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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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Filed Under: DAN.com, Domain trends, domaining news

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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Filed Under: 2 letter domains, Branding, domaining news

GoDaddy puts out a video on how to make money with domain names

December 19, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

How to buy and sell domains for a profit. That’s the video GoDaddy released today on You Tube. 195 views and 13 likes so far. The video is the basics to help bring new people looking to make some money with a side hustle. The video is 8 minutes long. I was discussing GoDaddy and […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Go Daddy

Sedo no minimum commission extended through 2020

December 19, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Sedo announced today on Twitter that the minimum fee waiver will extend throughout all of 2020. I personally think this is a good move as it does encourage people to try some sales they would not normally. Last month I wrote about removing and relisting names. Pricing the names to move with new eyeballs on […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Sedo

Rick Schwartz interview with Jason Morris

December 17, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

JasonOfFlorida.com published an interview with Rick Schwartz about buying domains off Twitter. Rick fielded a bunch of questions from Jason about his tweeting and how and why he buys domains off Twitter. Personally I did sell a domain last year to Rick, BraAndPanties.com. So I do know Rick does actually follow through and buy a […]

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Popular typo of Qantas airlines over $3,800 at GoDaddy Auctions

December 16, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Australian airline Qantas is the third oldest airline in the world and registered Qantas.com in May of 1996. Many consumers spell Qantas wrong and a lot add the letter u to make it Quantas.com. In November of 1999 Quantas.com was registered and in 2004 there is a whois record for a Quantas Associates Inc, a […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

TeenDomainer.com is all grown up

December 15, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

One of the domain blogs I used to read many years back was TeenDomainer.com. The domain was run by Brian Diener and it was nice to see a younger person’s perspective and experiences in domaining. I have not seen Brian around for years in domaining circles. I was looking at the Flippa blog last week […]

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River.com acquired by Bitcoin investment firm

December 7, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

Joseph Carroll has a Flippa staff badge on Namepros, according to his LinkedIn he was Director of Websites til 2018. I believe he is now with Brandmo, had started a domains wanted thread at Namepros for a client. Joseph posted a healthy budget of up to $450,000. He posted today they found a name, River.com. […]

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“By holding these great domain names, you are stifling innovation!”

December 6, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 11 Comments

Kevin Ham once dubbed “The man who owns the Internet” in a 2007 Business 2.0 article was told he was stifling innovation by one of the people who invented the Internet. Ham writes in a blog post on Venture.com that he was excited to meet Sir Tim Berners-Lee in Vancouver at a TED conference. Filled […]

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Filed Under: Domain Leasing, Domaining 101, domaining news

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