What a week it’s been in the domain industry!

At the beginning of this week, news broke that MediaOptions purchased DomainSherpa, the leading educational media company dedicated to the domain name industry, after Michael Cyber retired for greener and more relaxing pastures.

Now it’s a Friday afternoon and almost time to call it quits when I stumbled upon what looks to be a valiant effort to be the next DomainSherpa for Emoji Domains.

A few weeks ago, one of my many websites crossed the thousand-like club for Facebook likes.

It was a time to celebrate!  Why?

Well, this particular website is a local and somewhat a hyper micro-niche. Honestly, I’m surprised and elated that this website has 1000+ likes.

Nevertheless, crossing the 1000+ Facebook-like club renders the like button differently.

Instead of being able to see now that there are 1,024 likes, the Facebook like button for this specific website now only shows “1K”.

And because I don’t have a Facebook Fan, Business, or Profile page associated with this website, this adds yet another degree of difficulty in attempting to understand exactly how many likes, shares, and comments exist for a website URL, also known as a website domain name.

Here’s the next Domain Gems list of buy-it-now (BIN) closeout domains in expired auction at GoDaddy.

It’s first come, first serve, so decide quickly and soundly.  I wish you success in profitable flips, development, and sales.

Domaining News

In domaining news, here’s what you’ll want to read and know about:

• New gTLD Sales Flying Under the Radar
• Domain Industry Golfers Teeing Off November 13th
• Is Google Playing Whac-A-Mole with Emoji Bidding on PPC Ads?
• Payoneer Offering 50% Off Escrow Fees Until 2018

That’s all for today. Let’s move onto today’s domain auctions.

Below is a hand-picked list of quick pick domains that have no bids. I personally think there are a few sleepers on the list worth NOT BIDDING on, and allowing to enter into buy-it-now closeout status.

Attempting to allow domains with no bids to close in auction can be a bit risky. Once domains enter buy-it-now closeout status is also risky too.

I love getting steals at the final $5 price (really $13 after renewing it for a year), but be wise and don’t lose out on a good domain in an attempt to wait it out.

As always do your homework and research each domain before you commit to bidding and buying.

It’s time to snap to it with today’s randomly selected domain auctions from SnapNames.com.

This randomly selected list of domains focuses primarily on keyword domains in auction.

It’s likely I’ll mix in random geo domain auction lists from time to time. I wish you the best in bidding.

Today’s domain auction list is brought to you by Sedo.

There is no rhyme or reason for the domain selection other than they are ending today.

This randomly selected list of domains focuses primarily on keyword domains in auction.

Congrats and best wishes in bidding, and flipping or developing the desired domain(s).