Spaceship CEO Richard Kirkendall recently announced the company’s domain name sales platform would soon open to beta testers. With his post, Richard also offered a sneak peak at the back-end control panel for the platform, and a look at the domain names that had leads allowed people to get a look at the landing pages.
This morning, Richard announced the Spaceship Seller Hub would open for beta testers next Tuesday (April 15):
Atom.com recently introduced its Domain Talk feature. The Domain Talk feature is an AI-generated audio snippet that appears on a domain’s landing page, offering a creative description of how the domain name could be used. The may help a potential buyer visualize branding possibilities, and that may help boost interest and increase the chances of selling a domain name.
While Domain Talk rolled out piecemeal and I only received a notification about it being added to a couple of my domain names, users are now able to generate their own Domain Talk snippets for their landing pages. Atom is allowing users to use “AI credits” to generate these snippets. Previously, these credits were solely used for image and logo creation.
Artificial intelligence is already having a modest impact on how I run my business. Unlike quite a few colleagues who have been ringing the register because of AI-related domain names, I don’t have many AI or .AI domain names in my portfolio.
I have been using AI to help with a variety of tasks related to my business. For the most part, I am using Chat.com and Grok. Occasionally, if I want more suggestions or am running into issues, I will use Claude from Perplexity. I am open to trying others though.
Here are some of the ways I use AI for my business:
In one of the largest publicly reported domain name sales of 2025 so far, Andrew Rosener reported that he sold ABTC.com for $699,999. Andrew shared this sale on the most recent episode of Domain Sherpa, which I have embedded above (discussion starts around the 17 minute mark).
Although Andrew Rosener is a domain broker and CEO of Media Options, the domain name was acquired via Afternic. The BIN price had been $749,000.
John Berryhill and I are happy to announce that we will be participating in the 2025 Pan-Mass Challenge to raise funds and awareness for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Joining us this year – and wearing our domain industry team jersey – is my wife, Karen. The Pan-Mass Challenge is August 2-3, 2025, and we will each ride our bicycles 162 miles.
Dana-Farber is a world-renowned leader in cancer treatment and research, dedicated to providing compassionate care while making advances to cure cancer. Its mission centers on integrating groundbreaking research with exceptional patient care to offer hope and improve outcomes for individuals battling cancer throughout the world.
The Linea.com domain name was in an expiry auction at NameJet that closed this afternoon. The highest bid was $200,000, and I am pretty certain this auction will successfully close. There were two bidders who bid on this domain name past the $70k mark.
When this auction closes, it will be the tenth largest domain name auction on NameJet, according to NameBio records. It will be slightly higher than the 2021 sale of Operate.com, and just lower than the $201,100 sale of 281.com in 2016. We are early in the year, but this $200,000 sale will tie for the 10th largest publicly reported sale of the year on DNJournal once it closes.
