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Atom.com Shares Non .com Sales Distribution

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I have spent more money on non-.com domain names this year than ever before. My perspective is that startups are using them as less expensive alternatives to .com domain names, and the number of companies operating on non-.com domain names continues to grow. This, in my view, has led to more aftermarket sales of non-.com domain names – and for higher prices. That’s why I have been spending more money to opportunistically acquire some non .coms in expiry auctions.

This morning, Atom.com CEO Darpan Munjal shared a couple of graphics detailing the sales distribution of non-.com TLDs on Atom.com from the last three years. Although he did not share actual data, the illustration shows what domain name extensions are the most popular sellers on Atom over the last few years:

MAD Comment from NTIA About “Wholesalers”

Andrew Allemann wrote about the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) statement about the .com registry extension agreed upon with Verisign. As a domain investor with a couple thousand domain names, the most eye-catching aspect of the statement was seemingly related to the prices charged by domain investors:

“NTIA recognizes concerns about current pricing and believes a reduction in .com prices would be in the best interest of the public. We also recognize that prices at both the wholesale level and downstream, including prices charged by resellers and substantial markups by warehousers, need to be addressed.”

Beware When Using AI for Domain Name Descriptions

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Artificial Intelligence can be a time saver. For domain investors, it can make it easier and quicker to create marketing copy to help promote a domain name. Over the last couple of years, domain name sales platforms and domain investors have utilized AI tools to help generate sales copy for their domain names. This can be risky, as attorney John Berryhill noted on X today regarding some Atom.com landing pages he found:

Atom.com Promoting Black Friday Sale

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Atom.com is promoting a Black Friday sale with a prominent header banner on its home page. Atom CEO Darpan Munjal shared some insight and answered some questions about the sale:

Fluid.io Becomes 2nd Largest Publicly Reported .IO Sale

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This afternoon, Joshua Schoen reported the $199,995 sale of Fluid.io. The domain name was sold at his BIN price via Afternic, according to a screenshot of the sale email he shared on X:

In looking at NameBio, this is the second largest .IO domain name sale reported publicly. Mint.io is the largest sale at $230,000. That domain name sold in 2021 via Park.io. There are several other .IO domain names that were sold in the low six figure range, according to NameBio. Once Ron Jackson records the sale in DNJournal, it will be just outside of the top 25 publicly reported domain name sales year to date.

Since the domain name was just sold, it is unclear who acquired it.

Congratulations to Josh on an exceptional sale. It’s nice to close a deal like this on a holiday week in the US that tends to be pretty quiet.

Notably, Josh also appears to own Fluid.com, as that domain name forwards to his LinkedIn profile.

Employer.com Acquired for ~$450,000 via Afternic

Late last night, Jesse Tinsley, Founder of Recruiter.com, announced a large domain name acquisition. His company purchased the Employer.com domain name for $450,000 USD.

Jesse shared details about the acquisition in a post on X:

Notably, Jesse shared the reason his company spent nearly half a million to buy this meaningful one word .com domain name:

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Atom.com Shares Non .com Sales Distribution

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MAD Comment from NTIA About “Wholesalers”

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Andrew Allemann wrote about the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) statement about the .com registry extension agreed upon with Verisign. As a...

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Atom.com is promoting a Black Friday sale with a prominent header banner on its home page. Atom CEO Darpan Munjal shared some insight and...

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