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Spaceship Doubles its DUM

At the end of July, I wrote about Spaceship surpassing 100,000 domain names under management (DUM). The registrar continues to grow, and its Founder Richard Kirkendall announced it has more than 200,000 domain names under management:

You Can Now Hide Estimated Value at Dan

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Last week, Dan.com announced and deployed a feature I did not like. On the user control panel, Dan showed GoDaddy’s Estimated Value for each domain name listed for sale on the platform. The Estimated Value utilizes GoDaddy’s GoValue automated appraisal. Upon deployment, there was no way to hide the column like you could hide other columns.

The idea behind this deployment was to make it easier and faster for users to price their domain names since domain names listed with a BIN price tend to sell faster than those without pricing.

Media.com Buyer Comments on Acquisition

This afternoon, Axios reported the sale of the Media.com domain name. Kismet Group, an Australian private equity company, acquired the domain name to launch a reputation management platform. According to the Axios article, the company is investing $20 million into the business, including the purchase of the domain name.

I reached out to James Mawhinney, Founder of Kismet Group, seeking more information about the acquisition of Media.com. Unfortunately, the acquisition price of Media.com is not being disclosed, but Mr. Mawhinney commented to me about the importance of the domain name:

“We love to share success!”

If I see two friends or colleagues that could benefit from meeting over a shared interest or converging path, I am always on the lookout to make a connection. Connecting friends or colleagues for each other’s betterment is something I enjoy doing and I appreciate when it is done for me without asking or expectation of a quid pro quo.

Just about every Sunday, Andrew Miller shares some random thoughts on LinkedIn. Oftentimes, his weekly posts offer some domain name news or insights. In his second bullet point yesterday, Andrew shared a list of domain names he and Hilco Digital are advising on, and he closed that thought with this:

“If you have a connection, client or are a potential interested party, connect with us and we will work with you, always. We love to share success!”

It Pays to Know Random Phrases

My eyes bulge out of my head sometimes when I see a somewhat obscure term in a domain name coming up for auction. Oftentimes, the term isn’t well-known by others, and even with the ease of searching Google to understand why it has bids, people won’t understand its popularity as much as someone in the know.

Yesterday, I came across a tweet from someone who shared a graphic of a domain name sales email from Afternic:

Monitor Landing or Parking Page Downtime

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When I first started developing my domain names, I learned the importance of downtime monitoring. On some of my growing websites, there would be random times when the WordPress-based websites went down for short periods of time. Occasionally, I would catch the downtime and occasionally an advertiser would inquire about why one of my websites wasn’t working.

To be more informed about downtime on my websites, I began using a downtime detector called Montastic. I added all of my developed websites to my account, and whenever there was any downtime detected, I would receive an email notifying me. This was helpful because I could ping the hosting company when I saw it and let them know when the websites were down so they could investigate the cause.

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Spaceship Doubles its DUM

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At the end of July, I wrote about Spaceship surpassing 100,000 domain names under management (DUM). The registrar continues to grow, and its Founder...

You Can Now Hide Estimated Value at Dan

1
Last week, Dan.com announced and deployed a feature I did not like. On the user control panel, Dan showed GoDaddy's Estimated Value for each...

Media.com Buyer Comments on Acquisition

1
This afternoon, Axios reported the sale of the Media.com domain name. Kismet Group, an Australian private equity company, acquired the domain name to launch...

“We love to share success!”

1
If I see two friends or colleagues that could benefit from meeting over a shared interest or converging path, I am always on the...

It Pays to Know Random Phrases

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My eyes bulge out of my head sometimes when I see a somewhat obscure term in a domain name coming up for auction. Oftentimes,...