Grayscale dropped Greyscale.com; domain got auctioned

Grayscale Investments is a digital asset management firm that helps investors buy cryptocurrencies. Grayscale is one of the biggest crypto asset managers in the world, operating from the domain name Grayscale.com. Meanwhile, grayscale is a series of regularly spaced tones ranging from black to white through intermediate shades of gray. Greyscale—spelled with an “E”—is also […]

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Considerable.com: Aged, resold domain dropped—Here’s the back story

A dictionary domain such as Considerable.com should not expire and drop but it happened. Registered in 2000, Considerable.com was parked with PPC ads the majority of the first two decades of its life. It was part of the Marchex portfolio of domains that GoDaddy acquired, stacking it at its NameFind repository. By 2018 the domain […]

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MagicWood.com: Frank Schilling domain’s latest drop

The domain name MagicWood.com was sold in a DropCatch auction today, after going through an inevitable deletion cycle. The auction closed at $1,313 dollars today, with the winner being DropCatch user Will4DC: The domain MagicWood.com was being held at Uniregistrar, Frank Schilling‘s own registrar before GoDaddy acquired Uniregistry. Registered in 2006, the domain was a […]

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What’s wrong with NameFind, foo?

NameFind is the holding company of GoDaddy’s portfolio of owned domain names. For many years, NameFind.com has been selling domains to private inquiries, sharing its inventory that is thematically categorized. Last December, NameFind and GoDaddy organized an auction extravaganza event that resulted in many quality domains being sold. As GoDaddy does not share data, there […]

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Anthropic.com: A unicorn AI company and their top two domains

Anthropic PBC, a US-based AI startup established in 2021, is pioneering research in artificial intelligence with a unique focus on public benefit. Their mission? To delve into the depths of AI systems, probing their safety boundaries at the forefront of technology. Anthropic indicates a relationship to humans, as the word “anthropos” (άνθρωπος) refers to the […]

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TheMessenger.com: NameFind sold domain but “The Messenger” shut down

The Messenger, a digital news startup that began in May 2023, is closing down due to financial challenges. Led by Jimmy Finkelstein, former owner of The Hollywood Reporter and The Hill, The Messenger aimed to offer comprehensive, unbiased, non-partisan, and timely news coverage in response to the prevailing issues of bias and misinformation. Despite its […]

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GoDaddy NameFind auctions: Game over!

Late last year, GoDaddy listed a good chunk of its NameFind portfolio for sale, in an extended auction event that spanned the better part of December. The GoDaddy Auctions involving previously expensive or unavailable NameFind domains did well: Domains were bid on and some were eventually cherry-picked after the end of the auction. On December […]

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GoDaddy NameFind auctions: BIN price added to domains at year’s end!

In mid-December, GoDaddy auctioned off a tiny portion of its NameFind portfolio of domain names. These domains were acquired over the years at various times, such as the Marchex and Elite Domains portfolios along with that of Frank Schilling’s. If you think that the auctioned domains were not exactly spectacular, you are not alone. The […]

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Rick Schwartz grabs Fools.com as a fresh acquisition

Rick Schwartz, the Domain King, knows how to spot a quality domain; Fools.com is now his latest acquisition. Rick grabbed Fools.com, the plural of “fool”, from the NameFind inventory of auctioned domain names. Registered in 1998, Fools.com was part of the Vertical Axis portfolio acquired by GoDaddy for up to $50 million dollars, along with […]

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GoDaddy + Namefind domain auctions: Wow or meh?

GoDaddy executives found a new, creative way to add more revenue to the year’s books, by rolling out a series of weekly domain auctions. Pulled from the million-plus strong domain portfolio of Namefind, the repository of GoDaddy-owned domains, these auctions are taking place on GoDaddy (beta) Auctions. A few dozen domains each week add up, […]

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Cappuccine.com : NameFind won UDRP with Reverse Domain Name Hijacking finding

The domain name Cappuccine.com faced a UDRP filed by Cappuccine Specialties, Inc. The dispute led to a decision by the three member WIPO panel ordering the domain to remain with the Respondent, NameFind – managers of the GoDaddy portfolio of domains. They also found the Complainant guilty of engaging in Reverse Domain Name Hijacking: The […]

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GoDaddy allegedly promotes self-owned, trademark domains on its search tool

A domain investor demonstrated results produced by the GoDaddy domain search tool and two things stand out: GoDaddy-owned domains and trademark violations. In a Twitter thread, the search performed is that of “Crystal” with the GoDaddy results containing a prompt to perform a brokered “acquisition” of Crystal.co.uk priced at $69.99 dollars. It also displays a […]

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