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Changing Course

April 22, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Hello Friends, I have had a long and fruitful relationship with the .TV extension. In 2010, I sold an online swimwear business which I had launched in 1996. Shortly thereafter I started registering .TV domain names, after Verisign’s pricing metamorphous. My swimwear business featured video clips of runway shows as early as 1999. I believed […]

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Filed Under: .tv, domaining news

Former Berkens Domain ExecutiveMatchmaker.com Sold to Matchmaking Network

April 22, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

ExecutiveMatchmaker.com was one of the domains included in Go Daddy’s purchase of Mike Berkens’ portfolio. The domain has been sold by Go Daddy now and points to the plural ExecutiveMatchmakers.com. It looks like the plural was purchased recently from AdEcho. The company behind the website is Brotherton Holdings who runs a network of matchmaking websites. […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Go Daddy

Quick.com sells for $299,000 (including Buyer’s Premium)

April 19, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Quick.com was the top sale at the Heritage Auction, Blaze.com was second at $253,000. 16 names out of 42 sold. The first number is the lot number below. Prices include Buyer’s premium. 1    NJOQ.com, , …    $345.00    Sold to Internet 3    VVF.com, , …    $32,200.00    Sold to HA.com/Live 4    TitanSilver.com, , …    $276.00    Sold to […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales

A Look at 5 Keyword Search Tools To Help Advertisers Can Help Domainers Too

April 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Erin Sagin wrote an article on the WordStream blog about 5 keyword search tools all online marketers should be using. These tools can also be helpful to domain investors for things such as developing long tail domains, setting keywords for parking and to look for similar names to shore up an investment in a certain […]

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Filed Under: PPC, Search Engines, SEM

A look at some BrandBucket and BrandRoot sales

April 16, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

DNBolt.com listed the March sales of Michael Krell the managing director of BrandBucket and they also posted some sales data from BrandRoot.com. The BrandRoot data does not include prices just the domain names. Sales may be aged as this is the first data shown for BrandRoot. Some of the Krell names include: activerevenue.com $3,295 nextbloom.com […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Branding

Available Domains Color Related

April 15, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Some available domain names that are color related. BLUESCRAPBOOK.COM BLUESCOUTS.COM BlueHelicopter.com BLUEJACKPOT.COM ORANGEGROW.COM ORANGETRAINER.COM ORANGEELF.COM ORANGEJEWEL.COM PINKWIDGET.COM PINKREADER.COM PINKRUNNERS.COM PINKADVISORS.COM PINKROCKSTAR.COM PINKSCRAPBOOK.COM WHITEPILOT.COM WHITEGAL.COM WHITETOOLBOX.COM WHITEAVATAR.COM REDSCRAPBOOK.COM REDNAVIGATOR.COM REDSUPERMARKET.COM REDASSISTANT.COM BROWNMAP.COM BROWNCOVE.COM BROWNOCEAN.COM YELLOWLIGHTING.COM YELLOWTREAT.COM PURPLEWEBSITE.COM PURPLEARTIST.COM PURPLEGAL.COM BLACKSCRAPBOOK.COM BLACKPICKUP.COM GREYBOAT.COM GREYCOWBOY.COM GREYINTERNET.COM

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Verisign Trending Keywords for March, Trump makes the list once again

April 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Verisign released their top trending keywords for March and Presidential hopeful Donald Trump found his name on the Top 10 once again. Building was the top .com keyword and chin was tops for .net.

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news

Some of the better Go Daddy Closes of the last week get renewed

April 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 25 Comments

A lot of names that get reported sold at Go Daddy are getting renewed this past week. iSki.com $9,201, renewed. Specifics.com $8,000, renewed. Smarketing.com $5,608, renewed. MicroApartment.com $1,408, transferred to NameBright. MicroApartments.com $1,325, transferred to NameBright. GGBL.com $1,708, renewed til 2026. Zaine.com $4,809, renewed. We all know this is the system but it does make […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy

Go Daddy Wins Namepros Favorite Registrar Poll with 52.5% of the vote

April 11, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Last week we wrote an article about the favorite registrar poll n Namepros. At the time there were 290 total votes and Go Daddy was in the lead by a wide margin. After that article Namepros placed the poll sitewide in the right sidebar, so this brought many more votes to the poll. The extra […]

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Filed Under: Namepros, Registrars

The Online Branding Article Every Marketing Executive and CEO Should Read

April 8, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 17 Comments

One can compare domain name extensions (eg. .Com, .Net, .TV, .Org, .Tips, etc) to neighborhoods. Many people prefer to live and/or operate their businesses in well established neighborhoods. Some people choose to live in new subdivisions. Some businesses chose to operate out of major metropolitan areas and some out of suburban neighborhoods.  There is no […]

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