Dan.com is a domain marketplace that in recent years propelled itself onto the top list of favorite platforms for domain investors. Domain sellers and buyers engage through its well-planned interface and funds/domain exchange, making the process a cinch. After testing the Dan.com for a while, my first domain sale on Dan.com was almost for $20,000 [...] Continue reading →

Ted Olson is a veteran sales expert, having worked with NameMedia, Afternic prior to its sale to GoDaddy, and Endurance International. I had the pleasure of meeting Ted in the late 2000s during one of the Targeted TRAFFIC conferences; if memory doesn’t fail me, it was in 2008. Ted’s positive demeanor, engagement as a listener [...] Continue reading →

Recently, I closed my first sale on the Dan.com platform. In recent months I’ve been transferring my domain names away from the Uni Market, simply because the platform’s association with GoDaddy creates a slew of problems. Don’t get me wrong; the platform created by Frank Schilling’s excellent team in 2012 still performs great a decade [...] Continue reading →

Part of the domain investing game is waiting for inbound inquiries. Also known as “the waiting game,” this is the part that often challenges a domainer’s patience. Having sold domains I held for almost two decades, waiting on offers can become exhaustive. At some point, a re-assessment of one’s domain portfolio and a repricing might [...] Continue reading →

In recent months I’ve been using DAN.com, formerly known as Undeveloped, as a domain marketplace alongside the Uni Market. As a long haul beta tester and user of the Uniregistry platform, I am always looking for ways to “fail” the DAN platform, mostly by accident and sometimes intentionally. DAN has a great range of settings [...] Continue reading →

This is the 3rd post in a row about “meta” domains and that’s a good indication about the increased interest in the keyword, and Metaverse domains in general. A couple of weeks after my last story about “meta” domains that I registered or acquired years ago, I completed one more domain sale. The deal closed [...] Continue reading →

Facebook rebranded its umbrella company as Meta, moving away from strictly social media and marketing and onto a more complex company. Brands in the US but also globally tend to be short vs. long words, and Meta is a simplified form of Metaverse – the online universe that arrives next. As I explained recently, the [...] Continue reading →