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Enable Immediate Payment for Inventory Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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When I was operating my directory websites, a business friend of mine gave me some good advice that applies directly to domain name sales. Enable immediate payment for domain names that buyers want to buy. Whether this is an Escrow.com payment link, a BIN link with Efty Pay, or a BIN landing page with GoDaddy, Atom.com, Spaceship, or other platform, the buyer should be able to pay immediately without jumping through hoops.

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GoDaddy Auctions Masterclass on December 11

Elliot Silver
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GoDaddy’s Domain Academy will be hosting a masterclass focusing on domain auction strategy for GoDaddy Auctions. The session will be hosted by GoDaddy’s Joe Styler and Bart Mozyrko. Joe is a longtime GoDaddy employee, and he leads the GoDaddy Auctions team.

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Atom.com Shares Priority Placement for Searches

Elliot Silver
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Atom.com recently announced “one of the biggest updates to search and discovery” on the platform. The platform is making its search results less literal and more intuitive. By way of example, if someone searches for the term “baby,” instead of being solely shown domain names with the baby keyword in them, the platform will show domain names that could make nice brand names for someone starting a baby-related business. The blog post has many more details about the change.

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GoDaddy DBS Broker Tom McCarthy Explains His Role

Elliot Silver
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GoDaddy has two distinct brokerage teams that work exclusively on behalf of buyers or sellers. The Afternic team represents sellers who have listings on the platform. If an offer is made by a buyer for a domain name listed on Afternic, the Afternic broker’s role is to get the most money for the domain name on behalf of the seller. If an offer is made through GoDaddy’s Domain Brokerage Service (DBS), the DBS broker works to get the buyer the lowest price.

Tom McCarthy is a broker on GoDaddy’s DBS team. I understand he is one of the top performing brokers on the team. When I receive inbound offers for domain names I don’t have listed on Afternic, and Tom is representing the buyer, I know the buyer is serious and educated about domain name values.

Tom recently began posting more regularly on X, and he posted a thread identifying the differences between the DBS and Afternic teams, and the role he plays as a buyer’s broker. I think it’s a good read for people to get an idea of what the DBS team does and who they represent.

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How Much Overlap on AI Domain Name Creation?

Elliot Silver
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I sold a two word .com domain name for $4,999 via Afternic last night. The domain name consists of a noun and a verb, and I acquired the domain name for less than $200 in 2018.

Because it’s more of a brandable domain name than an actual term, I think there are similar types of domain names out there that have not been registered. In fact, DomainLeads.com shows only two SLDs registered in the domain name I sold – my .com and the .org domain name. Put simply, I believe this could be fertile ground to explore alternative domain names.

To that end, I used AI tools to try and come up with similar types of domain names I could search in bulk. I would then be able to do some additional research to assess whether any of the available terms are worth registering.

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Atom Pay Offers $10 Transaction Fee Through 2025

Elliot Silver
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Atom.com introduced one of the better Black Friday deals I’ve seen offered. The platform is allowing customers to transact with its Atom Pay service for just $10 instead of the 4.5% standard transaction fee. Theoretically, this could be a huge savings depending on the size of deals transacted on the platform.

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