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A Chinese unicorn with a long numeric domain

June 5, 2019 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

What do you see in the number 10101111? You may think it has to do with something digital because the number consists of only 0 and 1. Well, the answer may surprise you, and it comes from a Chinese startup in the ride hailing industry. Shen Zhou Zhuan Che (神州专车) is a chauffeured car service […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Domain trends, Grandseeds

Sales and Trends report for May 2019

June 1, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Looking back at May here we will examine sales data trends for certain naming categories. Overall Namebio recorded 10,200 Total Sales ($100 or more) for a dollar amount of $7.1m. This is down $700,000 from April. The average sales price was $703. Free.games was the high sale at $335,000. There were 2 sales that reached […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, SalesTrendsReport

BrandBucket April sales data

May 31, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket sent out their May newsletter and released sales data for April. Removing sales over $10k, the average sale amount was $2,881.  In March the average sale was $2,793. A total of 59 different sellers sold a name this month, an increase of 5 over March. A new feature this month “Average Listing Time” The […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain trends

A short and succinct guide to domain investing

May 25, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

There are plenty of guides, ebooks and courses out there on domain investing for newcomers, I wrote a piece here that has seen a lot of traffic since it was written, to give a quick synopsis for the TL;DR crowd who does not and will not read a long lengthy course. Namepros member Dave wrote […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, Namepros

Is .com still the number 1 extension?

May 21, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

So a gentleman name Kyle Byers published a post and a Reddit thread that took a look at .com vs other tlds. The Reddit thread has 138 comments and it’s interesting because this is mostly people, (maybe entirely) outside of the domain industry. The post opens up with: How important is having a .com URL? […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news

Trending keywords in April center on drug addiction and treatment

May 21, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for April and .com was all about drug rehab and treatment. Rehab.tv actually sold for $9,000 after being sold for $10,000 previously.   COM .NET rehab freedom drug repro centers earth alcohol tell treatment names addiction buyer rated duct materials mega blues seller when goods

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6 Domain Name Suggestion Tools to Find Your Next Domain

May 14, 2019 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

Naming a product, service, company, or project can be very time consuming, to say the least. In fact, sometimes selecting a name can be more challenging that actually executing the idea. Nothing kills the mood like checking the domain availability only to find out that someone else had your same thought and beat you to […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, KickstartCommerce

Sales and Trends report for April 2019

May 1, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Looking back at April here we will examine sales data trends for certain naming categories. Overall Namebio recorded 9,729 Total Sales ($100 or more) for a dollar amount of $7.8m. Cooking.com was the high sale at $402.5k. There were 4 sales that reached 6 figures cooking.com 402,500 USD 2019-04-25 Sedo accidentattorney.com 150,000 USD 2019-04-14 GoDaddy […]

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4L domains with Pinyin twist offer great potential in China

April 20, 2019 by Alvin Brown 1 Comment

Recently, I read in the news that the domain Kelu.com was sold for 150,000 yuan in China. It may appear as just an ordinary transaction. However, if you look further, you may find actually there is a category of domains which are perfect for globally minded startups in China. First of all, “kelu” is short […]

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Filed Under: 4 letter domains, Coreile, Domain trends

English domains becoming a trend in China?

April 11, 2019 by Alvin Brown 6 Comments

The other day I read a small announcement in Chinese financial news, which got me thinking about whether there is a trend of Chinese startups using English-based brands/domains. The announcement was about a Beijing-based financial service provider called NewBanker. The startup was founded only in June, 2017 but has already received two rounds of investment […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile, Domain trends

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