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Brandable Bits – Recent BB additions, DNBolt retiring ?

April 2, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

In this edition of Brandable Bits we will look at a big brandable sale, recent additions to BrandBucket, and the possible retirement of BrandBucket’s worst nightmare. Snappa.com sells for $40,000 At the start of last week Chris Gimmer the co-founder of Snappa, published an article on how his company acquired the .com for his company. […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Bits, Brandable Domains, Domain trends, Namepros

Now there’s a waste of money

March 20, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

While checking out expiring names on Name.com I came across 44 names in a row that show why it’s good to be the registry. 7 payments for 44 domains that will never sell. Leet speak may have it’s place on the Internet but you are never going to make money on a consistent basis. So […]

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Verisign top trending keywords for February Year,Drone and Fresh

March 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign published their trending keywords for February and year was number one for .com and drone took the top spot in .net. This was a pretty random group of names, block and chain were on the .com list while surveyors and research made the .net list.   .COM .NET year drone near fresh block surveyors […]

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Top trending keywords for all of 2016

March 9, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their Top trending keywords for all of 2016. After releasing a monthly list they have compiled the data for all of 2016. Trump topped the list for .com, research, bot and pokemon all made the list. Verisign included the following: Keywords and Changing Politics This year’s U.S. presidential election was one of the […]

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Uncertainty is a killer for domain sales

March 8, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Unless you took the day off yesterday you are probably aware of the news out of Uniregistry. Domain Incite detailed comments from Frank Schilling on the upcoming price increases for several Uniregistry extensions. People as well as markets hate uncertainty, not knowing what your registrations are going to cost you year in and year out […]

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BrandBucket releases January sales data – Drone top keyword

March 3, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

BrandBucket released their latest seller’s newsletter and January was a strong month. After removing sales above $10K, the average sales price for a keyword brandable was $2773 and the average sales price of an invented brandable was $2345. Surprisingly the keyword “Drone” remained the top keyword search. January Sales 2017 started just as 2016 ended! Our January […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain trends, domaining news

When the value proposition changes you need to reassess

February 23, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Things change in the domain business all the time, from certain naming categories that go out of favor, to the new hot extension flavor of the month. Registrars and marketplaces change both in terms of policy and in popularity. As a domain investor you have to constantly assess if you are getting what you signed […]

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Behind The Keyword – Spotlight on “Web”

February 21, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 5 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 – Web Some Online related statistics: 7,670,000,000  results for the […]

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Michael Bilde sells another cvcv.com at BrandBucket for close to $70K

February 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Back on January 7th I wrote about two four letter cvcv.coms selling at BrandBucket. Teso.com sold for $69,995 and Mino.com sold for $64,995. The one thing those names had in common was that they both moved to privacy at Safenames. DNBolt reported over at Namepros that another CVCV.com sold, Nelo.com and the price was $69,995. […]

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Filed Under: 4 letter domains, Brand Bucket, Domain Sales, Domain trends

Trump takes top spot in .com and .net for January

February 14, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their January top trending keywords for .com and .net. No surprise the top keyword was Trump for both .com and .net. America was number 2 in .com and number 6 in .net   .COM .NET trump trump america out wall fundraising rent living porn luxury videos america cell marijuana fest property marin valley […]

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