Hello, happy Thursday, and welcome to the Domain Investing Substack 🕺 For those who are new here, the photos I post above are usually from San Francisco along my regular biking route 🚴. This building is on Folsom Street a few blocks from the Bay, and no, it wasn’t damaged in an earthquake, that’s what it looks like, and I dig it.
I’m excited to say that my first issue of the Domain Investing Substack this year ended up getting the most reads and clicks ever, so, I hear ya’ - keep it coming, and I will 🥳
As many of you know, or at least you’ll know now, NamesCon is next week and I am really looking forward to it. I’m speaking on two panels and have a handful of domains in the auction so it should be one heck of a week.
This week was an amazing week, and while I’m sorry if what I say next offends you, heck it’s my newsletter so I’m going to be honest - this week we got rid of the worst President in American history. The last four years were the first time in my life where I’ve been truly ashamed and embarrassed of America and this week I feel like I can finally be proud of my country again. I wrote this tweet yesterday which felt really good:
And let me just say again, phew - that poem from Amanda Gorman was absolutely spectacular. All that being said, I know you all came here to hear what non .COM sales caught my eye last week and what you might have missed from my blog, so let’s get to it.
The Weekly 3 🗞
DNJournal —> A Trio of $75,000 Sales Fill the Top Spots on This Week's Domain Sales Chart (read it now)
Domain Name Wire —> Clubhouse app driving surge in .Club registrations (read it now)
Kickstart Commerce —> The 50/50 Approach to Bulk Domain Portfolio Investing with Deepak Daftari (read it now)
Non .COM sales that caught my 👁 this week
MontyPython.net - $43,500
Climate.vc - $21,038
MultibootUSB.com - $3,661
As you know normally more non .COM sales catch my eye but this week was a slow one 🤷♂️ )
From the blog 🕺
Climate.vc just broke the record for highest reported .VC domain sale
It can be all too easy to focus on one expired domain marketplace
Yes you can go from hand registration to five figure sale in less than 90 days
When it comes to selling brandable two-word .COMs, here’s some keywords that sell
Here’s how not to sell domains on Twitter, but also, how to sell domains
Okay, that’s it for this week, thanks for reading and happy early TGIF, have a great weekend!
Morgan