Rick Schwartz shared what he deemed a successful Domain negotiation. It was quite comical, and illustrates something I have been saying to friends in the corporate world for years. "If you are going to try to buy a domain name, find out who owns the name and see if you can research them." Because someone would have to be batshit crazy to email Rick and offer $3,000 for a name like … [Read more...]
Squarespace is going private
Close to a year after buying Google's domain business, Squarespace is going private. The stock popped 13% on the news yesterday. It closed today basically unchanged. CNBC mentioned They also point out that the $44 per share in cash, a roughly 30% premium to Squarespace’s unaffected share price. Squarespace was never a market darling. It opened below its $50 reference price in 2021 and … [Read more...]
NameJet/SnapNames April 2024 domain name sales led by Hoku.com
NameJet/SnapNames sales for April 2024 are out and Hoku.com was the top domain name sale at $17,730. NameJet high sale was HOKU.com at $17,730. SnapNames high sale was IMARK.com at $7,250 NameJet Domain Name Brand Product Sales … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by uTask.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and uTask.com led the way at $20,000. Reformas.es was number two at 12,500 Euro, ($13,522). 22 .com sales 10 cctld sales 10 other tld sales Soccerverse.com and Retroverse.com were representing the verse niche, I see some on Twitter high on verse. Interesting to see if that takes off in a substantial way. Domain … [Read more...]
Tiwtter.com auction closing today it’s all about the links
Closing at DropCatch today is the ugly looking domain name Tiwtter.com. A typo for Twitter which is now of course referred to as X. So one might be thinking eventually Elon Musk is going to make the changeover to using X.com so is it worth bothering picking up this typo? Currently at $820 with the high bidder being SeoDomains. Well the domain name has an incredible link profile, has a higher … [Read more...]
Nexus.xyz sold for $149,000
Michael Sumner tweeted out some reported a 2022 domain name sale to him. It was Nexus.xyz. The website is developed there investors are also listed, and here is a link to their white paper. Registered in 2019 now at Squarespace. Domain Name: NEXUS.XYZ Registry Domain ID: D118384656-CNIC Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.squarespace.domains Registrar URL: … [Read more...]
A decade in should we really still be calling them new gtlds?
It was back on February 5th of 2014 when the first group of Latin script new gtlds went live. It's been 10 years. Someone the other day asked me why are still calling them new gtlds? You're ten year old is certainly not a newborn and your ten year old car has lost that new car smell. So what should we call these things now? Now I know some will just say a failure due to their disdain. … [Read more...]