discussion of crypto related domain names. Redman went through a lot of social media posts, referenced a discussion about crypto on Namepros and pulled out a bunch of sales. It would have been nice for Jamie to have left out the squatter moniker and just referred to people buying a selling as domainers, investors or … [Read more...]
ExerciseBalls.com drops – the name has been around the block
ExerciseBalls.com closed at DropCatch yesterday for $5,212. This was the third time the name sold, each time for a lower price. However there is one other step along the way, it sold as a website a little over 2 years ago on Flippa for $10,650. Ali Zandi was the seller of the website. From the sales listing: Background The domain ExerciseBalls.com was acquired in 2015 from SnapNames after … [Read more...]
Verisign reports Q2 earnings – ended the second quarter of 2019 with 156.1 million .com and .net registrations
Verisign (VRSN) reported earnings today, they reported net income of $148 million and diluted earnings per share (diluted “EPS”) of $1.24 for the second quarter of 2019, compared to net income of $128 million and diluted EPS of $1.04 for the same quarter in 2018. The operating margin was 65.9 percent for the second quarter of 2019 compared to 63.8 percent for the same quarter in 2018. … [Read more...]
Over 50% polled would not pay more than $999 for a domain name
So I started a poll a few weeks ago on Namepros which closed yesterday. The question posed was the following: What's the most you'd pay for a domain in the aftermarket? Over 53% would not pay higher than $999 with 16.7% saying they only hand reg. Nothing; I only hand reg 104 vote(s) 16.7% $100 73 vote(s) 11.8% $101 to $499 78 vote(s) 12.6% $500 to $999 75 vote(s) 12.1% $1,000 39 … [Read more...]