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NameFind let’s OKR.org expire – Oversight or a smart play?

December 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

OKR.org was left to expire and closed at $20,850. The interesting thing here is who owned it. GoDaddy’s own Namefind. Before NameFind the domain name was owned by Future Media Architects. NameFind shows up in the whois history according to DomainIQ in 2016 Referral URL: http://www.godaddy.com Updated Date: 2016-04-08T16:16:28Z Creation Date: 2003-11-13T15:35:39Z Registry Expiry Date: […]

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Filed Under: .org, 3 letter domains, Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

PAA.com closes at $75,050 at DropCatch

December 10, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

There were two $70,000 plus domain name transactions on Wednesday. PAA.com the domain name that was dropped by General Electric closed at $75,050 at DropCatch. Will it get paid? We will see. PAA.com redirected to a GE Lifesciences page. The domain name was originally owned by PAA Laboratories GE Healthcare announced it has reached an […]

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Filed Under: 2 letter domains, 3 letter domains, Auctions, Domain Sales, DropCatch

Niq.com Buyer revealed

October 1, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Early August Shane Cultra tweeted out he and Travis sold Niq.com for somewhere close to their $250,000 asking price on BrandBucket. Niq.com has been owned by a few well known players in the domain industry. It originally sold on Namepros for $8,750 when Michael Sumner of Namebio sold it. Shane and Travis smartly acquired the […]

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OTI.net owned by some heavy hitters through the years, gets sold at BuyDomains for close to 5x

September 18, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Oti.net is a domain name that has been around the block. Registered in 2003 after being dropped one time before. The domain name has been owned by a lot of heavy hitters in the domain industry. OTI.net was owned by Thunayan K. AL-Ghanin’s Future Media Architects, it moved along to the namefind portfolio, Oliver Hoger […]

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Niq.com sells for a third time – congrats to Shane and Travis

August 5, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Shane Cultra tweeted out he and Travis sold Niq.com for somewhere close to their $250,000 asking price on BrandBucket. As I have written about before BrandBucket does delve into higher quality names not just the invented brandable niche. Michael Bilde has sold some quality 4L.coms there for big prices. These would all be 15% commission […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, Brand Bucket, Domain Sales

eName May 2020 sales filled with 3L.com 2L.net/.cc

June 2, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Here is a recap of the top sales at eName for the month of April. For those unfamiliar, Launched in 2005, the #1 domain name marketplace in China and the preferred platform for all Chinese domain investors. 35 of the 54 sales are .com A lot of data in here should be interesting to all […]

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Filed Under: .cc, 2 letter domains, 3 letter domains, Chinese Marketplaces, Domain Sales

Another expired 3L.com closes at GoDaddy – 3 in one month

April 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Over the last couple weeks there have been three 3L.com that were allowed to expire. On Saturday Hyw.com closed at $21,850. The domain looked to have had a variety of Chinese owners over the years. A couple weeks back XGO.com closed at $25,600 and GYR.com closed at $17,500. XGO.com was purchased by Michael Bilde and […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, Domain Sales, Go Daddy

A handful of expired gems on GoDaddy including a 3L and 4N.com

November 26, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

GoDaddy auctions has a handful of gems that you normally don’t let expire. Last week I wrote about a 3L.com DAE.com which closed at $126,000 and the week before a 4N.com 4600.com expired and closed at $68,000. Currently they have a 3L (CTX.com), 4N (8034.com) a 3N.cc (882.cc) and a 2L .net with QF.net expiring. […]

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Filed Under: 2 letter domains, 3 letter domains, Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy, Numerical Domains

Another expired gem at GoDaddy with no time to renew

November 17, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Four days ago we had a rare expired 4N.com at GoDaddy, 4600.com closed at $68,000. Tomorrow the expired domain auction for DAE.com closes. The domain is registered at GoDaddy, so it cannot be renewed or transferred out. A 24 year old 3L.com is usually not left to expire at GoDaddy. The domain was owned by […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, Auctions, Go Daddy

LL and LLL .com domains may be best choices for Chinese companies

May 11, 2019 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

Recently I posted on LinkedIn the sale of an LLL (letter-letter-letter) .com domain in China. It triggered discussion among my readers and got me into thinking more about the future of acronym domains in China. The US and China are the largest economies, and a recent Bloomberg article even went so far as to say […]

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