Many years before I started working with Mike on TheDomains.com, we had a back and forth about the ICA. My position was that you want more members that an organization with 80 members doesn't hold any juice when they want to say to a politician, "Hey we are your constituents, and we demand justice." Having 5,000 - 10,000 members holds a lot more weight. Of course many in the domain industry … [Read more...]
Is now the time for Punchh to go after Punch.com?
So today it was reported that Punchh a company that did loyalty cards that has now expanded to analytics raised $40 million. Punch.com is owned by Dr. Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. They also own and have the trademark for Hawaiian Punch. Punch.com which surprisingly has a registration date of 1995 DomainIQ gave me incorrect info Domain Name: punch.com Registry Domain ID: … [Read more...]
Berkens on getting valuations right a decade ago
Valuations: Get It Right You’ll Be A Multimillionaire, Get It Wrong You’ll Go Broke Mike wrote the following post in October of 2009, while it deals with other asset classes as well, here was the part on domain names. Domains like any other asset are going through a constant revaluation process. For domainers, your ability to correctly value a domain is going to be a huge factor in … [Read more...]
XFL reveals team names
The XFL announced the names of the 8 teams that will play in the new league. The XFL will start play in 2020. The team names are as follows: Dallas Renegades.Houston Roughnecks.Los Angeles Wildcats.New York Guardians.Seattle Dragons.St. Louis BattleHawks.Tampa Bay Vipers.D.C. Defenders. All of the full names, city plus nickname were registered in .com some on August 15 at Mark Monitor. As … [Read more...]
The new g’s and me Part 1
So you may have watched my talk from the Asheville Conference on Morgan's blog, if not you can watch it below. So to follow up on my new gTLD presentation at Rick's Asheville Conference where I said Geo extensions are death here are some stats from .Miami domains I … [Read more...]
Sale price of Navigator.com revealed
I had read a tweet some weeks back from Jamie @DotWeekly. It was regarding Navigator.com and Gentry Underwood. Gentry Underwood has acquired the https://t.co/OBdzqzsqAs domain name for his newest startup. It appears the domain was acquired around August 2018 according to whois history records. #AI #teamwork #brand #premium #domain https://t.co/In89RehGI1— Jamie Zoch (@DotWeekly) June 19, … [Read more...]
From one end user to another, Blume.com finds a new owner
When a company cannot get their exact brand name in .com some go with a .co or .io and others look for a common prefix like, get, try or buy + their name.com. Blume is a women's personal care company based out of Vancouver that is using the prefix "Meet" so meetblume.com is where their website resides. It looks like another company by the name of Blume Construction out of Peoria, IL … [Read more...]