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No, .com is not losing its grasp

November 24, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

In a post on The Next Web titled, “8 myths about new gtlds” the author Jason Chernofsky decided to keep with one of the oldest tropes out there. .Com is losing its grasp. No, no it’s not. Jason also made the rather ignorant assumption that all .coms are owned by “squatters.” The new gtlds need […]

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Behind The Keyword – Spotlight on “Club”

November 19, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 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 – Club Some Club related statistics: 3,700,000,000 results for the keyword […]

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BrandBucket may successfully kill the monster they created

November 18, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

I have written a number of times about selling on BrandBucket and selling BrandBucket accepted names on Namepros. At the end of September I wrote an article on how the wholesale market was in the dumps on Namepros. This came about for a few reasons, first of which was the novelty wore off. When the […]

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Cannabis,Marijuana,Weed top Verisign’s trending keywords for October

November 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for October. In .com the list was dominated by marijuana related names. There were a few states that passed a law legalizing recreational use on election day. Here is a look at the previous month: .com .net page less driver driver history self pair charter harley cars holding driving […]

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Gary Vaynerchuk thinks emoji domains are going to be huge

November 6, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

There sure has been a lot of talk about emoji domains lately. From Go Daddy creating a search engine and service to register emoji domains. QZ.com featured an article from Michael J Coren titled, “The land rush for emoji domains is coming” Coren points out the following about universal acceptance: Yet emoji URLs remain an […]

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Verisign trending keywords for September heavy on driving

October 11, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released the top 10 trending keywords for September. Harley, Driver, Cars, Truck and Driving all made the top 10 list in either .com or .net. Nothing in September’s list was on the previous month of August. .com .net page less driver driver history self pair charter harley cars holding driving tshirt books payday spectrum […]

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When it comes to domain sales Bird is the word

September 18, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

From restaurants like Red Robin, to ice cream brand Blue Bunny to email marketing service Mail Chimp, branding that incorporates an animal or creature is very popular. So I decided to take a look at which animals rule the roost when it comes to domain sales. Up first is Bird Namebio lists 54 sales with […]

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Verisign Top Trending Keywords for August – Videos and Weed

September 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for August. Videos was number one in .com and number five in .net. Not one keyword from July was in the August list. .com .net videos options weed big drug foundation treatment tree options videos states drone alcohol brain drones safety weather dogs wheel bot Compare to July

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Brandable Bits for 9-12-16 Not Everyone likes getting contacted by BrandBucket

September 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Brandable Bits – Bite size nuggets of Brandable news and info BrandBucket reaching out to some domain owners is not welcomed BrandBucket has apparently been emailing some people to come sell their domains on BrandBucket and some do not like it. One commenter here said the following: Mike says August 28, 2016 at 10:04 pm […]

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BrandBucket August Sales 6 Character Tops The Invented Category

September 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket released their August newsletter, they mentioned the recent news about Keith DeBoer becoming a brand ambassador, (congrats to Keith). August Sales While we experienced an expected lull at the beginning of the month, things picked up significantly, and August proved to be another strong month of sales with 45 different sellers selling names. The average […]

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