Going to Remove “Offer” Field

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I am going to try something on my Embrace.com inquiry pages. I am going to remove the offer field from the landing page and see if doing so provides any sort of lift. I am sure it will increase the number of inquiries, but my hope is to also increase sales.

I recently sold a domain name but the buyer did not remove the “for sale” link from the landing page. Because the domain name is no longer being sold by me, I deleted the name from my database. Instead of being directed to an inquiry page, people who click the link are instead directed to the contact page. Prior to selling the domain name, I probably received one inquiry/offer a month. Since changing the redirect to a general contact page, I have received several different purchase inquiries. The contact page form is somewhat similar to the inquiry form, except there is no field for offer or phone number. My hypothesis is some people may be intimidated by the offer field.

Smart Marketing Tactic from VPN.com

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I read a press release this morning announcing that FuneralHomes.com and Cremations.com have been put up for sale. VPN.com is the domain brokerage that is marketing these domain names and published the press release. These are valuable domain names for a company in the business of end of life planning, and something in the press release caught my attention:

Skew Gets EMD, Then Scores Seed Funding Round

Towards the end of August of this year, Uniregistry reported the $92,000 sale of Skew.com. The sale was the largest publicly reported sale of the week in DNJournal. It is also the 44th largest sale of the year (to date). Skew.com was acquired by a cryptocurrency data analytics firm called Skew.

This morning, it was reported that Skew raised $2 million in a seed funding round with several investors, including Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins.

GoDaddy Sells At Least Four 2 Letter .com Domain Names

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Yesterday morning, George Kirikos tweeted about the likely sale of HU.com, a two letter .com domain name that had been owned by GoDaddy via its NameFind portfolio company:

This morning, I noticed that at least three other LL.com domain names appear to have been sold by GoDaddy. The change of ownership was detected by the DomainTools Registrant Monitor tool, and I saw these names in my morning Registrant Alert email. Here are the three names that appear to have been sold by GoDaddy / NameFind:

Glance.com Sold via Sedo for $160,000

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According to a tweet this morning from Sedo domain name broker Albert Schimmel, the Glance.com domain name was sold via Sedo for $160,000:

Extend Shortens its Domain Name by Buying Extend.com

Extend is a “well funded early stage startup,” according to a tweet from its founder and CEO Woody Levin. The San Francisco-based startup had been using the off-brand HelloExtend.com domain name for its website.

According to a tweet from its founder yesterday, the company has acquired its brand match Extend.com domain name: