It’s one thing to negotiate and sell a domain name for cash, yet something different altogether negotiate, sell, and transact using bitcoin.

And the most interesting thing about this jackpot-of-a-domain-sale is that it was an .IO domain. Let that sink in.

If you’re like most domain investors, especially those driven by emotion, the participating in expiring domain auctions is likely a rollercoaster experience, to say the least.

It’s the thrill of watching seconds tick off only to be outbid at the last moment and clock reset. Or maybe it’s the back-and-forth nature of auctions that brings you an adrenaline rush and not the given name.

Whatever the case may be, if you are the emotion-driven or emotionless data-driven domain investor, I would like to share a simple tool with you to help gauge and value a domain name based on the number of registered extensions.

It really is becoming Christmas in July, somewhat. The good news is GoDaddy recently released a long needed and awaited updated to its search and buy domains in bulk functionality.

The bad news is that our economy continues playing a deadly game of red-light, green-light with a pandemic of a lifetime: COVID-19. But for now, let’s focus on the good.

It’s not everyday that we stumble upon a domain investor that’s kicking butt and taking names with undeniable daily domain sales.

And if the domain investor is achieving such daily sales, then they have likely been at for years, if not decades.

Now what if I told you it was possible to not only achieve daily domain sales 3-4 times your investment cost, and you could do so having only been introduced to domain investing 60 days ago. What would you think, say and do?

Yesterday, I was toying around with researching and searching for a few keywords for geo service domains to quickly flip and development.

With most of my portfolio registered and managed at GoDaddy, I often use their Bulk Search to quickly determine how popular geo service domains are for a given keyword or service area based on available and registered domains.

This given day, I performed a search using GoDaddy’s Bulk Search and discovered search not working. Uh oh…

The struggle is real when it comes to the buying and selling of domain names. Domain investing and development, neither one is for the faint of heart.

Domain investing has become highly competitively over the last 3 or so years — expiring domain auctions, especially with COVID putting tight clamps on gambling, a thriving industry, pushing a large number of the population into alternative investments — stock market and domain name investing.

While increased competition is one thing, there are a number of threats lurking to wipe out a domain investors portfolio and legacy as the domain industry matures.

In a recent podcast, I sat down with Michael Gargiulo, a long-time domain investor and developer, and serial entrepreneur.

Attempting to locate an owner of a domain name you desire to purchase, or connect with for whatever the reason, this task can be as challenging as finding a need in a haystack — to say the least.

Gone are the days you could easily use Whois to enter desired domain name and be shown registrant contact information such as phone, email, and address.