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What is The right answer when it comes to certain kinds of Domain Investing ?

October 14, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 22 Comments

Domain investing is in the spotlight today with all the news surrounding Ebola.com, I am not going to really touch on the coverage as Online Domain and Domain Gang did a good job of reporting on all the stories out there. It takes me to a place where I am conflicted as a domain investor […]

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Every 3Character.com Reported in 2014

August 28, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

After doing the 3letter.com sales thread, a few people in the comments and through emails asked if I would do a 3 character post. So I have compiled all the reported sales to DN Journal in 2014 up til August 24,2014. There are a lot of 3 Character.com sales that take place on 4.cn which […]

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Michael Rader of Brand Root calls for the Death of the Exact Match Domain

July 15, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Michael Rader from Brand Root crafted a very long and thought out post on the Death of the Exact Match Domain. Of course Michael is running a brandable boutique so this may read to some like the Chik-Fil-A commercial with the cows saying, Michael talks about bland names vs brand names From the article: Brand […]

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Domain trends, EMD

Why Archeo Likes Two Word Dot-Coms

May 7, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Archeo a division of Marchex releases their first newsletter Archeo covered a few topics in their first newsletter with the most interesting being their take on Two Word Dot Coms. From the newsletter, which I recommend you sign up for, Can a domain be too Generic? Why we think 2-word dot-coms are the real winners. […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends

A Look at the first 7 keyword strings to go live in com/net registrations

February 18, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

By: Raymond Hackney The first 7 extensions that went into general availability took place on January 29, 2014. .BIKE .CLOTHING .GURU .HOLDINGS .PLUMBING .SINGLES .VENTURES I took a look at the number of registrations in .com and .net with those same keywords for the period of 1/29/14 to 2/17/14. Bike 1502 regs Clothing 1348 regs […]

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Going Inside the Future Trends: Look out 3D Printing here comes 4D Printing – How does $8,000 on a July Handreg sound ?

February 3, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

By: Raymond Hackney I always say there is so much to know and learn and this business sometimes speeds that learning process up. I have been getting up to speed with 3D printing and knew nothing of 4D printing. Today on Sedo Buy3Dprinter.com sold for $12,000. Now what caught my eye later in the evening […]

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Has There Become A Need for a Dot Com Only Blog ?

January 13, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

By: Raymond Hackney With dot com as the dominant extension in terms of value and exposure, it made sense over the years for blogs or forums to be established that focused on another niche like cctlds, or new gtlds. They did not get as much attention and these places look to provide more exposure. Now […]

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Dot Com Dominated Top Sales Again in 2013

January 7, 2014 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

By: Raymond Hackney The .com extension wrapped up 2013 with 82 out of the top 100 domain sales of the year. Of course there are deals that go unreported or only a select few know about, so as always I look to DN Journal as the publication of record. The 18 non .com sales were […]

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A few articles looking at domains from outside the industry

January 1, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Over the last couple weeks there were some interesting articles regarding domain names from publications outside the industry. Larry Levenson wrote a piece on HubSpot entitled, “Why Marketers Should Care About The 1,300 New Top-Level Domains” Levenson talks about things from using the new gtlds for brand protection to potential SEO benefits to innovation. He […]

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Filed Under: Branding, Domain trends, Domaining 101, new gtlds, Start ups

TheNextWeb.com asks “With so many new top level domains launching, what should your strategy be”

December 3, 2013 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

By: Raymond Hackney TheNextWeb.com did a piece today on the coming new gTlds, "With so many new top level domains launching, what should your strategy be?" The article did get viewpoints from both sides of the aisle. On the New gTlds are the future side: But why are gTLDs relevant? Elisa Cooper, director of product […]

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