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Climate.vc highest reported .vc sale

January 20, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

The .vc country code got a lot more attention in 2020 than in previous years. I had a solid sale on IP.vc over at Epik. But there have not been many big sales, to be fair there has never been a big sale. The highest reported .vc sale was only $10,000 and it took place […]

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Filed Under: .vc, CCtld, Domain Sales

Now that’s a quick flip on DC.ag for an astronomical R.O.I.

August 13, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

We all like quick flips, especially the kind that go from $135 to five figure sales. The annualized ROI would come in at Annualized ROI 696,694,968,033% The domain name DC.ag was reported sold by Namebio on 5-30-20 for just $135. The domain name sold for $14,174 on Thursday. Taking a look at archive.org there is […]

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Filed Under: 2 letter domains, CCtld, Domain Sales

Trio of big cctld sales on Monday including the largest reported .Be sale of all time

March 10, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Monday saw three big country code sales with Perfectos.be leading the way at $51,270. This is the biggest reported sale for the Belgian cctld. Namebio has 803 recorded sales totaling $2.1 million. Think.ai sold for $27,525 at Whois.ai. This is the fourth highest reported .ai sale of all time. 3377.cc expired and closed at $22,472 […]

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Filed Under: .ai, CCtld, Domain Sales

Countries consider their country code a natural resource

February 10, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Wired published an article titled, “The Digital Colonialism Behind .tv and .ly” The story deals with country codes starting with .nu. It seems the news driving the story is the lawsuit regarding .nu the country code for the South Pacific island of Niue. I did not know all the history behind .nu, I knew it […]

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Filed Under: .io, .tv, CCtld, domaining news

If you can’t beat .com, join .us!

October 2, 2019 by Alvin Brown

Reading Time | 8 Minutes With almost 400 million domains registered worldwide, there is no shortage of decent domain name registrations, especially with 1400+ new domain extensions to choose from and a speculation of more to hit the market beyond 2020. There are approximately 145 million .com domains (~35%) registered worldwide. Most people will likely […]

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Filed Under: CCtld, DNAdverts, Domain trends, Domaining 101, new gtlds

.Co.uk dominated cctld sales in 2016

January 26, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

Taking a look back at country codes in 2016, the same players were at the top. Year in and year out .de and .co.uk normally top the sales charts by volume. In 2016 as reported by DNJournal.com, there were 16 .de sales and 15 .co.uk sales. The Dutch extension came in third with the .nl […]

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Filed Under: CCtld, Domain Sales, Domain trends

Dot CC credible with some end users but adoption puzzling

July 21, 2016 by Kassey Lee

The performance of .cc has surprised me. In my July 15 post, I analyzed domain extensions used by the best rising stars in the internet world of China. What I correctly expected was the dominance of .com and .cn. What I didn’t expect was the appearance of .cc on the stage. In fact, this extension […]

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Filed Under: CCtld, Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

Benin and St Helena Need to Think About Getting in the China Game

February 8, 2016 by Raymond Hackney

There are a few countries that should change how they do things and get in the game of repurposing their cctld. I am talking about Benin and the island of  St Helena. These two countries are fortunate enough to possess the .BJ and .SH country codes. With .Ws looking to refresh their brand and focus […]

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Filed Under: CCtld, Chinese Domain Names, Domain trends, Numerical Domains

With The Spotlight on .io, time to buy or sell ?

March 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney

While much of the talk has been about new gtlds, a once obscure country code domain has really caught fire over the last year. The .io extension has become a hot topic of debate and speculation lately. Even Google keyword searches have seen a spike up for .io extension. First things first, the .io is […]

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Filed Under: .io, CCtld

Top 100 Country Code Sales in 2014 – The Year of .CN along with a strong showing from .Ca – .Me was A no show

January 20, 2015 by Raymond Hackney

A look at Country Code Sales in 2014 It was the year of .cn when it came to country code sales in 2014. The .cn extension took 7 out of the top 10 sales in 2014, including the top 3. In contrast .cn only had two entries in the 2013 top 100. There was one […]

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Filed Under: CCtld

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