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Epik is hiring Hiring Brand Ambassadors, Country Managers, Product Managers

November 11, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

For those that might be interested, Rob Monster posted many job openings at Epik on Namepros. Let me make crystal clear, this is in no way an endorsement to apply for a job at Epik and I have no knowledge about benefits or salary. Many people are looking for employment in this industry and this […]

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Filed Under: Domain Registrars, domaining news, Epik

There is only one domain but many brands including one from China need it

November 10, 2019 by Alvin Brown 4 Comments

It’s exciting news in the domain industry. Recently Eko.com was sold for a whopping $1.5 million to become the 3rd largest publicly reported domain sale of the year. This sale illustrates a tough issue faced by startups around the world aspiring to become global players. The new owner is USA-based media technology startup Eko. The […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, domaining news, Grandseeds.com

Forbes details how Swag.com went from great name to great sales

November 4, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Joan Verdon wrote a great story on Forbes about Swag.com and detailed the history of the company, from staking out Facebook’s offices to get a $3,400 order to closing in on sales north of $6 million this year. From the article: The HBO series Silicon Valley included several memorable moments featuring characters rhapsodizing about the […]

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A bid at GoDaddy Auctions does not prevent the name from being renewed

October 31, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

With all the discussion about Examiner.com and it getting renewed the conversation on Namepros started mentioning a myth about GoDaddy Auctions that is apparently not true and now confirmed by me with Paul Nicks. Some members started mentioning that they were told or heard that once there was a bid, the domain could not be […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Go Daddy

Examiner.com gets renewed will GoDaddy ever fix their auctions?

October 30, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Well it looks like Examiner.com got renewed, the auction was over $131,000 and earlier today the name got renewed. While typing in Examiner.com I get a security warning. Whois updated Registrant Name: Domain Manager Registrant Organization: Axs Digital Media Group, LLC Registrant Address: Co, US Creation Date: September 13, 1994 Update Date: October 30, 2019 […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

Examiner.com up to $126,000 as some wonder about what’s going on with the name

October 29, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Examiner.com is now up to $126,000 on GoDaddy auctions. While the auction is going on, one Namepros member spotted something. The former domain name that was tied to the email address for examiner.com was registered two days ago. Domains@clarityDG.com was the admin email for examiner.com. After being owned for a year by Huge Domains of […]

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GoDaddy rolls back the price on Recipe4Living.com to $7,200

October 25, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

I wrote a post a couple days ago about Recipe4Living.com and it’s expiring auction at GoDaddy auctions. The auction was at $40,500 but now it looks like GoDaddy spotted some questionable bids or some other glitch and rolled the price back to $7,200. Bidder 3 is still in the lead, they were the high bidder […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

Ad Practitioners LLC acquires Money.com for a reported $20 million

October 23, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

The New York Post reported that Money.com was sold for $20 million. This was a website sale not a pure domain sale. From the article: Today, Money is down to only 14 staffers. The mag arrived at Meredith in January 2018 as part of the $2.8 billion acquisition of Time. But a few months later, […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Website Sales

Namepros adds metrics to post to provide some new insights into your posts

October 14, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Namepros has added a metrics options to their posts. This can be viewed on any post but should be most helpful on sales posts. This will give you some data on how many people are watching your sales thread and how many will be alerted when the thread is bumped. After you click the metrics […]

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Bill Hartzer and Rob Monster’s domain protection product to be called DNProtect.com

October 7, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Bill Hartzer and Rob Monster are working on a rather ambitious project  to provide a name protection/insurance type product. It started with a post on Namepros and then Rob posted a domains wanted thread to come up with the name, I submitted DNProtect.com and I can confirm my name was chosen and sold it to […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Epik

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