Domain investors aren’t well liked. Beyond typical social situations, the only time someone may meet a domain investor is when they want to purchase a domain name that is owned by an investor. The vitriol aimed towards domain investors can be quite alarming. Case in point, this “domain hoarder” comment I received a while ago.

Over the weekend, Mike Carson wrote about his Friendster.com acquisition in a blog post that was widely shared on Hacker News. At one point, it was the top post of the day garnering hundreds of comments. The comment that rose to the top had little to do with Friendster and a great deal to do with Mike’s background in the domain investment space:

This morning, I noticed that Amazon registered a bunch of domain names with NLX in them. The company bought a large swath of domain names via corporate registrar Com Laude on April 21st. I noticed these domain name registrations with the help of the Registrant Monitor tool at DomainTools, and I shared what I found on X.

Some of the domain names Amazon registered included:

I have sold more than a dozen domain names on Atom.com. I also have a few domain names that are currently on LTO deals. I’ve enjoyed working with the platform and have a little less than 10% of my portfolio listed on Atom.

Atom has a section on the user dashboard called “Portfolio Value.” I am pretty sure this is the appraised valuation of all domain names listed on the platform using the automated Atom domain appraisal tool. Based on this comment on X, I think the value is derived by adding the BIN price of all domain names in the portfolio. Not surprisingly, the portfolio value fluctuates frequently.