Joseph Peterson takes a deep dive into sales at NameJet and SnapNames last month. Domain auctions at NameJet and SnapNames during July were neither record-shattering nor sluggish. And that alone is significant during a pandemic that has hobbled the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Reviewing NameJet and SnapNames sales from last month
· Domain SalesJoseph Peterson does a deep dive on domains that sold on NameJet and SnapNames last year. Oh, and turn up your volume. A couple of features leap out at me while looking at the top June auction results from NameJet / SnapNames. First of all, 4 out ... Continue Reading3 Comments
What sold (and why) on NameJet and Snapnames last month
· Domain SalesJoseph Peterson takes an in-depth look at Web.com's aftermarket sales in May. Once upon a time, people learning how to build websites and perform SEO went to a Lycos-owned tutorial site called WebMonkey.com. It had its ups and downs, shuttered in ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Decoding last month’s Web.com aftermarket sales
· Domain SalesJoseph Peterson shares what sold on NameJet and SnapNames last month, and what the domains could be used for. "Oh but they're weird and they're wonderful" – these domain sales. B-B-B-"Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John is how I first ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Deep insight into recent aftermarket domain sales
· Domain SalesJoseph Peterson looks into what domains sold on Web.com's aftermarket platforms in January, and why. In January, 88 domains sold above $2000 apiece between the two auction platforms, NameJet and SnapNames. 75% of these occurred in a narrow lower ... Continue Reading4 Comments
An in-depth look at NameJet’s sales
· Domain SalesJoseph Peterson dives into last month's sales on Web.com's aftermarket platforms. Yesterday, I published a quantitative comparison of NameJet sales in December 2019 compared to 2015. Now let's look at what sold last month, including both NameJet ... Continue Reading4 Comments
How NameJet has changed over the past four years
· Domain SalesJoseph Peterson returns to write about NameJet. The Chinese market implosion and new expired domain deals have changed the face of NameJet since he last wrote. I stopped writing articles about domains at NameJet for DNW about 4 years ago. "My how ... Continue Reading6 Comments
NameSummit 2017 Recap
· ServicesIn case you missed it, the first NameSummit conference was held this week in New York City. Smack dab in the middle of Manhattan, actually, a few blocks from Central Park, Broadway, and across the street from the MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). All sorts of ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Shills, Insiders, & Front Runners – 5 Bidding Scandals
· Domain SalesJoseph Peterson reviews domain industry auction bidding scandals to bring context to the NameJet issue that blew up last week. Recently, the domain auction platform NameJet found itself embroiled in a controversy involving "shill" bids. This is by no ... Continue Reading26 Comments
And the Most Biased New TLD Is …
· UncategorizedFor several articles now, we've been talking about national bias in Country / nTLD pairs. It's no surprise that .WIEN skews toward Austria, since Wien (a.k.a. Vienna) is the country's capital. And we'd expect .IMMOBILIEN to be registered at a higher rate ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
