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Should you auction your new gtld at a live auction?

January 30, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

There were 135 lots in the NamesCon live auction. Of those 135 lots, 20 were new gtlds. 15 out of the 20 sold. The top sale was Business.Loans at $10,000. Tax.help sold for $6,000 and Porn.Club sold for $5,000. A lot of $300 and $500 sales that with a healthy commission probably add up to […]

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Where did those 6 figure offers go for FakeNews.com?

January 30, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

We wrote a year ago about FakeNews.com and it’s owner receiving 6 figure offers. There is a story on DallasNews.com today about a California man, George Bacon who purchased FakeNews.com 11 years ago for $250. From the article: Fakenews.com isn’t the only domain Bacon owns — he buys and sells them regularly as a hobby […]

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NameJet Scores a COOL $3K Emoji Domain Auction Close

December 26, 2017 by Alvin Brown 8 Comments

It’s a been a few weeks since NameJet debuted its Premium .WS Emoji Domain Auction. In my opinion, the results have been interesting to say the least when compared to emoji domain auctions over at GoDaddy. GoDaddy has fallen completely off the map for emoji domain auctions in the last week or so, but that’s […]

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Verisign Q3 report shows a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations, vs Q2 2017

December 19, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief  for Q3 2017. Overall registrations were down vs the second quarter. Executive Summary The third quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 330.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations, or 0.4 percent from the second quarter of […]

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Verisign November trending keywords dominated by Crypto

December 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their November top trending keywords, coin was number one in .com and .net. With all the registrations for crypto,coin, bitcoin, etc… it’s no surprise. Domain wanted threads on Namepros have been flooded with crypto requests. .COM .NET coin coin crypto bit  bit  crypto  bitcoin first  coins  mail  ethereum  bitcoin  currency cash amazon buy […]

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After checking out GoDaddy appraisal tool, I would like to sell them some names

December 1, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

So GoDaddy released their appraisal tool for anyone to use. Doron from Efty and DNGeek tweeted out this morning: I’m pleasantly surprised with the quality of automated domain name appraisals of @GoDaddy‘s new appraisal tool https://t.co/7yr7VfMkDB and plan on using it for some end-user negotiations in the future. — Doron Vermaat (@doronvermaat) December 1, 2017 […]

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12 years ago it was very different

November 12, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

12 years ago this past Friday was one of the moments in my domaining career that changed things for me. I had registered domains starting back in 1997 but it was November 2005, when I started the .tv forum on Namepros. Today there are tons of niches and people who focus on a narrow category […]

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Verisign trending keywords for September Irma,Pic and Lean

October 10, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for September with Irma leading the .com trend. Really a random selection of generic words in September. Keywords like pic, lean and tile were at the top of the list.   .COM .NET irma base pic tile lean testing jerseys drain prices relief parks tickets disaster proofing aspen inspections […]

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Trending keywords in August Crypto,Houston and Mortgage

September 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign released their trending keywords for August and Crypto topped the list, no surprise there. Bit and block were also up there. .COM .NET crypto west bit bit mortgage he block soft chain texas loan repair houston camp harvey houston equity harvey attorney med

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Do you need to own Chinese domain names?

August 28, 2017 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

A large number of Chinese domain extensions have been released in the last few years, and you may have already come across some of them by chance. You may even wonder if you should acquire some Chinese domain names for your business. Today let’s look at this issue. First of all, what is a Chinese […]

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