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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

BrandBucket.org launches and files for TM

December 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

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, 2016, status on the BRANDBUCKET trademark changed to NEW APPLICATION FILED. On Tuesday, November 29, 2016, a U.S. federal trademark registration was filed for BRANDBUCKET by Ruben Botn-Jørgensen, Kolbotn […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Intellectual Property

“The majority of domains targeted via UDRP are not worth the effort”

December 10, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Fairwinds Partners conducted research that took a look at Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide and then broke down the list to focus on the top 50 brands whose names were not based on generic terms and did not represent houses of brands. They came to a lot of interesting conclusions, a couple are as follows: […]

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GoDaddy Auctions performing maintenance tonight

December 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

This will only affect public auctions that are closing at night and into the morning. An auction like this one with 1 bid will be affected. Here is the note from GoDaddy Auctions will be performing maintenance starting on Friday, December 9, 2016, 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time. Maintenance is expected to complete after 6 […]

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Enter the .Global Christmas Calendar for a chance to win free domains

December 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

If you are looking for a chance to win free .global domains, there is a contest going on. I actually found out about this on Namepros, the first day I entered, I got an email the next day that I won Conference.Global. So I won the Bearglecorn contest at Name.com which included a free .games […]

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BrandBucket Podcast Episode 2

December 4, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Michael Krell released the second episode of the BrandBucket podcast. Michael extended this podcast by about five minutes over the first podcast. He breaks down specific names and why they were accepted or not accepted. Tenantt.com is the first example of a name not accepted. The second was weightt.com, I would say there are many […]

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