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Escrow.com released the Domain Investment Index for Q1 2021. The Q1 2021 trading volume of $110m was led by sales of a record number of large domain name portfolios as well as sales of high value individual domain names. The report provides insight into the domain name market for the first quarter of 2021, compared [...] Continue reading
I noticed another domain name has been sold by Anything.com, a company that operates a portfolio of valuable domain names. Snappy.com, which had been registered to Anything.com for many years, transferred from Tucows to GoDaddy. The domain name is currently registered under Whois privacy, but it is now forwarding to a company called Snappy that [...] Continue reading
Domain sightings are random encounters with domain names “in the wild,” and by that we mean in the real world. Such encounters occur when a domain is part of a vehicle wrap or sign, on business and street signs and billboards, or even products. We group them in .com domain sightings and pile all the [...] Continue reading
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Wolf.com has been acquired by Namecheap for $550,000, according to Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall. I was told this half million deal was brokered by Andy Booth. The domain name recently moved into the Escrow.com holding account, and I anticipate it will transfer to Namecheap very soon. As with other recent domain name purchases made by [...] Continue reading
Background / Intro One of my longtime friends who was Internet marketing long before I was hit me up on Skype about a week ago praising Conversion.ai. I have to think long and hard about any other time he has really pitched or recommended something like that & really I just can't think of any [...] Continue reading
Domain name transactions help push Escrow.com to its second consecutive quarterly record. Escrow.com handled $110 million of domain and website transactions in the first quarter of 2021. Escrow.com released its quarterly Domain Investment Index (pdf) today, and parent company Freelancer.com released its quarterly results last week. Total domain name transactions in Q1 2021 were $110 [...] Continue reading