Paul Nicks is a longtime GoDaddy employee of 18+ years, has announced his retirement from the company. Paul previously served as President of the company’s Domains division and most recently oversaw the group that worked directly with domain investors. In his roles, Paul oversaw the domain name aftermarket at GoDaddy along with numerous lines of business that impact domain investors.
Paul shared the news on LinkedIn this morning:
I don’t think successful outbound domain name sales is easy. In fact, it can be pretty demoralizing depending on the response to your outbound efforts. From not receiving a reply to being told off, there’s nothing really glamorous about outbound sales.
If you’re looking to sell an industry defining domain name via outbound, I thought I would share a tip to help find prospective buyers that goes beyond what I typically find with Google, DomainLeads, DomainIQ, and AI searches. Find an industry trade organization and reach out to some of the public facing member companies that would benefit from buying the domain name.
GoDaddy recently announced a new benefit to its Domain Pro program. Domain Pro members receive a monthly $20 auction credit that can be used to pay for GoDaddy Auction purchases. This amounts to $240 in total auction credit value, and I think that is approximately the current annual cost of a Domain Pro membership.
Notably, this monthly benefit is not automatically applied to auctions each month. Members will need to be redeem it manually with a monthly promo code. On the Auctions payment page, there’s a “Have a promo code?” link, and clicking that will allow the buyer to enter this monthly promo code. For November, the code is “NOVPROWIN.”
If you’re having a tough time visiting some domain name industry websites today, you’re note alone. I was checking on something at Atom.com this morning, and I saw this Cloudflare Internal server error message at the top.
GoDaddy recently launched its high-end DomainNames.com marketplace. The platform launched with listings that included high value inventory like Harmony.com, HongKong.com, FL.com, Bankroll.com, Switch.ai, Ladder.ai, and a plethora of other great domain names.
According to a post from GoDaddy’s James Iles, DomainNames.com already closed its first sale:
Last week, I wrote about my first domain name sale at Spaceship. The only hiccup was the $57 fee that was charged by PayPal when my payment was disbursed to me. This was partially my fault for not investigating further when Spaceship warned me about the potential for fees:
“Additionally, please note that you may incur fees when receiving funds. These fees are determined by the payout method and are beyond our control.”
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