“No good deed goes unpunished!” This is a famous phrase that expresses how an attempted good deed can sometimes backfire on the person who had good intentions. I’ve thought of this idiom numerous times when trying to help an organization secure a domain name I think they should own.

There have been countless times I’ve noticed an expiry auction or deleted domain name that matches a non-profit organization or someone else I wanted to help. After seeing the domain name, I figured it would be easy enough to let them know about the auction or available domain name. Because of the number of times this has caused confusion and/or consternation in the past, I’ve only done this a handful of times more recently.

Nearly all of the domain names my company owns are listed for sale on landing pages that clearly indicate they are available to purchase. Even those that aren’t – like this one – have a contact form to allow someone to get in touch very easily. In my experience, the vast majority of inquiries that are done via Whois record are spam.

In my recent memory, I can only think of two domain names that I sold after receiving an inquiry via Whois, and both were a fair amount of time ago. In fact, one was sold on a three year payment plan at Dan.com, and that deal closed two years ago. A second deal ended up being a BIN deal but I don’t recall exactly when it sold.

Spirit Airlines is shutting down, and the discount airline will no longer operate. As a domain investor, one of the first things I thought about as the news came out yesterday was the Spirit.com domain name.

Spirit.com is an exceptional domain name, and it’s possible that it will go on the market in the wake of the shutdown. I am not sure what the next stages will be, but I assume the business is going to sell its assets. I don’t have any idea if the IP will be bundled together or possibly sold separately. If sold separately, I presume Spirit.com would become available for sale at some point.

NBA basketball player Joel Embiid, who plays for the Philadelphia 76ers, filed a UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization to secure the JoelEmbiid.com domain name. The UDRP was recently filed, and it is WIPO Case D2026-1817.

Domain investors aren’t well liked. Beyond typical social situations, the only time someone may meet a domain investor is when they want to purchase a domain name that is owned by an investor. The vitriol aimed towards domain investors can be quite alarming. Case in point, this “domain hoarder” comment I received a while ago.

Over the weekend, Mike Carson wrote about his Friendster.com acquisition in a blog post that was widely shared on Hacker News. At one point, it was the top post of the day garnering hundreds of comments. The comment that rose to the top had little to do with Friendster and a great deal to do with Mike’s background in the domain investment space:

This morning, I noticed that Amazon registered a bunch of domain names with NLX in them. The company bought a large swath of domain names via corporate registrar Com Laude on April 21st. I noticed these domain name registrations with the help of the Registrant Monitor tool at DomainTools, and I shared what I found on X.

Some of the domain names Amazon registered included: