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GoDaddy Now Offering Custom Checkout Link

Elliot Silver
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I’ve sold a few lower-valued domain names using GoDaddy as the intermediary at 5% commission. These are generally deals I want to close quickly, and I am willing to give up $xx or $xxx for the sake of expedience.

The one issue I have had with using GoDaddy and its custom checkout link is that the deals utilized a Dan.com url instead of GoDaddy. This would be confusing for a buyer who is told the deal will be transacted via GoDaddy but then had to click through to Dan.com. I explained it by saying “We can use Dan.com (owned by GoDaddy) to transact.”

I wrote about this issue a couple of months ago:

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Grok.com Acquired by xAI

Elliot Silver
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Another leading AI company acquired its brand matching .com domain name. This time, it is Grok.com, which was acquired by xAI for its Grok chatbot. The acquisition was first reported and shared on X late in the day yesterday:

Whois records are currently “redacted for privacy.” However, an historic Whois record from DomainTools show the domain name was briefly registered to xAI at GoDaddy in early December:

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Anthropic Appears to Have Acquired Claude.com

Elliot Silver
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A month ago, I noticed the Claude.com domain name transferred from Network Solutions to corporate domain registrar MarkMonitor. The domain name had been registered under Whois privacy, and it is currently registered to DNStination Inc., Mark Monitor’s privacy service. The domain name transfer was brought to my attention with the help of DomainTools’ Registrant Monitor tool.

In my post about the domain name transfer, I mentioned that Anthropic AI chat platform is called Claude. The company uses the Claude.ai domain name for this platform.

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Green.Earth Sets .Earth Sales Record

Elliot Silver
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I’ve known Phil Harris for many years. He was one of the first people I know who invested heavily in the new gTLD domain names. Phil still owns a portfolio of about 2,000 one word and one letter domain names in these alternative extensions, and he told me he is approaching seven figures in sales over the years.

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DomainTools Warning About “Possible Deprecation of Whois Services”

Elliot Silver
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I use DomainTools on a daily basis for domain name research. From learning about domain names that changed hands to tracking the history of domain name Whois records, DomainTools offers some of the most comprehensive records dating back 30+ years.

This morning while researching a domain name, I saw a message on the top of a DomainTools Whois lookup page warning about a “possible deprecation of Whois services” that would impact the services DomainTools offers. Clicking the banner gave the following message:

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Signals May Have Changed

Elliot Silver
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Throughout the last several years, the size of my portfolio has ballooned. For many years, I kept somewhere in the ballpark of 400 – 500 domain names in my portfolio. It has now grown to more than 2,000 domain names and counting.

With a larger portfolio, I pay more attention to domain name renewals. When I seek out domain names, there are many things I observe to try and buy commercially viable assets. I look at things like the number of businesses with that could upgrade to this domain name, the size and growth of the industry related to the domain name, the generic nature of the domain name, how the domain name sounds to me, and quite a few other factors that have become second nature to me.

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