This morning, James Booth reported that he sold the Hero.io domain name for $125,000. James told me the domain name was sold via Squadhelp, and the payment was already made in full:
https://t.co/c9Cz3MQNwa sold for $125,000
— Domain (@domain) July 19, 2023
GoDaddy is set to introduce a Lease to Own purchase option for buyers of aftermarket domain names listed for sale via Afternic. This option has been one of the unique points of differentiation for sellers on Dan.com, a company acquired by GoDaddy last year.
While I offer LTO on most of my domain names I have listed on Dan, I am cautious about it with others because of the potential damage highlighted by Brad Mugford:
Interesting, but a quick question.
Is the buyer allowed to use the domain during the lease period?
If so, where are the terms regarding the buyer’s usage?
For the low price of a LTO payment, a buyer could possibly damage the value of a domain.@jamesiles @PaulENicks https://t.co/lWxvZBwiJL
— DataCube (@datacubecom) July 14, 2023
One of the most prominent military news stories kicking off the week is related to misdirected emails as a result of a common typographical error involving domain names. The country of Mali has the .ML ccTLD extension while the US Military operates on the .MIL domain extension. Here’s an excerpt from the Financial Times article covering the news today:
I consider the number of registrations for a particular SLD (phrase to the left of the dot) to be one of the more important “signs of life” for a domain name. When I am evaluating domain names to buy in the aftermarket or at auction, I pay closer attention to those that have many other extensions registered.
Importantly, the number of registrations can be misleading, so there is some nuance that goes into my process for evaluating these domain names.
This morning, I was looking at a domain name currently in auction. I see there are 10 extensions registered, including the .com. Using dotDB, I see there are only 2 other domain names registered with this term. That was peculiar to me because usually if a phrase or term is registered in many extensions, there will also be other domain names registered that have the phrase within the SLD.
One of the most helpful offerings from Dan.com is the easy to use Lease to Own (LTO) purchase option. Domain name buyers who do not want to spend the money to acquire a domain name at the time of the sale can opt to pay for it over a period of time when offered by the seller.
Dan.com was acquired by GoDaddy last year, and the LTO option is now coming to Afternic. This means domain name buyers shopping on GoDaddy will be given the ability to purchase a domain name over a period of time, if leasing is offered by the seller of the domain name.
Afternic posted a tweet about the new offering along with an article that covers how sellers will be able to add the LTO option to their domain names listed for sale via Afternic:
I wrote about GoDaddy’s ChatGPT plugin, which is available to OpenAI subscribers within the confines of the ChatGT platform. At the present time, users must be ChatGPT subscribers and they must be on the ChatGPT website in order to use the GoDaddy plugin.
It is my assumption that GoDaddy and other registrars already or will integrate ChatGPT results within their own searches. In fact, today I heard from a representative from CentralNic who shared that its Internet.bs retail website has already integrated ChatGPT within its search functionality. Visitors to Internet.bs can choose to search with or without ChatGPT assistance.
You can see the ChatGPT toggle on the search box:
