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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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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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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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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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Country code registrations up 2.4% year over year

February 16, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief Q4 2017 Top 5 extensions: .com .cn .tk .de .net When it comes to new gtld’s As of Dec. 31, 2017, total new gTLD (ngTLD) domain name registrations were approximately 20.6 million or 6.2 percent of total domain name registrations across all TLDs. This is a decrease of […]

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Verisign top trending keywords for January sees a focus on marijuana and no crypto

February 13, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for January and crypto was no longer in the mix. Nano and Stemcells along with Marijuana are now in the mix. .COM .NET near association cell  therapy  dispensary career  stem plans  claim  marijuana centers  account  hole away residential bang  nano  being  cane  hop

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2017 really was a terrible year for non coms

February 12, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Taking a look at the final stats for 2017, it really was a terrible year for non coms. Only 11 non coms were in the top 100 sales reported by DN Journal. Only 2 of those names were new gtlds and domain investors reaped no benefit as the registries sold Casino.Online (Radix) and Video.Games (Rightside). […]

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