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Amazon shutting down division that owns Diapers.com and Soap.com

March 29, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

News from Amazon today is they are shutting down their Quidsi division, Diapers.com and Soap.com are both a part of that division. From Axios.com:  Bloomberg first reported and the company confirmed to Axios. Amazon acquired the company for $545 million in 2011. “We have worked extremely hard for the past seven years to get Quidsi […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, ecommerce

You have to know what you own

March 28, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

You have to know what you own, or ask someone. What in my opinion is the best value buy of the year took place on Sedo this week. DWN.com listed as buy it now for 2,999 Euros was scooped up quickly by a Chinese registrant. I verified this with Sedo for 100% accuracy. So there […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, domaining news

There is more than one right way to sell

March 26, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

At the start of last week Chris Gimmer the co-founder of Snappa, published an article on how his company acquired the .com for his company. Snappa is used to create a wide range of graphics for social media, display ads, blog posts, and more. Here is an excerpt from his post: Why we did it […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain Sales

Available Names – Bill Eisenmann has been posting a lot of gems

March 25, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Bill Eisenmann of NameClerk.com and AvailableDomainNames.com has been really pumping out the names on Namepros over the last couple months. Bill has plenty of members waiting in anticipation for when he posts a new list of available names. He told me he might have to scale back the quantity of posts, but will still post […]

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Filed Under: Available Domains, Namepros

New Gtlds, the series – Chapter 1 ICANN

March 24, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 11 Comments

Many try to talk about the new gtlds in very simplistic terms, naysayers just want to group them altogether and say they suck, failed, are dead. Proponents want to say they are the future, give them time, .com is AM radio. I would argue the new gtlds are a much more complicated animal. There are […]

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What is a negotiation platform ?

March 22, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Domain Agents did a blog post to go into a bit of detail on just what a negotiation platform is. Domain Agents is an advertiser here and I have had a few people ask what exactly do they mean by negotiation platform ? DomainAgents is a negotiation platform, but if you’re new to the site […]

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Filed Under: Domain Agents, Domaining 101

Joseph Peterson joins Epik

March 21, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Joseph Peterson has joined Epik In a press release sent out today Rob Monster announced that Joseph Peterson has joined Epik. Joseph will be the Director of Operations. Joseph is a frequent commenter here and I have always enjoyed his perspective and the fact that he is willing to put some time and thought into […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Epik

Now there’s a waste of money

March 20, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

While checking out expiring names on Name.com I came across 44 names in a row that show why it’s good to be the registry. 7 payments for 44 domains that will never sell. Leet speak may have it’s place on the Internet but you are never going to make money on a consistent basis. So […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends

Were You Contacted By A Facebook ChatBot Today?

March 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Most readers are likely unfamiliar with chatbot… Many have probably never heard the term. That’s ok as chatbot is an emerging technology which is just making its way into our lives. Chatbot combines artificial intelligence with instant messaging, allowing humans to interact with bots. This can have far reaching applications including: Customer Service Interactive Toys […]

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Filed Under: chatbots, Facebook, Web/Tech

Verisign top trending keywords for February Year,Drone and Fresh

March 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign published their trending keywords for February and year was number one for .com and drone took the top spot in .net. This was a pretty random group of names, block and chain were on the .com list while surveyors and research made the .net list.   .COM .NET year drone near fresh block surveyors […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Verisign

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