Over the past few days, I received quite a few emails from GoDaddy with the subject “A product’s been removed from your GoDaddy account.” Jamie Zoch mentioned this on X, and I am sure there are many other GoDaddy customers who received the same email.
This email is typically one I receive after letting a domain name expire or when I have sold a domain name and its transferred away from GoDaddy. I typically receive these emails a short time after the domain name is deleted or transferred.
I received an email from Atom.com notifying me that one of my domain names has been added to its new Sapphire Marketplace, which was announced earlier today:
✨ Introducing: Atom’s Sapphire Marketplace ✨
💎 The ultimate destination for the best non-.com domains!
🔥 Featuring premium single-English-word gems across 100+ TLDs.
🚀 Explore now: https://t.co/X0JB0y2LGB pic.twitter.com/LKH6YmetAK
— Atom.com (@atomHQ) January 16, 2025
When I attempted to login to my account on Atom.com, I saw an alarming message on my Chrome browser with a warning:
As my portfolio has become larger, I have been spending more time evaluating whether to renew domain names or let them expire and save money. A domain name that looked good to me in 2016 may not look so good today. Renewals for .com domain names may be just in the $10/year range, but there’s no sense in throwing good money after bad money.
When I am evaluating domain names, I look at several factors, some of which are hard numbers and others are gut instinct. Some of these factors include the following:
Samba.com was the most exciting expiry auction I’ve been following for a while. The domain name had once been owned by a company in Saudi Arabia, and it was auctioned on NameJet. Samba is a genre of music and a dance style that originated in Brazil. The descriptive term is used in branding by many companies around the world.
Before the auction, I was planning to bid and had set aside $50-75k in my mind to buy the domain name. I figured there was a somewhat reasonable chance I would be in contention, but I thought that would not likely be enough to win the domain name. I figured I would try and let the market decide if I would take the name home or not.
In 2023, I noticed a company called Macro had announced a big funding round, and it was using Macro.com for its website. Its brand matching domain name caught my attention, and I learned the company had rebranded after being founded under the Coparse brand:
Whoa – Macro isn’t messing around. They secured the valuable https://t.co/WsuRKAXVd1 domain name.
The company started out being called Coparse. Now, https://t.co/JO8wfTXFT2 forwards to https://t.co/WsuRKAXVd1.
Fantastic brand and domain name upgrade.https://t.co/wghppBv9yE https://t.co/qfOKXnTFqQ
— Embrace.com (@embrace_com) February 8, 2023
Last night on LinkedIn, Macro CEO Jacob Beckerman shared some background about the domain name acquisition, including the purchase price.
