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Making money with a .org domain name that has 4 hyphens

August 23, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

I was listening to a podcast by Spencer Haws over at NichePursuits.com with Mukesh Charasia. Mukesh runs an SEO agency in India. The greatest story for me in the whole podcast was that Mukesh made real money off of a .org domain name with 4 hyphens. 2018: Built a website on a type error done […]

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How domain age affects sell through rates

August 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Darpan Munjal of Squadhelp tweeted out some interesting data with regards to domain age and sell through rate. Darpan cites numbers from 25,000 domain names listed on or before January 2020. Domains that are aged 15+ years see the best jump. How does the Domain Age affect STR? Interesting that STR stays relatively same from […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101

Why website load times matter

August 17, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

People have short attention speeds and if your website takes a long time to load, you have a problem. Sometimes what you don’t think is a longtime can apparently still cause many to click away. I read SmallBizTrends.com daily and came across an article on website load times. I thought a couple of these stats […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Web/Tech

The Big Business of Buying Domains with Ryan Colby

August 16, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Chris Synder is an entrepreneur and the founder of Banks.com. Synder details how he purchased Banks.com here. Chris runs a podcast at https://www.snydershowdown.com/ A few days ago he interviewed domain broker Ryan Colby. Colby who started his domaining journey at Sedo has gone on to sell over $75 million in domain names. His website is […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, Podcast

If you can’t handle nasty replies, outbound marketing might not be for you

August 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Outbound marketing is a tough job, it’s not just about sending some emails which a lot of new domainers seem to be doing. You have to take the time to research the prospects you email. You cannot violate the CAN-Spam Act. You should never be emailing other domain investors, because as this thread on Namepros […]

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Godaddy Just Made a Big Change – Will Your Domain Sales Increase?

July 30, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

GoDaddy just made a major change to their bulk search feature… Huge change! This change might lead to increased sales for domain name investors who have names listed on GoDaddy & Afternic with Buy it Now prices. “So, what have they done?” you may be asking. GoDaddy has changed the results algorithm on bulk searches. […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Go Daddy

Insha Zahid started domaining at 17 and has made 6 figure flips (interview)

July 29, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

From flipping write.com to transcribe.com Insha Zahid got started early in domaining. He was kind enough to take some time for an interview.   1) How old were you when you first started investing in domain names? I started my journey back in 2015 when I was 17 years old. The age on my Namepros […]

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An interview with the man behind Namebio – Michael Sumner

July 27, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Four years ago almost to the day, I interviewed Michael Sumner, the man who runs what I believe is the most vital industry resource in the domain name industry. I checked in with Michael this weekend for a new set of questions about his approach to domaining and Namebio. 1) Namebio has come a long […]

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This front running me is now becoming a trend

July 20, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Front running me is becoming a thing, well kinda. Back in May I wrote about someone offering me $1,000 for Stock.loans, I accepted their offer at the beginning of the pandemic and they went quiet. Weeks later they told me they planned on selling the name to a client who supposedly, sadly passed away from […]

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How Do You Know When You Have a Bad Domain?

July 18, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Brian Harnish wrote an article that’s well worth a read for a variety of domain investors. Over the last year we have seen a great interest for domain names with a strong link profile and high domain authority. WebMonkey.com sold for $65,500 on the strength of it’s backlink profile. Last year YMCDN.com was another one, […]

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