A tool to find one-word domains and thoughts about the state of the domain business.
This week I have a guest interview and some thoughts about the domain industry. For the guest segment, I speak with Steven Tey, a student who created OneWord.Domains to help people discover one-word domains that are available for registration. In addition to speaking with Steven, I give my take on the current state of the domain market, discuss domain name liquidation platforms, and share my frustrations with GoDaddy.
Also: Patents, reverse domain name hijacking, domain name surge
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Your commentary – about the state of the industry in the Covid era AND your critique of GoDaddy’s slow and failed attempts to pull together its backend – was right on the money. Over the past few months I’ve added about 100 domains to Afternic using the Monetize option in my GD dash. Recently I checked my Afternic account and found that few to none of them were actually listed. Just as you said – lost time and lost money. Time to start looking for other options.
Have had major issues with Afternic also, about 80% of names never get listed on Fast transfer despite being opted in being done at both Afternic and the registrar.
Contacting Afternic hasn’t been able to resolve it either.
Godaddy have many many issues with their system and that has been the case for years. Hopefully they will get “disrupted” eventually.
Keith, I was going to leave your exact comment about Andrew’s commentary. It was great to hear how thoughtfully it was laid out.
Definitely appreciated your commentary and would encourage you to do more. Also very much enjoyed your interview at Side Hustle Nation, https://www.sidehustlenation.com/niche-newsletter/ And probably this is old news to you but https://www.skypeascientist.com/ matches scientists with school teachers and I would think, podcasts.