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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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Filed Under: Domain trends

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

GoDaddy has no plans to implement bidder id’s

November 21, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

So by now most have heard the news from GoDaddy about 30 being the new 42. Good morning, We are making a change to our domain name expiry process and wanted to give you enough notice to make decisions on your portfolio. GoDaddy is changing the domain renewal timeline from 42 to 30 days for […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy

Cisco and Intel roll out websites built on a .tech

November 20, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Radix who is a sponsor here on TLDinvestors is seeing some big companies develop on their .tech extension. .Tech has been one of the new gtld’s that I have liked and felt stood a good chance for success. Now when it comes to domain investor’s reaching success with sales, that’s a separate issue. I had […]

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Filed Under: .Tech, new gtlds, Radix

Eric Lyon provides an update and his latest venture OfficeDrift.com

November 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Eric Lyon provided an update and some pics about his maiden voyage set to take place. Eric also has a new project where he will be detailing him and his family hitting the road. The site will be called OfficeDrift.com. Update: getting ready for the maiden voyage on the 22nd we decided to add 2 […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Namepros

12 years ago it was very different

November 12, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

12 years ago this past Friday was one of the moments in my domaining career that changed things for me. I had registered domains starting back in 1997 but it was November 2005, when I started the .tv forum on Namepros. Today there are tons of niches and people who focus on a narrow category […]

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Filed Under: .tv, Domain trends, Namepros

BrandBucket.org rebrands to a .shop and gets a trademark approved

November 10, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article about BrandBucket.org. It seemed odd for a brandable marketplace to use the same name as the leader in that niche. A Norwegian man has filed a trademark application for brandbucket. The applicant has registered the domain name brandbucket.org. From Trademarkia: Status Update! On Saturday, December 3, […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, domaining news

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