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I Appreciate Jamie Zoch

Elliot Silver
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Jamie Zoch has uncovered more domain name sales and transactions than just about anyone I know. He has access to the same tools I use, yet he finds far more interesting domain name registrant changes and domain name moves than me. I’ve used Jamie’s tweets as a source for many articles, and I appreciate the work he puts into discovering interesting bits of information and data about domain names.

Jamie doesn’t update his blog any longer, and most of his findings are shared on his Twitter page. As a result, it is not easy for him to monetize the data and information he shares. People have asked about sending him gifts as a means of showing appreciation, and Jamie tweeted about how people can do this:

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“What Kind of F*cking Idiot Would Set Up an Important Website and Not Buy the .com?”

Elliot Silver
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The Wrap posted a humorous video with John Oliver, and there’s some domain name humor involved. In the video, John Oliver discusses the Sackler family and the opioid epidemic.

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Where the Public Million Dollar Domain Names are Registered

Elliot Silver
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This past weekend, George Kirikos shared that he had discovered a seven figure domain name sale that had not ben disclosed before. According to a SEC filing, Better.com was acquired for $1,820,000. George wrote about the domain name sale on his FreeSpeech.com blog. I also added the sale to the Embrace.com list of recent one word .com domain name sales.

On Twitter, George suggested that it would be interesting to see where domain names that were (publicly) sold for one million or more are currently registered.

I also thought that would be neat to see, and it would be fairly easy to do.

I started by searching NameBio for all public million dollar plus domain name sales and downloaded them into a CSV file. This was easy because I have a paid NameBio account, allowing me to search sales data and download reports like this. I then used the bulk Whois search tool at DomainIQ using my paid account. Among other attributes of the Whois records, I am able to see where each domain name is registered.

Here is the registrar information for the publicly reported million dollar domain name sales found on NameBio:

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When I “Hide” My Listings on Afternic

Elliot Silver
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I’ve been asked about listing domain names for sale with Buy It Now prices on multiple venues. For nearly all of my inventory quality domain names, I list them on Afternic / GoDaddy and on Dan.com with buy it now prices. I know many other investors also use marketplaces like Sedo, Epik, Efty, and a few other venues as well.

A concern I have had is that a domain name will sell to different buyers on different platforms. While this may seem unlikely, it is easy to imagine a scenario where this happens. For instance, a phrase might become a social media hashtag, and before a domain owner can update pricing or remove sales listings to reflect the growing popularity of the phrase, buyers utilize the buy it now option on multiple platforms.

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PMC Weekend is Here

Elliot Silver
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As you must know by now, this weekend, I will be riding 100 miles on my bicycle in the 2021 Pan-Mass Challenge. The PMC is an annual bike ride that raises funds for cancer research and cancer care at Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Dana–Farber is recognized as one of the top three cancer centers in the world.

With the help of friends and colleagues, I was able to surpass my initial fundraising goal of $12,500. I set a stretch goal of $15,000 and we are very close to hitting that number.

I will be riding the PMC while wearing a special domain industry cycling jersey that raised over $11,000 from sponsors this year.

Just about everyone knows someone who is battling or who has battled cancer. My wife and I support Dana-Farber because it is a great organization helping people fight cancer and helping to find a cure for cancer. If you can help me achieve my fundraising goal, it would be greatly appreciated. I will happily add your name and link to the domain industry list of supporters if you are able to donate.

GoDaddy Alerts: New Email from GoDaddy

Elliot Silver
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Whenever I receive an email from GoDaddy that does not look like a standard GoDaddy email, it gets my guard up. Phishing and spearphishing are big problems, and I regularly see GoDaddy spoof emails. My email hosting provider catches most of them and automatically marks them as spam / junk, so I don’t see many of them in my inbox.

Earlier this week, I received an email from “GoDaddy Alerts” as the sender with an email address of alerts@godaddy.com. The email was a notification that my nameservers had been updated. I had not received an email from the email address or the sender prior to receiving this one.

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