Domain Industry News

This morning, I received an email from Bodis announcing an “earnings adjustment” for the month of August. The company reported that customers will receive a revenue adjustment (balance decrease) due to “advertiser defaults” experienced by its upstream provider. From what I can tell, this isn’t an action targeting individual accounts, but it impacts all customers.

I use Bodis for parking on a handful of traffic-receiving domain names. The adjustment to my earnings was very small and will have no impact on my business. I would imagine others who have a greater focus on PPC income will be more impacted by this news. Unfortunately, I don’t know of anything customers can do to prevent this from impacting their account.

Here is the email I received from Bodis with details about the earnings adjustment and directions on how to see the impact on individual accounts:

I am not familiar with Corporate Tools, but the company posted a job listing on LinkedIn that might be of interest to someone with domain industry expertise. The Idaho-based company is seeking an Operations Manager for Domain Name Registrar Services. It looks like the person hired for this job may be be able to work remotely – at least for the time being.

While the job responsibilities aren’t domain investing or domain industry specific, it looks like the company wants to hire someone with substantial knowledge about domain names and the industry at-large. Many of the job’s requirements are related to domain industry experience and expertise.

During the NamesCon conference today, Escrow.com announced its Master of Domains winners. The annual award celebrates “the highest grossing domain name brokers for deals completed in 2022” at Escrow.com. Taking the top spot for this year is Andrew Rosener of Media Options. I believe Andrew has been Escrow.com’s top grossing domain broker for the past five years.

Here are the Escrow.com 10 Master of Domains:

In March of 2022, GoDaddy announced that it acquired DNAcademy, the domain investing education platform founded by Michael Cyger. Following the acquisition, Michael joined GoDaddy as its first Director of Education. Since that time, Michael has been helping to integrate DNAcademy within GoDaddy’s ecosystem, and where it has been rebranded as GoDaddy Domain Academy.

Last month, Michael shared that he will be leaving GoDaddy, and today is his last day:

I had a typo, April 28th will be my last day. 🤦‍♂️

I will be spending more time with AI, but I will also be continuing to invest in domain names.

You’re not getting rid of me that easily! 🤣

— Michael Cyger (@MichaelCyger) April 7, 2023

As I recall, Michael was not an early domain investor. Michael launched Domain Sherpa in 2010, where he shared video interviews and discussions with domain investors and developers who operate on great domain names. The platform grew and evolved, and Michael sold it in 2017. All the while, Michael continued to grow his own domain name portfolio.

I am not sure what Michael has planned for himself, but I am sure he will continue to be active in the domain investment community. Michael has always had a positive and uplifting personality, and he is an asset to our community. I know I am looking forward to seeing what he does next.