Years ago when I told my physician what I do for a living, he referenced an old skit on Saturday Night Live. In the 1999 SNL skit, there was a parody of an investment firm called Dillon Edwards. The company waited so long to get online that every decent domain name was taken, leaving it with only ClownPenis.Fart to use for its website.
There is no .Fart domain name extension right now, so ClownPenis.Fart does not resolve to anything. Well, that might change.
I decided to break up some Summer doldrums by doing outbound marketing to sell one of my domain names. I picked one that I’ve owned for a while and hasn’t had any inbound inquiries. It was also a domain name that had several upgrade targets.
The first company I messaged showed interest in buying the domain name. The person’s first and only question was along the lines of ‘how do I know you own the domain name and aren’t trying to scam me?‘
This is a great question and one that is obvious when doing outbound marketing to sell a domain name. Unfortunately, it’s not always simple to answer the question in a definitive way.
I saw a .ai auction on Namecheap Market, but by the time I saw it, the bidding had already climbed beyond what I was willing to spend to buy it. The auction for Team.ai closed yesterday with a high bid of $136,500. This auction was noted today on X by NameBio.
There were nearly 100 bids from 14 bidders in this auction. When hovering over the winning bidder’s username, it said the user joined in March of 2025 but has not won an auction yet. The runner up was a Gold level bidder who has won 4 auctions worth more than $15k. Three bidders placed six figure bids in the auction. I am unsure if the auction transacted yet.
I received a suspicious looking email yesterday, and I want to share some details. The email subject was “Atom x Embrace.com,” and it came from an email address using a .CO domain name that does not appear to be associated with the Atom.com platform.
Within the email, it had the following messaging:
“I’m Will from Atom. We run a marketplace and naming platform with 400,000+ brandable domains, plus appraisal, brokerage, and naming services.”
There are a number of domain investor groups that get together throughout the year. I know of groups in south Florida and Los Angeles who hold casual meetups to talk about domain names from time to time. When I lived in New York, I hosted a few small meetups, and it helped me meet quite a few people I stay in touch with to this day.
Bill Sweetman from Name Ninja will be holding a domain investor event at the end of the month. The Ottawa Domainer Meetup, as it will be officially known, will be held on Saturday, August 29, 2026 from 4-8 PM in downtown Ottawa, Canada.
Porkbun is a domain registrar that is a preferred option for many. It ranked #5 in the Namepros poll of top domain registrars last year. The company has been operating for a little more than ten years.
Although I have not used Porkbun, I understand the registrar has a modern interface and back-end design, reasonably good pricing, and responsive customer service. It’s no surprise the platform has continued on a strong growth curve.
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