Domainer-to-domainer platform plans changes under new ownership.
Domain Name Wholesale Exchange has a new owner.
Based on tweets posted this evening, it appears that Ryan Ewen or one of his companies has acquired the platform. (You can hear a podcast interview with Ryan here.)
According to a tweet stream this evening, a lot of changes are in store for the site.
One improvement will be more data to help find the best domains, including adding GoDaddy valuation data and DotDB TLD counts. The new owner also hopes to reduce the minimum listing price in the future.
I’ve always thought Domain Name Wholesale Exchange was a good idea for facilitating domainer-to-domainer sales, but didn’t have the consistent focus and execution necessary to make it the platform it needed to be. We’ll see if that changes under new ownership.
Update: Ewen provided more details to Domain Name Wire about his plans for DNWE.
He said the idea to acquire DNWE came about after he ran a test initiative called “Daily Diamonds.” It was a Domain Manage project where they publicly advertised below market domain opportunities on our social media channels and associated partners including DNF, Acorn, Crunch.id & Domaining.com via website banners.
Daily Diamonds was a way to test the distribution value of the wholesale market.
In response to Daily Diamonds, DNWE reached out on social media “tounge in cheek” about being acquired. That kicked off acquisition discussions.
Ewen said that his development team has been working on many aspects of the domain market, but didn’t have the investor-to-investor market covered.
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