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You got to move fast in this game even at 4 am

April 21, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

I was up checking stuff on Godaddy and went to Godaddy auctions.  Checking on the closeouts a name popped up that was somewhat interesting. CustomKeychains.us. Godaddy said the name has 204 hits per month, regged for eight years and they placed their value at $111 and the name was for sale for $11. I went to the […]

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Filed Under: .us, Go Daddy

Dow Jones hits new 52 week high, Demand Media hits new low

April 20, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new 52 week high as earnings came in better than expected for some technology leaders including Intel. Demand Media (DMD:NYSE) started the day to the upside but did a quick turn back down. The stock opened up .30 to $16.65 and hit $17 before turning around. The stock closed […]

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: algorithm, Demand Media, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Google, SEO

Crystal.tv sells for $7000

April 18, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Namepros member Cabletv posted he sold Crystal.tv for $7000.  It was an end user purchase and the name redirects to Crystalreality.com Crystal TV is a live TV on your PC, Mac, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android smartphones, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. 25+ LIVE channels of Russian TV Built-in TV guide Matrix view Picture-in-Picture Crystal […]

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Filed Under: .tv

Celebrity Domains – Russell Brand

April 11, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Russell Brand seems to be everywhere these days. The British actor/comedian has the two top spots at the North American box office. In Hop, a live action animated comedy, Brand plays the lead character of the Easter bunny in waiting. Brand also plays the lead in the remake of the 1981 film Arthur about a partying […]

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Filed Under: Celebrity Domains Tagged With: Celebrity, Domain Names, Hollywood, Hop, Russel Brand

Its not emotional its called standing up for what you believe in

April 7, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Over the past few weeks there have been those on the other side of the Godaddy coin. That moving domains based on what someone who runs the company is bad for business and purely emotional.  Their opinion and certainly entitled to it. But its their individual opinion, not universal advice. First off money is not […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy

Results of poll at Namepros, Who is the top domain blog ?

April 6, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

In a poll that ran for over one month at Namepros.com. 75 votes were cast and Dn Journal narrowly beat out Domain Name Wire  15 to 14 with The Domains coming in third place with 13. Elliots Blog garnered 8 and Ricks Blog got 5. The thread is located at : http://www.namepros.com/704990-who-is-the-top-domain-blog-2.html

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Sydney Morning Herald asks “Do we need a XXX porn domain ?”

April 4, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

In an article published today the Australian newspaper wonders why there will be a .xxx extension. From the article: So who has been driving the push to introduce .XXX? ICM Registry – the company that will make a fortune by selling .XXX domains to existing porn sites such as RudeStuff.com. They will pay extra for […]

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Elephant vs The King

April 4, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Over the last week many have expressed they would be moving out of Go Daddy because of Bob Parsons hunting excursion in Zimbabwe where he took down an elephant. Now Rick Schwartz has posted that he is moving his 4500 domains out of Moniker. http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2011/04/bye-bye-birdie-i-mean-bye-bye-moniker.html From the comments on Rick's blog many seem to have been feeling […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy, Moniker Tagged With: Domain Names, Go Daddy, Moniker, Oversee.net, Transfer

Is now a chance for registrars to make in dent in the Go Daddy market share

April 2, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Everyone by now knows of the video in which Bob Parsons hunts an elephant in Zimbabwe. The story has made mainstream news.  Along with everything going on PETA has transferred their domains from Go Daddy to Register.com (That was first reported by Andrew at www.domainnamewire.com) Namecheap came out and sent this email to customers: It’s […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy Tagged With: Bob Parsons, elephant hunting, Go Daddy, Namecheap, transfer domains

Adsense for domains has been a pleasant surprise

March 30, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

I had never used Adsense for domains, I thought the page had looked ugly and they did not allow you to just change the name servers you had to play around with A records. They changed their system and allow you to switch to their servers which are googleghs.com Their pages are certainly not as vibrant as […]

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