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Not checking trash box in email costs one domain investor $100K

July 24, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

For most it goes without saying, you check all your email boxes, not just the inbox. Stuff that is not trash gets into the trash box, stuff that is not spam gets into the spam box. When you are in the business of having email be a vital part of your communications you need to […]

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Desperate domainer decides to raise price rather than lower

May 9, 2025 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Namepros member William posted today about a domain sales and change in strategy. After having a $1,999 buy it now on a domain name he got the buyer’s final offer at $1,500. Instead of accepting he raised the price to $4,500. The whole thread is a good read for those newer to the business or […]

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Everybody is a domain broker or so they say

October 31, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

One of my favorite songs from The Kinks is Celluloid Heroes. The song is about Hollywood stars. Well in domaining a lot of stars are domain brokers. And if you pay attention it seems like everyone is a domain broker. So I changed the lyrics a smidge: Everybody’s a dreamerAnd everybody’s a starAnd everybody’s a […]

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This is the business we’ve chosen

August 8, 2024 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

There has been a lot of angst and outrage the past couple of days. Whether it’s domain investors not liking a prominent industry player and their new sales initiative. Or it’s a startup founder calling domain investors scammers, squatters and immoral. Whenever someone asks me why do we put up with this? I hearken back […]

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This $200K offer might not get paid

July 12, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Words have meaning and knowing those meanings is fundamental to getting by in life and hopefully having a happy life. Like there is hate speech, that’s very true. Some however think that anything they don’t want to hear is hate speech, that’s not true. Some people engage in cybersquatting. Cybersquatting is the practice of registering, […]

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InterNetX publishes the evolution of the domain industry

June 13, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Simone Catania and the good people at InterNetX (an advertiser here) published an in depth piece on the evolution of the domain name industry. It’s one of those pieces that’s worth bookmarking in case you ever want to reference a specific piece of data for your own content or sales pitch. Highlights include: The report […]

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Michael Santiago details the story of Newswire.com and the power of a great domain name

May 15, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Michael Santiago published a really cool story on the power of domain names and his journey from i-newswire.com to newswire.com. Michael started out by saying the one thing he has learned in his 26 years of business was “A premium domain has the potential to make you and your company a lot of money.” I […]

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Google’s John Mueller “Your domain name is never going to make or break your SEO”

February 16, 2024 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

John Mueller from Google had conducted a chat on Mastodon, there was a question that was domain name related. An #seo question from the X-Twitter world: In the domain name, is the use of dash ( – ) recommended or not? Mueller gives a few points and ends the first reply with “Your domain name […]

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What is domain shadowing?

July 17, 2023 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Simone Catania published an article for InternetX on domain shadowing. What is domain shadowing? Domain shadowing is a technique that cybercriminals use to secretly create and control subdomains under a legitimate domain without the owner’s knowledge or consent. This tactic has become a significant concern for DNS experts and brand managers. By gaining unauthorized access […]

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Majestic.com releases Typo domain tool

April 6, 2023 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Majestic.com has released a typo domain tool. Bill Hartzer noticed it and posted it on Namepros. Now you need a subscription and a pro monthly subscription that includes all the tools is $99 a month. The Typo Domain Tool can help you:

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