The Internet Commerce Association shared the dates for its 2026 member meeting in Las Vegas during its AMA session with Rob Schutz from Snagged. The annual members only meeting will be held January 15-17, 2026. This is directly after Affiliate Summit for those who wish to attend both. The meeting will take place at the Park MGM hotel and resort in Las Vegas.
eco to Host Webinar for Global Domain Report 2025
InterNetX annually publishes its Global Domain Report with an extensive overview of the domain name aftermarket, highlighting sales stats and ongoing trends. An organization called eco – Association of the Internet Industry, will be hosting a webinar to discuss this year’s Global Domain Report.
The Global Domain Report 2025 webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 8th at 11am Eastern time (17:00 CEST). Leading the webinar will be Semra Körner and Simone Catania. The webinar is open to the public, and there is no cost to attend. I am told the webinar shouldn’t be more than an hour in length. Here are some of the topics of discussion, pulled from the eco website:
Anyone.com Domain Name was Acquired for $400k
Reza Sardeha founded Dan.com before selling the company to GoDaddy for more than $71 million before the company was integrated and retired. Instead of taking the money and retiring, Reza launched a new home sales platform called Anyone. The popular real estate publication Inman published an article about the launch yesterday.
As you may have guessed, Reza launched Anyone on the brand matching Anyone.com domain name. Yesterday afternoon on X, Reza revealed the price his company paid to acquire Anyone.com – $400,000 USD:
GoDaddy to Retire SmartName This Month
In 2013, GoDaddy acquired Afternic and SmartName. SmartName is a domain name monetization platform founded by Larry Fischer and Ari Goldberger. SmartName has continued to operate post-acquisition, and I use it to monetize some of my domain names that perform better there than elsewhere.
When I logged into my SmartName account yesterday afternoon, I noticed a message informing customers that SmartName is going to be retired later on this month. Accounts will be migrated to GoDaddy’s CashParking service, a similar type of domain name monetization platform.
Aruba.com Featured on Every License Plate in Aruba
My wife and I took our kids to Aruba after she finished running the Boston Marathon last week. Neither of us had been to Aruba, and we wanted to explore somewhere in the Caribbean neither of us had visited before.
Using ChatGPT to Modify a Landing Page
I use Carrd for the landing pages for many of my higher value one and two word .com domain names. I don’t know the exact number of landing pages, but it’s probably more than 25. I’ve created and modified a few similar but different versions of the landing pages with the goal of driving traffic to the inquiry form on Embrace.com.
I have owned Receivables.com for a year or two. I have used a fairly simple landing page created with the help of Carrd, figuring prospective buyers would know why they want it and submit an offer via the inquiry form.
You can look at a screenshot of how Receivables.com has looked for quite some time: