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Verisign Top Trending Keywords for June 2015

July 14, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Verisign released the top trending keywords for June in .com and .net Used, Education and zone were the top 3 keywords for .com. City, Don and Cool were the top 3 in .net Note: Each list was developed by examining keyword registration growth relative to the preceding month, such that those keywords with the highest […]

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Verisign Top Trending Keywords for May – Options tops the list in Com and Net

June 9, 2015 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for May and options was the top keyword for Com and Net. Holo was number 2 in .com and that has been a relatively popular topic on namepros as a future trend niche.

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Domain Data on the Top 1,000 Websites

May 27, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Goran Duskic over at WHOAPI.com put together an infographic on data from the top 1000 websites. He took a look at things like domain length, pr, brand protection, hosting, etc…

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The Disconnect Between Go Daddy and Domain Investors On Their Recent Commission Changes

March 13, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Recently Go Daddy announced changes in the commission structure at Go Daddy and Afternic. The move is being made to streamline commissions and to lower fees on higher end sales. The changes are not sitting well with most domain owners who use Go Daddy and Afternic to sell their domain names. Go Daddy announced: We […]

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Archeo: “Two Word Domains Continue To Be Our #1 Most Popular Selling Class”

March 11, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Archeo Domains the domain arm of Marchex (MCHX:Nasdaq) posted their 4th quarter newsletter which included sales data for the fourth quarter of 2014. They also provided a summary for the year. They did $1.7 million in sales and found that two word  domains continue to be their best selling category. Lifestyle, Travel and Business/Finance were […]

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Verisign Releases Top Keyword Trends for February – Holo Top Keyword

March 10, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign posted today the Top 10 Keywords Registered in February. Holo was the top keyword for February in .com, Apple was the top in .net. This Sun., March 15, marks the 30th anniversary of the first .COM domain name registration, Symbolics.com. Today there are more than 116 million .COM domain names registered globally, and more […]

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GolfTrips.com Owner “The dot-coms seem to be the most user-friendly”

February 16, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Archeo Domains (Division of Marchex) did a feature post on the owner of GolfTrips.com, the post came on the heels of the owner Brian Weiss purchasing GolfOklahoma.com from Archeo. Weiss is acquiring Golf related names according to geographical region. Weiss is building out a directory of golf related websites that currently is over forty names. […]

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Happy New Year – A Look Back at 2014

January 1, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

A look back at 2014 In the domain industry 2014 certainly belonged to the new gtlds. The new gtlds were the most talked about area in the domain world, forums, blogs and personal conversations were dominated by opinions, debates and agendas. The industry has never seen anything like this with so many new extensions all […]

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A look at repeating numbers in .com and .net

December 30, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Yesterday after posting about the availability of the same repeating letter, Vincent Jacques asked about what repeating numbers looked like ? So I took a look at numbers 0 through 9 in .com and .net. No surprise that 8 was the most popular and you cannot register a repeating 8 until you are ready to […]

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A look at repeating letters and the most ridiculous hand reg I have ever made

December 29, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

After the sale of VVVV.com on NameJet for $22,100 I was having a conversation with someone that thought that was a high price since there probably not many uses for the domain. He asked me how many acronyms would there be for the same repeating letter ? I said I thought the name was valuable […]

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