Higher bid increments should speed up high-dollar auctions. Expired domain name marketplace DropCatch has changed its bid increments following an extended auction for reactive.com in October. The auction dragged on for hours as bidders ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Why this reactive.com auction is taking so long
· Expired DomainsDropcatch needs to increase its bidding increments. There's a heated domain auction going on at DropCatch.com right now. Bidders have placed over 350 bids and counting for reactive.com, pushing the price up over $135,000. (Update: the auction ended ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Newfold domain auction sales led by Fiduciary.com
· Expired DomainsHere's what sold on SnapNames and NameJet last month. Newfold Digital's domain auction platforms SnapNames and NameJet had a good September, led by the sale of fiduciary.com for $84,999. The platforms combined for 102 sales of $2,000 or more ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
5 ways to save time domain investing
· Expired DomainsHere are five ideas to reduce the time you spend buying and selling domains. Successful domain investors spend a lot of time researching domains to buy, handling sales, and managing their portfolios. Many domain investors I talk to don't fully ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Should registrars allow anyone to renew a domain?
· Expired DomainsThe eth.link case brings up an interesting question. Earlier this month, the domain name eth.link expired because the domain owner didn't renew it. He had a pretty good excuse: he's in prison. Parties interested in the domain tried to renew it. ... Continue Reading10 Comments
Eth.link domain sold for $852k in unique situation
· Expired DomainsDynadot auctioned the domain after the previous owner landed in prison. [Update: Ethereum Name Service and the domain's previous owner have sued to stop the transfer of the domain.] An auction for eth.link ended at a staggering $851,919.30 in a ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Here are 108 domains that sold for $2k+ on NameJet and Snapnames last month
· Expired DomainsSales dropped in July on Newfold's aftermarket platforms. Newfold Digital's domain name aftermarket platforms NameJet and SnapNames combined to sell 108 domains for $2,000 or more last month. These domains totaled $447,000, but keep in mind this ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Verisign gets another expired domain patent
· Expired DomainsPatent describes a separate "cache" pool for expired domains. The current method of drop catching domain names — throwing as many registrar add commands at the registry as possible — hasn't changed. But that doesn't mean the world's largest domain ... Continue Reading3 Comments
GoDaddy improves expired domain pullbacks, expands API access
· Expired DomainsAuction winners should experience fewer pullbacks and can now snap domains in closeouts via the API. GoDaddy (NASDAQ: GDDy) has made two changes to its expired domains auction platform that domain investors have requested for a long time. First, ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Newfold reports $600,000 in aftermarket domain sales
· Expired DomainsHere's what sold last month. Newfold Digital's domain aftermarket platforms combined for 121 sales of $2,000 or more last month. The sales on NameJet and SnapNames totaled about $600,000. Here are some notable sales from the ... Continue Reading1 Comment
