Silver Lining: Dan.com LTO Payoff192 As you know, GoDaddy is shutting down Dan.com in October. Yesterday, Afternic and Dan launched a “Migration center” to help...
Stride Funding Rebrands as Clasp with Clasp.com172 Tim Hargis alerted me about a recent corporate rebrand. A company called Stride Funding, which had previously been funded to the tune o...
Hotel Engine Rebrands as Engine with Engine.com984 In June, with the help of DomainTools, I noticed that the Engine.com domain name was pending transfer and the nameservers had recently ...
ASAP.com Sold in Bankruptcy Auction229 The ASAP.com domain name was sold in a bankruptcy auction managed by Heritage Global Partners (HGP). The sale price was $340,000, plus ...
Dan.com Being Retired by GoDaddy246 GoDaddy acquired Dan.com in 2022. The company reportedly spent north of $71 million USD to acquire the domain name sales platform. This...
My Largest Offer382 I spend quite a bit of time trying to buy domain names. Some of the best deals I’ve made have come on domain names I privately ac...
QW.com UDRP Denied Due to “Fraudster”184 A UDRP was filed at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against the valuable 2 letter QW.com domain name. The complaint...
No Negotiation Box with GoDaddy Offers340 Afternic recently began offering Dan.com-lookalike landing pages with GoDaddy branding. I liked them enough to move inventory to them a...
Rocket.com Sold via Hilco Digital Assets352 In what I believe could be one of the top domain name sales of all-time, Hilco Digital Assets brokered the sale of Rocket.com. The doma...
Quick Fix for NameBright Issues418 The other day, I consolidated some .com domain names at GoDaddy prior to the most recent Verisign price increase. When I tried to appro...