Alex Crocker | Domain Investor

Girl dad by day, domain investor by night that likes to build things • @Domaincord founder • @ICADomains member • Proverbs 31:16

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

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I've been building free tools for domain investors since 2018.

Not to sell anything. Just to give back to a community that taught me a lot about earning a living online.

Here's what we've built at @Domaincord — all free, no login required, no data harvesting 🧵

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@defi_oasis @Qualitynames Atom, it wasn't an oopsie that I forgot to update the price on Afternic to be 10% higher than the Atom price. Didn't even know I had it listed on Afternic. Buyer got a big discount 😆 if they had sent an offer, I would have declined it and updated the price.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

New domain sale just hit my inbox!

Bought this domain in November 2024 at the NamesCon auction in Austin, TX for about $23K.

Hold time: 1 year 6 months

Afternic Commission: 25%

Total Payout: $75,000

Total Profit (before taxes): around $50K

#domains

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@abbasDomains I wish. Boost was off. Reason for higher commission is because I was not using their name servers. It was my mistake that I forgot that I even had it listed there. Wanted it to sell at Atom.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@Aladey Yeah, that definitely hurts a little especially because I was caught off guard that I even had it listed on Afternic still. It was approved and parked on Atom Premium for $150K. Oopsies...

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@domainicate @samexdgs Considering the sale before this was my duel domains (duel .net and .org) for $70K combined—YES!

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

Unfortunately, it sold for $50K less than I wanted. I had it listed on Atom Premium for $150K and completely forgot that I even had it listed on Afternic too.

Atom requires that you set the Afternic price to 10% higher than the Atom price, so I hope they don't penalize my account.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@djkabzx @Qualitynames Nope, boost is off.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

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[UNCLAIMEDNAME© @UnclaimedDomain]

Just shipped 🚀

Ahrefs Domain Rating (DR) is now available on every unregistered domain listed on Unclaimed.

More insights = better domain decisions.

[Akshay Kothari @akothari]

We're finally shedding the .so (thank you Somalia!), and using the .com for @NotionHQ. And for this beautiful moment, I want to share a fun story:

Back in 2018, I had just joined Notion, and one of the first things @ivan asked me to do was figure out how we could own https://t.co/BxoFvc83VG. I had never done a big domain purchase before, so I reached out to a few domain brokers to understand the landscape. We tried different brokers, kept things anonymous, and attempted to surface a price the seller might consider.

A year went by… nothing. Meanwhile, it was pretty clear this was only going to get more expensive as we grew. We needed a different approach. A fellow founder connected me to a broker who took a very different tack. Less transactional, more long-term relationship builder. He spent months getting to know the domain owner. Turns out owner was a fellow entrepreneur in the west coast… and a huge Grateful Dead fan.

So we figured, why not get creative? Something beyond just price. So I called up our investor Ronny Conway and asked if there was any way he could help set up a private meeting between the domain owner and the Grateful Dead. Ronny is one of those people who somehow makes impossible things possible. A week later he calls me back: “New York City. Halloween. 15 minutes after the concert. Done.”

The broker went back to the owner with an offer: some cash, some equity, and a private meeting with the Grateful Dead. That got his attention. He didn’t take the band meeting in the end, but he did lean into the equity (great call, in hindsight). We shook hands, and a few weeks later, the deal was done.

I’ve been waiting years for the day we move our product to https://t.co/BxoFvc83VG. Looks like 2026 is finally the year. Safe to say I’m unreasonably excited about this update!

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

I knew something was up this week when my IG account targeted more than usual. My username is "clipping".

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@JacquieJordanTV @tomaskenn If you read the article, it only outsourced remote assistance to some foreigners for speaking to the passengers. The remote driving assistance is through US-based operators.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@Shpigford Simple Scan | Agile Tortoise
https://t.co/cmQf0hjbW4

They have a reasonably priced lifetime plan with powerful actions to send your files to whereever in one tap.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@_NameOffice Potentially can and do want to acquire it, but…

let me know a few things first:
- tech stack
- how much of this (what %) was “vibe coded” (I am not against using ai as a tool)
- is the domain included in the sale?

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@KenLin1985 Awesome tool! I think you should be able to enter specific residential addresses as well and points of interest like "Magic Kingdom park" instead of just Walt Disney World.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@benvspak If I was single man with no kids, yes. Should have asked me this 5 years ago lmfao

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@parabastech @realjasoncronje @krishdotdev Yeah same, no way in hell I'd trust it without seeing the source.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@oveurton57693 @swingstatemind @cecegkh Princess, Royal Caribbean, or Holland America are great.

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

This probably won't ever see the light of day in the western world. Super apps are common in Asian countries, but not in the US.

[Scott Gustin @ScottGustin]

Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro is reportedly exploring a “super app” that would combine Disney+ with park, cruise and retail apps to allow users purchase tickets, shop, play and stream all in a single app, according to Bloomberg.

Story: https://t.co/bQln7IR7sA

[Alex Crocker | Domain Investor @LearnDomaining]

@wshxnv @MattReinholz @webjuice_ie This actually looks really good! The pricing is a little high I think. If it was $49 for 3 sites instead of 1, I think it would be more reasonable.