I’m still here. Still have a few hundred what I feel are awesome names for sale. Others I’m getting closer to being able to develop myself. I sell a handful a year. Some of the names on this blog have sold. I keep hoping one will turn into a Unicorn. But a few things have happened that have caused me to pull energy out of domaining.<\/p>\n
I have absolutely no interest in the new gtlds. None. Aww C'mon @godaddyauctions<\/a> @Godaddy<\/a> The IPO is over. Give us back closing sale prices in our Watching list. You're taking the fun out of it!<\/p>\n — John Humphrey (@DomainNoob) April 26, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nIt seems to me the market has gotten a lot tighter over the last year. It’s harder and harder to pick up a decent dot com using my previous methods. The wholesale prices I’m seeing being paid for crap domains<\/a> makes me feel like a handful of players with deep pockets and clever bots are intent in owning the entire domain space (though Chinese domain investors<\/em> are certainly adding to the froth).
\nBut what led me to cut back drastically on my domaining is that Godaddy quit displaying closing prices on domains in my Watching List! \u00a0 It started in March. A Godaddy Twitter response said it was due to the ‘quiet period’ around the IPO. Then the IPO ended.<\/p>\n\n