Not sure if anyone’s following this, but Joe Styler and the Domain Academy at GoDaddy are running a contest with six domain investors. Each gets $500 to spend, and the goal is to see who can turn the most profit by year’s end.
There are a few rules: they have to buy on GoDaddy and list on Afternic—which makes sense since GoDaddy is backing the whole thing.
You can check out what each person bought HERE.
A few things to keep in mind: some of the international participants face higher taxes and fees per domain. Joe, since he’s a GoDaddy employee, has to wait until the last day of closeouts to buy. So there are some built-in advantages and disadvantages across the group.
What surprised me is that nobody grabbed a few hand-registered AI names and tried outbounding. Honestly, that might be the only real path to winning. Selling through landers or traditional marketplaces with these kinds of names is going to be a grind.
You can listen to the Podcast about it HERE.
Interesting Links:
Domain Investors may need a Business Account at Paypal according to their new TOS
Bob Hawkes has a nice article about Domains and AI “How Worried Should we Be”
The Week in Domaining is one of our better newsletters in the space
Warning it Chinese, but Manus is becoming a one of my go to AI providers. I just don’t put my military secrets on there
These guys imitating Indian Street Food vendors are some of my favorite. Actually I like all Indian Street Food vendor videos, real or sarcastic
Quote of the Day: “You don’t win a trading competition by being safe—you win by being right at the right time.” — Paul Tudor Jones
Domain of the Day: SixLimes.com At $175 and several businesses share the name. To me sounds like a Sprite type drink
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Dynadot
Emancipacion.org Closes today. Get liberated
VEVI.com V’s normally not liked but as a CVCV I love this one
NTCA.com very good letters. Good add to the 4L portfolio IMO
Hydroxy.com Still my favorite name right now at Dyna
Socialo.com Add an O to it for the discount
Review.me The type of call to action that works perfectly with dot me
Wirelessly.com Love these names but they are a lifetime out before close so I am putting them down here
BG8.com LLN and NNL have held good value for a decade now
Augmenter.com Evidently augmentor is also the correct spelling
Namejet
Beek.com Back on the list and the auction is about to start
Nuth.com Auction also about to start but I haven’t seen this one coming up. Missed it somehow
DeltaEnergy.com Upgrade for a few companies
HyperExchange.com So many things called Hyper. Crypto is the end user here
RubeGoldberg.com He made some pretty cool machines
TDTS.com and ERMS.com Two nice 4Ls with top tier letters
Originations.com To me sounds authentic and has some history
ArtInnovation.com Only 9 bidders
Microsoil.com Micro nutrient full soil
Flowerzone.com Also in my wheelhouse
Atom – Active Auctions
BlueOrion.com Ends today. No reserve. Love this brand and looking at the auction, others do too
Centimeter.com Measurements make good brands. Also ends today
GetEnergy.com A good call to action and Energy.com is not an easy get
Hecto.com I see this as a European land sales site
Moonway.com Another nice sounding brandable
Moonfly.com Maybe I just like the word Moon
Zeeds.com No reserve as well
Baluga.com No takers. No bids
Sedo
RUAR.com Met reserve under $200
DAAC.com Back on the board and getting a few bids
CoinStudio.com crypto launchpad
HIMH.com good letters. H for Holdings
PAPO.ai $1K BIN
Catched
AI.rentals I say all AI TLDs have value but no bidders so maybe not
Sex.partners I had Zero idea dot partners existed. No partners, no bids
Decor.nu Decor overcoming the dot nu TLD
eBike.market Also no bidders. I would brand the TLD with the name here
Viro.co I have had some success selling CVCV.cos. This is doing well
RedLeaf.es Catching a few bids
Nori.pe Getting bids. I had no idea dot pe sold this well
Godaddy Domains with Bids
18G.com NNL and NLL on the top of the leaderboard again
AboutProperty.com A lot of words to sub for about to get your property but this is 100% of them to use
Betless.com BetLess is negative but Betless means you need a bet
CabinetsDirect.com One of the stronger names on the list. Product like this and furniture are perfect for this model
Collabria.com Exudes collaboration
Dogalize.com Doesn’t make a ton of sense to me but it has Dog and that’s good enough
EpicMotors.com Sports and luxury vehicles all the way
Haiki.com Quite a few Japanese companies are already using it for their brands
IceBlock.com Not sure why its so expensive but certainly memorable and easy logo
MedSmile.com Online dentistry and Invisalign type product
Motify.com was an online fitness training platform exuding Motivation. Closed
Nutwell.com hmm. I know the product I would sell here
TFCC.com Top shelf letters
UpDr.com online medical “What’s Up Doctor?” “Nothing what’s up with you, maybe we can help”
Godaddy Names with 1 or NO Bids
Other GoDaddy Names With More Than One Bid
18g.com
507888.com
5fx.com
66570.com
a168.com
AboutProperty.com
andysdenton.com
anunaki.com
asopa.com
Bet797.com
BetLess.com
CabinetsDirect.com
CameraWholesale.com
CapSola.com
CasaBellaBuilds.com
CityTown.info
collabria.com
ComputersForMoms.com
CourseAdvisors.com
deepagi.com
dogalize.com
EpicMotors.com
EuropeanFoods.com
ExoticPlay.com
fireex.com
flyinfin.com
FoundryRoom.com
GuestWays.com
haiki.com
heqm.com
HoustonFamilyLaw.com
IceBlock.com
InstantFile.com
jejakwisata.com
jw999.com
KinOnAsport.com
lam-mpi.org
LifeNext.com
livingafi.com
lucasnlc.com
MaltAtAichi.com
Mayhem.us
MedPeer.com
MedSmile.com
motify.com
NovaRecovery.com
NutWell.com
OldtownBusiness.org
PageDemo.com
PayrollCalculator.net
PoliticalRevolution.com
ProjectBusiness.com
rcpnc.org
robedumariage.com
RootsUp.com
rukun.com
rumahmurah.com
saltysbeachbar.com
ShikHadAbas.com
shopshekou.com
skuul.com
sqpr.com
Stakeholders.org
tfcc.com
TheLeathersJackets.com
ThemOcracy.com
TourSpot.com
updr.com
vostfree.com
WaveBond.com
Windows-Soft.info
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Hi Shane, it’s PAPO.AI
Thanks Juan – fixed.