Spaceship is a rapidly growing domain registrar founded by Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall. In mid-April, the registrar hit 775,000 domains under management (DUM) after passing the 400,000 mark just a few months prior.
This morning, Richard shared a Spaceship coupon code that could appeal to people seeking to transfer their .com domain names at a reduced price. The code Richard shared on X is SPSCOMTR. The code allows for unlimited .com transfers to Spaceship for $7.99 + the ICANN fee, which I believe is $.18 per domain name.
Last year, OpenAI filed a UDRP against the ChatGPT.com domain name. The company had been using Chat.OpenAI.com for its Chat GPT platform. In September, I shared that there appeared to be a settlement in that dispute, and ChatGPT.com transferred to OpenAI. For some time, the domain name forwarded to the subdomain that served as the ChatGPT base.
The company has now migrated its Chat GPT platform to ChatGPT.com:
If you’re doing outbound marketing to try and sell a domain name, you might want to remove its buy it now landing page first. If you don’t, closing a sale could cost you quite a bit of money.
If you’ve targeted the right prospective buyer(s) for your good domain name, you will generate interest in the domain name. The first thing a buyer might do is visit the domain name to see what’s there. If you have a BIN landing page showing, the buyer might proceed with the purchase without even responding to your email. While this is an okay problem to have, you’ll still end up paying more in commission for this deal.
Darpan Munjal is CEO of Atom, the domain name sales platform that recently rebranded from Squadhelp. Following the platform’s rebrand, there has been a lot of public and private commentary about sales on Atom.
One of the things I like and appreciate about Darpan is his willingness to share insights and information. Yesterday afternoon, Darpan responded to some of the questions and commentary that has been posted by others related to the rebrand and sales conducted on the platform.
To make it easier to follow along – and for those who are fortunate to not be on X, I have embedded Darpan’s commentary below:
From the outset, I will tell you that I don’t have statistically significant data that would offer true insights about price testing and/or price sensitivity. I think regularly changing and testing your prices could prove helpful in selling domain names.
I have many hundreds of inventory-quality domain names that have historically been priced at just shy of $1,000 – either $999, $997, $988, or something else very close. I recently updated the prices of just about every name I own that had a price of $2,000 or less to ~$2,500. I did this on Dan.com and Afternic. My rationale was from insights shared by Darpan Munjal and Michael Sumner.
