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Today: How to register 2 word domains? / The Domainer’s Prayer / AgentCloud.com Sold for $6,100; 12570.com for $4,000 / And more. Here are the new discussions and domain news that caught my eye today. CarbonCamera(.)com – Does this domain have much appraisal value? Quality Article Writing Services | 100% Unique Content | $0.01 per word – Saw [...] Continue reading
When it comes to collecting and validating real data about startups it’s safe to say that Mattermark takes the cake. I’m probably late to the party on this one but today I learned that they have a pretty slick Chrome extension that makes it insanely easy to do a deep dive into any startup you [...] Continue reading
China‘s manufacturing capabilities are insane; the world’s 2nd largest economy creates almost everything that American consumers buy for Christmas. They also make every god damn firework Americans use for July 4th. With the anticipated launch of the Apple iPhone 7 on September 7th, one thing is certain: China’s economy will continue to grow exponentially. Domain [...] Continue reading
Combine summer - already known as the slowest season for domain sales - with an upcoming 3-day national holiday weekend that marks the unofficial end of summer and the end result was the slowest sales week of the year. Details in our latest weekly sales report. [...] Continue reading
Usually a company wants to find it’s way to owning a short LL or LLL.com domain name. They have a long multi word name that many find arduous to constantly type out, especially on mobile. Well one El Segundo-based ad agency wanted the exact opposite. David & Goliath had to “settle” for DNG.com because they [...] Continue reading
Last week, we shared information about a Chinese domain services company that blasted owners of short domains, with spam. The emails, targeted owners of premium LLL .com and LLLL .com domains en masse, most likely after extracting data from the WHOIS. We have now confirmed that the company behind this spam blast is Yumi.com, organizers [...] Continue reading
DropCatch, the domain drop-catching service operating from DropCatch.com, has made an announcement regarding its pricing of certain domains. According to their email, .ORG domain backorders will be discounted for the entire month of September, down to $15 dollars. Regularly priced at $59 dollars, such backorders would help boost the market share of DropCatch, which is [...] Continue reading