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Initial offer on Voice.com was $150,000

September 17, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Michael J. Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy the company that sold Voice.com for $30 million last year. CryptoNews.com published a story (hat tip to George Kirikos) today on how the negotiations went. They apparently started at $150,000 and Saylor would not get on the phone with the buyer until the offer hit $22 million. […]

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Relation between domain length and sell through %

September 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Darpan Munjal of Squadhelp tweeted out a graph that tested the correlation between domain length and STR. Darpan pointed out this was purely an STR comparison. Also, this analysis may not be valid outside Brandable marketplaces. For example, most 4Ls do not include real words & it can be relatively harder to discover them via […]

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Marek Eckhaus on “How to start with Domain Name Investing”

September 14, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Being a domain name investor since 2014, so many people ask me daily how to start with the domain name investing, what skills one needs to have, and, of course … How Much Money One Can Make. Especially that “How Much Money One Can Make” is the most common question by far. The short answer is […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Marek Eckhaus, new gtlds

11 critical points you must consider before you purchase any domain name as an investment

September 12, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

As a domain investor, I constantly see most people in our industry losing money. We need to constantly remind ourselves that in domain investing we make an important part of our profits when we buy the domain names. So the following article is written particularly for new domain investors. Do your own due diligence and learn extensively […]

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TOP 10 mistakes new domain investors are still doing in 2020!

September 8, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Domain Investing is an Art! Each domain name is unique, and only very few people are able to continuously buy domain names which will sell at the aftermarket for significant ROI. Still, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are trying to become domain investors, only to find out after a year or two that they […]

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Whales, Builders, and Flippers

September 6, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

What is the best time to invest in new gTLD domains? This is, of course, the million-dollar question. Different investors approach this very differently. As per my observation, there are basically 3 main groups of new gTLD domain investors: I will call the first group “Whales” (early investors, usually with a lot of money, usually […]

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The year of the noun when it comes to startup naming trends?

September 1, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Crunchbase published an article yesterday on how startup names are becoming less silly. They tweeted out: Call it the year of the noun. Funded startups are choosing brands made up of recognized words or names that describe what they do. Some see this as a goodbye to BrandBucket type made up or invented names. Others […]

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Chaotic vs Structured Portfolios

August 31, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

What is a chaotic domain portfolio? Today I will start with another great investment mistake, something that many new gTLD investors are already familiar with (or are slowly becoming familiar with, depending on the overall structure of their portfolio and when they have started). I have not found yet a term for that in the […]

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Brandable Domain Names: Marketplaces Must Evolve Search Algorithms To Improve Discovery

August 28, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Darpan Munjal wrote a very good piece over at Squadhelp on how to show up better in results. Years ago there was a big discussion on why some members names showed up on BrandBucket under popular categories. When some saw certain names that say, were not related to tech showing up in the tech category. […]

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Some unfortunate domain names you might have missed

August 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

I was reading a post on Namepros and @tonyk2000 posted some potentially outrageous domain names if you look at them the wrong way. The link Tony provided was from RationalWiki.org. The following are emphasised in CamelCase, just in case you can’t see them first time: Auctions Hit – www.AuctionShit.com (defunct) The Autonomous Crypto Asset Exchange […]

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