One of the more annoying aspects of domain investing is negotiating a deal, coming to an agreement, and the buyer flaking when it is time to pay. It can be disappointing and frustrating, but I do my best to forget those broken deals and put them in the past.

I’ve always set minimum offer amounts on my platform-listed domain names. I don’t want to deal with $100 offers for 4 and 5 figure domain names. I have heard great tales of brokers closing six figure deals that started with 3 figure offers, but I’ve never seen that.

Squarespace acquired Google Domains in 2023. All domain names that were registered at Google Domains at that time were migrated to Squarespace.

Squarespace is primarily a website building platform with a focus on small to medium sized businesses. The domain name business was acquired in support of its primary services. To that end, the company has never put out a marketing campaign focused exclusively on its domain name registrar line of business.

We visited our friends in New York this weekend. I was chatting about my friend’s dad, who passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer several years ago. I vaguely recall attending his funeral, but it was a bit of a hazy memory for whatever reason.

As I was thinking about this, trying hard to remember if I made the trip, a very specific domain name came to my mind. I don’t know why, but I distinctly remember sitting in the parking lot of the Long Island funeral home having a conversation with a representative from the company that owned this domain name I had been trying to buy for a while. As I recall, the conversation was productive and we reached a deal shortly after our phone call.

If you’re having a tough time visiting some domain name industry websites today, you’re note alone. I was checking on something at Atom.com this morning, and I saw this Cloudflare Internal server error message at the top.

Is Southwest Airlines planning to open airport clubs and lounges? If domain name registrations are an early indicator, the airline is planning to open its own Southwest Airline Clubs or Southwest Airlines Lounges. In fact, a week and a half ago, The Street wrote about Southwest Airlines opening its first airport lounge.

This morning in my DomainTools Registrant Monitor alert email, I noticed several domain names that are related to Southwest Airlines. These domain names were registered at MarkMonitor under the DNStinations, Inc. privacy service offered by the corporate-favored domain registrar: