Escrow company recognizes top domain brokers. Escrow.com today revealed the winners of its 2023 Master of Domains awards. The awards are given to the highest-grossing brokerage firms/individuals based on the dollar volume of their transactions with ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
My new favorite AI domain generator
· ServicesI feel like a hand-registration genius. AI-powered domain name generators are opening many people's eyes to the quality of domains available for hand registration. Before these tools became available, most domain investors generated domains to ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Price increases boost Q1 revenue at Squarespace
· ServicesSticky customers help Squarespace boost revenue. Proprietary website builders are sticky. It's hard to switch from one provider to another. And they mostly cater to non-technical people, making it even harder to switch. Squarespace (NYSE: SQSP) ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
PayPal restored services to dotDB. Here’s why it dropped it.
· ServicesIt seems like PayPal could have prevented this with proper communication. Last week I wrote about how dotDB's PayPal account was canceled and the funds were frozen. PayPal wouldn't give any reason for the cancellation at first. But dotDB got the ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Odys opens marketplace to premium domains
· ServicesOdys is expanding beyond SEO domains, allowing domain investors to list premium domains. Sean Markey spoke with Odys founder Alex Drew. I recently chatted with Alex Drew, founder and CEO of Odys.global. If you don't know about Odys, here's ... Continue Reading7 Comments
.Au contract goes out to bid
· ServicesauDA is requesting proposals to manage the .au registry backend. The contract to run registry services for Australia's 4.2 million .au domain names is up for grabs. auDA, the organization that manages the .au namespace, issued a request for ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Verisign adds 1 million .com/.net domains in Q1
· ServicesDomain registry ups the lower end of its revenue guidance for the year. Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) reported first quarter earnings this afternoon. The company ended the quarter with 174.8 million domains in the .com/.net base, which was 1.0 million ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Using AI to find domains to hand register
· ServicesNew tools can help you find domains to hand register. Most of the domains I acquire are expiring domains, but sometimes I dabble in hand registrations. My hand registrations are typically topic or trend related. For example, I registered a bunch ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Will AI change domain name search?
· ServicesRecent advancements in AI could change the landscape of domain search. For years, name-spinning companies and domain registrars have likely been using various types of artificial intelligence to deliver domain search results. That use could ... Continue Reading4 Comments
DNWE switches back to a commission business model
· ServicesSubscriptions are out. Commissions are back in. Domain Name Wholesale Exchange (DNWE, no relationship with DNW) is switching back to a commission business model. The marketplace for investor-to-investor domain sales was initially launched with a ... Continue Reading3 Comments
