Andrew Rosener Launches Ganjapreneur.com Domain Marketplace

Elliot Silver
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I was reading a press release about a  new domain name marketplace for marijuana domain names, and I unexpectedly saw a familiar name.  Ganjapreneur.com is  “a website dedicated to cannabis business news and culture,” and the company “announced the launch of their Cannabis Domain Name Market” in a morning press release. The founder of Ganjapreneur.com is Andrew Rosener, founder of Media Options domain brokerage.

I knew that Andrew had some marijuana domain names in his portfolio, but I did not recall hearing that he owns the Ganjapreneur.com domain name or that he had big plans for it. I’ve been watching a show on MSNBC called Pot Barons, which chronicles the lives of several people who own canabis companies in Colorado, where recreational marijuana recently became legal. This show is where I become aware of the “Ganjapreneur” term, and it is used to describe entrepreneurs in the marijuana (aka “ganja”) business.

Although I am not really tuned into the marijuana / cannabis domain market, I receive quite a few emails asking me to buy marijuana domain names. Most are names I have no interest in buying, but it looks like I will be able to refer these people to Ganjapreneur.com to list their domain names. I am not sure if the marketplace accepts outside submissions, but I presume they would because of their association with Media Options.

Ganjapreneur.com goes beyond domain name sales though. The website  covers the business of marijuana and cannabis, and domain name sales is only a smart part of the website. There are interviews with marijuana business owners, articles about the marijuana business, and other aspects to the website.

The entire press release announcing the launch of Ganjapreneur.com is below:

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TrafficZ Shutting Down

Elliot Silver
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2014 has been a year of changes for Thought Convergence. In September of this  year,  Aftermarket.com was acquired by Igloo.com and Agreed Escrow was acquired by Escrow.com. Both companies that were acquired were owned and operated by Thought Convergence.

In an  email update to clients this morning, Thought Convergence announced that its TrafficZ parking service will be shutting down for good on December 31. According to the email that was signed by Ammar Kubba and Kevin Vo:

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Namecheap Holding Annual Holiday Twitter Trivia Contest

Elliot Silver
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If you follow Namecheap on Twitter, you’ve probably seen the company post trivia questions today. I saw the questions, and I visited their website to see what was happening and at stake. In case you aren’t aware, Namecheap just began its annual holiday Twitter trivia contest, and the company is giving out prizes for answering correctly.

Here’s how the company describes the trivia contest on its website:

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Buy It Now Links & Buttons from Escrow.com

Elliot Silver
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When I have a domain name with a set price, I don’t want to have to pay a commission to a brokerage or marketplace if the buyer visits my domain name with the intention of buying it. I also don’t generally use Paypal for 4 figure + domain sales, so I needed to have the ability for a buyer to easily start an escrow transaction.

Brandon Abbey emailed me last week to let me know Escrow.com is now offering domain investors the ability to easily create links or buttons that can be implemented on their landing pages to allow buyers to agree to a price and start an escrow transaction. Sellers no longer need to take extra steps to become authorized to do this, as this rollout enables all customers to create these links and buttons for any products.

I reached out to Brandon for details about this, and here’s how it works:

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HA Domain Auction to be Held at Waldorf Astoria

Elliot Silver
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The date and venue for the next domain name auction being conducted by Heritage Auctions has been set. According to Aron Meystedt, Director of the Domain Name and Intellectual Property Department at Heritage Auctions, the live auction will be held on February 9, 2015 at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The Waldorf is one of the most famous hotels in the City.

Previously, Heritage Auctions put out a call for submissions, and it seemed clear that the company was only looking for the best of the best domain names. In the email sent out today, the company shared more details about the quality of domain names they expect to include.

Here is what Aron had to say about the domain names the company is considering:

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Inc. Magazine Shares Stories of Domain Acquisitions

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Yesterday evening, I posted an article about the purchase price for Nuts.com, which was revealed in an Inc. magazine article. This morning, the easier to read version of the article, “Stalking That Dream .Com: True Tales From The Front Lines of the URL Wars,” was published online.

There are several takeaways from the article that might interest you and will perhaps benefit your business. From an interest standpoint, the acquisitions of Mint.com, Nuts.com, Hired.com, and several other domain names are discussed. The buyers of these domain names discuss the prices they paid, and there is some insight shared about the value the domain names brought to the companies that bought them as well as the benefits realized by owning the domain names.

From a business standpoint,

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