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Flippa successfully brokers 0123.com for a record price

October 5, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

I received confirmation tonight from Kevin Fink that Flippa’s Devoir Funches has successfully brokered 0123.com for $252,500. The domain is 20 years old, one of the earlier 4N.com registrations. This is the highest reported sale of a 4N.com. Namebio lists only 7 four number.com sales for $100,000 or more. 8181.com 225,000 USD 2015-11-15 Pvt Sale […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Flippa, Numerical Domains

Being lazy can cost you money

October 3, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

There are many things essential to being successful in domaining, after we get past having the financial ability to purchase domains, one of the  most important is consistency. Domaining is a 365 days a year business, there are auctions on weekends and holidays. There are things going on in every timezone. Consistency is important because […]

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Brandable Bits – BrandBucket approaches 40,000 names – CheapDomains new player on the scene

October 1, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Welcome to another edition of Brandable Bits, we take a look at what’s going on with the people and companies in the brandable domain space. BrandBucket approaches 40,000 names BrandBucket is approaching 40,000 names listed. Last July the company was at 15,000 and in a little over 14 months the company will be + 25,000 […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Bits, Brandable Domains, Branding

Wholesale speaking, the bloom is off the BrandBucket rose

September 29, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Back in 2015, without discussing it in the BrandBucket experience thread on Namepros, a couple of members Brand Pluck and Crocodile Dundee started a new kind of auction. They were auctioning off brandable domain names that had been accepted by BrandBucket. After this a few others took notice, and some others were reporting these threads […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Branding, Namepros

“Would you accept sex ?”

September 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

So this might be the oddest email I have received by someone looking to buy a domain name. Them: Hello Sir, I wanted to know if TabletLabs.com was for sale ? Me: Yes, it is for sale Them: Would you accept sex ? Now I am thinking maybe they made a typo and meant six, […]

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Behind The Keyword – Spotlight on “Media”

September 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 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 – Media Some Media related statistics: 7,740,000,000  results for the […]

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Filed Under: Behind The Keyword, Brandable Domains, Branding

Ethics question spurs one hell of a debate

September 20, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Namepros just closed a thread that had one of the more heated debates we have seen in a long time. The debate sparked over ethics, whether or not cutting a broker out of the deal, is unethical or smart business. The thread starter (talhahassan) decided to call out Shane Bellone and use his name in […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Namepros

When it comes to domain sales Bird is the word

September 18, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

From restaurants like Red Robin, to ice cream brand Blue Bunny to email marketing service Mail Chimp, branding that incorporates an animal or creature is very popular. So I decided to take a look at which animals rule the roost when it comes to domain sales. Up first is Bird Namebio lists 54 sales with […]

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Branding, Domain Sales, Domain trends

Not all those .blog names will be priced reasonably

September 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Many are getting excited for the upcoming launch of Dot Blog. Namepros conducted an interview with Matt Mullenweg  the creator of WordPress. One question asked in the interview was the following: NP: With reports of some new gTLDs failing to perform well during the renewal phase, how do you plan on maintaining high renewal rates? […]

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Filed Under: .blog, new gtlds

Verisign Top Trending Keywords for August – Videos and Weed

September 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for August. Videos was number one in .com and number five in .net. Not one keyword from July was in the August list. .com .net videos options weed big drug foundation treatment tree options videos states drone alcohol brain drones safety weather dogs wheel bot Compare to July

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