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AWS Outage Causing Afternic Landing Page Issues

Elliot Silver
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There’s a major AWS outage that is causing problems for websites and web-based services around the world. GoDaddy is one of those businesses that is impacted by the outage, I learned this afternoon.

When I visited one of my Afternic-listed domain names that resolves to a GoDaddy landing page, the incorrect landing page was shown. Instead of the newer “custom” landing page with BIN, Make Offer, and Lease to Own options shown, the older BIN landing page was displayed. This particular landing page doesn’t include camel casing.

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Keep Tabs on That Domain Name: Lesson from deBridge

Elliot Silver
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deBridge is a “cross-chain interoperability and liquidity transfer protocol” startup that has operated on the deBridge.Finance domain name. As one might have imagined, the company pined for its brand matching deBridge.com domain name, but it did not have any luck trying to acquire it – or even receiving a reply to its inquiries and offers.

That changed this past Spring when the company was able to acquire deBridge.com in an expiry auction on NameJet. The company acquired deBridge for $50,999. In a long post on X, deBridge Co-Founder Alex Smirnov detailed the efforts he went through to try and acquire the domain name, and he shared how the domain name was ultimately acquired.

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DomainNames.com: GoDaddy’s “Ultra Premium Domains” Marketplace

Elliot Silver
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A couple of weeks ago, Afternic hinted that it would soon be launching a new domain name marketplace on the ultra generic DomainNames.com domain name. The launch was today, and the DomainNames.com platform marketplace was introduced for the first time:

At a quick glance, the marketplace appears to be stocked with some top quality inventory from the start. Domain names like Harmony.com, Natural.com, FL.com, Invitation.com, Encourage.com, Bankroll.com, and others are exceptional and must be in high demand. Each listing has its own logo, and there is an informational landing page with some suggested uses for each domain name.

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Tracking Outbound Interest via Atom

Elliot Silver
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Yesterday, I thought I would try something a bit different. I did some outbound marketing to attempt to sell a .AI domain name I have listed for sale via Atom.com. In the pitch, the call to action was directing prospective buyers to the Atom landing page:

“You can visit [Redacted].ai to see the purchase price and payment options.”

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Sedo’s Derick Clegg Brokers $723,000 Sale of NoLimit.com

Elliot Silver
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Sedo broker Derick Clegg announced the successful brokerage sale of NoLimit.com for $723,000 USD. Derick began brokering the domain name earlier this year.

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Sparc.Energy: UDRP Panel Gives Benefit of the Doubt to Investor

Elliot Silver
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A UDRP was filed at the National Arbitration Forum against the Sparc.Energy domain name, which was acquired in an expiry auction this past May for $262.17. In a decision that I think could have gone either way, the three member UDRP panel ruled in favor of the domain investor who owned the domain name. The domain name was successfully defended by attorney Jason Schaeffer of ESQWire.com.

The complainant, Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), uses the term “SPARC” for a fusion energy project, and it has a US trademark for the term. CFS pointed to the website on the sparc.energy domain name, which featured fusion-energy news and included stories about CFS. It tried to convince the panel that “registering a domain name primarily for the purpose of reselling it for profit is evidence of bad faith registration.”

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