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NamesCon Global 2025 to be Held in Miami

The 2025 NamesCon Global conference will be held in Miami, Florida next year, according to an announcement from Soeren von Varchim. In addition to the location change, the conference will also be held later on in the year and will take place from November 5-6, 2025. I believe NamesCon is still the largest annual domain industry conference.

The conference will be held at the Ice Palace, an event space in Miami. I am not super familiar with Miami, so I can’t offer much insight on good hotel options in the vicinity of the conference venue.

According to the NamesCon website, a Standard Pass costs $299 for early registrants. This price remains in effect until March 28, 2025. The introductory Vendor Pass is $599. It, too, will increase on March 28th.

The conference will be held as industry companies are in the planning stages for the next round of gTLD applications. I expect that to be a big theme throughout the conference, particularly as it relates to larger industry companies.

The conference agenda will be posted at some point next year. For now, domain investors can add the event to their 2025 calendar.

Tennis TV Snags Tennis.TV Domain Name

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The Tennis TV network recently acquired the Tennis.TV domain name with the help of Snagged.com. The tennis network and platform has operated on TennisTV.com, and it was able to acquire the .TV domain name in a deal brokered by Rob Schutz of Snagged.com:

ICA Reveals Award Nominees

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The Internet Commerce Association has revealed the nominees for the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award and the inaugural Trailblazer Award. Both of these awards will be given during the ICA annual meeting in Las Vegas in January. ICA members are now able to vote for the award winners using a rank choice voting system.

The nominees, who were each nominated by members of the domain investing community at large, include the following people and industry companies:

Aries.com Acquired in Mid-Seven Figure Deal

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A startup called Aries introduced itself yesterday, and its brand matching Aries.com domain name is was what caught my attention:

From what I can tell, it looks like Aries started out on the TradeAries.com domain name. The company appears to have raised more than $1 million in funding via StartEngine in a round that closed earlier this year.

What is the Best MarkMonitor Domain Name Deal?

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Among other things, MarkMonitor is a corporate domain name brokerage. The company often represents and advises major corporations when they are in the market to acquire a specific domain name.

In addition to domain name acquisitions, MarkMonitor helps its clients sell valuable domain names that are no longer needed. MarkMonitor publishes a list of domain names it is currently brokering, and many of the domain names have buy it now prices listed. I am particularly fond of the one word .com domain names listed for sale. I check this list from time to time to see what domain names have come on the market and possibly identify domain names that were sold.

There are some exceptional domain names listed for sale via MarkMonitor. I think my favorites on the list are:

GoDaddy Auctions Testing $1 Expiry Auctions

Yesterday morning, I noticed a handful of expiry auctions on GoDaddy Auctions that had a $1 opening bid. The typical starting bid for these types of auctions is $25, so that caught my attention. Most of the other auctions I visited yesterday had the standard $25 opening bid.

I reached out to GoDaddy to ask about this anomaly, and a company representative confirmed this is a test. He was unable to provide additional details about the test, so I don’t know how long we are going to see $1 opening bids. I was told GoDaddy does quite a bit of testing across many variables. For instance, the commas in prices and estimated values across different GoDaddy services were recently removed as a short-lived test.

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