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Hopeful New US Admin Will be Good for Domain Investments

As you know, the United States held its Presidential election yesterday, and Donald Trump won the election. In addition to this win, the Republican party will regain control over the US Senate as well. I am hopeful the new administration and its business policies will be good for domain investors and their domain investments.

One of the things Donald Trump did during this election cycle is reach out to the cryptocurrency community. I think he will continue to embrace that space and there could be growth there. From my perspective, the domain investment space tends to thrive as capital is spent building crypto-related services and products. Continued development and maturity in the crypto space should be good for domain investments.

Why I Am Not Testing More Services

A colleague emailed to ask me why I am not working with a specific landing page service he has been using. I neither have enough domain names to really give a company a fair shot, nor do I have the desire to set up many accounts at different platforms, giving access to private data to many companies.

The first issue is the primary issue. If I set up an account at a new landing page or parking service and only test 50 domain names, there’s a pretty good chance there will be very minimal impact – either positive or negative. Is that the fault of the service provider? No, of course not. I can’t pass judgment on the performance of a company with a limited number of domain names for a limited amount of time. If the service sucks or is bonkers, I won’t know if it’s the service, the names, seasonality, or a multitude of other factors beyond their control. It would be silly to test out a whole bunch of services when I can’t really determine why a test went well or went poorly.

Tucows Looking to Hire Compliance Officer

I came across a job posting on LinkedIn that might be of interest to someone in the domain space. Tucows is looking to hire a Compliance Officer for its domain name business. This is a mission critical role at the Toronto-based company. This job is billed as a remote position, meaning the new hire will not need to work out of the company’s office.

Here’s a summary of the position, extracted from the job listing:

No Sponsors at Bodis

This weekend, in preparation for a scavenger hunt hike with our kids, I got a bit sidetracked and began looking up associated domain names. One domain name I came across stood out to me because of the landing page that was shown:

This was surprising to me because I know the longtime domain registrant, and I can see the domain name utilizes Bodis nameservers. Not only are there no PPC links like other domain names, the “for sale” inquiry banner and link are also missing from the landing page.

Darpan Munjal Doing AMA on X

I have always appreciated how Atom.com CEO Darpan Munjal has been willing to share data freely. It’s helpful to see what types of domain names are selling across his platform and to understand how people are finding domain names to buy.

Darpan has also been willing to engage with domain investors on X. Yesterday morning, Darpan opened up an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on X. He invited people to pose questions to him, and he has been answering them. Darpan said he will continue answering questions through the weekend, so if there’s anything you would like to know about his platform or domain name sales / marketing in general, now would be a good time to ask:

Quick Fix for NameBright Issues

The other day, I consolidated some .com domain names at GoDaddy prior to the most recent Verisign price increase. When I tried to approve the transfers at NameBright, I encountered an error message that prevented me from transferring the domain names to GoDaddy.

I reached out to NameBright support, and I was directed to try and approve the transfers on the legacy website. NameBright recently launched a new platform, but it still operates the older platform at Legacy.NameBright.com. I logged in to my account on the legacy platform, navigated to the transfer authorization screen, and the transfers were immediately released after I approved.

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