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A year ago, the domain Saurus.com was sold at GoDaddy for $5,100 dollars. Considering this is a 25 year old domain name registered in 1995, that was a cheap sale. But there’s more. Here’s some interesting information about the domain’s past that we uncovered. Saurus.com was registered on December 29, 1995 by Dino Konstantopoulos of [...] Continue reading
When it comes to domain investing, people tend to focus on the domain name sales. Outbound sales is a hot topic, and it is an important topic for people who rely on it to sell their domain names. There are various threads covering everything related to outbound sales – from the sales pitch to the [...] Continue reading
Donuts Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of Afilias, Inc. The announcement came after ICANN approved the change of control of Afilias. “Now under one corporate structure, the two companies will continue to operate securely and reliably with no significant changes for either registrars or registry services clients.” “We are very excited about [...] Continue reading
Aftermarket companies introduced new features to help domain investors sell more domains. This is the fourth in a series of posts about the domain name industry in 2020. Read the others here. 2020 started with concern about GoDaddy acquiring Uniregistry, consolidating a low-cost domain aftermarket platform. But I’d argue that 2020 was actually a [...] Continue reading
This was a large image sharing website, we acquired, renovated, and resold back in 2016. Formerly a popular image sharing website, the “Pinterest” of the late 2000s, it had fallen out of grace with its users when the actual Pinterest.com became popular. At its peak, back in 2011, the site was generating over 1 million... [...] Continue reading
Acquired in Feb 2019 for $51K, following several months of continued engagement and negotiation with the seller through a broker. We were able to get a lower price for the business due to different mitigating circumstances: The seller was Vietnamese and the communication was a little challenging through a broker, who was translating for... [...] Continue reading
A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on December 29, 2020. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve. I’m only showing where [...] Continue reading