Nokta Shares Its May Lease Deals

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Leasing domain name is not really a new revenue model, but it’s become more popular over the last couple of years. Many companies seem to be offering lease opportunities to interested suiters, and Nokta Domains is a large portfolio holder that promotes its lease deals.

I often see Nokta tweeting about lease opportunities, and they also use Facebook as well as email. I never asked them about the success of their lease offer strategy, but always just assumed it was working since they promoted it often.

This morning, Nokta posted a tweet with a link to its blog announcing the domain names the company successfully leased in May. In total, the company added 19 leases to the books last month, which are expected to generate a monthly income of just over $2,000. I am quite sure this income will far surpass the PPC revenue that was being made by the leased domain names before the deal.

I don’t know if Nokta offers an option to buy or what specific terms are in their lease agreements, but if they had this success every month, the company would add on almost $25,000 in recurring monthly revenue each year. When you compound that and possibly add an annual monthly percentage increase, you can see how that might quickly add up.

Nokta’s sharing shows that leases can work, and now you can track some of their leased domain names to see how they work out.

Above.com to Offer 60% Profit Share on Expired Domain Auctions

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I want to share some news I received this morning from Victor Pitts of Above.com. The company is set to announce that participants in the soon to launch  Expiring Domain Sales Program will “retain 60% of the profit from the sale of any domains that they let expire at Above,” which are auctioned on the Above Marketplace.

Prior to the launch of this new program, customers didn’t receive anything from the sale of domain names they owned that expired, much like most other domain registrars. This presents a new revenue opportunity for clients, and it may give incentive to dropping names instead of renewing them.

According to Victor, about 10,000 domain names are

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Charity Auction Raises Over $5,600

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I want to once again thank all of those who bid on domain names and services in the Domain Boardroom and Escrow.com sponsored auction that will benefit the American Red Cross. I especially want to thank the people who offered up their domain names and services. The auction raised a total of $5,655 in bids.

Donna Mahony from Domain Boardroom is going to contact all of the winning bidders via email to let them know they won. Sellers will be instructed to begin transactions at Escrow.com with each buyer as soon as they can. As mentioned before, Escrow.com is NOT charging anyone for their services for this, and the company will distribute all proceeds collected to the American Red Cross. There might be a bit of a lag due to the Memorial Day holiday and TRAFFIC  conference  (depending on the plans of sellers who are starting these transactions).

You might notice a difference between the final tally on the original auction and the number posted here. On the guest post lot, JP bid $600 at 4:59pm and Ammar bid $750 right on the dot at 5pm. I spoke with both parties and offered them both the guest post slot for $600/each, so that raised an additional $450.

I really appreciate all of the domain industry support with this. The people in Oklahoma are going through a horrific life event right now, and I am sure the funds will be used by the American Red Cross in a meaningful way.

Here are the final results… if you see something funky, please let me know ASAP! I am human, and it’s possible that a mistake was made in my recording:

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Digimedia Launches Thankful.com To Share Expressions of Gratitude From Oklahoma

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Thankful.comJay Chapman, President of Digimedia, a Oklahoma-based domain investment and development company, announced that the company launched Thankful.com this morning. Thankful.com is an aggregation of Twitter and Instagram messages from people expressing their gratitude for the support in the wake of the devastating tornados that struck Moore, Oklahoma.

I reached out to Jay to ask about the website, and here’s what he had to say:

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Domain Boardroom & Escrow.com Charity Auction Update!

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oktvI want to give a big thank you to those of you who placed bids on the auction to benefit the American Red Cross and another thank you to those who offered up domain names and services. I also want to thank the people who wrote blog posts about the auction as well as those who have helped spread the word about it. I am excited that this is going to be able to help the American Red Cross, because the people impacted by these storms really need all the help they can get.

Yesterday evening, Rick Schwartz posted an article that was especially appreciated because I know Rick has been hesitant to link to charity related causes due to the “Air Katrina” fiasco several years ago. In light of Rick mentioning that dark time, I want to let you know how the funds from the auction will be collected and then disbursed.

Escrow.com is not just sponsoring the auction in name, but the company has offered its services to complete these transactions at no cost. Once the auctions close on

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Bill Sweetman Announces New Consulting Venture, Name Ninja

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Name Ninja logoLast month, Bill Sweetman  announced his departure from YummyNames and Tucows, and he informed us that he would be starting a new domain consulting business. At the time of his announcement, Sweetman  didn’t offer many details about his venture, but in a press release that was distributed to me this morning, we now know it’s called Name Ninja, and it has a unique tagline, “lethal domain name consulting.”

It appears that Name Ninja’s focus will primarily be on gTLD domain names, but the firm will also provide a variety of other domain industry consulting services.  “With the massive expansion of the Internet namespace due to the upcoming rollout of hundreds of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs), the global demand for expert domain name advice and strategy is going to explode,” predicted Sweetman.

The company will offer services like domain acquisition, brand protection, domain name sales, and it looks like just about all other services related to domain names. Sweetman’s expertise was gained from his experience at Tucows, a publicly traded company with a focus on domain names.

I understand Sweetman will be attending the TRAFFIC conference, and if you’d like to make an appointment with him, you can reach out to him via his Name Ninja website.

Full press release details:

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