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Bidder who cost GoDaddy $27,000 was permanently banned

August 24, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

It has now been a week or so since all the Dispute.com drama. The auction closed at $65,000 High bidder could not pay on time Elliot Silver posted about what happened I wrote a piece on TheDomains.com where Joe Styler added more context in a comment. OnlineDomain.com wrote an article that discussed the topic as […]

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Blockchain.org acquired

August 11, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Tron (TRX) is one of the more popular cryptocurrencies, ranked number 11 according to CoinMarketCap.com. They announced on Friday that they have acquired the domain name blockchain.org. Several blogs in the crypto space have reported on it today. From OracleTimes.com “[BlockChain.Org] will be a platform that offers big data analysis, project evaluation, information search and […]

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One registrant gave up and the new one hit a home run

August 7, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

You need a little luck in the name game, for the stars to align properly. Sometimes it comes along just right. I am interested in betting related names and I remember seeing a few months back that USbetting.org sold for $15,000. I thought that was a great price. Last week while posting the top sales […]

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Help to improve Efty

May 25, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Efty (an advertiser here TLDinvestors) has taken to Namepros where a lot of their users reside to get help on improving Efty. Doron posted: It’s been more than four years since @lionel_efty and I set out on a mission to change the way domain name investors manage, market and monetize their portfolio’s. And what a […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Efty

Are European domainers going to start getting shunned?

May 24, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 17 Comments

As we get closer to GDPR being official more and more reactions and questions come in. I noticed today that Theo at DomainGang.com is going to block  the 28 countries of the EU from accessing his blog. Someone told me I should do that two weeks ago. I had a couple readers express their desire […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news, GDPR

Are we entering the Golden Age for domain scams?

May 13, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

via GIPHY Domain scams and cons are not uncommon, front running, stolen domains and shill bidding are just a few of the many cons that domain investors have to be on the look out for. With whois going away, we might just be entering the Golden Age of domain scams. It’s going to be harder […]

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Update to previous Efty post

May 9, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

A couple of days ago I wrote a piece about Efty and GDPR. I might have used the wrong wording in the title of the post here, it might have misled some to think Efty was GDPR compliant. The title of Efty’s post was Here’s why Efty users are best prepared for GDPR Frank Michlick […]

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Amazon to acquire Ring

February 27, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

From not getting a deal on Shark Tank as Doorbot to rebranding as Ring and getting the premium name Ring.com to being acquired for more than $1billion. Jamie Siminoff the founder of the company was interviewed by James Iles of Namepros awhile back. Venture Beat covered the acquisition: Amazon has acquired Ring, maker of smart […]

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NameJet January sales led by PY.net

February 6, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

NameJet released their January sales and PY.net was the top sale at $27,000. NamesCon results are not included in the list. ZSV.com was the first 3L.com sold and it went for only $11,100. The first non .com sale after Py.net was onyx.io for $6,100. Overall January looked slow to me, hopefully with NamesCon over things […]

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Where did those 6 figure offers go for FakeNews.com?

January 30, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

We wrote a year ago about FakeNews.com and it’s owner receiving 6 figure offers. There is a story on DallasNews.com today about a California man, George Bacon who purchased FakeNews.com 11 years ago for $250. From the article: Fakenews.com isn’t the only domain Bacon owns — he buys and sells them regularly as a hobby […]

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