Domain Investor @Webpoxcom

I just published a completely hopium-free guide to selling a domain name. There is some history here. In 2018, I wrote a nine-part guide on DN Geek that reached the first page of Google within a few months. I later sold DN Geek, the guide disappeared, and so did the ranking. Its framework lived on, though. Search for “how to sell a domain name” today and quite a few results will look strangely familiar. Eight years and hundreds of domain sales later, I decided to write it again from scratch. This guide won’t tell you what most domain owners want to hear. The fact that you love your domain doesn’t make it valuable. The business idea you once had for it doesn’t add to the price. An automated appraisal is not proof of value. Listing a domain on a marketplace doesn’t create demand... Sometimes a great domain needs years to find the right buyer. Sometimes the price is wrong. And sometimes the domain simply isn’t as good as you think. Knowing the difference is what selling domain names is really about. If you own domain names you want to sell, whether it’s one or a thousand, I think this is worth reading: efty.com/seller-guide/p…

Your lack of monthly #domain sales comes down to two main factors: 1. Quality of your domains is too low. 2. Size of your domain portfolio is too small. Fix #1 before you fix #2 — you’re gonna win 🏆. Fix #2 before you fix #1 — you’re screwed 🪛.

Bought Snack.ai for $20,000. Short, global, memorable and I see so many ways it works with .ai. My 4-year underwriting: Price: $20,000 End-user target: $500,000 Annual STR: 1.5% Wholesale value in year 4: $40,000 Renewals: $180 total Cost of capital: 7% That gives me a probability-weighted present value of roughly $53,000. I also have an idea I might build on it, so let’s see ;) Where do you think I’m wrong in my assumptions?

Hey @airasia @askbo any updates on when you will restart the direct flight route from Lucknow (LKO) to Kuala Lumpur (KUL)? Currently only seeing connecting options. Thanks!

If you are an end user looking to secure a domain name, DomDB (domdb.com) covers many different marketplaces and will show price comparisons. e.g. here is listing for one of my domain names. 1/2

We're finally shedding the .so (thank you Somalia!), and using the .com for @NotionHQ. And for this beautiful moment, I want to share a fun story: Back in 2018, I had just joined Notion, and one of the first things @ivan asked me to do was figure out how we could own notion.com. I had never done a big domain purchase before, so I reached out to a few domain brokers to understand the landscape. We tried different brokers, kept things anonymous, and attempted to surface a price the seller might consider. A year went by… nothing. Meanwhile, it was pretty clear this was only going to get more expensive as we grew. We needed a different approach. A fellow founder connected me to a broker who took a very different tack. Less transactional, more long-term relationship builder. He spent months getting to know the domain owner. Turns out owner was a fellow entrepreneur in the west coast… and a huge Grateful Dead fan. So we figured, why not get creative? Something beyond just price. So I called up our investor Ronny Conway and asked if there was any way he could help set up a private meeting between the domain owner and the Grateful Dead. Ronny is one of those people who somehow makes impossible things possible. A week later he calls me back: “New York City. Halloween. 15 minutes after the concert. Done.” The broker went back to the owner with an offer: some cash, some equity, and a private meeting with the Grateful Dead. That got his attention. He didn’t take the band meeting in the end, but he did lean into the equity (great call, in hindsight). We shook hands, and a few weeks later, the deal was done. I’ve been waiting years for the day we move our product to notion.com. Looks like 2026 is finally the year. Safe to say I’m unreasonably excited about this update!

@Dynadot For me bulk search & domain monitor features.

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I made a crazy purchase... 😅 I bought postfast (.) com I really didn't need it, as I have quite good DR on postfa (.) st, but I wanted to protect the brand for the future. It was too expensive for my taste, and did include some barganing and such. Quite happy though, now that I own it, nevertheless I'll just point it to my main domain, nothing more, but just some calm, that I can always change. Even if time comes to sell PostFast, it would be a great asset for the buyers. So a lot of positives, but in the future, not now.

See which TLDs are most popular amongst early-stage startups 📊 betalist.com/trends

AI made it stupid easy to launch something which sounds great until you realize… now everyone else can too! so now you’ve got 100s of “AI-powered” tools launching every week that all kinda look the same, sound the same, and blur together. ideas arent scarce anymore execution is getting faster by the day so what actually stands out? not another clever prompt not another slightly better feature it’s the name! AI can generate brand names, but it can’t get you the domain that matches! The one people remember, trust, and type without thinking.. that gap is getting wider, not smaller Infinite competition, finite names wrote this out properly here: efty.com/knowledge/post… (h/t @andrewrosener for sparking the idea)

$1.25M to go from nas.io 👉 nas.com

Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily

5 months ago

I spent $1.25 million to buy something...

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What would you do if your web designer, designing your new website, stole your domain names? What if they literally went into your @Godaddy account and transferred your domain names to themselves, without your permission? Well that's what happened to a non-profit organization that helps Veterans and Victims of Domestic Violence. I've spoken with the web designer (who also claims he's an SEO as well). He refuses to give the domain names back unless he gets $5,000 to "give the domains back". Not only did he steal the domain names, he's also extorting this non-profit. A police report has been filed, documenting the theft. What's an organization to do? They need to file a UDRP domain name dispute--there's no other way to get the domain names back unless you file a lawsuit. The non-profit has set up a GoFundMe to raise enough to cover the filing fees for the UDRP filing. It's at $450 so far, we are really close to covering the fees. Two law firms have already mentioned to me that they'll help with the legal side of it--if we can raise enough to cover the filing fees. Any small amount really helps (social shares help, too!). gofundme.com/f/support-make…

@PensDomain @afternic It was HR?

BIN, hand reg, outbound, HT, flip... We know many of you speak this language fluently. But for those just getting into domaining, it can feel like a different world. So we’ve pulled together some of the most common terms to make conversations easier to follow (and join). BIN Buy It Now. A fixed price a buyer can purchase at immediately. Inbound When the buyer comes to the seller through a lander, marketplace, or search path. Outbound When the seller proactively reaches out to potential buyers to pitch a domain. Flip Buying a domain with the aim of reselling it relatively quickly for a profit. Hand reg Registering an available domain directly, not buying from a prior owner. Drop reg Registering a domain the moment it drops and becomes available again. Aged domain A domain with an older creation date or prior history. Floor price The rough lowest price the market is likely to pay for a type of domain. Liquid A domain with strong investor demand and relatively easy resale, often in established short-name categories. Lander A for-sale landing page for a domain, usually with inquiry, offer, or BIN options. Lead A prospective buyer. Counteroffer The seller’s response after receiving an offer. Comps Comparable sales used to help price a domain. Installments Paying for a domain over time instead of all at once. LTO Lease-to-own. A common installment model where the buyer pays monthly toward ownership over a set term. Carrying cost The ongoing cost of holding domains, such as renewal fees. HT Hold time. How long a domain was held before it sold. EMD Exact Match Domain. A domain that exactly matches a search phrase or keyword term. Trend reg Registering a domain based on a trend, often with a short window of opportunity. ▫️Patterns and shorthand LLL / LLLL / 3L / 4L / 5L Letter-count shorthand for short domains. CVCV / CVVC / VCVC Pattern shorthand where C = consonant and V = vowel, used for describing short domains. NNN / NNNN Number-only pattern shorthand. NNL / LNL Letter-number pattern shorthand. x, xx, xxx, x,xxx, xx,xxx Pricing shorthand for ranges, like low xx or mid xxx. We kept it to the terms that show up most often in everyday conversations. If you've been in domaining for a while, what would you add for someone just getting started?

It’s easy to forget how weird the early internet actually was. Before anyone thought about digital assets and brands, domains were inexpensive (and originally free) to register, so many people claimed their stakes in the internet without giving much thought to what it meant to “actually” own a domain. Then people started realizing something. If you could grab a name that matched a brand, or a celebrity, or something people were likely to type, you could capture all that traffic and do whatever you wanted with it. And for a while, that actually worked. The problem was, none of the existing legal systems were built for this. Trademark law assumed physical products, geography, and clear intent. The internet collapsed all of that into one global namespace where none of those rules quite applied. So the rules had to be decided upon in real time. Some of the earliest domain cases are still the ones that matter most, because they answered basic questions no one had resolved yet. Is it bad faith if you register a domain just to sell it back to a brand? What if you don’t use it at all? What if you’re just redirecting traffic and making money off confusion? The answers to those questions came from a handful of early cases that defined how ownership on the internet actually works. We broke down the cases that set the foundation for many of the regulatory rules for domains as we know them today. Read Full Story 👇 snagged.com/post/the-found…

I'm excited to announce I recently acquired the domain anevo(.)com for $13,000 The first question you might be asking is... why pay that much for a domain? ...let alone a word that doesn't "mean" anything Although it is not likely to generate us a ROI today, this week, or this month, I have a long term vision for my company and team & figure this is another step in the direction of building a proper brand When I first started this business, I didn't have any real track record of success and didn't have the money to get a proper domain I settled for anevomarketing(.)com - while having a long domain or having the word "marketing" in the name ultimately "doesn't matter" I just didn't love the look of how long it was and didn't feel like it represented our brand I also promised that when I hit a revenue milestone that I'd splurge and get a nice watch - when I hit it (and have now well exceeded it) it just didn't "feel" right when I could invest more into the business/company/team While "anevo" might not mean anything to anyone, it was the name I picked when I started and I always wanted to have the clean 5 letter .com to accompany it I see this as a bigger bet on the vision & I'm happy with it even if it does nothing, but I see this as another deposit into our brand that will pay dividends Next step is to rebuild a proper site to along with it (in progress) -- Also not used to sharing numbers / moves like this, but I'm sharing this in an attempt to "build in public" more after watching a recent YT vid from the Bloom CEO Greg LaVecchia & felt inspired lol Appreciate you all - have another exciting announcement in the next few hours 👀

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