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Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

September 2025 new gtld sales come in at $871K as .xyz shines

October 1, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Reported new gtld domain name sales for September 2025 came in at $871K at Namebio. .Xyz had a monster month with Super.xyz selling for $287,607 and intelligence.xyz selling for $150,000. Top.Domains hit a home run with Purpose.app at $87,550. The top 10 for new gtld sales September 2025 (all sales data courtesy of Namebio). super.xyz […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, new gtlds

Top keywords sold at Afternic for July 2025 – Ai is once again at the top

September 30, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Afternic released their top keywords sold list for July 2025. Ai was first, followed by My and Home. This was the exact top 3 as June 2025. Group and Health rounded out the top 5. Here is a look back at June2025 AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sign up today AD For a […]

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Filed Under: Afternic, Domain trends

Swetha sells intelligence.xyz for $150,000

September 30, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Swetha posted on X that she sold intelligence.xyz for $150,000. The .com is developed. Intelligence.com® is a community of Connectors. Through warm introductions and shared knowledge, we make the world a more prosperous place. According to DotDB.com intelligence is registered in 380 extensions. AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sign up today AD For […]

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Filed Under: .xyz

Dynadot August 2025 Aftermarket sales report led by Share.Center at $20K

September 29, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Dynadot released their August 2025 Aftermarket report. The sales data comes in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, User auctions and Marketplace. The top domain name sale came from the expired category. Share.Center sold for $20,211.99. The domain name was registered in 2015 left to expire after a decade. The […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Dynadot

Unstoppable Domains launches their Lease-To-Own service

September 25, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Unstoppable Domains (an advertiser here) has announced their lease-to-own service is now live. They are offering some features that other competitors are not. A flat 3% listing is one of them. Another is that they are allowing up to $2M transactions on a LTO. 2025 has certainly been a year where new competitors are trying […]

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Filed Under: Domain Marketplaces, unstoppabledomains

BuildYourStore.com sells for $75K

September 23, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Greg Meyers (@makemoneyonline) posted on X he sold BuildYourStore.com for $75,000 at Afternic. Greg thought he handregged in 10 years ago, but a check of whois shows it was registered in 2004. He probably got it expired at auction. The .ai owner appears to be the buyer. Here are the top BuildYour names from Namebio: […]

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Unstoppable Domains offering $4 .com domain registrations today

September 20, 2025 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Unstoppable Domains is running a $4 .com special today. Matthew Gould was asking on X what they can do to out do their $5 .com Friday special. Well here is the answer $4 for .com regs. Matthew did say if it gets crazy they will turn it off, but it’s on now. AD Smart Domain […]

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Filed Under: Domain registration deals, unstoppabledomains

Namepros publishes data on the best places to sell on the site

September 20, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Namepros uploaded data and screenshots to show members the best place to post their domain names for sale. They did give some notes on the data. Some thoughts on this data: Happy selling! I would say the key is that last part, getting upvotes and appearing on home page with the favorites or hottest tag […]

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Filed Under: Namepros

Unstoppable Domains rolls out new landers

September 18, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

The new domain landers at Unstoppable Domains are now live. Adding a lot of features including a message seller button. You can even add your own WhatsApp + telegram links for maximum control over your sales. Check your forwarding presets tab to make sure you’re enabling landers on all new registrations (or optionally, all new […]

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Filed Under: Domain Marketplaces, Domain Registrars, unstoppabledomains

Queen.io sells for $108,500

September 16, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

ApexMoon posted on X that they sold Queen.io for $108,500. Queen.com is owned by Rick Schwartz not the rock band. DotDB.com shows Queen registered in 311 extensions. AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sign up today AD For a better Escrow experience checkout EscrowDomains.com AD “”Miss Dan.com yet? Chat directly with buyers & get […]

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Filed Under: .io

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