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2025 PMC Jersey Raised $16k+ for Dana-Farber

I am happy to share that our 2025 Pan-Mass Challenge domain industry cycling jersey was finalized and printed. With help from our domain industry friends and colleagues, this special jersey raised more than $16,000 for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

John, Karen, and I will proudly wear this jersey as we continue our PMC training. We will also wear this unmissable jersey on the second day of our ride. John wore his jersey over the weekend, and Karen and I wore ours for a training ride yesterday. You can see just how bright our jerseys are in the photos below.

Thank you very much to the domain industry companies, listed below, who donated to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in support of our industry jersey.

2025 Domain Industry PMC Jersey Sponsors:

My Monster Variegated Monstera Plant

A little more than 5 years ago, one of our friends gifted us a houseplant without instructions on how to maintain it. I made the mistake of not asking him how we should care for it, and the plant was dead within a couple of months. That was the extent of my experience with houseplants.

Two years ago, I saw some posts from Shane Cultra on X about his Variegated Monstera plant. I acquired a cutting from him, and I began my own Variegated Monstera journey. The cutting had two leaves and a root growing node that needed to be placed in water for about a month. You can see how it looked after I received it and began the process:

I purchased an LED plant growing lamp, and when the cutting was ready, I planted her in a 12″ pot. I placed the pot in my office in front of a window that receives afternoon light. I supplemented the natural sunlight with 12 hours of LED lighting.

My Monstera plant began growing and unfurling new leaves. Each time a leaf appeared, I was full of excitement to see the coloration and designs as it slowly unfurled. My kids have loved coming up and watching the plant grow.

As the plant has grown, Shane has served as a great resource who has always been happy to answer questions and offer advice. He has helped me with everything from the soil and fertilizer I used to putting in a moss pole to stabilize the plant to dealing with aerial roots.

As my Monstera plant continued to grow and thrive, I realized I would need to eventually repot her into a larger pot. I also realized I would need to make a new cutting because of its height. I decided that I would get a larger pot and replant the cutting in the same pot to make it fuller.

I was pretty anxious about cutting the top leaf from my plant. Each new leaf grows from the stem of the last leaf to grow, and I feared that cutting the most recent leaf would stymie the growth of the plant.

In addition to getting advice from Shane, I also found good information about Variegated Monstera plants on Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, and elsewhere. All of this research gave me the confidence to make a cutting of my own. I cut the top leaf, put it in a vase of water, and I let the root grow for about 3 weeks.

A few months ago, I repotted the Monstera plant into a larger planter, and I planted the cutting as well. I also inserted a larger moss pole and tied the plant’s stems to various spots of the pole to ensure the plant was stable. I used a Tropical Potting Soil mix I bought at our local nursery, and I mixed it with perlite to help the plant with drainage.

Since repotting my Monstera plant, she has thrived. Several new leaves have grown on the original plant and on the cutting. There are now more than 20 leaves on both plants.

A big surprise is how well my Variegated Monstera plant has thrived with my limited knowledge at the outset. I definitely learned a lot from Shane, and I appreciate all of the advice he has given me. A bigger surprise is how much enjoyment we have gotten from watching the plant grow.

Brokerage Agreement Should Detail Everything

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Over the years, I’ve witnessed and heard about many disagreements between domain brokers and clients. There have been accusations of double dealing, poor representation, frontrunning, and everything in between. Many of these issues could have been resolved or clarified with a signed brokerage agreement.

Domain name sellers and buyers who are going to work with a broker should execute a domain brokerage agreement that outlines expectations and requirements. I imagine every professional and legitimate domain broker will have a standard agreement that can be used and modified based on the situation. The buyer or seller should have an attorney review the agreement to ensure their interests are covered.

Lead Gen with AI

One of the multitude of ways to use AI tools to sell domain names is for lead generation. A tool like ChatGPT can help find targeted prospective buyers for domain names, and I will share an example.

I want to proactively sell a domain name I think will become a good marketing tool for a real estate agent. A Google search of real estate agents in the town brings back many results, but all of the top results are for the largest real estate brokerages and platforms like Zillow and Realtor.com. Clicking through to listings is time consuming, and it brings me to contact forms on these same platforms.

Instead of using Google to find prospective real estate agent buyers, I plugged a prompt into ChatGPT to identify who might be the best prospects:

Namecheap .AI Filter Removed from ExpiredDomains.net

I use ExpiredDomains.net every day to search for domain names coming up for auction. It’s a free tool that helps me scan Namecheap, Dynadot, and GoDaddy platforms for expiry auctions. It also helps me find domain names in pending delete status that I want to back order at DropCatch and NameJet.

This morning when searching for upcoming expiry auctions at Namecheap, I did not see any .AI domain names listed in my search. This was unusual since there are generally dozens if not more .AI domain names that are listed according to my preferences.

Dan.com Closing Down on June 27

Dan.com was an innovative domain name sales platform that was acquired by GoDaddy in 2022. Dan innovated and brought the Lease to Own (LTO) offering to the mainstream, and it has been adopted by GoDaddy. In its short time in the industry, Dan’s innovations moved the domain name aftermarket forward by leaps and bounds.

With many of the platform’s features integrated into GoDaddy aftermarket offerings, Dan.com is fully shutting down on June 27, 2025. This was shared on X, along with a link to a Medium.com blog post sharing the platform’s history during its short time in existence:

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