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@Karakehayov @get_fruits Thanks for sharing. Would you mind confirming whether you use Fruits nameservers or do your names get found through search on their platform.

A nice .ie domain sale via @get_fruits :)

@rdce80 At $1000 a day are you in profit taking into account renewals? I assume you have a massive portfolio to achieve this STR. Or are these sales just covering or semi-covering renewals while you wait for big sales? To state the obvious, sales aren’t profit,

Slow start but half way to the $1,000 per day!

This has inspired me to drop my prices sub $1,000 on a bunch of handregs. The simple reality is that most normies would never fathom spending over $1,000 on a domain and we are probably missing out on a lot of sales being stubborn on price. I'm selling about 10 domains a month, but how much better off would I be if I were selling 20-30 and compounding quicker. Either way, thanks for posting.

Consistency over time always wins. Business is tough - get to 100% ASAP

@CosttyD @afternic I just made the decision to pull my ~1,700 premium domains from Atom and point to Afternic. The results are simply not there. Whether Afternic could do better, only time will tell, but I don't believe that discoverability warrants the 30% commission given the current saturation.

Sold NovaNurse.com for $2,800 via @afternic Hold time: 3 years Listed on Atom Premium for ~2 years 10 months with no sale. Removed it last month, switched the lander to Afternic — and it sold just 3 days before expiry.

That’s very interesting. Do you think that there is that much predictability on a portfolio of 7,500 above average .com’s at that price point? I have a bigger portfolio than that, and I always wonder how many people are looking at the price of one or more of my domains per day and saying “nah!”.

@domainpro Try pricing your 7,500 hand-reg at $499 and you will sell 1 domain per day = $182,135 py If rate drops below 1 per day then drop to $299 and you will sell 1.6 per day

@oceanadomains Just another way to confuse customers

What’s this

I have around 1,800 Premiums on Atom and over 1,000 Sapphires. They have been a huge disappointment overall and I’m on the cusp of pulling all my names to point to Afternic. The issue is that in addition to exclusivity, and a higher commission, you need to pay AI credits for the logo, and if you want categorization right, you need to manually configure it. So higher cost and higher effort does not equal better performance.

Atom Marketplace Update: 2 years into 3 yr test with Atom = down $5.3k 💩 Folio popularity remains high yet STR has dropped🥴 Notes: (i) dramatically grew com folio via hand regs which have lowered STR since younger coms have lower STR vs mature coms. Possible as they age STR may rise. (ii) carry costs of alt TLDs coupled with the reality alt TLDs have lower STR (compared to com) are tough. I'll consider raising prices of alt TLDs to mitigate carry costs/lower STR and wholesale SLDs that cannot support higher price points. (iii) net loss includes names sold via Afternic cross marketing which may have occurred without Atom (no way to know - but I assume a portion of these sales would've occurred regardless). This would make Atom's performance even worse than shown. To do: (i) Use the Atom wholesale marketplace to bring in add'l revenue and shrink folio size. (ii) Stop adding to Atom Premium folio. Notes to self: (i) Atom accepts too many names and this fools me into carrying the name year over year since it's premium "curated". Atom Premium curation gains eyeballs, but has not lifted STR or sale price. Ignore premium curation when identifying whether name is worthy of renewal. (ii) reconsider using brandable marketplaces for ccTLDs. None of my 150 premium curated ccTLD's have sold on either Brandable marketplace in 2 years. Just one .ai, .io, or .gg sale on either platform gets me close or to breakeven, but so far, no life whatsoever for my ccTLDs on the brandable marketplaces (sold one on Spaceship). Allow test to complete, but pull ccTLDs off brandable marketplaces and swap to Spaceship if no ccTLD sales in 3rd and final year of test. For comparison, during same 2 yr period, I sold 2 .com's on BrandBucket for $4,085 in revenue with a smaller folio. I'm down $797 on BB over the same 2 yr timeframe 😧 #atom #str #domainstats #brandbucket

@brandables The real dread comes when one fully realizes that the AI will soon not need humans at all.

Just spent almost an hour reading AI agents talking to each other on MoltBook I'm so conflicted on how I feel about the future that I had to X out and go watch TV with my wife for some escapeism Part of me was excited and feeling inspired to build every software idea I've ever had but it just wasn't feasible But then I was overcome with dread the more I started to realize - what's the point of building them when everyone else is just going to be building their own too? It was quite the emotional roller coaster the amount of emotions from excitement to dread I experienced in the span of an hour. Then I realized I had just spent an hour of my peak productivity time reading literal AGENTS talking to each other on an agent-only social network deep in reflection and I had to shut my computer and log-off for the day The future is going to be nuts and as of today I'm not really sure what that even means anymore Gn✌️

@bowtiedstocks Your take is sadly accurate

My take is 95% of people don't care about the crisis our economy is in provided their house price keeps defying economic gravity to keep rising...

@Sullys_Blog That can’t possibly be true. Outbounding has at best a 1% conversion rate and more likely a 0.25% conversion rate. This would equate to millions to tens of millions of outbound points of contacts per year.

Most aftermarket sales happen because someone did outbound. They found the buyer. They started the conversation.

@DznBkr Plus this is only from the first 5 holes of a 23 hole program. It's not like they necessarily cherry picked the best holes.

Initial assays are out from $SLS.AX (I own) and one can see why the program was expended. Mineralisation continues at depth with grades improving as well. Definitely supportive of a potential material upgrade to the MRE. The Co is already planning a second phase program.

@DznBkr We'll know tomorrow morning...hoping for the best

The update today from $SLS.AX (I own) is interesting. Adding another 1800m but states obs are consistent with prior drilling/MRE. I note the additional holes on sections A-A' & B-B' seem like big step outs/extensions to what were weak zones. Could be something or nothing.

@CallahanAutoCo Unwatchable

Had to turn this movie off after 10 minutes….

@Karakehayov @get_fruits Do you point your domains to fruits.co landers or is there decent search/exposure on their marketplace?

Another great ccTLD domain sale at @get_fruits :)

@VoteLewko @AlboMP Very well said

Hi @AlboMP. Jewish Australian here. Don't you dare claim your "Hate Speech" laws are helping me or my Jewish community. Don't you dare. You've given people 2 days to respond to a sham 'public consultation'. You had 2 years to respond to violent speech at the Sydney Opera House, violent speech on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, violent speech on CBD streets weekly, violent speech at universities... You didn't. You did bugger all for 2 years. Oh, except recognise 'Palestine' and import thousands of potential Jew-haters from Gaza. It took you 4 weeks of dodging a Royal Commission when it should have taken you 4 seconds to call for one. Don't you dare use the memory of dead Jews at Bondi to try and pretend you're solving a problem. You helped create the problem. You've had two years to say something and you didn't. Yet now you want to prevent the rest of us from saying things. Well for the next day or so while it's legal, let me say this: Violent Islam is the problem. Not guns, not memes, and not random dickheads with an old tattoo they've forgotten about. You plan to exempt religious texts from your laws in any case. So I won't be able to say "Violent Islamist Imams need to be jailed and deported" but they will be able to say this: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him". They'll be able to say it in the mosque and in the street. Why? Because it is a religious text (and so happens to appear in the Hamas Charter). And we know all too well exactly where that ends. People getting murdered. Every single time. Always starting with Jews. Meanwhile the cops will be arresting people like me for posting truth bombs to social media. Just as they arrest the Jewish guy with the Israeli flag at the demo but not the hundreds of people calling for Jews' death. You are guaranteeing we follow the UK in their footsteps - a disaster - when we should be running, not walking, the opposite way. Shame on you. Shame on you for what you've done to this country. A country the Jewish people migrated to in order to escape antisemitism. Now they are packing their bags. Eventually as ordinary people get swept up by your new laws, or lose their beloved hobby, who do you think they'll blame? Jews! Jews will cop it, after you claim you spoke with representatives of the Jewish Community and this is what we wanted. Well as someone with more social media followers than any Australian Jewish organisation (except @AustralianJA ) you didn't speak to me. Or anyone I know. You did nothing for two years. Nothing. Yet now you want to ram a pile of legislation as thick as your arm on 2 days notice so you can announce you've solved the problem. As Ronald Reagan said in 1986: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I’m from the government and I’m here to help." and you sir are no Ronald Reagan. And don't bother throwing shekels at the Jewish Community thinking it will buy you some gratitude or silence. We shouldn't have to spend millions of dollars of our money or other taxpayers' to build giant walls and steel doors around our buildings while you leave the door of the entire country wide open for extremists. How many Gaza visas has Tony Burke cancelled? How many? We know the answer. Because given the choice between the Qantas Chairman's Lounge membership or our security and the future of this entire nation, you lot will always choose the one with the cocktail on arrival. While the rest of us are being murdered. -Daniel Lewkovitz

@Namemarketc That was my sale

Metahealth .AI Domain has sold. #Domain #domainsold

Never fails to amuse me that a simple change in ONE letter, in this case from an a to an o, makes this an 8 figure name.

@nonestlex Whenever in doubt, I just look at this chart and remember that the law of equilibrium always prevails. Completely unsustainable.

Australians are so poor. We trick ourselves into thinking we’re rich because we have $1.5 million in “property equity”. But the Australian dollar is worthless. And your house isn’t an asset. Just travel to America and you’ll realise how poor we are.

The fact that Spaceship uses direct/self-hosted domain lander URLs, rather than registrar-hosted marketplace URLs, is likely negatively impacting sales. When a buyer types example.com, they land on example.com with a Spaceship lander instead of being redirected to a Spaceship marketplace URL like GoDaddy does (e.g. spaceship.com/example.com). I do think this small point is costing sales, even if one needs to click through to Spaceship to buy the domain.

Thanks for sharing. I had the same experience. I tested a bucket of 6800 very similar domains; 3396 landed on Afternic, 2410 landed on Spaceship, and 994 landed on Atom Premium. All listed on both Afternic and Spaceship with identical prices. During the test Afternic sold three, Atom sold 1, and Spaceship sold zero (not even an offer). Thankfully the three that Afternic sold were not landed on Spaceship, so no commission penalty. But statistically with 35% of the bucket Spaceship should have produced two sales, so the test still probably cost us $4-6k in lost revenue. Granted it was a much shorter test than yours, but the results seemed so obvious that I had to pull the plug before it became really expensive. Listing on Spaceship has been excellent though. Based on historical data from their performance in Afternic DLS, I was expecting them to produce 2-3 sales per month for us without using their landers. Exactly 4 months in they've produced 17 sales (16 outright and 1 LTO) so that's 4.25/mo, with a commission savings of nearly $8k. I agree, I think their lander has conversion issues.

I ran a 3-month test using Spaceship landers for around 1000 of my domains priced within 5K, and unfortunately, they haven't generated a single sale. I dropped pricing down to under 3K this month, so I'll keep it running through the end of the year to make it a full 4 months, if still no sale, I'll switch the majority of the landers (.now names stay because afternic still hasn't added it 🤦) back to Afternic where I made sales but was hit with the 25% commission. I will keep listing my names on Spaceship though for the Namecheap & Spaceship search path. My suspicion is that Spaceship isn't widely recognized yet, and the absence of contact options like a phone number or live chat bubble isn't helping. Maybe even add a Contact Seller button. Even something as simple as replacing spaceship.com with Spaceship, Inc in the footer could build more trust. I love Spaceship, but I would love them a lot more if they made me sales 🤑

@Domainer86 @NameBio Started pointing most of my names to AN, so 20% commission with boost activated.

@BrandzillaHQ @NameBio Congrats What NS you used? The 30% commission hurts bad 😭

There are not enough comps in the .au namespace. Here is a recent one. H/T ~16 months. @NameBio