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Donuts Prepares for More Acquisitions & Investments

Elliot Silver
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In a press release distributed on Tuesday, Donuts  announced that it had made an investment in GeoFrenzy, a company that is in the geofencing business. To me, the most interesting aspect of the press release was when the company stated it would continue making strategic investments:

“The first of several anticipated investments of this kind, Donuts is leveraging its capital and registry expertise to identify and invest in emerging technologies that promote new uses for domain names, leverage the domain name system (DNS), or otherwise are complementary to Donuts’ interests.”

I don’t totally understand how GeoFrenzy aligns with Donuts’ business, but I can imagine other types of strategic investments and acquisitions the company could make in the near future. There are quite a few companies that operate businesses that have overlaps with Donuts or offer technology and services that Donuts could use in conjunction with its portfolio of domain extensions.

I reached out to the company to ask what types of strategic investments the company is considering, and Tim Favia, Vice President of Corporate Development at Donuts shared some thoughts about it with me:

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“So Many People Are Going to Lose Their Shirts”

Elliot Silver
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This afternoon, someone posted the following comment in response to a new gTLD video that was created by 101Domain:

“So sad that so many people are going to lose their shirts over these new tlds. Sob, sob.”

I regularly see comments here, on other industry blogs, and on forums that seem to express pity for people who are, in the opinion of some commenters, going to lose money by buying new gTLD domain names. I don’t really understand why people are so concerned about how others are spending their money.

If someone makes a $100,000 offer to me for a domain name I hand registered a month ago, should I investigate their background to make sure they can afford to spend so much on a domain name and they have a plan to use this domain name in a manner that will earn them a positive ROI? Should I be worried about their

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Video: 101Domain Busting Myths About Not Com Domains

Elliot Silver
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New gTLD registries have undertaken various efforts to educate consumers about “not com” domain names. I think domain registrars have a major role to play in educating their clients about the new domain name extensions, as their clients are the companies and people who are buying domain names.

People have a relationship with their registrar, and I think this makes the registrar’s role all the more critical in educating consumers about the new domain name extensions they may have heard about.

I want to share a video that 101Domain just shared on its YouTube channel with a goal of busting what they believe are some common myths about non-.com domain names (“not coms”):

Impossible to Appraise New gTLD Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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Someone sent me a LinkedIn message this afternoon asking me to appraise some “premium” new gTLD domain names. I told him “no” because I am not really active in that part of the market. It is difficult enough to give a meaningful (accurate) appraisal of a .com domain name, but I think it is pretty much impossible to appraise new gTLD domain names with any level of certainty.

If an appraisal can’t be at least somewhat accurate, it doesn’t make sense to even try. I want to share some of the reasons for why I think it would be impossible to give an appraisal of new domain extensions:

There is a lack of public sales reported. Yes, there have been some publicly

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.Club Sells Startup.Club Domain Name

Elliot Silver
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startup.clubThe .Club Registry launched Startup.Club as a means of selling some of their best .Club domain names while lending support to businesses who use those domain names. Among some of the entities that were established with the help of the Startup.Club network are Coffee.Club and Soap.Club.

According to an email from .Club CMO Jeff Sass, the registry has sold the Startup.Club domain name for $22,500. This sale was noted in a Registry blog post that shared the company’s March sales report. Jeff told me that the concept of Startup.Club will continue, but it will be moved due to the sale. “We’ll continue our “Startup Club” program but move the content to our main website,” he said.

In March, the .Club Registry sold 63 premium names, including 56 names that were sold through its registrar channel. I presume this means that 7 .Club domain names were sold directly via the registry. The total premium domain sales for the month were

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.XYZ Auction Results With “Confirmed Payments”

Elliot Silver
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A few days ago as the West.cn .XYZ auctions were concluding, I reached out to the .XYZ Registry team to ask if they could share the results once the auctions close. Shayan Rostam, Global Director of Registry Operations at the .XYZ Registry, emailed me this evening to share that the registry “officially announced the results of the auction last night based on confirmed payments.”

The largest reported sale of the auction was 1.XYZ, which sold for $182,922 USD. 66.XYZ was the second largest sale at $65,315 USD, and the third largest sale was 51.XYZ, which sold for $46,327 USD. YM.XYZ was the highest grossing letter domain name, and that sold for $39,563.

Based on the “confirmed payments” part of his quote, I presume this means the sales have been transacted and payments have been received by the auction house and remitted to the registry (or owners of the domain names that sold if not the registry). In total,

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