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Squadhelp Email About Ultra Premium Inclusion

Domain Sales

Elliot Silver

August 4, 2023

I started using Squadhelp to list domain names for sale at the end of April. As documented in a series of tweets on Twitter, I completed one domain name sale so far. I also had a second domain name on a 12 month lease to own payment plan, but the buyer canceled after paying two monthly installments. I currently have 116 domain names listed for sale on the platform.

A couple of days ago, I received an email from Squadhelp notifying me that one of the domain names I have listed on the platform was selected to be listed in its forthcoming “Ultra Premium Marketplace.”

Squadhelp is partnering with Hilco Digital Assets to operate the marketplace. Hilco invested $10 million in Squadhelp in March of this year. Although the high end domain sales marketplace hasn’t launched yet, there is a splash page describing its vision. According to Squadhelp CEO Darpan Munjal, the marketplace won’t be live for another week or two.

Here’s the email I received with my domain name redacted:

Domain Auctions

Elliot Silver

August 4, 2023

According to NameBio, PDN.com was last sold for $27,900 via Sedo in July of 2014. Whois records show the buyer was Paula Deen Ventures. Paula Deen is a chef, cookbook author, and is perhaps most well-known for her Food Network television shows.

I don’t believe Paula Deen or her company ever used PDN.com as a standalone website. Archive.org records show that PDN.com was used as a forwarder to Deen’s website, PaulaDeen.com for quite some time until it expired.

General Domain Information

Elliot Silver

August 2, 2023

In June, it was announced that Google will be exiting the domain registrar business. The company is selling Google Domains to Squarespace. After the deal closes, customers whose domain names are registered at Google Domains will have their domain names and account data transferred to Squarespace.

WordPress, which is also a domain registrar, published a blog post with a free domain name transfer offer to Google Domains customers. Here’s an excerpt from the blog post, in which WordPress offered free domain name transfers to Google Domains customers:

Advice

Elliot Silver

August 1, 2023

Keeping a portfolio updated on platforms like Sedo, Afternic, and Dan can be a challenge. With sales and expiries happening on a regular basis, it can be easy to fall behind on updates. It is important to keep these portfolios updated so you don’t accidentally sell a domain name you previously sold or let expire.

I try to keep my portfolio updated in real time. When I sell a name on Dan, for example, I try to immediately delete the listing on Sedo and Afternic. When I let a domain name expire, I remove the listing from all platforms once I receive the final cancelation email. They key word is *try* and names sometimes slip through the cracks. Every once in a while I will do a comparison of my sale portfolios against my inventory list.

I am not a pro at Excel, but I want to share a step by step guide for how I am able to identify the names I previously sold or let expire that I forgot to remove from sales platforms:

GoDaddy

Elliot Silver

July 31, 2023

As I noted last week, Dan.com appears to have changed when it pays out sellers for monthly payments on LTO deals. I did not understand what was changing when it was mentioned in bullet 9 of a July 13th product product update, but I did notice it when one of my monthly LTO payouts was pushed back a week. The timing was different than a same day payout on July 19th and a next day payout on July 26th for two other LTO deals I have.

Following a tweet about this change, someone shared a couple of screenshots that appeared to me to show that even if a buyer pays off a LTO purchase early, Dan.com would pay-out the seller on the original payment schedule as if the buyer hasn’t paid early. To me, this would be unfair since Dan would have the full payment and the buyer would have the domain name, but the seller would not be paid early.

Domain Registrars

Elliot Silver

July 31, 2023

Domain registrar front running is when a domain registrar tracks the domain name searches its customers perform, and when the customer does not register the domain name, the registrar registers it. The registrar would then attempt to sell the domain name back to the customer at an inflated price or would prevent the person from registering the domain name at a different registrar. TechCrunch published an article about front running back in 2008.

Over the years and since that time, I have seen dozens of public complaints about domain registrars reportedly front running domain names. I have also received quite a few private emails about this along with blog comments accusing registrars of doing this.

There are numerous reasons for why it doesn’t make much sense for a domain registrar to front run its customers. Over the weekend, Marc Köhlbrugge shared why it is not likely to happen:

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