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4 BIN Sales on Dan.com in Last 2 Weeks

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A little over a month ago, I shared some initial thoughts on the Dan.com update. Since that time, I made a few changes to my portfolio on Dan.com, with the biggest change being the removal of the Make Offer option for nearly all of my domain names priced below $10,000. I mentioned this on Twitter in early August.

For nearly three weeks following this change, I did not have a single buy it now (BIN) sale on Dan.com. Since August 11, I have had four domain names sell at Dan.com using the BIN option. These sales were relatively small, with each being less than $5,000, but the revenue from the sales is motivating and reassuring.

Front Announces Domain Name Upgrade

Front is a customer communication platform that was founded in 2013 and has been using the FrontApp.com domain name for its website. This company has raised nearly $150 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. Front.com has long been owned by a financial services company, although it had not been used since 2010, according to Archive.org.

Last month, Jamie Zoch noticed that Front.com was pending transfer and speculated that the domain name may have been sold. Jamie was right, and it turns out the Front.com domain name was acquired by Front.

Yesterday afternoon, Front announced its updated website, and more importantly, its new domain name. The company made this announcement in a fun way:

2021 NamesCon Europe Cancelled


NamesCon Europe 2021 had been tentatively planned for the Summer, with the hope the conference could be held in Hungary if the trajectory of the Covid pandemic changed. While things seem to be improving in some places, it is still not safe enough to hold an in-person conference.

This morning, NamesCon organizers announced the Europe conference has been cancelled for 2021. Here’s the announcement I received a short while ago:

YouTube Founder Setting Up “Domain First Strategy” Startup Fund

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Chad Hurley is the co-founder and former CEO of YouTube, which was acquired by Google for $1.65 billion. I understand that Chad is now an angel investor, and he also has ownership stakes in the Golden State Warriors (NBA) and the Los Angeles Football Club (MLS).

In the last couple of days, Chad made some interesting comments about domain names on Twitter (with additional comments in the replies):

Confirm.com Sold for $108,000 via Sedo

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In early September, I saw that Sedo domain broker Derick Clegg was brokering the sale of Confirm.com. When I inquired about buying the domain name, he told me they were in the agreement stage of a deal and couldn’t tell me the asking price as a result. Derick later reported that domain name was sold:

DAN Shares Updated Monthly Stats

Jag Singh retweeted a DAN.com tweet from July of 2018 that shared the prior week’s sales stats and a bit of additional details about the sales that were closed on the platform:

The tweet caught my attention because the revenue number seemed like it was lower than I expected. I quickly noticed that the tweet was nearly two years old, so that explained why the revenue number seemed low to me.

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