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Should you auction your new gtld at a live auction?

January 30, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

There were 135 lots in the NamesCon live auction. Of those 135 lots, 20 were new gtlds. 15 out of the 20 sold. The top sale was Business.Loans at $10,000. Tax.help sold for $6,000 and Porn.Club sold for $5,000. A lot of $300 and $500 sales that with a healthy commission probably add up to […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, new gtlds

Where did those 6 figure offers go for FakeNews.com?

January 30, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

We wrote a year ago about FakeNews.com and it’s owner receiving 6 figure offers. There is a story on DallasNews.com today about a California man, George Bacon who purchased FakeNews.com 11 years ago for $250. From the article: Fakenews.com isn’t the only domain Bacon owns — he buys and sells them regularly as a hobby […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, domaining news

Michael Krell is leaving his position at BrandBucket

January 27, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

BrandBucket sent out their January newsletter and it seems that Michael Krell will be leaving the company. Michael who is one of if not the most prolific seller in the history of the site will be leaving effective January 31. Best of luck to Michael who had a tough job balancing his own portfolio vs […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket

GoDaddy To Acquire Main Street Hub

January 23, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

GoDaddy is looking to expand it’s offerings in social media with the acquisition of Main Street Hub. I have looked into them before, I had someone who wanted to start a competitor since they were already doing this stuff on an informal basis. I want to see what the pricing will be when GoDaddy runs […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy

Mike Berkens snags another new gtld sale

January 8, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 11 Comments

Back in May of 2017 we posted about Mike Berkens selling Learn.Wine for a net of $10,000. Well Mike is back at it with the sale of Talk.Show. Mike tweeted out the details today and while there is an NDA, there is some info that can be taken away with regards to the domain sale. […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Michael Berkens, new gtlds

Verisign Q3 report shows a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations, vs Q2 2017

December 19, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief  for Q3 2017. Overall registrations were down vs the second quarter. Executive Summary The third quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 330.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations, or 0.4 percent from the second quarter of […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Verisign

When making an accusation, make sure you got the whole story

December 17, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

2017 has certainly been a very contentious year, there have been scandals, possible scandals where not enough info came to the surface, and there have been a number of accusations thrown around. While we all want to see those who are cheating and scams brought to light, we do need to be careful on how […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Namepros

Verisign November trending keywords dominated by Crypto

December 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their November top trending keywords, coin was number one in .com and .net. With all the registrations for crypto,coin, bitcoin, etc… it’s no surprise. Domain wanted threads on Namepros have been flooded with crypto requests. .COM .NET coin coin crypto bit  bit  crypto  bitcoin first  coins  mail  ethereum  bitcoin  currency cash amazon buy […]

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After checking out GoDaddy appraisal tool, I would like to sell them some names

December 1, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

So GoDaddy released their appraisal tool for anyone to use. Doron from Efty and DNGeek tweeted out this morning: I’m pleasantly surprised with the quality of automated domain name appraisals of @GoDaddy‘s new appraisal tool https://t.co/7yr7VfMkDB and plan on using it for some end-user negotiations in the future. — Doron Vermaat (@doronvermaat) December 1, 2017 […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Go Daddy

First Israeli.tv and now Israel.tv sells for $15,000

November 27, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Namepros member Ammudamus (Ammar from Legacy Fund) reported he sold Israel.tv for $15,000 on his own. I remember Israel.tv being talked about way back by another Namepros member, JMT1. He was last seen on Namepros back in April of 2010. He was looking to develop the website, his last post on Namepros: Hi folks. I’m […]

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Filed Under: .tv, Domain Sales

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