A second-hand furniture site, a school in Honduras and a taxi app bought domain names. Sedo had a heck of a sales week led by giveaway.com at $400,000 and PFP.com at $353,000. A new owner is listed in Whois for the first one, but the second one ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Latest end user domain sales at Sedo
· Domain SalesA DAO, a construction company and a software business bought domain names. I might sound like a broken record, but it's getting more and more difficult to find out who bought domain names. With Whois blocked, I usually have to wait for the domain ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Quantifying the domain aftermarket slowdown
· Domain SalesTake a look at GoDaddy's aftermarket growth rates. The domain aftermarket exploded at the onset of the pandemic. Now, it's coming back to earth. GoDaddy (NASDAQ: GDDY) is one of the biggest players in the aftermarket. Consider this data about ... Continue Reading4 Comments
This week’s end user domain name sales
· Domain SalesA zipline adventure park, an artificial intelligence company and an art gallery bought domain names. The market for web3-related domain names has taken a dive lately along with the crypto markets, but buyers are still out there. This week, Sedo ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
The inconsistency of domain sales
· Domain SalesUp. Down. Up. Down. Up. AbdulBasit Makrani is a successful domain investor with a portfolio of over 8,000 domain names. Today, he wrote about some of his recent domain acquisitions. But something else in his post stood out to me: ...I would like ... Continue Reading15 Comments
My 2022 domain sales recap
· Domain SalesA high level summary of my domain sales last year. I recently calculated my 2022 domain sales. Here's how my sales broke down: 32 sales 26 .com, 2 .gg, 1 each of .xyz, .info, .us, .org 25 at Afternic, 3 at Dan, 2 inbound, 1 each at Sedo ... Continue Reading10 Comments
13 recent end user domain name sales
· Domain SalesA web3 company, a 3D imaging business and a lead generation company bought domain names. Sedo sold a couple of nice five figure domains this past week including payments.co for $45,000 and direct-flights.com for $35,000. The latter is in use but ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
An interview with Andrew Allemann about the sale of PodcastGuests.com
· Domain SalesSean Markey asks Andrew about the sale of one of his businesses. Andrew (the founder of Diomain Name Wire) recently announced he had sold his PodcastGuests.com side project. Here's the press release about it. For my column this week, I thought ... Continue Reading2 Comments
2022’s top domain sales: where are they now
· Domain SalesHere's a look at the top ten sales charted at DNJournal. DNJournal keeps a running tally of the top publicly revealed domain sales each year. The 2022 list is in the books and the top ten sales on the 2022 list range from $1,008,925 to $15 million. ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Afternic rankles domainers with “pricing discrepancies” comments
· Domain SalesGoDaddy's aftermarket platform Afternic caused concerns for domain sellers today with a discussion about pricing discrepancies. In response to a tweet from competitor Efty about charging more for Afternic listings than for direct sales through landing ... Continue Reading21 Comments