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Are High Annualized Domain Name Renewal Fees a Recipe for Failure?

May 25, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Most of us are familiar with the concept of registering a domain name for around $10.00 USD and then renewing said name for around $10.00 per year. Some of us are attuned to the concept of buying a domain name in the aftermarket for a greater sum and then renewing that domain name for around […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, new gtlds

A detailed look into BrandBucket sales data

May 23, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Close to 1 year ago Doron Vermaat wrote a post on DNGeek.com that delved into BrandBucket sales. The post expanded upon a post I had written in July 2013, BrandBucket sales Inside the Numbers. Doron did a nice job of adding hundreds of sales to the data mix. I decided to go back and look […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains

Who Says You Have To Pay A Fortune For A Great Brand?

May 20, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

There are a great many people who believe that all of the great domain names are taken and that their owners won’t part with them for less than a small fortune. They are correct, but not entirely so. Category defining, one word dot-coms do have great intrinsic value…. as do two and three-letter acronym dot-coms. There […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends

BrandBucket April Sales Show Keyword Names Continuing to outsell Invented Names

May 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

BrandBucket sent out their May newsletter and included is their April sales data. Keyword brandables continue to outsell invented names. The average sales prices are almost identical. Within the keyword segment it is the one or two word names that outsell the word + suffix. So PinkScarf.com or TechGiant.com are outselling names like Cloudzo.com. April […]

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Elements and Principles of Design – Cheat Sheet

May 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

A lot of domain investors who are thinking about adding development to some of their best domains might not have any idea where to start. Before you pay someone to build your website or do it yourself with WIX or Square Space you might want to think about some basic development ideas first. FirstsiteGuide.com put […]

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ShipYourEnemiesGlitter 16 Months Later – Business is Booming

May 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

In the May edition of Entrepreneur magazine there is a feature on Peter Boychuk, the Georgia native that purchased ShipYourEnemiesGlitter.com for $85,000 on Flippa. Boychuk was the high bidder in what was deemed Flippa’s most active website auction ever. The website and auction got a ton of outside press from the likes of The Guardian, […]

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Filed Under: Flippa, Website flipping, Website Sales

Verisign Top Trending Keywords for April include Prince and Guru

May 10, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign is out with their Top 10 trending keywords for April. Bot was the top keyword in .com and loans in .net. Prince was fourth on the .com list. Guru was the only keyword on both .com and .net. Top 10 Keywords Registered in April 2016

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Using Another Domainer’s Portfolio Against Them

May 4, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

So about six months ago a reader emailed me about a domain he owned that received an unsolicited offer. He told me he could not give me the exact domain but that it was a brandable two word .com. He wanted to know how much he should counter ? I did not know the guy […]

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Two of the Ten single digit .tv look to be on the move

April 30, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Back in February I wrote about an ex Mike Berkens name 2.tv being sold by Go Daddy to Sheng Wang. The sale was reported on Ename.cn and it was said to be in the high six figure yuan range. It looks like 4.tv which Mike Berkens purchased for $5,555 in April 2010 at the same […]

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Filed Under: .tv

Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-30-16

April 30, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-30-16 Powered by ExpiredDomains.com YouDigital.com is one of the two word .coms I like today. Currently around $375. Should go higher towards the auction close. If you are interested in .biz there are a lot of one word .biz on the list. Klir.com is an expired auction over $575 currently. Full […]

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Filed Under: Daily Auction Spotlight

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