I was looking into a new startup named Headout and noticed they had acquired the domain Headout.com fairly recently and noticed something in whois I haven’t seen: DBS Holding Buyer Unreachable with the email address [email protected] as the registrant.

This told me the startup used GoDaddy.com’s Domain Buy Service aka DBS. The domain buy service provided by GoDaddy was able to acquire the domain name for the startup on April 24, 2014 for an undisclosed amount from a Tim Biernat. … Read the rest

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Did you know that DotWeekly offers a domain buy service?

Maybe you did, maybe you didn’t and if you didn’t, this is why I’m writing about it!

I have been involved in the domain name industry since 2006 and began helping people related to domain names since 2008 when I started DotWeekly. I have learned A LOT in the years since I started and simply have grown to love domain names. They are so powerful!

Domains are so small, yet … Read the rest

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GoDaddy.com by far has the largest inventory of domain names of any domain registrar. Some of these domains expire and go to “expired auction” but for some reason, the inventory of expired auctions sucks at GoDaddy compared to other services, like NameJet.

GoDaddy Auctions lacks expired inventory for generic one word domains that are valuable! VCVC.com’s, NNNN’s, LLL’s and simply general nice two word domains when you compare the inventory to NameJet.

So why does the expired inventory suck, compared … Read the rest

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Learning by doing is something I love to do. The other day I did a list of nice .us domain names that were freshly listed on Sedo with Buy It Now prices. The article was enjoyed by many and several people purchased domain names directly from my list using the affiliate links provided by me.

Here are some things I learned.

284 outbound clicks were done on the first day I published the story! Nice! See:

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What did Sedo report … Read the rest

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