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ILove.Gay – First .Gay Website Goes Online

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Elliot Silver

February 21, 2020

The first .Gay website went online this week, according to an email I received from the .Gay registry, Top Level Design. ILove.Gay was launched this week by Pink Media, becoming the first .Gay domain name website to launch. The registry also published blog post with details about this website and information about .Gay:

Oh hey! .Gay is here.#iLoveGay made history this week as the first-ever .gay site on the internet!

🏆 —> https://t.co/jbJkOZehpB #DotGayIsHere pic.twitter.com/AvprXf3Qop

— DotGay (@officialdotgay) February 18, 2020

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February 14, 2020

The .NYC registry management team retweeted a tweet from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio who was encouraging people to visit a city website for more information about registering to vote. The tweet was off interest to me because the website the Mayor referenced is found on a .NYC domain name – Voting.NYC:

ATTENTION NEW YORK CITY: the deadline to change parties before the New York Primary is THIS FRIDAY.

Don’t sit this one out — head to https://t.co/EJhQZ3CtEk right now for more information. #DemocracyNYC pic.twitter.com/h0q5NK1RIq

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) February 12, 2020

Domain Industry News
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Elliot Silver

February 3, 2020

Adam Yamada-Hanff shared a link with me to a My First Million podcast featuring someone who has been active in the business of domain names but I had never heard about him or his business before. I embedded the podcast at the bottom of this article.

Sheel Mohnot runs a company called Innovative Auctions, and according to his reporting on the podcast, the company sold more than half a billion dollars worth of Internet real estate. You may be scratching your head a bit, as did I, but the company was responsible for many of the auctions involving the new gTLD domain name extensions. Many of the new gTLD contention sets participated in the ascending clock second price auctions managed by Sheel’s company. According to the podcast, the top couple of auctions went for over $100 million, although the extensions and amounts were not shared.

Here’s a description of the podcast found at the Listen Notes website:

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Elliot Silver

January 30, 2020

An article about a startup called Haus caught my attention this afternoon because of the domain name it chose for its website. Anna Escher wrote an article on TechCrunch this afternoon, reporting that Haus “secured $4.5 million in seed funding:”

Millennials don’t want to be drunk, but are locked into alcohol-centric communities. @drinkhaus wants to finesse the way to gather with its D2C aperitif.

10 funds + 100 individual stakeholders (!) contributed to the party round. My latest on @TechCrunch https://t.co/VaKkjcs2ZZ

— Anna Escher (@annaescher) January 30, 2020

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Elliot Silver

January 23, 2020

Radix shared its Premium Domains sales report for the second half of 2019 along with full year totals. The company reports that it sold $3 million worth of its premium domain name inventory, which is the company’s best year to date. Radix reported $1.67 million in sales for the second half of 2019. This is an improvement over the $1.36 million in sales Radix reported for the first half of 2019.

Here are some of the call-outs that Radix highlighted from its bi-annual report:

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Elliot Silver

January 6, 2020

I bought a 3 word .com domain name at NameJet in 2011 for around $500. The following year, a prospective buyer and I negotiated the sale of this domain name for $20,000. The buyer had explained that he had wanted the name for several years and was surprised the former owner sold it (it expired, but that’s not important). When it came time to pay, the prospect disappeared and despite several attempts to finalize the deal, it never went through.

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