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MAD Comment from NTIA About “Wholesalers”

Elliot Silver
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Andrew Allemann wrote about the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) statement about the .com registry extension agreed upon with Verisign. As a domain investor with a couple thousand domain names, the most eye-catching aspect of the statement was seemingly related to the prices charged by domain investors:

“NTIA recognizes concerns about current pricing and believes a reduction in .com prices would be in the best interest of the public. We also recognize that prices at both the wholesale level and downstream, including prices charged by resellers and substantial markups by warehousers, need to be addressed.”

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Beware When Using AI for Domain Name Descriptions

Elliot Silver
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Artificial Intelligence can be a time saver. For domain investors, it can make it easier and quicker to create marketing copy to help promote a domain name. Over the last couple of years, domain name sales platforms and domain investors have utilized AI tools to help generate sales copy for their domain names. This can be risky, as attorney John Berryhill noted on X today regarding some Atom.com landing pages he found:

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Atom.com Promoting Black Friday Sale

Elliot Silver
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Atom.com is promoting a Black Friday sale with a prominent header banner on its home page. Atom CEO Darpan Munjal shared some insight and answered some questions about the sale:

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Fluid.io Becomes 2nd Largest Publicly Reported .IO Sale

Elliot Silver
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This afternoon, Joshua Schoen reported the $199,995 sale of Fluid.io. The domain name was sold at his BIN price via Afternic, according to a screenshot of the sale email he shared on X:

In looking at NameBio, this is the second largest .IO domain name sale reported publicly. Mint.io is the largest sale at $230,000. That domain name sold in 2021 via Park.io. There are several other .IO domain names that were sold in the low six figure range, according to NameBio. Once Ron Jackson records the sale in DNJournal, it will be just outside of the top 25 publicly reported domain name sales year to date.

Since the domain name was just sold, it is unclear who acquired it.

Congratulations to Josh on an exceptional sale. It’s nice to close a deal like this on a holiday week in the US that tends to be pretty quiet.

Notably, Josh also appears to own Fluid.com, as that domain name forwards to his LinkedIn profile.

Employer.com Acquired for ~$450,000 via Afternic

Elliot Silver
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Late last night, Jesse Tinsley, Founder of Recruiter.com, announced a large domain name acquisition. His company purchased the Employer.com domain name for $450,000 USD.

Jesse shared details about the acquisition in a post on X:

Notably, Jesse shared the reason his company spent nearly half a million to buy this meaningful one word .com domain name:

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NamesCon Global 2025 to be Held in Miami

Elliot Silver
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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.

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