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Are European domainers going to start getting shunned?

May 24, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 17 Comments

As we get closer to GDPR being official more and more reactions and questions come in. I noticed today that Theo at DomainGang.com is going to block  the 28 countries of the EU from accessing his blog. Someone told me I should do that two weeks ago. I had a couple readers express their desire […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news, GDPR

Why Domain Investors Should Consider Domain Development

May 23, 2018 by Alvin Brown 1 Comment

There are countless carcasses littering the domain investing journey. Folks often enter domain investing thinking it’s nothing more than buying domains while sipping mai tai cocktails on a beach. And if not that image, then the image is that domain investors purchase domains at standard registration fees on Monday and flip them them for 5, […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, KickstartCommerce, Podcast

When domain auctions jump the shark

May 18, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

There was a thread that’s now closed on Namepros where someone pointed out that a member wanted an auction to end 278 hours after the last bid. Some felt that this is fine, let the seller take as long as they like, they are trying to promote a good name. The name is average at […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales, Domain trends, Domaining 101, Namepros

Are we entering the Golden Age for domain scams?

May 13, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

via GIPHY Domain scams and cons are not uncommon, front running, stolen domains and shill bidding are just a few of the many cons that domain investors have to be on the look out for. With whois going away, we might just be entering the Golden Age of domain scams. It’s going to be harder […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news

Behind The Keyword – Spotlight on “App”

May 8, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Welcome to Behind The Keyword, I will be taking a look at the most popular keywords that sell, get listed and get developed. Whether it be on big marketplaces like Sedo and Afternic or specialty sites like BrandBucket. Today we are looking at the keyword – App Some App related statistics: 1,720,000,000 results for the […]

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Filed Under: .App, Behind The Keyword, Domain Sales, Domain trends

Efty is prepared for GDPR

May 7, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Efty ( an advertiser here) wrote a blog post detailing their preparation for GDPR. Here’s why Efty users are best prepared for GDPR Unless you have been living under a rock for the past months you probably know that after May 25th public access to WHOIS is going to change when the European Union’s General […]

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Are old school domain investors still relevant?

May 1, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 22 Comments

So last week Rick Schwartz posted a semi – cryptic blog post. Some see it as a potential return to blogging. I thought either blogging or starting up a new forum, or conference. I had mentioned it in conversation to a few people over the weekend. One person asked me why I thought that was […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101

Emoji Domains One Year After DomainSherpa Interview

April 26, 2018 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

It’s hard to believe it’s been just over a year since the debuting of DomainSherpa’s Emoji Domains May Take Over the World, having originally aired April 10, 2017. In short, emoji domains caught fire shortly after Mike Cyger interviewed Matan Israeli and Jon Roig about a universal language that most people throughout the world use […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Emoji

President, General and Fortnite top Verisign’s trending keyword list for March

April 10, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign reported their trending keywords for March. Fortnite was no surprise as that game is on fire. The list was pretty random this month. .COM .NET president general passion  tampa fortnite  hospital  vietnam keep  fairy  hotels  rates  may  jumbo boxing residential podcast  rights amazon  grit  weather

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Wrong feeling on a brandable costs me some money

March 29, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

So back in May of 2016 I purchased a 29 domain lot of BrandBucket listed names. Cost $1,500. I really wanted 1 name, Inteleca.com, I liked some of the other 5 letter names and some I really didn’t love, so I thought I would lower the acquisition cost of the portfolio purchase and liquidate some […]

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Domain Sales, Domain trends

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