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Richard Lau discusses a seven-figure domain sale and what companies using .ai domains should know. Domain investor Richard Lau joins me on today’s show. We discuss his $1 million sale of gld.com and how a domain buyer broker helped seal the deal. Richard also explains why he hopes his sale of passes.com will turn into […]

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Entrepreneur Michael Cyger uses great domain to launch game site. I found a new time suck this weekend: pyramid solitaire. And I know exactly who to blame. Last week, Michael Cyger and his 13-year-old son held a mini spring break hackathon and developed a web version of the game. It’s easy to find, too, since […]

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A big cybersquatting case, .ai domains, and the domain aftermarket made news last month. 1. Canva triumphs in cybersquatting case, secures 174 domain names – That’s a whole lotta domains in one UDRP! 2. Aston Martin wins .ai domain from misguided domain registrant – The .ai goldrush has attracted clueless cybersquatters like this one. 3. […]

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Complainants didn’t exist until 25 years after the domain was registered. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has ruled (pdf) that two Brazilian real estate investment firms tried to reverse domain name hijack the domain trix.com. It was a simple, dead-on-arrival case. Trix Investimentos Ltda and Trx investimentos e participações ltda. filed the dispute against […]

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Pay me at the same interval every time, and I’ll be happy. I hear a lot of complaints about payouts from Afternic. Most of these complaints are about payments taking too long. I’m not really concerned with how long it takes to receive payments (within reason). I don’t count on the cash flow from domains […]

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One time $400k sale buoys premium revenue. Top level domain name registry Radix has released its Premiums Report (pdf) for the second half of 2023. The company reported $4.8 million in premium domain sales at retail prices, a 28% increase over the second half of 2022 and an increase from the $4.64 million reported in […]

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A very cool bird feeder company bought the top (publicly revealed) domain at Sedo this week. Sedo had a very slow week for public domain sales, probably owing to the Easter holiday. The company reported just 32 sales of $2,000 or more, which is about half of usual. This made it hard to find end […]

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Panelist points out many flaws in the Complainant’s case. A World Intellectual Property Organization panelist has found (pdf) Euronet Worldwide, Inc. guilty of reverse domain name hijacking. The payments company filed a UDRP against Euronet.com, which is currently owned by Euronet Internet. Euronet Internet appears to have gone through many acquisitions over the years, but […]

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Ask your Afternic account manager to help get your domains on Fast Transfer after a domain transfer. When I win expired domains, I immediately list them for sale on Afternic. If they are at a Fast Transfer registrar such as Network Solutions, I’ll opt them into that as well. After 60 days, I like to […]

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But the Handshake .wallet owner wants to press his case. A long-running dispute between Unstoppable Domains and the owner of .wallet in the Handshake protocol has taken a strange twist. The controversy started when Scott Florsck began selling domains under his .wallet Handshake domain name. Unstoppable Domains has its own .wallet extension. After a series […]

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Understanding the domain name market in Canada. Oh, Canada! This week, I chat with domain investor Frank Mardian, founder of the DN.ca domain name forum popular with Canadian domain name investors. Frank talks about becoming interested in websites when he ran a Mercedes Benz dealership, and how he started collecting domains. We discuss some nuances […]

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These changes should help sell more premium domain names. I was recently searching for domains on GoDaddy and noticed a few interesting things about how it presents premium domain names listed through Afternic. Lease-to-own GoDaddy appears to be testing different ways of presenting lease-to-own offers. This is how it looked on several domains I checked […]

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Cybersquatters registered domains within days of acquisition announcement. Capital One Financial Corporation has filed an in rem lawsuit (pdf) against three domain names related to its planned acquisition of Discover. Last month, Capital One announced the $35 billion takeover of Discover Financial Services. The banking firm defensively registered many low-value domain names, such as capitalonediscovered […]

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Despite a recent announcement by one domain registrar, .io domains prices aren’t jumping. Earlier today, domain name registrar Hexonet sent a notice to customers about a .io price increase. The message stated: We have recently been informed about a price change by the registry for .IO domain names (registrations, renewals and transfers). As a result, […]

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This site helps you find recently-expired domains that you can hand register. A new expired domain name site offers an interesting twist on finding expired domains. The free site could be helpful to brandable domain investors looking to add inexpensive domains to their inventory. JustExpired searches through recently dropped domains to find ones that might […]

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The flawed report doesn’t adequately address the lock-in of existing domain registrants. ICANN has published an economic analysis (pdf) about price controls in .org and .info. While it has some good points, the analysis is flawed. The organization undertook the study due to an Independent Review Panel (IRP) decision in a case brought by Namecheap. […]

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Snoop Dogg’s daughter, an international trading company, and a clothing designer bought domain names. Domain broker Mark Ghoriafi has a lot of hustle and energy, which paid off this month with his biggest sale since joining Sedo: bagels.com. Here’s a list of end user domain name sales that just completed at Sedo. You can view […]

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Domain aftermarkets need to clean up their inventory. Let me start this rant with some good news. This month, I sold a domain name for $6,500 that I found through Domain Academy’s Afternic advanced search tool. I bought the domain for less than $100. Now for the bad news: I spent a lot of time […]

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It’s 2024. UDRP Complainants must stop making an argument that’s no longer true. John Berryhill won another UDRP this week. While there’s a lot I could write about his successful defense (pdf) of the domain name transco.com, I want to focus on one of the Complainant’s arguments that bothers me. Many complainants argue that the […]

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It turns out the domain hadn’t expired and shouldn’t have been auctioned at SnapNames. Last week, I wrote about an issue I was having with Crazy Domains. After trying and failing to resolve the issue with Crazy Domains’ support over several weeks, I didn’t know what else to do other than write about it. And […]

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