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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

Ai.com buyer says he was offered $500M+ right after he closed at $70M

February 10, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Kris Marszalek appeared on TBPN (The Big Picture Network) today, February 10, 2026, for an interview following the high-profile launch of his new platform, AI.com. He mentioned the bidder he was up against to acquire ai.com offered him $500M+ right after he closed the deal. He said “I think I could’ve pushed it to $1B […]

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Filed Under: Ai.com

Surface.ai sells for $110K to lead a handful of fresh .ai sales from Spaceship

February 10, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Richard Kirkendall posted a fresh bunch of .ai domain name sales. Surface.ai led the group at $110,000. Followed by two $100,000 sales, Climb.ai and Enclave.ai. Great price for Enclave.ai in my opinion. A few more female first names ironically the first names of Ashton Kutcher’s two wives Mila.ai sold for $95,000 and Demi.ai sold for […]

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Filed Under: .ai

Rick Schwartz joins Ish Milly on an epic Spaces on X

February 9, 2026 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

So Ish Milly had Rick Schwartz join him in a spaces on X. Rick talked domains for three hours, a lot of people who listened to it live gave it rave reviews. Ish has his Spaces recorded so you can listen below. A Mitchell did a great job highlighting some of the best parts from […]

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Ai.com purchase price was $70M

February 6, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com announced on LinkedIn that the purchase price for Ai.com was $70M. The story got picked up by The Financial Times. Buyer is the owner of Crypto.com. Kris Marszalek Co-Founder of Crypto.com posted on X that he acquired the name in April of last year. The founder of cryptocurrency trading site Crypto.com […]

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Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence, Domain Sales

Interview with Michael Gilmour of ParkLogic

February 5, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Bodis is shutting down, parking is down all over the place it seems. Michael Gilmour has an optimistic view of domain parking going forward. I sat down with Michael and asked him a bunch of questions about parking, his company and who is the right customer for ParkLogic. 1) Most domain investors think domain parking […]

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Filed Under: ParkLogic, Uncategorized

Discover the .ART Advantage: Earn Real Money with Domain Academy

February 3, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Two of our sponsors here .Art and Godaddy have been collaborating on .Art’s Name.Art system. I think this is something that will interest a certain subset of those who are interested in new gtlds and Web3. Traditional .com investors will probably skip over this but I thought the video below is worth a watch for […]

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Filed Under: .Art, Go Daddy

Sedo most searched keywords for January 2026 – No Ai in the top 10 for a second straight month

February 2, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Sedo’s most searched keywords for January 2026 were interesting to say the least. No A.I. no my, no group. Instead Casino was number one, followed by Dog and Chat. Last month was Code, Chat and Cash. Two months in a row now with no AI. Interesting.

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Sedo

New Gtld domain sales for January 2026 led by Prism.app

February 2, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

The new year started off with a solid month for reported new gtld domain sales. 270 sales brought in $386,600 in sales. The top domain sale was Prism.app at $120,000. This was the only 6 figure sale in the month. The top ten had eight different extensions represented. Domain Price Date Venue prism.app 120,000 USD […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, new gtlds

Premium .Art domains are 70% off

January 27, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

.Art an advertiser here at TLDinvestors.com is running a discounted offer on all premium domain names. 70% off but the deal ends at the end of January.

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Dynadot December 2025 Aftermarket sales report led by TrumpAccounts.com

January 26, 2026 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Dynadot released their December 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 sale came from the marketplace category and it was TrumpAccounts.com at $23,999. Zugu.com was the second highest domain sale at $18,200. This came from the backorder […]

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