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What is the best way to make GoDaddy auctions better?

January 20, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Last week GoDaddy announced they would be changing how they handle closeouts on GoDaddy auctions. No surprise many are not happy. The discussion over at Namepros has gotten a bit spicy. The pricing structure will be handled in Dutch Auction format. Day 1: $50 Day 2: $40 Day 3: $30 Day 4: $11 Day 5: […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain trends, Go Daddy, Go Daddy Closeouts

First RonnieWood.com now MacyGray.com expiry auction goes for a big number

January 14, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

So last week I wrote about RonnieWood.com closing at $60,000 at GoDaddy auctions. Now another musician .com closes for 5 figures. Natalie Hinds known by her stage name Macy Gray is an R&B singer and performer. There is a website at MacyGrayOfficial.com. The official website looks to be MacyGray.com. MacyGray.com closed at $22,700 on Wednesday […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Celebrity Domains, Go Daddy

January .Ai auctions led by Scorpion.ai

January 5, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 21 Comments

Whois.AI concluded their auctions for January and Scorpion.ai was the top closing price. Only 45 auctions this time around. 24 of those .ai auctions closed at $1,000 or above. In December, 22 auctions closed at $1,000 or more. Last year I hand registered a few KeywordAI.coms. I actually got a Christmas gift on Christmas Eve […]

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Filed Under: .ai, Auctions, Domain Sales

A big day for 5N.coms at GoDaddy auctions

December 29, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

It was 5N.com day at GoDaddy auctions on Monday. 168 of the 169 names that were at auction were at GoDaddy. There were only 2 auction closes over $1,000. 58118.com was the high close at $3,101. $40,000 plus in total proceeds. When you look at each name individually you will see that most of these […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain trends, Go Daddy, Numerical Domains

Masks.com is for sale on Flippa – developed and run by just one person

December 22, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

One of the most talked about products in 2020 are masks. I happened to notice that the owner of Masks.com has listed the business for sale on Flippa. The starting price is high $975,000. Listing states revenue of over $1 Million since July 2020. There is an interview with the seller on the Flippa blog. […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Flippa

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

Are bidders just trolling DropCatch on Epara.com?

December 18, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

The curious case of epara.com the domain name that no one seems to want to pay for. Epara.com was dropped and caught by DropCatch. It has been auctioned now for the fourth time. It closed on Thursday at $11,555. $11,000 seems to be the price point. Back on October 29, epara.com closed at $58,056 after […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales, DropCatch

Two 5 figure expired auctions at GoDaddy that should have plenty of buyers

December 14, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

A couple big closes on expired domain names at GoDaddy on Sunday. UnitedTech.com closed at $20,000 this was not owned by the large company United Technologies that merged with Raytheon last year. It does not have the backlink profile we see with 5 figure closes on GoDaddy. We do have a solid name that has […]

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CiteULike.org popular with researchers closes at $36,000 in expiry auction

December 13, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

CiteULike.org closed at $36,000 on GoDaddy auctions. This is the kind of name that newcomers need to understand why it went so high. It was not for the name. Popular with researchers. According to Wikipedia: was a web service which allowed users to save and share citations to academic papers. Based on the principle of […]

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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

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