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Michael Krell Hits Another one out of the park with Fondly.com

July 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Michael Krell is a fan of domains that end in ly, he has made several sales on BrandBucket that end in the popular suffix. In March of 2015 Michael purchased Fondly.com for $2,500 according to Namebio. Looking at Domain Tools this syncs up as the domain went from whois privacy at Enom to Michael’s account. […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains

Worlds and Casino Top Verisign’s Trending Keywords for June

July 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign is out with their top trending keywords for June. With the recent news that the U.K. is leaving the European Union, Brexit made the top 10 for .com. Worlds and Casino were the top two .com keywords. Pass and Luxury were the top two trending keywords in .net.

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WalMart Using BrandBucket for Domain Acquisition

July 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 13 Comments

Michael Krell is the most prolific seller on BrandBucket, month in and month out Michael racks up at least a dozen sales. One name that was reported sold in May was TechBetter.com, the name apparently sold for $2,395 according to DNBolt.com. The whois has updated and the buyer is WalMart. The fixed pricing of BrandBucket […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Branding, Domain Sales

Mark Monitor has a new owner as Thomson Reuters Sells Unit

July 11, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Thomson Reuters announced last November that they were exploring options for their Intellectual Property & Science unit. Today they made a deal with private equity firms Onex Corp and Baring Private Equity Asia for $3.55 billion in cash. The IP & Science unit is headquartered in my hometown of Philadelphia. The division contributed about 8 […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Publicy traded domain companies, Registrars

The Brandosphere – A look at Sedo and NameJet Brandable Sales

July 7, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Today we are looking at brandable sales on Sedo and NameJet that were released earlier in the week. TechTemple.com sold for $16,000, a great name IMO. Tech is a popular selling keyword, add in the alliteration with this one just makes it all the better. The seller was out of Korea, the domain was registered in […]

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Branding, The Brandosphere

Eric Lyon on Zero Effort

July 3, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Eric Lyon is back with another comic, this one deals with those seeking an easy route to monetization. People frequently talk about developing their domains into fully automated websites, and I can’t help but snicker from time to time. I’ve been developing my own domains since 2005. This entire time I’ve been looking for an […]

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Filed Under: Namepros

One Year Anniversary of a Dark Day for BrandBucket sellers

July 3, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

The fireworks came one day early last year for sellers on the brandable boutique BrandBucket. As many in the U.S were getting ready for a Fourth of July celebration, they got an email from BrandBucket’s Managing Director, Michael Krell. Voting App Effective July 3rd, we will be discontinuing our voting-for-credits option in the dashboard. The […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain trends

The Brandosphere – A look at Sedo sales and Michael Krell’s latest registrations

June 29, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Today we are looking at the brandable sales that took place on Sedo this past week. We also found some recent regs of Michael Krell from BrandBucket. VeCom.com was sold for 6,800 Euros, registered in 1997, this domain has been around the world. It was owned by a Brazilian company for many years, they were […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Branding, Domain trends, The Brandosphere

Direct Navigation Returns! Do You Want Your Address Bar Back?

June 24, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Many of you recall those heady days when Mozilla entered our lives and empowered us with the freedom to directly navigate the Internet.  Prior to Mozilla, we were confined within the walled gardens of AOL, Prodigy and CompuServe. Up until a number of years ago, our browsers had an address bar, much like the image above. […]

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Is This Why Microsoft Purchased LinkedIn?

June 21, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

It is not surprising, to many of our readers, that LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft on 13 June 2016 for $26.2 billion dollars.  LinkedIn is the preeminent business network and has realized tremendous growth and acceptance over the last decade.  LinkedIn is a very powerful resource and has greatly benefitted its users and the business community […]

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Filed Under: Web/Tech

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