Today: New year, new strategy, new sales / HomeIdeas.com sold for $13,033 / Share Your Longest Domain with a “Message” / and More… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: Is Selling a Domain really [...] Continue reading →

I won the auction for a domain name at GoDaddy expired auction on the 25th of January. I paid $1,500+ for it and while I wanted to share my purchase something was holding me back. It was holding me back the fact that the domain was registered with Tucows so my purchase was not “guaranteed” [...] Continue reading →

A group of Finnish domainers are currently stranded in Las Vegas, looking for NamesCon 2020. The domain investors from Malaakinikki Turku in northern Finland, arrived on a special charter flight last night. After waiting for more than 3 hours at the McCarran International Airport with no InterNetX VIP limo arriving to pick them up, they [...] Continue reading →

An article about a startup called Haus caught my attention this afternoon because of the domain name it chose for its website. Anna Escher wrote an article on TechCrunch this afternoon, reporting that Haus “secured $4.5 million in seed funding:” Millennials don’t want to be drunk, but are locked into alcohol-centric communities. @drinkhaus wants to [...] Continue reading →

Aman Bhutani GoDaddy’s new CEO Aman Bhutani is giving a keynote presentation at NamesCon in Austin, Texas this afternoon. This is a live blog. The presentation is called Sushi, Onions and Domain Investors. Bhutani said in the past they looked at people like those in the room at NamesCon as suppliers…suppliers of domains to sell [...] Continue reading →

Tesla who? GMC just announced the name of its upcoming electric truck: It’s the GMC Hummer EV. The 1,000 horsepower vehicle is a “monster truck” that bears the famous Hummer brand, without its bad reputation on fuel consumption. This GMC truck is all-electric. GMC is expected to school Tesla, whose futuristic cybertruck was seen as [...] Continue reading →

Domain name industry consolidation is necessary, but competition is crucial. As I walked around NamesCon yesterday, I saw the signs of consolidation in the domain name industry. There’s Hexonet, now part of CentralNic, which has gobbled up many domain companies. Enom is now part of Tucows. There’s GoDaddy, which acquired Host Europe Group. Heck, [...] Continue reading →