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Who Says You Have To Pay A Fortune For A Great Brand?

May 20, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

There are a great many people who believe that all of the great domain names are taken and that their owners won’t part with them for less than a small fortune. They are correct, but not entirely so. Category defining, one word dot-coms do have great intrinsic value…. as do two and three-letter acronym dot-coms. There […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends

Former Berkens Domain ExecutiveMatchmaker.com Sold to Matchmaking Network

April 22, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

ExecutiveMatchmaker.com was one of the domains included in Go Daddy’s purchase of Mike Berkens’ portfolio. The domain has been sold by Go Daddy now and points to the plural ExecutiveMatchmakers.com. It looks like the plural was purchased recently from AdEcho. The company behind the website is Brotherton Holdings who runs a network of matchmaking websites. […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Go Daddy

Quick.com sells for $299,000 (including Buyer’s Premium)

April 19, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Quick.com was the top sale at the Heritage Auction, Blaze.com was second at $253,000. 16 names out of 42 sold. The first number is the lot number below. Prices include Buyer’s premium. 1    NJOQ.com, , …    $345.00    Sold to Internet 3    VVF.com, , …    $32,200.00    Sold to HA.com/Live 4    TitanSilver.com, , …    $276.00    Sold to […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales

789.cn sells for 1.7 million yuan ($261,120)

March 28, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

The domain name 789.cn was sold according to a post on Ename.cn in June 2015 was seized by investors Ouyang, when the specific amount of the transaction were not disclosed. And last night, the price of 1.7 million yuan domain 789.cn. Three consecutive letters are always a favorable pattern and congrats to the seller on […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Domain Sales, domaining news

Smokebreak.com sold for $20,000 by Mike Berkens in 2010 caught by DropCatch

February 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

The domain name Smokebreak.com was sold by Mike Berkens in 2010 for $20,000. Ron Jackson wrote: Only one other venue made an appearance among the top 20 sellers this week – that was MostWantedDomains.com who sold #12 SmokeBreak.com for an even $20,000. As most of  your know, MostWantedDomains is run by domain industry veteran and […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, domaining news, DropCatch

CSC Continues to Scoop up NHL related .tv names with Sharks.tv at $15,000

December 15, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

A few weeks back I wrote: Devils.tv sold for $10,000 this week and was the top country code sale on Sedo. Way back when in the Dot Tv subforum on Namepros, the NHL teams were discussed as one group now owned by the NHL, at the time the NFL owned the team names in their […]

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Filed Under: .tv, Domain Sales

YX.com,QN.com and WQ.com change hands for big bucks

December 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

It looks like both yx.com and qn.com have changed hands in China. According to Ename.cn yx.com was sold for mid eight figures. Translation courtesy of China Mobi YX.com was sold for mid 8 figures (RMB). YX is a big money name as it stands for: YX:游戏>Games This domain name was sold to a mysterious buyer […]

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Filed Under: 2 letter domains, Chinese Marketplaces, Domain Sales

A Look at the 25 Highest Reported 4N.com Sales – There is a Zero in 10 of them

November 29, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

A look at the 25 largest reported 4N.com sales 4 out of the 5 largest sales took place in 2015, no surprise there. 10 out of 25 contained a zero which many put as the second least favorite after 4, of course adding to the confusion are so many opinions. I had a Chinese person […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Numerical Domains

S.CC sold for $361,977 and some other big sales made in China

November 21, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

There have been some big sales taking place in China that have not been reported on industry websites such as DN Journal or Namebio, these investors would probably never report their sales outside China. S.CC apparently has sold for 2.31 million yuan or $361,977, the source of the sale is located here. WZJB.com sold for […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, Chinese Domain Names, Domain Sales, domaining news

Keyword Names Outsell Invented Names on BrandBucket for September – October

November 16, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket sent out their November newsletter and it is always nice to get a look at some of the metrics. When it comes to Keyword vs Invented or what I have always called M.U.P.S. (Made Up Pronounceables), the keyword names are selling a bit better. For September and October sales keyword centric names were 55% […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Domain Sales, Domain trends

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