On Sunday, the Washington Post published an article about how the adult entertainment business is being transformed by artificial intelligence. Notably, the article mentioned three domain names that were acquired by a company operating in the business for approximately $550,000:
The ICANN 79 Community Forum Meeting is coming up in a couple of weeks. The meeting will be held in Puerto Rico from March 2-7, 2024.
From what I understand, the Community Forum meetings are usually the most well attended ICANN meetings of the year. I went to the ICANN meeting in Barcelona several years ago, and it was a great chance to connect with some domain industry friends.
I will be away on a ski trip, so this ICANN meeting is not in the cards for me. If it weren’t for the vacation, I would be going to Puerto Rico for ICANN. The mountains are calling though.
Are you going to the ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico?
Poll: Are you going to the ICANN meeting in Puerto Rico?
— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) February 23, 2024
When looking at domain investor Twitter, I’ve noticed a few promoted/advertising tweets mentioning Rob Schutz and/or Snagged.com. I recently wrote about Rob and his domain name brokerage after seeing a tweet from Reddit Founder Alexis Ohanian recommending Snagged.com.
Yesterday on X (formerly Twitter), the corporate XBusiness account mentioned the successful Ads campaign run by Snagged.com:
Last Summer, NameJet made some “big changes” to its platform. In essence, NameJet appears to have become a clone of Snapnames, its sister auction platform, with the difference being the NameJet branding.
There were numerous features about the former platform I appreciated more once they were taken away. It looks like NameJet has made a change to address some of these issues. I have not had the opportunity to look into any of these, but I think this will take away some of the speed bumps I now encounter on the platform.
Here are some of the changes that were announced today:
It’s not often that we hear from the founders of a company to discuss why they spent what they did to acquire a specific domain name. Yesterday, CoFounders Co-Founder Chris Koerner shared the rationale behind his company’s $65,000 acquisition of the CoFounders.com domain name:
We spent $65k on a one word domain name, and it was a stupidly easy decision. Below is our thought process.
In fact, we named the company around the domain name, and not the other way around. Why?
1. Instant credibility for the only audience that matters – ours
2. 80-90%… pic.twitter.com/xczNGwlJOK
— Chris Koerner (@mhp_guy) February 20, 2024
