There is a tremendous amount of spam circulating 24/7 and domain investors often receive hundreds of emails daily. In recent years I’ve identified the two primary reasons the unsolicited email has increased in volume: Cheap, throwaway domain names, and Spam servers hiding behind free proxy DNS services With that in mind, the type of spam [...] Continue reading →

Got an active inbound interest for one of your domains? That’s great. Then again, unless your minimum asking price is met, that might not be a good sign. Assuming you’re using a third party platform to sell your domains, such as the Uni Market, offers arrive with some information about the prospective buyer. In recent [...] Continue reading →

When GoDaddy acquired Uniregistry and its Uni Market, I had high hopes. The promise for an improved, combined market with “millions of eyeballs” was shared exactly one year ago, in February 2020. Fast forward a year later, and from a personal standpoint the combined Uni Market / Afternic has not produced much. I still use [...] Continue reading →

One of the many great features I liked at Uniregistry was its support system. The acquisition of Uniregistry by GoDaddy has broken that part, and it’s a big loss in my opinion. For starters, the GoDaddy ticketing system is by email only. It creates an email chain that includes unnecessary elements like signature graphics, HTML [...] Continue reading →

Today’s most established domain investors span about 25 years of trading domain names for profit, if we account for a 1995 launch of the commercial Internet. Hello, Rick Schwartz! Some of us began their journey a bit later on, and are close to clocking two full decades of active domain investing. Activity status isn’t gauged [...] Continue reading →

It took a lot of effort for GoDaddy to provide a token report of sales, earlier today. Personally, I lost track of time; was it really in 2015 such numbers were last shared? Although the format isn’t perfect – very small sample of sales, four month delayed release of the monthly report – you can [...] Continue reading →

It’s been 20 years since my first domain sale took place in the summer of 2000, and boy, do I feel like it was yesterday. Despite not using any type of escrow and receiving a check from overseas in exchange for the domain, that first experience was a smooth event. The reason: I was dealing [...] Continue reading →