Userbase Gets Its .com

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A week ago, there was an active discussion about whether a small startup called Userbase should acquire its brand match .com domain name which was in an expiry auction at GoDaddy Auctions. The company has been operating on Userbase.dev, and the company’s founder (Daniel Vassallo) had polled Twitter to seek out opinions on whether he should spend the money required to buy the domain name. The auction ended at $33,500, and it appeared the company was passing on the opportunity.

it turns out that the winning bidder at GoDaddy Auctions apparently defaulted and did not complete the purchase. As the underbidder in the auction, Daniel was given the opportunity to buy the domain name at his highest bid after the winning bidder’s bids were removed. It looks like he is jumping at the opportunity to purchase the domain name for just shy of $25,000:

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How GoDaddy Could Help Price Domain Names

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GoDaddy recently uploaded a video with a general discussion about how to price domain names. I think Joe Styler shared some good advice, particularly for people who are not domain investors but own valuable domain names and want to put them up for sale.

It’s no secret that I think GoDaddy‘s automated appraisal tool can be harmful to a negotiation involving a high value domain name. It may help sell lower value names, but I would need to sell a whole lot of $1,000 domain names to make up for a lost six figure sale if someone is influenced by a low appraised value. With that in mind, a few people were amused when I suggested that GoDaddy could help domain investors price their domain names. I don’t think I was super clear in that post, so I want to be more specific using an example.

GoDaddy has a bulk domain appraisal tool, although it’s not really promoted much that I can see. The neat thing about this tool is that it doesn’t just spit out the GoValue appraisal. It has additional information included. Here’s an example of what information the tool gives using one of my domain names, Advantageous.com:

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GoDaddy CEO Aman Bhutani to Keynote at NamesCon

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NamesCon just announced one of its marquee keynote speakers for the 2020 NamesCon Global conference later this month. Aman Bhutani, CEO of GoDaddy, will be one of the conference’s keynote speakers. Aman was named CEO of GoDaddy in September, when former CEO Scott Wagner departed due to an unspecified health issue.

Although the NamesCon email did not announce the date and time of Aman’s keynote address, I can see an unspecified keynote speaker slot on Thursday, January 30th from 1-2pm. NamesCon previously announced that James Booth will be a keynote speaker, and he is scheduled to take the podium on Friday, January 31st at 10am. You can view the full agenda on the NamesCon website.

Here’s the announcement that was shared by NamesCon this morning:

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Should Userbase (.dev) Upgrade to Userbase.com?

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One of the best domain names in auction at GoDaddy Auctions is Userbase.com. Despite the $7,234 (automated) GoDaddy appraisal for Userbase.com, the auction already has a high bid of $33,500 with a little more than 4 hours remaining as of the time of publication. I think it’s a great domain name and would be a solid upgrade for quite a few companies and businesses that user the Userbase or User Base branding.

One such company operates on the Userbase.dev domain name. In a Twitter thread last night, Userbase founder Daniel Vassallo asked for opinions about whether or not he should bid on the auction, which already had a high bid of $33,500:

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GoDaddy Whois: Contact Domain Registrant

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A few years ago, GoDaddy began blocking Whois lookups from third party websites. For instance, when I do a Whois search using DomainTools to find a registrant email address, if a domain name is registered at GoDaddy, there is a link within the Whois record that says: “Registrant Email: Select Contact Domain Holder link at 
https://www.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=[domainname].com” It’s a bit of an inconvenience to me, but I am sure GoDaddy has its reasons for this policy.

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Video: How to Make Money Buying and Selling Domain Names

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Buying domain names is one of the easiest things someone can do. Being able to profitably sell domain names can be an elusive task for some people. One of the great things about domain name investments is that there are many ways for people to make money from their domain names. Learning how to profitably sell domain names – either as a hobby or a full time profession – can be a time consuming and expensive endeavor.

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