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Now being brokered, 20 years ago Cool.com had a lot going on

February 6, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Elliot Silver mentioned yesterday that Future Media Architects  will now have it’s domain names brokered by Saw.com. One of the domain names FMA owns is Cool.com. 20 years ago Cool.com had a lot going on and a potential $38 million deal that was never accepted. ZDNet covered the story. Tim Lee hand registered the name […]

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30% of NamesCon Live Auction (136 names) have already met reserve

January 29, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

The NamesCon live auction will have 136 names in the live auction. 30% of the names in the live auction have met reserve. Toolchest.com and JM.org are two of the best that have met reserve and both under four figures. Roughly 40% of the live auction are domain names with 4 or less characters. Here […]

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Some domain registrants look to profit off the passing of Kobe Bryant

January 27, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Sunday was a terrible day as Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and 7 other passengers were killed in a helicopter crash. Kobe went to high school around where I live, he played at Lower Merion, High School in Ardmore, PA. I had friends who met him at the Bellevue Hotel and got autographs way back […]

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Sedo has positions available in Cologne and Boston

January 22, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Sedo tweeted out today they have positions available in their Cologne and Boston offices. Want to bring your skills and talents to work for the best in the domain business? 💡🤔 Sedo has open positions in both our Boston and Cologne, Germany offices. U.S careers page: https://t.co/fOdfeFSWhLAnd for those in Europe: https://t.co/PfYVVVSOVK Happy job hunting! […]

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Kim Dotcom Wins Back K.im, registrant who lost it plans to appeal

January 16, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

It looks like Kim Dotcom will be getting back K.im. The Isle of Mann has apparently decided to transfer the name back to the original owner. TorrentFreak lays out all the details and you should read the article in full. There apparently was an attempt to sell the name back for $100,000. “I conclude that […]

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Namepros 2019 profitability poll results

January 6, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

It looks like a fair number of domain investors on Namepros had a solid 2019. I started a poll that asked if 2019 was profitable? It looks like 68% had a profitable year out of 200 voters. Doron Vermaat of Efty detailed his year in one of the 65 comments. Doron wrote: Total revenue for […]

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

Keyword sales data for 2019

January 2, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

There are certain keywords that are the most sought after in domain wanted threads, certain keywords that are the strongest when it comes to overall registration numbers. Here is a look back at 2019 and how certain keywords fared. Many specialize in certain niches and this can provide some guidance to see how what you […]

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DAN.com Year in Review

December 31, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

DAN.com (an advertiser here) gave some insights on 2019  vs 2018. The number that stood out to me the most was 14% of the revenue of our sellers has become recurring due to installments & domain rentals. I did not think it would be that big, more like 5%.   Year in review: comparing 2019 with […]

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After going for $57,000 at GoDaddy auctions gambling-law-us.com now developed

December 29, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

When gambling-law-us.com closed at $57,000 back in early November, I thought the price might get rolled back due to some non bidders. The domain was paid for and now there is a website up and running on the domain name. The domain previously was owned by an actual lawyer that practiced law related to gambling. […]

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YY Inc. changing name to JOYY Inc. without Joyy.com

December 23, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Chinese based social media company YY Inc is changing it’s name to Joyy Inc. The company runs on the very valuable YY.com. Joyy.com is owned by Joyy Mobility out of Germany. Here is the press released announcing the change. Hat tip to Lox.   GUANGZHOU, China, Dec. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — JOYY Inc. (YY) […]

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