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I got an inquiry yesterday for one of my .com domain names. I asked the buyer to submit at a 5-figure offer and then I received a $3,500 USD offer. When I politely declined the offer the buyer said: “If you change your mind and want to do somethi...
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September 9, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
This has happened to me many times but I have never written about it before. Whenever I sell a domain name through GoDaddy or Afternic when the wire arrives in Greece it gets stuck at my bank before hitting my company bank account. They always call me ...
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April 21, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
Over the years I have received many misdirected emails on websites I am operating or contact form messages from domain names I own. I get these on all extensions but mainly .com, .org and .gr. A lot of people are confused and they mistakenly type an em...
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March 3, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
Rick Schwartz has been tweeting non-stop in the past few days providing very important tips and lessons about domain names. Here are Rick Schwartz’s 7 lessons in domaining so far: Lesson 1: If you give a price, YOU LOSE!! Lesson 2: If you give a ...
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January 8, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
I won a domain at GoDaddy auction on the 1st of January 2021. I tried to pay for it. Here is all I tried so I could pay and failed: I tried to pay using the firefox browser on my PC. Clicking to pay for the domain or clicking on my cart left me with &#...
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January 3, 2021 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
I was very sad to hear on Friday the passing of Dietmar Stefitz. Dietmar Stefitz was among many other things the founder of Domaining Europe. (Later sold to NamesCon/GoDaddy and became NamesCon Europe.) I went to my first Domaining Europe in 2015 and m...
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December 7, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
Yes, we know .org was”saved by all the people that stood against the corrupted ICANN, Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Internet Society and (No)Ethos Capital. But was .org really saved? Abry Partners has many close ties to Ethos Capital that t...
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November 20, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
What is going on at Namejet? People that have been with the company for years are departing from the domain name auction platform. Namejet’s parent company is Web.com. Jonathan Tenenbaum left Namejet very recently and was named COO of MediaOption...
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November 18, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
In the past few days I have been receiving more front-running emails for domain names currently in auction. It was a coincidence (or not so much) that I was already watching a couple of these domains and was already in the auction (or had them backorde...
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November 11, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions
Beware of the “Comparable domains sold” shown at GoDaddy domain name appraisals. It seems some of these domain sales are older than 2006. Maybe some are even a lot older than 2006! When I get an inquiry for one of my domains I usually check...
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October 7, 2020 Konstantinos Zournas
Domain Name News, Opinions