Spaceship CEO Richard Kirkendall recently announced the company’s domain name sales platform would soon open to beta testers. With his post, Richard also offered a sneak peak at the back-end control panel for the platform, and a look at the domain names that had leads allowed people to get a look at the landing pages.
This morning, Richard announced the Spaceship Seller Hub would open for beta testers next Tuesday (April 15):
Artificial intelligence is already having a modest impact on how I run my business. Unlike quite a few colleagues who have been ringing the register because of AI-related domain names, I don’t have many AI or .AI domain names in my portfolio.
I have been using AI to help with a variety of tasks related to my business. For the most part, I am using Chat.com and Grok. Occasionally, if I want more suggestions or am running into issues, I will use Claude from Perplexity. I am open to trying others though.
Here are some of the ways I use AI for my business:
National Retail Federation owns the https://t.co/DKU1Llpkla domain name. It was registered October 31, 2024. pic.twitter.com/KtC1ILazt1
— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) April 2, 2025
The National Retail Federation (NRF) registered TrumpTariffTax.com at CSC in October of 2024. Shortly thereafter, the trade organization issued a press release highlighting the potential costs of tariffs that, at the time, had been discussed by US President Donald Trump.
The first quarter of the year came to an end yesterday. All in all, the domain aftermarket seems pretty strong from my perspective. I had a solid Q1, recording multiple sales at Afternic, Sedo, Atom.com, and privately. Included in this is four new Lease to Own deals – three via Afternic and one via Atom.
Compared to Q1 of 2024, I had a substantially higher volume of sales. In fact, I sold nearly 3x the total number of domain names in Q1 2024 vs Q1 2025. Notably, just one of these sales was outbound, so it’s not like I was priming the pump to induce a greater number of sales. I am not going to share the largest sale price, but the smallest was $997 (I had a few of those).
I hand registered around 40 domain names this month. This is abnormally high, but I had a couple of recent sales in the category and figured I would use some of the income from those sales to try and generate additional sales.
I registered these domain names in two groups – one of about 30 domain names followed by 10 additional domain names. I thought I set up nameservers and sales listings correctly, but I realized I must have forgotten to create the correct listings for the last 10 domain names. The nameservers were set correctly, but they did not resolve as expected since I apparently did not create their sale listings as I thought.
I received an email from Atom.com notifying me that one of my domain names has been added to its new Sapphire Marketplace, which was announced earlier today:
✨ Introducing: Atom’s Sapphire Marketplace ✨
💎 The ultimate destination for the best non-.com domains!
🔥 Featuring premium single-English-word gems across 100+ TLDs.
🚀 Explore now: https://t.co/X0JB0y2LGB pic.twitter.com/LKH6YmetAK
— Atom.com (@atomHQ) January 16, 2025
When I attempted to login to my account on Atom.com, I saw an alarming message on my Chrome browser with a warning:
