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My Inquiry Reply Email Signature

Elliot Silver
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When someone inquires about buying a domain name listed for sale via Embrace.com, they will read my response and the accompanying email signature. You’ll notice a few things I think are important for an informative signature to include.

In addition to including a link to the website’s homepage, I include a link to my LinkedIn profile. This serves two purposes. For one thing, the prospective buyer can see that I am a real person with experience related to domain names. This might make them more comfortable doing business with my company. In addition, if they click through to my profile, I may be able to see more information about them, making me more comfortable.

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Dan.com Payout Change for Active LTO Deals is Unacceptable

Elliot Silver
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Dan.com is holding up payouts on LTO deals. The payout change was vaguely alluded to in bullet point 9 on a product update posted the day the Afternic LTO was announced. No reason for the change was announced, and it is not at all clear what the actual payout policy is now.

Prior to the change, Dan.com would send a payout to the seller the business day after a buyer made an installment payment. After the change, some payouts have been delayed, and there does not appear to be consistency on payout timing. Worse yet, neither Dan nor GoDaddy have offered any explanation about why delaying payouts is necessary.

In my opinion, changing the payout timing for active LTO deals is unacceptable. Dan.com should return to issuing payouts to sellers the day after receiving the monthly installment payouts from buyers on deals that were created prior to the payout change. This is what sellers expected when they listed domain names for sale on Dan.com – and when the domain names were sold prior to the product update announcement last month.

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Sold via Sedo, NPC.ai is Largest Public .AI Sale

Elliot Silver
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This morning, Sedo emailed its weekly sales report, and the top reported sale was NPC.ai. The NPC.ai domain name sold via Sedo for $250,000 USD. Notably, this sale transacted via SedoMLS, meaning the domain name was purchased through a partner domain registrar.

According to NameBio, the $250,000 sale of NPC.ai is the largest publicly reported .AI domain name sale of all time. Previously, the largest .AI sale was Service.ai, which sold in late July for $127,500. Also according to NameBio, this is the fifth largest publicly reported domain name sale of the year at Sedo.

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Retention.com Reportedly Acquired for $800,000

Elliot Silver
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Adam Robinson is the CEO of Retention.com, a company that aims to help businesses increase revenue by offering a variety of customer retention tools. When the business was founded, it was known as GetEmails and used GetEmails.com. The company upgraded its domain name to Retention.com in 2020, as noted by DomainGang.

Yesterday, Adam tweeted about acquiring a domain name for $800,000, and I saw it after George Kirikos reposted the tweet:

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SimilarWeb Illustrates the .com Effect with Threads

Elliot Silver
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Much has been said about Meta’s launch of its Threads app on the Threads.net domain name. For many years, much has also been said about the impact of not using a brand match .com domain name when launching a product or a service. SimilarWeb, a web analytics company, illustrates the .com effect using Threads as an example.

James Iles highlighted this report today:

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Riding for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Elliot Silver
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Riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge is one of the most important things I do each year. All funds raised via the PMC go directly to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. DFCI is an important organization that is at the forefront of cancer research and treatment.

This year, the PMC is hitting closer to home for me. One of my family members is being treated by DFCI oncologists, having been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. We all probably know someone who has cancer or had cancer. It impacts everyone.

When I started my fundraising campaign for the Pan-Mass Challenge, I was anticipating that I would be riding and fundraising on my own. I hit my initial fundraising goal and am closing in on my stretch goal.

A month ago, attorney John Berryhill was able to change his schedule, and he will be riding with me for the fourth year. It will be John’s fifth time participating in the Pan-Mass Challenge. John got a late start on his fundraising, and I know your support would mean a great deal to him and to me.

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