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BrandBucket releases January sales data – Drone top keyword

March 3, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

BrandBucket released their latest seller’s newsletter and January was a strong month. After removing sales above $10K, the average sales price for a keyword brandable was $2773 and the average sales price of an invented brandable was $2345. Surprisingly the keyword “Drone” remained the top keyword search. January Sales 2017 started just as 2016 ended! Our January […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain trends, domaining news

Verisign releases their fourth quarter industry brief

February 28, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their fourth quarter 2016 Domain Name Industry Brief. At the end of Q4 2016, new generic TLD (ngTLDs) registrations totaled 25.6 million, which represents 7.8 percent of total domain name registrations. com and .net Breakdown The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of approximately 142.2 million domain names […]

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Flippa and a lot of other websites down due to Amazon’s AWS S3

February 28, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Flippa and a lot of other sites are currently down due to a problem at Amazon. TechCrunch reported: Amazon’s S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. The AWS offering provides hosting for images for a lot […]

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Filed Under: Flippa, Web/Tech

When the value proposition changes you need to reassess

February 23, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Things change in the domain business all the time, from certain naming categories that go out of favor, to the new hot extension flavor of the month. Registrars and marketplaces change both in terms of policy and in popularity. As a domain investor you have to constantly assess if you are getting what you signed […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Domain trends

Behind The Keyword – Spotlight on “Web”

February 21, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Welcome to Behind The Keyword, I will be taking a look at the most popular keywords that sell, get listed and get developed. Whether it be on big marketplaces like Sedo and Afternic or specialty sites like BrandBucket. Today we are looking at the keyword – Web Some Online related statistics: 7,670,000,000  results for the […]

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Namepros reaches another milestone

February 17, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

A little over a week ago I wrote about Namepros hitting a milestone of 1 million discussions. They were closing in on two other metric milestones, 6 million messages and 1 million members. Today they hit the 6 million messages mark. They were just under 15,000 messages away back on Feb 8 when they hit […]

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Michael Bilde sells another cvcv.com at BrandBucket for close to $70K

February 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Back on January 7th I wrote about two four letter cvcv.coms selling at BrandBucket. Teso.com sold for $69,995 and Mino.com sold for $64,995. The one thing those names had in common was that they both moved to privacy at Safenames. DNBolt reported over at Namepros that another CVCV.com sold, Nelo.com and the price was $69,995. […]

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Filed Under: 4 letter domains, Brand Bucket, Domain Sales, Domain trends

XCI.com dropped where will it close ?

February 15, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

Registered back in 1993 XCI.com was allowed to drop and it was caught by DropCatch. The domain was owned by a resident in Carson City, Nevada up until July of 2015. The domain was at GoDaddy and moved to TLD Registrar Solutions. The domain auction is currently at $8,050. Leave a comment on where you […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, domaining news, DropCatch

Trump takes top spot in .com and .net for January

February 14, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their January top trending keywords for .com and .net. No surprise the top keyword was Trump for both .com and .net. America was number 2 in .com and number 6 in .net   .COM .NET trump trump america out wall fundraising rent living porn luxury videos america cell marijuana fest property marin valley […]

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FakeNews.com owner says he paid $250 and has had six figure offers

February 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Fake news has certainly become a big buzzword over the last few months. There isn’t a day that goes by where someone on CNN or Fox is not discussing fake news. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo had to apologize for saying a fake news accusation is like the N-word for journalists. There is a story on […]

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