I think Mike Mann is one of the most successful domain investors, and he has certainly sold more domain names than just about anyone. For those who don’t know about Mike’s background, you should check out Paul Sloan’s Cnet article for more information about him and his domain industry background.
On Facebook this morning, Mike publicly shared an interesting comment about Estibot, the automated domain name appraisal tool:
In a press release distributed on Tuesday, Donuts announced that it had made an investment in GeoFrenzy, a company that is in the geofencing business. To me, the most interesting aspect of the press release was when the company stated it would continue making strategic investments:
“The first of several anticipated investments of this kind, Donuts is leveraging its capital and registry expertise to identify and invest in emerging technologies that promote new uses for domain names, leverage the domain name system (DNS), or otherwise are complementary to Donuts’ interests.”
I don’t totally understand how GeoFrenzy aligns with Donuts’ business, but I can imagine other types of strategic investments and acquisitions the company could make in the near future. There are quite a few companies that operate businesses that have overlaps with Donuts or offer technology and services that Donuts could use in conjunction with its portfolio of domain extensions.
I reached out to the company to ask what types of strategic investments the company is considering, and Tim Favia, Vice President of Corporate Development at Donuts shared some thoughts about it with me:
Domain industry veterans Adam Strong and Jen Sale are working together on their new domain consulting and brokerage company, Evergreen. I first learned about Evergreen at NamesCon, and the company was officially launched this week.
Evergreen’s focus will be on the naming space. According to Jen, “we provide services that help companies discover new names for their startup or new products/services. We create, acquire, monitor and protect these naming assets over the lifetime of the brand.”
Although the company plans to be active in the domain brokerage space, Jen told me they plan to do much more beyond brokering domain names. “We might easily be pigeon-holed as a brokerage firm, but we’re more of a
In a tweet this morning, Joe Uddeme announced the launch of Name Experts, LLC, “a boutique domain name brokerage firm that specializes in premium dotcom domain name inventory.” Joe was a longtime domain name broker at Domain Holdings, and it looks like he decided to start his own brokerage firm.
Introducing Name Experts LLC. A full service domain brokerage, valuation and expert domain name company. https://t.co/cTDud7hkbK
— Joe Uddeme (@juddeme) May 2, 2016
I’ve known Joe for several years, and
It looks like a company called ZS Associates has acquired the high value ZS.com domain name. The company currently uses ZSAssociates.com for its website. As you can see to the left, the company’s logo is simply “ZS,” so this domain name upgrade will fit right into its branding without much changing.
Although ZS.com does not yet resolve for me, a DomainTools monitor alert notified me of the change of ownership this morning. In addition, George Kirikos noted the registrant change in a tweet this morning:
I use DomainTools’ portfolio of domain name tools daily. DomainTools offers an unrivaled Whois history tool coupled with outstanding domain name monitoring tools. There are other domain name tools out there, but my job as a domain industry publisher is greatly aided by DomainTools, as evidenced by the hundreds of references peppered throughout this website.
Earlier today, DomainTools announced a change to its pricing and membership structure that will increase the membership cost. According to the email a few people sent me, “The price for Personal membership is $99/month or $995/year.” This is significantly higher than most domain industry customers have been paying for many years. The company provided a discount code for customers for the first year, but the price is still considerably higher.
Having known DomainTools CEO Tim Chen for many years, I reached out to him and asked if he could comment on the change. Here’s what Tim told me today:
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