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End of the year favorite/best registrar poll at Namepros sees Dynadot out to a big lead

December 17, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

A year end favorite registrar poll has kicked off on Namepros. It’s not for 2020 or 2021. A few members suggested that the best/favorite registrar poll happening in March or June did not make sense. It should happen in December. Epik did win 2020 favorite/registrar poll. This is just a “We don’t want to wait […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Dynadot, Namepros

Engage.com site now live

December 16, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Ron Jackson announced last week that Buckley Media successfully brokered the sale of Engage.com for $803.025. Great Job! The site now looks to be live though it is missing things like an about us, or a privacy page which you agree to when you request a demo. The name which was at GoDaddy moved to […]

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Two 5 figure expired auctions at GoDaddy that should have plenty of buyers

December 14, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

A couple big closes on expired domain names at GoDaddy on Sunday. UnitedTech.com closed at $20,000 this was not owned by the large company United Technologies that merged with Raytheon last year. It does not have the backlink profile we see with 5 figure closes on GoDaddy. We do have a solid name that has […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

CiteULike.org popular with researchers closes at $36,000 in expiry auction

December 13, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

CiteULike.org closed at $36,000 on GoDaddy auctions. This is the kind of name that newcomers need to understand why it went so high. It was not for the name. Popular with researchers. According to Wikipedia: was a web service which allowed users to save and share citations to academic papers. Based on the principle of […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, SEO

$90,000 and five years later and not even a nameserver update

December 11, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Five years ago Elliot Silver broke news on a .money domain name that sold for $90,000. The seller once walked away from The Apprentice UK TV Show 5 years later and the domain name has not even updated the nameservers. Transfer.money is the name and it’s a perfect keyword combination in my opinion. The seller […]

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December .Ai domain auctions led by Genius.ai

December 8, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

December .Ai auctions closed on Monday at Whois.ai. There were 22 names that closed at $1,000 or more. Genius.ai was the high close by a wide margin at $16,025. In a story from yesterday Adam Doppelt detailed how he got his start drop catching .ai domain names. genius.ai 16,025 USD 2020-12-07 Whois.ai fabric.ai 3,454 USD […]

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Filed Under: .ai, Auctions, Domain Sales, Domain trends, domaining news

Adam Doppelt and his million dollar domain hobby

December 6, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Very interesting detailed article on Medium by a gentleman named Adam Doppelt. Adam details his million dollar domain hobby and his journey from the start. Adam is also one of the founders of Fresh Chalk. At Fresh Chalk, we believe the best recommendations come from friends. Our mission is to help you find the best […]

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Filed Under: .ai, .io, domaining news

Thanksgiving.com redirects to a 3 word .com

November 25, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the U.S. and the premium domain name is owned by the people behind USA Today. (Gannett). Thanksgiving.com redirects to MakeItGrateful.com. Here is why: Here’s our story: We started as Thanksgiving.com, America’s online destination for all things holidays. But as we continued to grow and expand, we realized we had so many […]

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NameSilo Black Friday/Cyber Monday .com transfer deal live today

November 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

NameSilo (an advertiser here) is announcing a special Black Friday/Cyber Monday transfer special a few days early. $7.99 transfer for unlimited .coms. NameSilo is Afternic fast transfer and Sedo MLS eligible. Details: Excited to announce that our highly requested .COM transfer deal is back! Transfer your .COM domains to NameSilo for $7.99 and get 1 […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Namesilo

Verisign: “Internet Grows to 370.7 Million Domain Name Registrations”

November 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their Q3 2020 Domain Name Industry Brief. .Coms increased, new gtld’s were down 1.5 million vs Q2. However year over year registrations were up. From the report: The third quarter of 2020 closed with 370.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or […]

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