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Are you more optimistic or less optimistic about domaining today?

December 16, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

If you have been into domain investing for at least 12 months are you more or less optimistic about your business today compared to when you started? I asked this question on Namepros as well and optimistic has the early lead. But it seems some are more optimistic about their own portfolio but not as […]

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December .Ai domain auctions led by Genius.ai

December 8, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

December .Ai auctions closed on Monday at Whois.ai. There were 22 names that closed at $1,000 or more. Genius.ai was the high close by a wide margin at $16,025. In a story from yesterday Adam Doppelt detailed how he got his start drop catching .ai domain names. genius.ai 16,025 USD 2020-12-07 Whois.ai fabric.ai 3,454 USD […]

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Filed Under: .ai, Auctions, Domain Sales, Domain trends, domaining news

A breakdown of November Keyword domain sales (Coin dips, Capital and Tech strong)

December 2, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

November saw a dip in Coin and Crypto keyword sales. Smart dipped a bit too. Online and The had strong showings. An outlier with Pay helped boost it with the biggest single sale. CBD was better compared to October. Popular Keywords There are certain keywords that are the most sought after in domain wanted threads, […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends

What’s going on at Squadhelp? Interview with Darpan Munjal

November 30, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

In this interview I talk to Darpan Munjal the founder and CEO of Squadhelp. 1) 2020 has certainly been a trying year, how has Squadhelp fared? There’s no doubt that 2020 has been a difficult year on many levels. However, it has also been a transformational year for the digital economy.  The word that comes […]

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Branding, Domain trends, Interviews, squadhelp

Verisign: “Internet Grows to 370.7 Million Domain Name Registrations”

November 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Verisign released their Q3 2020 Domain Name Industry Brief. .Coms increased, new gtld’s were down 1.5 million vs Q2. However year over year registrations were up. From the report: The third quarter of 2020 closed with 370.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Verisign

A.I. and voice recognition and their impact on Startup naming trends

November 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Startup naming trends – a return to literal and proper spelling? Stephen Moore over at Marker wrote an interesting article on a return to proper spelling in the world of startups. He goes into the practice of disemvoweling and how it became a thing in the previous decade. He writes: In 2010, Flickr co-founder Caterina […]

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Filed Under: Branding, Domain trends

Outbound = Spamming (Really???)

November 14, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

It seems like some domain investors continue to see outbound marketing as spam. Whenever the topic comes up on Namepros the comments fly. A recent thread on automating outbound got replies like: Another outbound thread?Outbout=spamming.How many outbound threads do you need? Outbound marketing needs to be done properly, making sure it does not violate the […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101

Same name, different year – Compare *****.coms

November 12, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Last week I took at a bunch of “Buy” related names that all closed at GoDaddy auctions. These were all names that expired on the same day for three years. Wednesday it was Compare related names like ComparePhones.com. comparephones.com 1,871 USD 2020-11-11 GoDaddy comparelaptops.com 1,156 USD 2020-11-11 GoDaddy comparetools.com 850 USD 2020-11-11 GoDaddy comparecomputers.com 609 […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, Go Daddy

A look at the keywords that are rising and declining in a Covid world

November 8, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

A couple weeks back someone had asked on Namepros if there were certain categories or keywords being devalued due to Covid-19. Are you dropping certain names in specific niches, or at a minimum lowering prices? SearchEngineJournal published an article on the topic from an online search viewpoint. The research is courtesy of BrightEdge Here are […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Search Engines, SEO

Same domain name, different year

November 6, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

I am always interested in domain auctions when it’s the same name, same environment (platform) just one year different. A bunch of Buy related domain names have now went to auction three years in a row at GoDaddy auctions. buyequipment.com 2,612 USD 2020-11-05 GoDaddy buynuts.com 1,837 USD 2020-11-05 GoDaddy buypizza.com 1,738 USD 2020-11-05 GoDaddy buyprints.com […]

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