Domain Name Wire for Domain - Donuts deal, GoDaddy & more

November's top domain name stories

Latest domain news View this email in your browser DNW Newsletter   Receive this email as a forward? Sign up to get it at domainnamewire.com/newsletter. Next month is going to be weird. I look forward to January each year because I get to connect with domain industry colleagues at NamesCon. But next month's event won't be in person because of the pandemic. I miss y'all, and hope we get to see each other again In Real Life sometime in 2021. Scroll down to see which five stories got the most traffic at Domain Name Wire last month, and check out DNW's recent podcasts. Happy holidays! -Andrew SPONSOR MESSAGE Domain Financing 2.0 Domain owners: sell more domains with Domain Financing 2.0 at Dan.com! Sellers can offer buyers financing options of up to 60 months, and no additional negotiation is needed. Sellers also get extra fees depending on the term.  No Dan.com account? Sign up today and opt-in to domain financing.   Here are the top stories on DNW last month, as ranked by pageviews:   1. GoDaddy (all of it) went down - GoDaddy had a major outage on November 17, taking down the GoDaddy site and customer sites. The customer site outage last for many hours. GoDaddy said it was due to a technical error and not a security issue. 2. Donuts is acquiring Afilias - In the latest blockbuster consolidation move, top level domain company Donuts said it is acquiring Afilias. 3. Cooper's Hawk restaurant chain tries reverse domain name hijacking - The company could have acquired the domain for only $5,000 many years ago but apparently never followed through with payment. 4. Flipkart among end user domain buyers at GoDaddy - GoDaddy released its latest batch of domain sales. Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart spent $75,000 on one of the domains. 5. GoDaddy launches GoDaddy Corporate Domains for large brands - GoDaddy has rebranded Brandsight and is courting customers by promising escalation of issues related to problematic domains registered at GoDaddy. Miss a podcast? Listen now: #310 - Booking .com and cybersquatting (listen) #311 - Side Hustles with Nick Loper (listen) #312 - Domain Investing with Adam Strong (listen) #313 - New TLD marketing with Mina Neuberg (listen) #314 - Investing in new TLDs with Oswin (listen)   Get the Latest Don't wait for this newsletter to get the latest domain name news. Check in to DNW daily, and join the 35k people who follow DNW on Twitter. Thanks for reading, Andrew Copyright © 2020 Brainstorm Labs, LLC, All rights reserved. Thanks for subscribing to Domain Name Wire's newsletter. Our mailing address is: Brainstorm Labs, LLC 290 Madison Ave Ste 204 Seattle, Washington 98110 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - PayPal, pricey forwards & more

October's top domain name stories

Latest domain news View this email in your browser DNW Newsletter   Receive this email as a forward? Sign up to get it at domainnamewire.com/newsletter. October has been a month of angst and waiting in the United States. The presidential election is tomorrow and I can't wait for it to be over. If you live in the U.S. and haven't voted yet, head to the polls tomorrow. PLEASE VOTE! October had a few domain name stories of note, including one involving the presidential campaign and a fly. Go figure. Scroll down to see which five stories got the most traffic at Domain Name Wire, and check out DNW's recent podcasts. -Andrew SPONSOR MESSAGE Domain Financing 2.0 Domain owners: sell more domains with Domain Financing 2.0 at Dan.com! Sellers can offer buyers financing options of up to 60 months, and no additional negotiation is needed. Sellers also get extra fees depending on the term.  No Dan.com account? Sign up today and opt-in to domain financing.   Here are the top stories on DNW last month, as ranked by pageviews:   1. PayPal drops Epik, sparking registrar to cry it is being "deplatformed" - PayPal wasn't trying to deplatform the company; it had risk concerns. 2. Biden campaign jumps on fly on Pence's head with FlyWillVote.com - A quick and clever domain registration. Some people thought the fly was part of some conspiracy, though, which says a lot about the state of the nation. 3. Domain appraisal scammers try to take advantage of new GoDaddy contact system - The appraisal scam is now pretending to be a "certified" offer from GoDaddy or Sedo. 4. 3 companies paid $100k+ for domain forwards - GoDaddy released its first batch of domain sales data in years, and three of the top sales went to companies that bought the domains to forward them to other domains. 5. XYZ acquires 5 more top level domains including .Autos, .Homes - XYZ keeps adding to its top level domain stable, this time by acquiring Dominion Domains' portfolio. Podcasts: #307 - It's on .Fox with Crews Gore (listen) #308 - Domain valuation with Michael Cyger (listen) #309 - Domain leasing, selling domains and more (listen) #310 - The domain sales stack with Reza Sardeha (listen)   Get the Latest Don't wait for this newsletter to get the latest domain name news. Check in to DNW daily, and join the 35k people who follow DNW on Twitter. Thanks for reading, Andrew Copyright © 2020 Brainstorm Labs, LLC, All rights reserved. Thanks for subscribing to Domain Name Wire's newsletter. Our mailing address is: Brainstorm Labs, LLC 290 Madison Ave Ste 204 Seattle, Washington 98110 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

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Domain Name Wire for Domain - Last month's top domain stories

CentralNic, seven figure sale and more

Latest domain news View this email in your browser DNW Newsletter   Receive this email as a forward? Sign up to get it at domainnamewire.com/newsletter. Have questions about domain names or domain investing?  At the suggestion of a Domain Name Wire Podcast listener, I'm going to start a new segment on my podcast to answer questions. It might be an entire "guest" segment, or I'll answer questions each week as I get them. I'll either answer the questions myself or bring on other domain investors for their answers. I have one approach to domain investing, and other domain investors might answer questions differently depending on their own experiences. Questions can be technical (how do I do this at domain registrar ABC?) or opinion (what are the best places to sell domains?). The easiest way to ask your questions is to respond to this email with your questions. Now, scroll down to see a list of the top stories on Domain Name Wire last month.  -Andrew SPONSOR MESSAGE Domain Financing 2.0 Domain owners: sell more domains with Domain Financing 2.0 at Dan.com! Sellers can offer buyers financing options of up to 60 months, and no additional negotiation is needed. Sellers also get extra fees depending on the term.  No Dan.com account? Sign up today and opt-in to domain financing.   Here are the top stories on DNW last month, as ranked by pageviews:   1. CentralNic to acquire monetization company Codewise for $36 million - The domain name rollup is acquiring two companies popular with affiliate marketers. CentralNic raised £30 million through a share offering to pay for the acquisition, which should close at the end of October. 2. Saudi Aramco tries to take dead man's domain name - The oil giant, one of the most valuable companies in the world, filed a cybersquatting case against a dead man. The company wants his domain name for a new brand it created. 3. How I'm investing in domains these days - Here's what I'm doing and what I'm buying. 4. How Microstrategy got its domains and sold Voice.com for $30 million - The company's CEO discussed the negotiation of Voice.com on a recent podcast. 5. Coins.com sold for $1.7 million but it hasn't all been paid - Filings in a bankruptcy case revealed the sale price of Coins.com. But it's on a payment plan. Podcasts: #302 - Domains and SEO with Rand Fishkin (listen) #303 - Grand Theft Domain Name with Kieren McCarthy (listen) #304 - Web businesses during the pandemic with Peter Askew (listen) #305 - Domain broker ethics with Bill Sweetman (listen)   Get the Latest Don't wait for this newsletter to get the latest domain name news. Check in to DNW daily, and join the 35k people who follow DNW on Twitter. Thanks for reading, Andrew Copyright © 2020 Brainstorm Labs, LLC, All rights reserved. Thanks for subscribing to Domain Name Wire's newsletter. Our mailing address is: Brainstorm Labs, LLC 290 Madison Ave Ste 204 Seattle, Washington 98110 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list

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