Did GoDaddy sell Recession.com for less than $20,000 dollars?
The GoDaddy appraisal tool produces its domain valuation reports by using a “secret sauce” algorithm. Every time you end up on the GoDaddy appraisal tool, perhaps after googling “Domain appraisal,” the following message is hiding behind an alert icon: GoDaddy estimates the value of each domain by looking at millions of historical domain name sales. […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Wordle domains: #Fetus is a taboo word, apparently, but Fetus.com is for sale
The popular word game Wordle has a pre-determined array of words built in; one of them is “fetus.” Recently leaked news about the potential attempt to overturn Roe vs. Wade at the Supreme Court have raised the temperature of existing debates. Women’s rights to an abortion involve the definition of a “fetus” and in the […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#Moonbirds: NFT craze creates swarm of scam #domain registrations
Moonbirds is the the latest and biggest NFT launch on OpenSea, featuring 10,000 birds drawn with 8-bit nostalgia style graphics. Combining the Punks and the Apes in terms of attitude, Moonbirds have attracted fresh blood to the NFT arena. Hey, if you have money to spend, who are we to tell you where to put […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.NameCheap & GoDaddy trade punches over domain inventory rules
NameCheap and GoDaddy are throwing virtual punches today, April 1st, over ongoing friction about domain inventory sales. No, it’s not a joke. Richard Kirkendall, CEO of NameCheap, began the exchange : Godaddy likes to do “tests” that censor out certain registrars because they have more sales. Their optimization involves trying to get the most sales […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Happy New Chinese Year: YearOfTheTiger.com
Happy New Chinese Year everyone! It’s the Year of the Tiger, and billions of people in China and around the world are about to engage in week-long festivities. Even China’s stock market is closed today. The matching domain, YearOfTheTiger.com, is available for acquisition. Registered in 2001 by Vertical Axis, the domain was moved to NameFind, […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Lasani.com: Former NameFind #domain asset applied for trademark registration
Lasani Brands Inc., operators of the domain Lasani.com, have applied for the registration of the matching mark, LASANI.COM, with the USPTO. The “intent to use” application involves “on-line wholesale and retail store services featuring clothes, shoes and accessories.” The domain Lasani.com was acquired from NameFind, the GoDaddy-owned repository of domains. The transaction most likely took […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Prop gun tragedy: Domain cost hovers at the $3,000 dollar mark
The ongoing tragedy with “Rust,” Alec Baldwin‘s in-production movie, focuses on the use of a prop gun that cost the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Loaded with at least one round of live ammo, the prop gun was one of several other prop guns that most likely failed to pass a safety check. The sad […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.FreeGuy.com : Former Marchex #domain asset a possible #NameFind sale
“Free Guy” is a fun new movie starring the very talented Ryan Reynolds, with the motto “Life’s too short to be a background character.” In a nutshell, a bank teller called Guy realizes he is a background character in an open world video game called Free City that will soon go offline. Thanks to a […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.YouPon.com: Vertical Axis #domain surrendered by NameFind
NameFind, managers of the GoDaddy-owned portfolio of domains, lost the UDRP for the domain YouPon.com. A typo of the popular adult destination YouPorn, the domain was acquired by GoDaddy as part of the Vertical Axis portfolio. GoDaddy acquired that domain portfolio for up to $50 million dollars along with another portfolio. Source: DNW. YouPon.com is […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.#GoDaddy and real estate: Price of MasterBedroom.com has dropped!
A year ago, we commented on the fact that GoDaddy owns the domain name MasterBedroom.com; it’s an asset of its NameFind portfolio. References to “master” have been quietly dropped from real estate lingo, as the racist overtones of the word are being swapped out for more politically correct terms, such as “primary” or “main.” Fast […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Chickens.com applied for #trademark registration at the #USPTO
The operators of Chickens.com, a domain registered in 1996, have applied for the registration of the matching CHICKENS.COM trademark. As expected, the application was filed with America’s favorite food in mind: Retail store services featuring animal feed, animal treats, and other foodstuffs. The trademark was applied for with a date of first use being April […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Supercharging.com : From $50k to low teens after #GoDaddy let it drop
Premium EV domain name Supercharging.com was in an expired GoDaddy auction in February, that ended at $50,000 dollars. It seems the auction’s winner never paid the fifty G’s and what did GoDaddy do? They let the domain drop. Jesus. Instead of re-auctioning the domain or awarding it to the 2nd highest bidder (once the high bidder’s […]
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