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Domain Shane
Matt Mickiewicz Discusses Buying the Domain Hired.com for “About” $125,000
Hired.com is a job marketplace established in 2012 which has raised over $70 million in funding. It’s yet another startup for co-founder Matt Mickiewicz, who was also involved with creating companies such as SitePoint, 99designs, and Flippa. T...
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Matt Mickiewicz Discusses Buying the Domain Hired.com for “About” $125,000
Hired.com is a job marketplace established in 2012 which has raised over $70 million in funding. It’s yet another startup for co-founder Matt Mickiewicz, who was also involved with creating companies such as SitePoint, 99designs, and Flippa. T...
Discussion
June 8, 2016, 12:30 am
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP of June 4, 2016
We recorded the DSAD episode of the DomainSherpa show this afternoon, and that was a lot of fun. It really is an awesome format for putting a show like that together. People who would normally be a deer in headlights in front of a large g...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP of June 4, 2016
We recorded the DSAD episode of the DomainSherpa show this afternoon, and that was a lot of fun. It really is an awesome format for putting a show like that together. People who would normally be a deer in headlights in front of a large g...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 10:36 pm
Domain Shane
Flippa – A Look Forward: Crock.com, UIO.com, GolfSchool.com, Embarrass.com, More
Reserve Met and Will Sell Crock.com – Flexible, short, keyword domain, particularly for food/cooking. 15,000 searches/month. MastersDegree.net – Bidding in the mid-$xxx right now, but this domain would have been in the thousands a couple ...
Discussion
Flippa – A Look Forward: Crock.com, UIO.com, GolfSchool.com, Embarrass.com, More
Reserve Met and Will Sell Crock.com – Flexible, short, keyword domain, particularly for food/cooking. 15,000 searches/month. MastersDegree.net – Bidding in the mid-$xxx right now, but this domain would have been in the thousands a couple ...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 7:09 pm
Domain Name Wire
Hanes spends about $30,000 to buy T-Shirts.store
Company registers domain on first day of EAP. Radix started the Early Access period for .store today. When I wrote about it yesterday, I noted Radix’s steep day one prices of about $30,000 retail. I wrote: “While that number might seem cr...
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Hanes spends about $30,000 to buy T-Shirts.store
Company registers domain on first day of EAP. Radix started the Early Access period for .store today. When I wrote about it yesterday, I noted Radix’s steep day one prices of about $30,000 retail. I wrote: “While that number might seem cr...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 5:03 pm
Domain Name Wire
Complainants should hire domain name attorneys, too
Two cases show why you need competent counsel to file a UDRP. A good number of domain names are lost via UDRP when the domain name owner fails to put up an adequate defense. The domain name owner fails to hire a qualified domain name attorney who und...
Discussion
Complainants should hire domain name attorneys, too
Two cases show why you need competent counsel to file a UDRP. A good number of domain names are lost via UDRP when the domain name owner fails to put up an adequate defense. The domain name owner fails to hire a qualified domain name attorney who und...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 1:26 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: The Amazing Daily List of Domains at Auction for Tuesday, June 7th
I worked today, myself and a few other guys went down to the Potomac river to test Drone recon. It was the first flight over the river and it worked great. The idea is to be able to quickly search for victims from the air and then to guide other res...
Discussion
DSAD.com: The Amazing Daily List of Domains at Auction for Tuesday, June 7th
I worked today, myself and a few other guys went down to the Potomac river to test Drone recon. It was the first flight over the river and it worked great. The idea is to be able to quickly search for victims from the air and then to guide other res...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 12:14 pm
Domain Name Wire
.VIP domain hits $5.5 million and 400,000 registrations
New domain continues to grow in China. .VIP is proving to be a winner for MMX (Minds + Machines). The company announced today that it already has $5.5 million in sales (wholesale) of .VIP domains after three weeks on the market. It paid $3.0 million ...
Discussion
.VIP domain hits $5.5 million and 400,000 registrations
New domain continues to grow in China. .VIP is proving to be a winner for MMX (Minds + Machines). The company announced today that it already has $5.5 million in sales (wholesale) of .VIP domains after three weeks on the market. It paid $3.0 million ...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 12:01 pm
The Domains
Eric Lyon’s Latest Domain Comic
Eric Lyon put out his latest comic, Eric really does a great job and is a really talented dude. The inspiration for this comic was all of the times I’ve seen people ask each other how to monetize a domain while it sat parked, waiting to be sold...
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Eric Lyon’s Latest Domain Comic
Eric Lyon put out his latest comic, Eric really does a great job and is a really talented dude. The inspiration for this comic was all of the times I’ve seen people ask each other how to monetize a domain while it sat parked, waiting to be sold...
Discussion
June 7, 2016, 4:09 am
Domain Shane
Domain Flips (NEVU.com, Lending.io) and Flops (PNPP.com, ePuppy.com)
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips StockHistory.com sold for 1,080 USD recently at NameJet, vs 320 USD on 2015-05-19 at NameJet. The seller won’t be able to retire on this one, but...
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Domain Flips (NEVU.com, Lending.io) and Flops (PNPP.com, ePuppy.com)
Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of NameBio. Flips StockHistory.com sold for 1,080 USD recently at NameJet, vs 320 USD on 2015-05-19 at NameJet. The seller won’t be able to retire on this one, but...
Discussion
June 6, 2016, 10:36 pm
Domain Shane
AUCTION RECAP of June 3, 2016
I intended to catch up on the recaps yesterday, but instead, my wife and I rode our bikes a few miles to the Grapevine Brewery. It’s a great little place that opened a couple of years ago downtown. I really love that craft brew...
Discussion
AUCTION RECAP of June 3, 2016
I intended to catch up on the recaps yesterday, but instead, my wife and I rode our bikes a few miles to the Grapevine Brewery. It’s a great little place that opened a couple of years ago downtown. I really love that craft brew...
Discussion
June 6, 2016, 10:14 pm
