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Instacart was Buyer of Fizz.com

Domain Sales

Elliot Silver

May 6, 2025

A little over a month ago, I noticed the Fizz.com domain name appeared to have changed hands. Fizz.com, which had been owned by Digimedia, transferred from Tucows to Amazon’s domain registrar with Whois privacy enabled. I noticed this with the help of the Nameserver Monitor tool at DomainTools:

https://t.co/DPiqZD3Lzm, which has been owned by @digimedia, appears to have changed hands.

The domain name transferred from Tucows to Amazon Registrar, where it is now registered under Whois privacy.

Whois changed spotted via @DomainTools Nameserver Monitor.

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) April 4, 2025

Elliot Silver

May 5, 2025

The Internet Commerce Association shared the dates for its 2026 member meeting in Las Vegas during its AMA session with Rob Schutz from Snagged. The annual members only meeting will be held January 15-17, 2026. This is directly after Affiliate Summit for those who wish to attend both. The meeting will take place at the Park MGM hotel and resort in Las Vegas.

Domain Industry News

Elliot Silver

May 2, 2025

InterNetX annually publishes its Global Domain Report with an extensive overview of the domain name aftermarket, highlighting sales stats and ongoing trends. An organization called eco – Association of the Internet Industry, will be hosting a webinar to discuss this year’s Global Domain Report.

The Global Domain Report 2025 webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 8th at 11am Eastern time (17:00 CEST). Leading the webinar will be Semra Körner and Simone Catania. The webinar is open to the public, and there is no cost to attend. I am told the webinar shouldn’t be more than an hour in length. Here are some of the topics of discussion, pulled from the eco website:

Uncategorized

Elliot Silver

May 1, 2025

Reza Sardeha founded Dan.com before selling the company to GoDaddy for more than $71 million before the company was integrated and retired. Instead of taking the money and retiring, Reza launched a new home sales platform called Anyone. The popular real estate publication Inman published an article about the launch yesterday.

As you may have guessed, Reza launched Anyone on the brand matching Anyone.com domain name. Yesterday afternoon on X, Reza revealed the price his company paid to acquire Anyone.com – $400,000 USD:

GoDaddy

Elliot Silver

May 1, 2025

In 2013, GoDaddy acquired Afternic and SmartName. SmartName is a domain name monetization platform founded by Larry Fischer and Ari Goldberger. SmartName has continued to operate post-acquisition, and I use it to monetize some of my domain names that perform better there than elsewhere.

When I logged into my SmartName account yesterday afternoon, I noticed a message informing customers that SmartName is going to be retired later on this month. Accounts will be migrated to GoDaddy’s CashParking service, a similar type of domain name monetization platform.

Geographic Domain Names

Elliot Silver

April 29, 2025

My wife and I took our kids to Aruba after she finished running the Boston Marathon last week. Neither of us had been to Aruba, and we wanted to explore somewhere in the Caribbean neither of us had visited before.