In February, I discovered the contact form on my corporate website wasn’t working. I’m not exactly sure what happened, but my WordPress developer made a fix that solved the deliverability issue. However, the contact form receives a fair amount of spam emails now that it is working. This issue needs to be addressed at some point soon, but it is more of an annoyance than a problem.

My email provider has been doing a good job of marking these spam messages correctly. I check the spam folder on a regular basis to try to ensure I am not missing anything, but if a contact form email is marked as spam and isn’t quickly identifiable as something other than spam, I’ll just trash it and all other spam emails.

Runway.com has been acquired in a deal overseen by Andrew Miller of ATM Holdings. The domain name recently transferred from Tucows to Namecheap under Whois privacy. Runway.com had been listed for sale on the ATM Holdings website, and it was recently moved to the section on the homepage showcasing completed deals.

I reached out to Andrew to see if he could share any details about the transaction. “I can confirm that we (Andrew Miller and ATM Holdings) oversaw an amazing win-win transaction for the buyer and seller,” Andrew told me via email. He was unable to disclose the acquisition price.

Atom.com recently introduced domain name rentals. The idea is that a company might rent a domain name to start using a domain name with a lower upfront financial commitment. I have that option disabled because of the low risk/reward profile.

I have been in a fairly long negotiation for a one word .com domain name I own. I have been going back and forth with various purchase options with the prospective buyer, who uses a non .com domain. A few months ago, we both agreed that a lease to own deal would make the most sense for his startup. Finding terms that work for both of us has been the challenge.

I proposed an escalating lease to own deal. It would be something along the lines of this:

A DomainIQ alert yesterday notified me that the Slop.com domain name had changed registrars. The one word .com domain name was transferred from Above.com to Cloudflare. The nameservers were also changed. I suspected the domain name changed hands, but it wasn’t possible to know with certainty based on the info I had.

Nathan Parker, General Manager of the Marketplace and Brokerage at Above.com, confirmed that Slop.com was sold in a deal he brokered. “I am really excited to see what comes of Slop.com. Love a name that makes you do a double take,” he told me. Unfortunately, the sale price of the domain name was unable to be shared.

Atom.com is getting ready to host a site-wide sale billed as “Black Friday in July.” The sale event runs July 21-30, and Atom sellers can opt into the program to participate. Sellers who participate will allow Atom to automatically discount their domain names up to 25% off the purchase price.

In its announcement message, Atom mention the platform has “seen domain sales increase by 30–50% during the sale period” in prior years. I believe buyers who are tracking prices on Atom will be notified when a domain name has a price reduction / discount.