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From China To Berkens To Dicker 2015 was one hell of a year

December 31, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

2015 was an action packed year filled with incredible sales, scandal and consolidation. Some of the biggest players in the industry showed why they are the top dogs in 2015. Rick Schwartz put up some incredible numbers staring with the sale of Porno.com for $8,888,888, the sale broke on TheDomains.com on February 2, 2015. Purchased […]

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China and Drone top trending .com registrations for November

December 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their Top 10 trending keywords for November 2015. China and Drone topped the list in .com and Rental and Download topped the list in .net

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Will Four Letter Chips Go The Way of Bitcoin ?

November 26, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

DomainVP.com brought up some interesting points in the Namepros Chinese bubble thread, and compared 4L.com specifically Chips, to go the way of Bitcoin and eventually see there way to a pretty steep fall. His post read as follows: The miracle is the current price of these $20 digital rocks people were throwing away a year […]

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Filed Under: Bitcoin, Chinese Domain Names, Domain trends, domaining news, Namepros

A look at Regions and Nationalities in the Domainosphere

November 23, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Christopher Hofman Laursen put together this gif on regions and nationalities. Christopher does some really entertaining work with all his creatives. His site is at EuropeanDomainCentre.com via GIPHY

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Someone Wants to buy up the 7N.com namespace

November 20, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Someone is looking to buy up the 7N.com space and laid out there plans in public. A member on Namepros is asking people for help, not money, but help on buying up the 7N.com namespace. Here is part of the post from DomainEmpire on Namepros: Why am I sharing this story with you ? We’ve […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Namepros, Numerical Domains

Keyword Names Outsell Invented Names on BrandBucket for September – October

November 16, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket sent out their November newsletter and it is always nice to get a look at some of the metrics. When it comes to Keyword vs Invented or what I have always called M.U.P.S. (Made Up Pronounceables), the keyword names are selling a bit better. For September and October sales keyword centric names were 55% […]

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Verisign October Trending Keywords include Marijuana, Storage and China

November 10, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign released their top 10 trending keywords for October. With the holiday season approaching Christmas made the top 10 in .com and .net had a Chinese feel to it. The .net extension had China, Wang, Yuan and Xiao in the top 10.

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There is always going to be someone holding the bag

November 9, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 17 Comments

There has been a lot of discussion and debate about the quick run up in short letter and number domains. There is a lot of back and forth on Namepros and a great discussion on TheDomains.com. There is talk of hype, bubbles, unrealistic valuation…There is talk about someone will get left holding the bag. Of […]

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Business Insider “China is Buying Up The Internet”

November 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Business Insider published an article on Saturday that takes a look at what most in our business have been discussing for months. Buyouts here, buyouts there, no more 6N.com or 4L.net. The article delves into why domain names are the perfect Chinese investment vehicle. No customs declaration. No property taxes. No annual fees (outside of […]

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Don’t Invest in Things Where you have little to no understanding

October 29, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Over the last 6 months I have been communicating with some people that it seems like they are investing in domain niches they don’t understand. I read about even more people following this same path. You cannot just play follow the leader, or the most popular thread on Namepros. I get emails from newer investors […]

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