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Former Mike Berkens “phrase” sales that are now developed

December 29, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

Mike Berkens has sold a lot of “longer” domains for a lot more money than most expected. Over the years I have had people ask me, “How does he do it ?” I would say being a skilled negotiator and rich enough to always say no, top the list. I decided to take a look […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domaining 101, Michael Berkens

The thing about advice you should always consider

December 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

The one thing about advice in the domain industry is that often it’s not universally applicable. As much as you want to be like Rick Schwartz, without a time machine you can’t. You can be successful but you will not be picking up NNN.com names for $100. You can read about Mike Berkens turning down […]

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After selling for $125,000 a year ago USA.tv is back to a parked page

December 25, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

It was one year and two days ago when Namepros member Donnied79 announced the blockbuster sale of USA.tv for $125,000. After the sale was announced the domain pointed to the Twitter account of Simon Cowell from American Idol and X-Factor fame. The domain was acquired in 2010. At one time the domain had a big […]

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Filed Under: .tv, Domain Sales, domaining news

Is there a “boys club” in domaining ? There are many clubs

December 22, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 13 Comments

There have been a couple discussions this week about whether or not there is a “good old boys club” in domaining. Shane Cultra discussed his personal experience in the preamble to his daily picks post on Wednesday, I think Shane did a good job of articulating his feelings and early experiences in the business. There […]

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Filed Under: Domain Conferences, Domaining 101, Namepros

Is BrandBucket.org having second thoughts ?

December 21, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Back on December 12, I wrote that a new website BrandBucket.org launched and they filed for a trademark with the USPTO. Well now when you type in brandbucket.org you get a 403 error, this could be simply a hosting problem, or it could mean that Margot and her team reached out and shut things down […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains

BrandBucket releases November sales data

December 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 14 Comments

The BrandBucket newsletter came out and Michael Krell gave a rundown of what was going on in November. Keyword brandables vs invented brandables were virtually the same, right around $2,780 for the average sales price. The newsletter confirmed what we told you on Friday, you can no longer move approved domain names in your account. […]

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

BrandBucket no longer allowing “accepted” names to be pushed

December 16, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

So BrandBucket continues to change the game for the wholesale market. Keith DeBoer who is a brand ambassador for BrandBucket posted the following in the BrandBucket experience thread: It’s true folks, accepted names can no longer be pushed from one BB seller to another. However, there are two work-arounds: The obvious one….. pay the publishing […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, domaining news

Would GoDaddy offering payment plans be a good idea ?

December 16, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Namepros member Hookbox posed an interesting idea, GoDaddy offering payment plans for prospective buyers, not just big ticket domains, but names priced at say $2,500 for example. He wrote: If Godaddy were to implement a payment plan on domains I believe our sales would go through the roof. Not everyone has a few thousand dollars […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Go Daddy

DNForum.com down again

December 14, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

DNForum once the preeminent domain forum in the industry has once again gone down this week. Some have wondered if the forum would be better off if it changed hands and had fresh blood to infuse some life into the place. There was a time when DNForum was where serious business was done and Namepros […]

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Filed Under: DNForum, domaining news, Namepros

Trump top trending keyword for .com and net in November

December 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign is out with their top 10 trending keywords for November. Trump was the top keyword in .com and .net. Make and Great were also at the top.   .com .net Trump Trump make cannabis great marijuana weed weed again  America America  again Donald  Donald near president president owner pot matter Here is a look […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Verisign

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