Fun Sunday blog post. Answer the following:
You know you’ve been in the domain investing business a long time when…
NationalLanding.com Domain Name Registered 2.5 Months Ago
According to reports today, Amazon is locating one of its two new “headquarters” to Virginia. The area has been known as Crystal City, but apparently it is rebranding as National Landing.
Quite a few news outlets were tweeting about this today, including NBC News:
Amazon introduces “National Landing” headquarters to confused Washington-area residents. https://t.co/59uqKvw2kr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) November 13, 2018
Interestingly, the NationalLanding.com domain name was registered on August 28, 2018 at MarkMonitor – over
My Favorite Domain Name in Spain
I attended the ICANN Barcelona meeting and just returned home. It was nice to connect with friends and colleagues for a few days.
We did a bit of touring while there, and as usual, I was on the lookout for domain names. There were a few things I noticed while there:
- The .Cat domain extension seemed to be quite popular. .Cat is intended to be used to promote the Catalan language and culture. It’s not a ccTLD, but that seems to be how it is used in Barcelona.
- I also saw a mixture of .ES (Spain’s ccTLD) and .com domain names. Based on other European travels, I expected to see more .ES domain names. Maybe I was not looking hard enough.
- I noticed one .Barcelona domain name being promoted – Jazz.Barcelona. A couple of weeks ago, we discussed whether the www. or http are necessary next to a gTLD domain name. In this case, they added the www. before the domain name:
Offer an Installment Plan
I saw a NamePros post discussing the Huge Domains installment plan option. You can see an example of the installment plan option on this domain name I randomly found on the company’s home page. I think Huge Domains is one of the largest domain portfolio operators around. I recently wrote about its parent company, Turn Commerce.
Because I have a relatively small domain portfolio when compared to other domain investors and domain investment companies, I try to emulate what other, bigger companies do. My assumption is that larger companies have more testing and experience with their domain name sales, and they deploy landing pages and offers based on their experiences. I can try and glean insight from these other companies to help my company.
With Huge Domains’ presence, I am inclined to think that many domain name buyers come across their landing pages while searching for a domain name. When they do, they would see a buy it now price along with a payment plan option. This is great for Huge Domains because they control the whole ecosystem and can facilitate a sale or payment plan. Buyers who educate
Q: What’s the Easy Way to Get $10,000 Investing in Domain Names?
Question: What’s the easiest way to get to $10,000 by investing in domain names?
Answer: Start with $20,000.
Joking around… there is no “easy way” in domain names.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday 🙂
BrettKavanaugh.com Becomes Sexual Assault Advocacy Website
Here in the United States, federal judge Brett Kavanaugh was just sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice after a very contentious confirmation process. Unlike many politicians and \ political appointees, Justice Kavanaugh did not own his exact match BrettKavanaugh.com domain name.
Surprisingly, it looks like BrettKavanaugh.com was created in September of 2015 – just three short years ago. The domain name is currently registered under Whois privacy, so the registrant is not known. From what I can tell using the Whois History tool at DomainTools, it looks like the domain name has been privately registered since 2015.
I am not sure how BrettKavanaugh.com was used before he was nominated, shortly after he was nominated, or during the confirmation process, but it is now being used as a sexual assault advocacy website, as you can see below:
The headline on the landing page is “We Believe Survivors.” There are some words shared about the confirmation process and how the issue of sexual assault came to the forefront of the public discourse. Finally, there are
