Anyone who uses Twitter in 2020 has noticed an uptick in warnings added to tweets. Especially if you are involved in the political arena. These flags or warnings added to tweets have even turned into a meme, with many brands poking fun at themselves or the competition. Well it’s not …
Read More »Take it to the Limit – Limit.com sells for $120,000
Limit.com sold for $120,000 on Sedo, the buyer looks to be Brent Oxley and the seller was from Great Britain. Creation Date: March 28, 1996 Update Date: December 21, 2020 (2 days ago) Expiration Date: March 29, 2023 The domain name was once owned by Limit.com LTD The post Take …
Read More »Masks.com is for sale on Flippa – developed and run by just one person
One of the most talked about products in 2020 are masks. I happened to notice that the owner of Masks.com has listed the business for sale on Flippa. The starting price is high $975,000. Listing states revenue of over $1 Million since July 2020. There is an interview with the …
Read More »PAA.com buyer revealed
PAA.com was dropped by General Electric it closed at $75,050 at DropCatch. The valuable piece of digital real estate had redirected to a GE Lifesciences page. The domain name was originally owned by PAA Laboratories. GE Healthcare acquired PAA Laboratories in 2011. The domain name was paid for and updated …
Read More »NameFind let’s OKR.org expire – Oversight or a smart play?
OKR.org was left to expire and closed at $20,850. The interesting thing here is who owned it. GoDaddy’s own Namefind. Before NameFind the domain name was owned by Future Media Architects. NameFind shows up in the whois history according to DomainIQ in 2016 Referral URL: http://www.godaddy.com Updated Date: 2016-04-08T16:16:28Z Creation …
Read More »Are bidders just trolling DropCatch on Epara.com?
The curious case of epara.com the domain name that no one seems to want to pay for. Epara.com was dropped and caught by DropCatch. It has been auctioned now for the fourth time. It closed on Thursday at $11,555. $11,000 seems to be the price point. Back on October 29, …
Read More »End of the year favorite/best registrar poll at Namepros sees Dynadot out to a big lead
A year end favorite registrar poll has kicked off on Namepros. It’s not for 2020 or 2021. A few members suggested that the best/favorite registrar poll happening in March or June did not make sense. It should happen in December. Epik did win 2020 favorite/registrar poll. This is just a …
Read More »Bitcoin blows through $21,000 will there be a surge in Bitcoin, Crypto domain sales?
Bitcoin surged past $20,000 for the first time ever and blew through $21,000 after that. Will this spark greater interest in Bitcoin, Crypto and Coin names? Many see this rally a tad different because it’s being driven by interest from institutional investors — rather than speculation by small-time traders, according …
Read More »Are you more optimistic or less optimistic about domaining today?
If you have been into domain investing for at least 12 months are you more or less optimistic about your business today compared to when you started? I asked this question on Namepros as well and optimistic has the early lead. But it seems some are more optimistic about their …
Read More »Engage.com site now live
Ron Jackson announced last week that Buckley Media successfully brokered the sale of Engage.com for $803.025. Great Job! The site now looks to be live though it is missing things like an about us, or a privacy page which you agree to when you request a demo. The name which …
Read More »Two 5 figure expired auctions at GoDaddy that should have plenty of buyers
A couple big closes on expired domain names at GoDaddy on Sunday. UnitedTech.com closed at $20,000 this was not owned by the large company United Technologies that merged with Raytheon last year. It does not have the backlink profile we see with 5 figure closes on GoDaddy. We do have …
Read More »CiteULike.org popular with researchers closes at $36,000 in expiry auction
CiteULike.org closed at $36,000 on GoDaddy auctions. This is the kind of name that newcomers need to understand why it went so high. It was not for the name. Popular with researchers. According to Wikipedia: was a web service which allowed users to save and share citations to academic papers. …
Read More »Buyer of ModernComputing.com was Google
Mike Mann announced the sale of ModernComputing.com at the end of October. He bought the domain name for $2,144 in 2008. The sale price was $53,900. The name is now redirecting to https://chromeenterprise.google/moderncomputing/ The buyer of the name was indeed Google. The Modern Computing Alliance is a group of industry-leading …
Read More »Weights.com sells for a third time publicly
Image by David Mark from Pixabay Weights.com sold for $52,000 at Sedo on Friday. This was the third time it sold publicly over the last 8 years. It sold for $32,000 in 2012 at Sedo and went up $4,500 in 2014. In 2014 it sold at Ejtel Consulting/ Flippa. The …
Read More »$90,000 and five years later and not even a nameserver update
Five years ago Elliot Silver broke news on a .money domain name that sold for $90,000. The seller once walked away from The Apprentice UK TV Show 5 years later and the domain name has not even updated the nameservers. Transfer.money is the name and it’s a perfect keyword combination …
Read More »Purchased for $2,600 in March, Empire Names sells Roze.com for $68,000
Empire Names is having a good month, after selling SmokeFree.com for $30,000 last Thursday, (acquired for $4,000). Riz M is back with the $68,000 sale of Roze.com. Roze.com publicly sold two times before, $13,506 in 2015 at SnapNames and then when Empire Names acquired the name in March of this …
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