One of the things I enjoy doing is creating lists of domain names to search and register. In years past, I primarily used keyword lists from various websites along with the concatenate function in Excel.
More recently, I’ve been entrusting this to AI tools like ChatGPT and Grok. To come up with domain name lists to search, I would enter a prompt that is something along the lines of this:
The Umami.com domain name was in an expiry auction at GoDaddy last month. The winning bid for the auction was $100,000, as noted by Raymond. Because of the nature of GoDaddy expiry auctions, the winning bidder is not publicly known.
For whatever reason, the winning bidder did not pay for the domain name, nor did the runner up. In the case of a bidder default, I was under the impression that GoDaddy offered the domain name to under bidders sequentially until someone opted to purchase the domain name. Apparently, I was incorrect.
I was very fortunate to have a strong year selling domain names in 2025. I wasn’t anticipating it to be as solid as it was, but I was happy with the results, especially considering I grew my portfolio to more than 2,500 domain names over the last year.
I thought I would share some information about where I sold domain names last year. Some of the sales were inbound and passive and a few were generated by outbound marketing.
The ICA is hosting its annual members meeting in Las Vegas next week. I am flying in on the 14th and will be there for a couple of days. ICA leadership sent out an email today encouraging members to sign-up for their choice of optional activities on Thursday.
In addition to these activities, a new tradition was announced. The ICA Roast will take place during the opening party. The identity of the person being roasted isn’t being shared at this time, but the roasters are Jonathan Tenenbaum, Jeff Sass, Larry Fischer, Monte Cahn, and Shane Cultra. I think this is a great idea and should be entertaining. I won’t publicly guess who I think will be roasted, but I have a pretty good idea in my head.
If you would like more information about the ICA meeting – or if you’re interested in a last minute sign up, you can get all the details at ICA.Vegas. If you’re headed out to Las Vegas for the meeting, I’ll probably see you there.
