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Efty is here: Software solution looking to help domainers make more money

December 10, 2014 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

There is a new service for domain investors called Efty that is launching and currently in public beta. I asked Doron Vermaat one of the co-founders of Efty: Q) What does Efty do and how does it help domain investors ? Doron: Efty helps to manage your domain name portfolio. We want it to be […]

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Verisign “Your .com is Waiting”

November 27, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

In an ever changing namespace Verisign wants people to know there are still plenty of .com domains available and has put together an infographic. They have put out a couple in 2014 since the new gtlds became available. Some of the data in the graphic is from 2012 – 2013, keyword research and certain registration […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Infographics, Verisign

A Look At The History of 1Letter Com/Net/Org

November 21, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

With the announcement today of the sale of z.com for $6.8 million, many have questions about 1character domains. They are obviously valuable domain names so how did we get here ? There is actually a wikipedia page dedicated to this, On December 1, 1993, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) explicitly reserved the remaining single-letter […]

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You Don’t Mess With The Namepros Nancies

October 25, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

“I didn’t expect anything less from the Nancy’s at NamePros.” With those words it  was on. What started out as a questionable way to handle a disagreement with a customer, turned into an absolute pr nightmare. The other day I wrote a post on how we had not had a popcorn thread like the one […]

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There Hasn’t Been A Popcorn Thread Like This In A Long Time

October 23, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

When dealing with aftermarket sites, you have to read the TOS, when running an aftermarket site you need to write a proper TOS. Well it looks like we got a doosey over at Namepros. It starts out with the owner of Brand Root warning members about a problem with a member, VentureFile.com Michael posted the […]

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Should Employees Be Allowed To Bid at Auction Sites ?

September 5, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

There was a mini brouhaha that had broken out on Namepros in the Flippa strategies thread. There was a reference to an old interview I had done here with the CEO of Flippa David Slutzkin. In that interview I asked him: 6) Does Flippa allow employees to bid on auctions ? “We do allow our […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domaining 101

The Domain Name Behind Amazon’s $970 million purchase Was Available For $55

September 4, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

The wires were abuzz last week with the news that Amazon said it would pay $970 million for Twitch.tv. There is another story related to Twitch.tv that is just hitting the wires now, namely, the wire which you are now reading. Twitch was listed for sale, on the domain name newsletter DomainStore.tv, in May 2011, […]

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My Bad With Regards to an Earlier Post on DNPost.com

July 29, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

I want to apologize for jumping the gun on a story done earlier today,we have noticed some traffic from a new site DNPost.com and when we covered it, I noticed our feed and a few others where the whole post was in the thread. After speaking to DNPost this afternoon they informed me that was […]

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A Parody Video on New gTLDs

July 29, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

DNPost.com put out a little parody video mocking the new gtlds. There was more to this post that will be posted in an updated post shortly. Here is the parody video

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You Have To Honor Your Buys and Sells

July 16, 2014 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

The business of buying and selling domain names is really like no other, it sometimes makes a game of three card monty seem legit. So today there is a post on Namepros where someone sold a domain name on Go Daddy, they set up the auction, they sold it. Auction closes at low $xxx. Now […]

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