Andrew Miller of Hilco Digital has been publishing a weekly update on LinkedIn for the last three years. In his Random Sunday Thoughts posts, he often shares insights and advice for domain name buyers and sellers. Occasionally, he mentions completed deals that may not have been discovered by others.
This morning on X, Yinan Wang shared that he sold two domain names in deals that were overseen and managed by Andrew Miller. First.com and Fancy.com were both sold for undisclosed sums:
Backpage.com was once one of the most popular classified advertising websites online. According to Wikipedia, “Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services. It soon became the second largest online classified site in the United States.” It was also apparently a hub for illicit activities.
In 2018, the US Department of Justice seized the website and Backpage.com domain name. At that time, the USDOJ issued a press release announcing the domain name seizure with a link to the indictment. A screenshot of the landing page from Screenshots.com can be seen below with law enforcement seals and seizure notification:
Spaceship is looking for people interested in beta testing its new seller hub. Spaceship Founder (and Namecheap CEO) Richard Kirkendall announced this in a post on X this morning:
Just moved a portfolio of about 5000 domains to our seller hub at Spaceship. First offer for 50k just rolled in on pare ai so good to see things working. We are going to start taking some more beta testers with larger portfolios next week. Example of a real negotiation below on a… pic.twitter.com/VZd6XS1Iet
— Richard Kirkendall (@NamecheapCEO) February 19, 2025
Within Rick’s post, you can get a glance at how the back-end of the website looks with a negotiation in progress.
On February 21, and then again on February 26, @dnacademy will host a live, three-hour Afternic masterclass session!
Join @jjstyler and members of our team to dive deep into our platform to help refine your Afternic sales strategy. Sign up details:https://t.co/dRFt4EYrZe
— Afternic (@afternic) February 14, 2025
Afternic will be hosting a free three hour “Masterclass” for members of its Domain Discount Club on February 21 and again on February 26. The live program will be led by GoDaddy’s Joe Styler and other members of the Afternic team.
Afternic published a blog post offering details about this event. In addition, GoDaddy’s James Iles discussed the Masterclass with Joe Styler in a video interview to give people an understanding of what they can expect from the program:
Last week, James Booth announced that he sold the Nugget.com domain name, which was listed for sale via Atom.com. He was unable to share the sale price due to a non-disclosure agreement, but he speculated it was bought by a casino or something similar.
https://t.co/Br67QiZmVV sold – NDA on price
Im going to guess this ends up as a casino or similar
— Domain (@domain) February 14, 2025
It turns out, Nugget.com was acquired by Zomato, an India-based food delivery platform. The company already launched its offering, and it forwards Nugget.com to a Zomato subdomain – Nugget.Zomato.com. Nugget
TRC.com expired at the end of November 2024. The domain name was apparently registered at a domain registrar that doesn’t have a deal with an expiry auction platform, so it was fully deleted from the registry. As a result, drop catching auction platforms competed to catch the domain name once it made it through the expiration cycle.
Sav.com caught the domain name, and TRC.com was entered into a ten day auction. After a great deal of extended bidding, the auction for TRC.com closed at $100,000. There were 304 bids placed by 22 different bidders.
