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Since Covid it looks like there is a greater demand for “business naming”

September 27, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Darpan Munjal founder of Squadhelp, tweeted out some info on keywords and Google Trends. Good news for Darpan, business naming search volume is up in the 40 to 60 percent range post Covid. That’s kind of the sentiment Jason Calacanis shared in the podcast with the founder of Ritual. Some businesses are really up during […]

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Filed Under: Branding, Domain trends, squadhelp

The story of how Ritual.com was acquired in what amounts to a three team trade

September 26, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

How Ritual.com got acquired Jason Calacanis spoke with Ritual CEO Kat Schneider on This Week in Startups. Kat talks about buying Ritual.com against the advice of investors. Interestingly Jason thinks the name is a 7 figure domain name. It’s an interesting story of how Kat got the name, I will let you hear it straight […]

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How established .com businesses can benefit from using multiple domain names

September 25, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Everyone who seriously invests in the new generation of domain names (also sometimes called “new gTLDs” – domain names ending in extensions like .life, .world, or .expert – for example, a domain like alien.life, paradise.world or wealth.expert) should pay attention to something very interesting. Some of the largest global companies and brands like Apple, Amazon, or T-Mobile are registering new gTLDs in large […]

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Filed Under: Marek Eckhaus, new gtlds

$28,888 buyer of Tiger.io revealed

September 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Earlier this month Tiger.io sold for $28,888 at Park.io. The buyer is now revealed to be Tiger Communications PLC out of Hampshire, England. What’s interesting is the company operates a website at TigerComms.com and looks like Tiger.io will be used for what I guess will be one division or specialized services. Tiger Communications provides Unified […]

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Filed Under: .io, Domain Sales

$35,000 to shave two letters off the domain name

September 23, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Upper is a European firm that looks to match companies with freelancers in the tech industry. They believe the future of employment is freelance and remote. They are backed by Cavalry Ventures, along with venture capitalist another.vc as well as business angels Vassil Terziev, co-founder of Telerik, and Christian Rebernik, former Managing Director and CTO […]

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Filed Under: .CO, Domain Sales

How to Correctly Appraise A New Generation of Domain Names

September 22, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Each domain investor should know the value of their domain names. Before 2014, we had 3 main domain extensions in internet space: .com, .net and .org. Domain names in those extensions have more-less the same yearly renewal fee (approximately $10), and as their sales were recorded in public sources for 30 years, it becomes easier […]

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Filed Under: Marek Eckhaus, new gtlds

ConstitutionUS.com updated, same site – new registrant country

September 21, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Looking at ConstitutionUS.com today, the expired domain name that closed at $103,000 at GoDaddy auctions on 9/12. The domain has updated in the whois and now shows the Registrant Country: IL for Israel. The site was owned by George W. Baltzell, a Missouri resident who sadly passed away at age 69 last June. The site […]

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Detour.com has quite the history, expires and closes at $65,006

September 20, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Detour.com was registered in 1994 and sold for $15,000 on Moniker in 2009. The domain name was then developed into a GPS based walking tours website. The company was self funded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason. They described themselves as: Detour is a brand new way to experience the world. Gorgeous audio […]

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How A Bad Website Address Is Damaging Your Organization

September 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

“Ouch, I just saw a really HORRIBLE website address!”, I complained to my friend after I recently saw an add on LinkedIn. The add, created by a large government organization, was graphically very nice, and apparently they tried their best to attract students to find more information on their website about one of their programs, […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Marek Eckhaus, new gtlds

OTI.net owned by some heavy hitters through the years, gets sold at BuyDomains for close to 5x

September 18, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Oti.net is a domain name that has been around the block. Registered in 2003 after being dropped one time before. The domain name has been owned by a lot of heavy hitters in the domain industry. OTI.net was owned by Thunayan K. AL-Ghanin’s Future Media Architects, it moved along to the namefind portfolio, Oliver Hoger […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, BuyDomains, Domain Sales

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