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“The majority of domains targeted via UDRP are not worth the effort”

December 10, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Fairwinds Partners conducted research that took a look at Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide and then broke down the list to focus on the top 50 brands whose names were not based on generic terms and did not represent houses of brands. They came to a lot of interesting conclusions, a couple are as follows: […]

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Brandable Bits – BrandBucket launches Podcast – Nude.com listed at Namerific and more

November 28, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

In this Brandable Bits we are going to look at a new kid on the block, the first BrandBucket podcast and a few other tidbits. BrandBucket Podcast Michael Krell released the first episode of the BrandBucket podcast, Michael takes some time to go into the process around acceptance. Michael discusses what kinds of names are […]

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

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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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news, new gtlds

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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