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ICA Meeting Keeps Getting Better

Elliot Silver
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I went to the ICA meeting in Las Vegas last week. I don’t particularly enjoy leaving my family when they have many different activities and events at happening home, but the trip was well worth that inconvenience.

At around 200 attendees, the ICA event is fairly small and manageable. I was able to connect with many friends and colleagues from around the world who I don’t see or talk to on a regular basis. I attended a few of the keynotes, AMAs, as well as the memorial for Howard Neu and the ICA award presentations. I thought they were all well done and offered a good chance to ask questions and chat with some of the leaders from companies that work closely with domain investors.

It was a very good opportunity to get a pulse of the domain investment space from all areas of the investment community.

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DropCatch Names Should be Provisioned Soon (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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One of the things I like about DropCatch.com auctions is that I get control of the domain names almost immediately after I pay for them. I’ll win an auction or receive the backorder success emails, visit the account to pay, and the names appear instantly in my associated NameBright account.

That’s what typically happens. Yesterday, I bought 3 domain names via auction and paid for them immediately. The domain names did not appear in my account. I submitted a support ticket but didn’t hear back. I followed up this morning when I still hadn’t heard anything, but that went unanswered. To my knowledge, there hasn’t been any communication about an issue from anyone at the company so I did not know if this was an isolated issue or something more widespread.

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Human Errors Happen

Elliot Silver
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Last year, I won a non-.com auction at Dynadot. The domain name may be considered a typo of another word word, but this “typo” has 100+/- TLDs registered, which is what caught my attention. In fact, at least 15 of those TLDs are developed, so there’s quite a bit of usage around this brandable term.

Shortly after buying the domain name for less than $20, I listed it for sale on Afternic. Somehow, I mistyped the domain name and listed the correctly spelled non -.com domain name. Apparently, when I later searched my Afternic account for the domain name and didn’t see it, I added it a second time – this time with the actual domain name I bought and own.

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How I Would Use an AI Agent / Tool for Domain Investing

Elliot Silver
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I hand registered around 40 domain names this month. This is abnormally high, but I had a couple of recent sales in the category and figured I would use some of the income from those sales to try and generate additional sales.

I registered these domain names in two groups – one of about 30 domain names followed by 10 additional domain names. I thought I set up nameservers and sales listings correctly, but I realized I must have forgotten to create the correct listings for the last 10 domain names. The nameservers were set correctly, but they did not resolve as expected since I apparently did not create their sale listings as I thought.

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2025 ICA Award Winners Announced

Elliot Silver
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The Internet Commerce Association (ICA) held its awards presentation last night during its annual meeting in Las Vegas. The domain industry at-large nominated people from within the industry for the Lonnie Borck Memorial Award and nominated companies for the new Trailblazer Award. ICA membership then voted on the winners, which were announced last night.

Richard Lau was the recipient of the 2025 Lonnie Borck Memorial Award. Richard has been in the domain investment space for many years. In addition to founding, co-founding, and funding numerous companies in this industry, Richard may be best known for creating the largest annual industry event – NamesCon.

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Requesting my ACH Fee Report from GoDaddy

Elliot Silver
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One of the nice things about having an Account Manager at GoDaddy is that he can help pull reports for me that would take longer for me to pull. At the beginning of the year, I ask my Account Manager to send me a report of all renewals I paid the previous year so I can accurately track this cost on my expense report. One report that isn’t available for me to download on my own is the $.90 ACH fee report.

GoDaddy has a policy of charging customers $.90 for every outgoing ACH payment it sends. Regardless of whether a sale is for $150,000 or a monthly LTO payment is for just $80, GoDaddy charges $.90 per ACH it sends customers. If a customer has multiple payouts going out on the same day, as in the case of LTO deals, GoDaddy will typically batch the payments together and charge only one $.90 fee. I am not certain if GoDaddy will batch 2 LTO deals and a BIN deal in the same payment if they are due on the same day, but it’s possible that happens, too.

As far as I can see, GoDaddy doesn’t even report this fee to customers. You can look at the image above and see the payout amount on top and the amount deposited into my bank account – it differs by $.90.

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