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It’s Not Always the Obvious Buyer

Elliot Silver

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September 29, 2020

When a blind offer to buy a domain name is received, assumptions are made about who the buyer could be or how the domain name will be used if sold. This is often the case when a domain broker submits an offer on behalf of a prospective buyer, or an offer is made via Afternic or Sedo.

More often than not, the prospective buyer is the most obvious buyer. Perhaps the owner of the matching .IO or .CO domain name is interested in buying the brand match .com domain name, or maybe a startup using an off-brand domain name wants its brand match domain name.

This morning, I saw a retweet of a tweet from Kefah Makhamre announcing the $21,000 sale of Elmt.com via Afternic:

My DAN + GoDaddy / Afternic Pricing Strategy

Elliot Silver

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September 25, 2020

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I had a rare phone conversation with a friend about domain names yesterday. We chatted about the overall market, and I shared some of the recent pricing strategy I use when listing my domain names for sale on DAN.com and GoDaddy / Afternic. I thought I would share it here as well.

Somewhere around 60% of my domain names are listed via DAN, most with their buy it now landing pages. I have done fairly well selling domain names on DAN this year, and I have what amounts to a majority of my inventory-quality domain names listed there with BIN prices. I have nearly all of my inventory domain names listed for sale via Afternic / GoDaddy. I do not use GoDaddy landing pages, preferring to send the domain names not parked at DAN to my Embrace.com inquiry pages instead.

GoDaddy Still Not Frontrunning Domain Searches (Updated)

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Elliot Silver

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September 17, 2020

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There’s a trending post on Hacker News that accuses GoDaddy of front running domain names that are searched for on its website:

“searched a few days ago for felons.io, looked for unique names for simple game didn’t know if I wanted it or not
guess godaddy decided for me: 1 days old Created on 2020-09-16 by GoDaddy.com, LLC

just a warning if you have a special name do not use godaddy to check if its available”

GoDaddy Shares the Success Story of VidaliaOnions.com

Elliot Silver

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August 31, 2020

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Peter Askew has done well with VidaliaOnions.com, building a successful e-commerce website selling Vidalia onions after winning the domain name in an expiry auction. As a customer, I like how easy VidaliaOnions.com is to use and buy onions, and as a colleague, I appreciate how much effort went into building and launching this successful website and business.

As part of GoDaddy’s keynote presentation at this year’s NamesCon Global conference, GoDaddy visited the farm where VidaliaOnions.com sources its onions. They spent the day with Peter and farmer Aries Haygood to learn about the business operations and growth of the vidalia onion business.

The video can be found embedded in the GoDaddy tweet below:

GoDaddy Landing Page Induces UDRP

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August 28, 2020

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Unfortunately, it looks like my prediction about the new GoDaddy pay per click-focused landing page design was prescient. Just yesterday, I wrote “In fact, some registrants may believe this is discourteous if GoDaddy were to monetize their landing page with trademark infringing links that induce a UDRP (or worse).” It looks like this was the exact issue in the ArtPetrossian.com UDRP.

Before diving into the UDRP and its decision, have a look at the landing page on ArtPetrossian.com:

Thanks, GoDaddy! (for the laugh)

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Elliot Silver

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August 27, 2020

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I read an article in this morning’s New York Post about a possible “air bridge” between London and New York City. While the air bridge idea wasn’t all that interesting to me right now, it did make me think about AirBridge.com to see how the domain name is being used. What I saw made me chuckle a bit: