Ode with Anthropic Launched on Ode.com

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Ode.com has changed hands. According to a press release issued yesterday, Ode with Anthropic, an AI services company, was launched under its new branding using the Ode.com domain name for its website. The company started out as Fractional AI before its rebrand and launch.

In the daily DomainIQ Domain Monitor email I received last night, I saw the Ode.com nameservers changed, as did the Whois registration. The domain name has long been owned by a domain investment company, and the nameservers changed to AWS. Ode.com did not transfer out of Namecheap, but the Whois record for the domain name is now private.

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I Prefer Escalating LTO vs. Rentals

Elliot Silver
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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:

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Slop.com Domain Name Sold via Above.com

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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.

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Atom.com Prepping for Black Friday in July

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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.

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Many One Word .App Domains on Namecheap Auctions Today

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I was looking through the list of auctions on Namecheap this morning, and the number of one word .app domain names caught my attention. From the looks of it, I think these may be expiry auctions, but my confidence level in that observation is not very high and I did not do an exhaustive search.

A handful of the .app domain names that stand out to me based on the number of TLDs registered are:

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Outbound Can Help Plant a Seed

Elliot Silver
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I haven’t done much outbound marketing to sell my domain names recently. I’ve done it on occasion, but it’s less frequent these days. The reasons I don’t do much of it is a combination of not wanting to seem like I need to sell a domain name and not having a ton of success with selling via outbound.

Perhaps I haven’t had much success with outbound marketing because I am mostly choosing domain names that have had less inbound interest. Without these attributes, there’s probably less intrinsic interest in these domain names. I have also typically chosen domain names I am okay selling for less money since most people tend to try to negotiate a better deal if they respond to an outbound email.

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