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How GoDaddy and 9 other domain registrars looked 15 years ago

September 24, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Some domain registrars have been around a long time and their look has changed over the years. Here is a look at how 10 different domain registrars looked back in September of 2004. A lot has changed in 15 years and it’s funny to look back at what some of the websites looked like. I […]

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Filed Under: Domain Registrars, Domaining 101, Fabulous.com, Go Daddy, Name.com Tagged With: 101Domain, Dotster, Dynadot, Enom, Fabulous, godaddy, Name.com, Namecheap, Network Solutions, Register.com

A look at domain name negotiation from the buyer’s point of view

September 23, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

For the most part we analyze domain name negotiation from the domainer or broker’s point of view. Ryan Kulp is an interesting guy, he is the founder of Fomo, the world’s first social proof marketing platform. He is also a musician, coder and writes some detailed personal things about his life on his blog RyanCKulp.com. […]

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A look at how Know It Owl became Policy Genius

September 23, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

I read an article last night that gave an inside look at how the online insurance company Policy Genius got their name. The company founder started out with Know It Owl, explaining, “We thought it was a clever play on the term know-it-all.” The article went on to explain that when they started talking to […]

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Filed Under: Branding, Domain trends, Domaining 101

A debate about Hyphenated domain names

September 20, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Are you adding hyphenated .coms to your domain portfolio? Rob Monster started a thread where he expressed his optimism for an uptick in hyphenated .com domain names. Rob’s company just sold Sushi-man.com for $4,200. Just sold sushi-man.com from an Epik SSL lander for $4200. This is one of Epik’s O&O domains. I don’t normally report […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, Hyphenated Domain Names

Should you ever criticize the portfolio of another?

September 13, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

A bit of conversation today about critiquing another domain owners portfolio. MapleDots started a post on Namepros giving a tip of the cap to Morgan Linton on his apology post to a .cx registrant. Well I have looked at this from many angles for many years. Back when I started the .tv subforum when Namepros […]

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How much do you care about masked whois and has it affected your sales?

September 12, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

So Rob Monster started a thread about who should control a registrant’s whois? The thread also delves into how GDPR and how masked whois affects domain sales. Rob posted: Do professional domain investors accept these extra steps and tolerate the idea that their WHOIS data is masked or otherwise obscured, effectively forcing people to contact […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, Epik, Namepros, Whois

Can you pick domains by simply looking at their names?

September 11, 2019 by Alvin Brown 4 Comments

Look at the domain ArmyAnts.com. What do you see? What kind of business can you operate from this domain? How much can you sell the domain for? These are the questions that confront me almost everyday when I sift through thousands of domains in the garbage dump. Frankly, I would not have bought ArmyAnts.com for […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Grandseeds.com

Can aftermarkets prevent front running?

September 9, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

So I was reading a post on Namepros that was dealing with front running domain auctions. The op actually had a front runner contact them on a domain they owned in another extension. They actually posted the back and forth, which you can read here. After that the conversation became about how NameJet should stop […]

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Review: Latest Version of GoDaddy’s Domain Investor App

August 30, 2019 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Go Daddy, KickstartCommerce

Sedo unveils new sales landers but is it a little too late?

August 20, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

So with so much talk and innovation coming out of the likes of DAN, Epik and Efty when it comes to sales landers, Sedo has finally added something new to their offerings. Today they announced new sales landers, Sedo said the following: Overall, we’ve worked to create a minimalistic design making the sole focus of […]

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Filed Under: DAN.com, Domain trends, Domaining 101, Efty, Epik, Sedo

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