Today: Increasing the outbound email open rate / MillBankSystems.com sold for $10,049 / Share your Foreign NON-English domains. No IDN / and more… Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today: [...] Continue reading →

ICANN's two-year effort to purportedly preserve the Whois public directory to the greatest extent possible while complying with GDPR has failed. Under the latest proposal, the Whois database, once a contractually-required directory of domain name registrants, will be gutted to the point of virtual worthlessness, as registrars, registries, academics, and hand-wringing others ignored the public [...] Continue reading →

Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Trajectory.com led the way at $50,000. WOWCasino.co.uk was second at 23,900 GBP, ($30,450). OneCare.com was third at $25,000. 34 .com sales 21 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are:    · cloudautomation.com at 9,500 USD · orandaya.com at 7,999 USD [...] Continue reading →

Second brand aimed at high-end buyers. Imperial.com, Andy Booth’s latest domain brokerage brand. If you’re going to sell premium domains, it’s helpful to use premium domains yourself. Or two premium domains. That’s the strategy domain investor Andy Booth is taking. He started using Evolve.com for his brokerage last year. Now he’s adding Imperial.com as a [...] Continue reading →

I was reading the New York Post this afternoon, when I came across a photo of a person I recognize, Mike Zapolin, known to most as “Zappy.” The article briefly mentions his domain name investment past, but the focus of the Page Six article is his current status as “‘psychedelic concierge’ to the stars.” From [...] Continue reading →

A new company goes after domain registered in 2005. The owner of a business called Spase has been found to have tried reverse domain name hijacking the domain name Spase.com. Spase is a service that converts photographs into 3D models. The business was just launched last year at Spase.io. The owner of Spase.com registered [...] Continue reading →

I haven’t been doing a whole lot of outbound marketing to sell domain names this year, primarily due to the pandemic and economic fallout that resulted. When I do outbound marketing to sell domain names, it is for my “inventory quality” assets that are relatively easy to replace. I have selectively picked up my outbound [...] Continue reading →