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Interview with James Iles of GoDaddy

September 4, 2025 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

In a few months it will be James Iles three year anniversary at GoDaddy. Previous to working at GoDaddy James was an active blogger at JamesNames.com. James has always been one of the most helpful people at GoDaddy in my opinion, whenever I have a question he finds the answer. I wanted to see what […]

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Filed Under: Domain Marketplaces, Go Daddy, Interviews

GTDN.com rebranding to DNX.com

November 11, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Josh Reason said a rebranding was coming for Get That Domain Name (GTDN) and looks like it is the premium 3L.com DNX.com. Josh was also very smart to get the matching handle on X. Back in 2013 Michael Cyger interviewed Andrew Rosener after he purchased the domain name. Michael: One of the domain names that […]

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Filed Under: Domain Marketplaces, domaining news, Rebranding

Domain.io being acquired by Aftermarket.com

August 12, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Aftermarket.com posted on X that they are acquiring Domain.io. Aaron Oxborrow will stay on with the new company. Smart as Aaron is a really bright guy in my opinion and you want the founder staying on. There is a blog post on Aftermarket.com with more details. AD Smart Domain Monetization Starts at Bodis sign up […]

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DNWE.com is under new ownership

June 4, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

DNWE.com is officially under new management. The marketplace for investor-to-investor domain sales was once a subscription model that switched to commission based back in 2023. The buyer DomainManage.com owned by domain veteran Ryan Ewen. There was a fairly large discussion thread at Namepros when it launched. You can follow on X and see the below […]

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Brandpa releases their 2023 “State of the domain name industry” report

February 7, 2023 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Brandpa.com released a “State of the domain name industry” report. It’s pretty good, a lot of different topic were touched upon. They stated that last month they surveyed just over 1,000 domainers about the state of the domain name industry. From the report: We covered how they sell, what they think of the economy, their […]

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Brandpa, Domain Marketplaces, Domain trends, domaining news

NFT stays atop Sedo’s most searched keywords for August 2022

September 19, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

NFT refuses to give up the top spot once again in August at Sedo. NFT was number one for most searched keywords at Sedo. Casino and Solar dropped out of the top 10 from July. Crypto, Meta and .bet remained high on the list. Sedo Most Searched Keywords – August 2022 1. NFT 2. .bet 3. […]

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Squadhelp’s top 25 power words that achieved the highest STR

August 31, 2022 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Darpan from Squadhelp tweeted out some data on the top 25 power words that had the highest sell through rates on the platform. Popular prefixes like Get ranked high, I was surprised that core was at the top of the list. I thought Get or Go would take the top spot.

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Domain Marketplaces, Domain trends, Domaining 101, squadhelp

Dynadot December 2021 Aftermarket Sales Report – Rockbros.com leads the way

March 17, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Dynadot is back to reporting monthly domain name sales, they are a bit backed up. Today they released December 2021 sales. The sales data comes in a number of categories. Expired auctions, Last Chance auctions, Backorder auctions, User auctions and Marketplace. Below are the categories with the highest sales, you can read the full report […]

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NameSilo November 2021 Marketplace stats

December 13, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

NameSilo published their marketplace report for November 2021. 85% of all domain names sold were .com. 13 characters was the number that saw the most number of sales. That’s a bit unusual. Full report:

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NameSilo October Marketplace stats – High sale $120K

November 7, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

NameSilo released their October 2021 marketplace report. They mention the high sale was $120,000, I am trying to see if they will start releasing the actual names, at least a top 10 or 20. It’s nice they put out some info but we need to dig a little deeper. 11 characters seemed to be the […]

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Filed Under: Domain Marketplaces, Domain Registrars, Domain Sales, domaining news, Namesilo

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