Keyword domain or brandable. Dot com or ccTLD. Niche-specific metrics. Domain-specific metrics (age, past sales prices… if any, etc.), there are a ton of things that are on your mind if you’re serious about being a good domain investor. Therefore, I don’t judge those who tell me they don’t care about [...] Continue reading →

Brexit is coming, or maybe not. But if it does it will see the more than 200,000 .eu registrants in the United Kingdom lose their domain names, a number which is plummeting quickly due to the uncertainty. It’s a situation that’s playing havoc with business in the [...] Continue reading →

I’ve stopped buying LLLL.coms lately.  I used to buy them as a store of value.  I only buy what I consider the best but even the best have dropped in value.  Good letters, lots of ending in C and I. To me, they will be the names that companies use to shorten their url [...] Continue reading →

California.com seems to have changed hands twice in 6 months, first as part of a package of 10 premium domain names in August 2018 with Domain Pulse reporting at the time “the actual price was undisclosed, but the package sold ‘for an undisclosed mid-seven figure amount.’” Then in January [...] Continue reading →

ICANN64 commences on 9 March and in preparation ICANN has published a GNSO Policy Briefing and a Pre-ICANN64 Policy Report. The GNSO Policy Briefing is produced by ICANN’s Policy staff supporting the GNSO. It has been drafted specifically in preparation for ICANN meetings to provide the Community with concise [...] Continue reading →

Sedo released their weekly sales and Buy.Game led the way at $29,999. This was not a registry sale, a Chinese registrant registered it in 2016. Lads.com was the top .com sale at 22,999 Euros, ($26,200). Seems cheap in my opinion. 36 .com sales 22 cctld sales 6 other tld sales 2050.org sold for 10,000 Euros, [...] Continue reading →

Whatever the initial investment was, this domain name is a big asset to mindfulness company. I took a ten-minute timeout this afternoon to meditate using the Calm app on my iPhone. I’ve used a few meditation apps, but I recently subscribed to Calm given the traction it’s getting and the quality of the app. The [...] Continue reading →