.ICU Registry Giving Away 2 NamesCon Tickets

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January 21, 2019

If you bought your ticket to NamesCon last year, the ticket prices were quite economical. If you waited until the last minute to try and buy a ticket, the price has gone up quite a bit. NamesCon will be held next week in Las Vegas, and the .ICU Registry announced a giveaway opportunity for two VIP NamesCon tickets:

Are you interested in #domains? Are you heading to @NamesCon next week? We have two #VIP tickets to give away! Visit https://t.co/Fk0T9uGtJb to play a game and try to win a FREE #NamesCon ticket! #domainname #domainer #nowiseeyou #icu #NamesConTicket #NamesConVIPTicket pic.twitter.com/f1tNQnCQYb

— doticu (@doticu) January 21, 2019

NamesCon Keynote I Will Watch

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January 20, 2019

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I will be at NamesCon in a week, but I am not really going for the panels or keynotes, with one exception. I am looking forward to hearing from GoDaddy VP and GM of the Aftermarket, Paul Nicks. You can watch Paul’s keynote from last year’s conference to understand why this is the one keynote speech I am planning in advance to attend.

All of NamesCon’s Domain Names

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Elliot Silver

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January 14, 2019

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With NamesCon being the largest domain industry conference and a conference sponsored by quite a few new gTLD operators, it is no surprise that NamesCon is utilizing several different domain names for different purposes. Here are some of the domain names that I can see NamesCon is using for different objectives:

Brent Oxley Lists Valuable Domain Names in NamesCon Auction

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Elliot Silver

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December 22, 2018

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Brent Oxley was the founder of HostGator, one of the world’s largest web hosting companies. Since selling HostGator, Brent has become an investor in high value domain names. From what I can tell, Brent primarily invests in exceptional one word .com domain names.

When NameJet revealed the list of domain names that will be up for auction in the NamesCon auction next month, I saw that Brent listed a large group of valuable domain names. I reached out to Brent to ask him what motivated him to list his domain names for sale via auction, and here’s what he told me:

“There’s a big difference between auctioning a domain with a reserve price and one without. All of the domains I listed have a minimum reserve price which means I can’t lose.

The auction will drum up a ton of exposure and could potentially bring in buyers that I haven’t been able to reach on my own.”

This is the first auction in which Brent has listed his domain names for sale. As he told me, in the best case scenario, he will sell inventory to net him millions of dollars, and in a worse case scenario, it’s an experiment that only costs him some time.

Here’s a list of Brent’s domain names that are up for sale in the auction:

Network Solutions Lists DomainNames.com in NamesCon Auction

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Elliot Silver

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December 19, 2018

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NameJet will be hosting the NamesCon live and extended domain name auction at the end of January in conjunction with Right of the Dot (Monte Cahn). This afternoon, NameJet distributed a press release to announce some of the better domain names that will be included in this year’s auction. One domain name really stood out to me amongst the others.

DomainNames.com is listed for sale in the NamesCon auction with a reserve price range of between $300,000 – $400,000. From what I understand, DomainNames.com is a domain name that is owned by Network Solutions. If you visit DomainNames.com, you will be forwarded directly to Network Solutions’ website.

I find it interesting that Network Solutions has decided to sell this domain name. For one thing, the company is in the domain name business. Secondly, the company would effectively give a competitor the opportunity to buy the domain name and compete with it. Sure, one might see that DomainNames.com is being underutilized as a forwarder, but I don’t understand why it would be listed for sale publicly in auction where the buyer could be any company that bids highest above the reserve price.

Notably, Network Solutions’ parent company is Web.com, which also owns NameJet after acquiring Tucows’ ownership stake in the auction platform earlier this month.

Beyond DomainNames.com, some of the other exceptional domain names included in the auction are:

Super.com Announces New $50 Million Investment Fund

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Elliot Silver

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November 28, 2018

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Shortly after the $1.2 million sale of Super.com at the NamesCon auction, I asked readers if they thought this would be the largest publicly reported domain name sale of 2018. We are coming up to the end of the year, and Super.com is the second largest sale of the year, behind the $3.5 million sale of Ice.com.

If you were not aware, Super.com has been turned into a “publishing, funding and game platform for developers and gamers.” This past week, Super.com announced a $50 million investment fund. The news was shared on Twitter by domain broker Kate Buckley:

Launch like you mean business: https://t.co/5yEOS6JCzJ sold for $1.2M earlier this year; now the UK-based firm branded as https://t.co/5yEOS6JCzJ launches new $50M fund. https://t.co/WaVfeU88Qe #branding #domains #growthhack

— Kate Buckley (@katebuckley1) November 28, 2018

On the Super.com website, the company shares more information about its $50 million Super! Fund initiative:

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.ICU Registry Giving Away 2 NamesCon Tickets

NamesCon Keynote I Will Watch

All of NamesCon’s Domain Names

Brent Oxley Lists Valuable Domain Names in NamesCon Auction

Network Solutions Lists DomainNames.com in NamesCon Auction

Super.com Announces New $50 Million Investment Fund

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