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BrandBucket releases January sales data – Drone top keyword

March 3, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

BrandBucket released their latest seller’s newsletter and January was a strong month. After removing sales above $10K, the average sales price for a keyword brandable was $2773 and the average sales price of an invented brandable was $2345. Surprisingly the keyword “Drone” remained the top keyword search. January Sales 2017 started just as 2016 ended! Our January […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain trends, domaining news

Verisign releases their fourth quarter industry brief

February 28, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their fourth quarter 2016 Domain Name Industry Brief. At the end of Q4 2016, new generic TLD (ngTLDs) registrations totaled 25.6 million, which represents 7.8 percent of total domain name registrations. com and .net Breakdown The .com and .net TLDs experienced aggregate growth, reaching a combined total of approximately 142.2 million domain names […]

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Namepros reaches another milestone

February 17, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

A little over a week ago I wrote about Namepros hitting a milestone of 1 million discussions. They were closing in on two other metric milestones, 6 million messages and 1 million members. Today they hit the 6 million messages mark. They were just under 15,000 messages away back on Feb 8 when they hit […]

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XCI.com dropped where will it close ?

February 15, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

Registered back in 1993 XCI.com was allowed to drop and it was caught by DropCatch. The domain was owned by a resident in Carson City, Nevada up until July of 2015. The domain was at GoDaddy and moved to TLD Registrar Solutions. The domain auction is currently at $8,050. Leave a comment on where you […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, domaining news, DropCatch

Trump takes top spot in .com and .net for January

February 14, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their January top trending keywords for .com and .net. No surprise the top keyword was Trump for both .com and .net. America was number 2 in .com and number 6 in .net   .COM .NET trump trump america out wall fundraising rent living porn luxury videos america cell marijuana fest property marin valley […]

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FakeNews.com owner says he paid $250 and has had six figure offers

February 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Fake news has certainly become a big buzzword over the last few months. There isn’t a day that goes by where someone on CNN or Fox is not discussing fake news. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo had to apologize for saying a fake news accusation is like the N-word for journalists. There is a story on […]

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Namepros hits 1 million discussions

February 8, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

It took 14 years and now Namepros has hit 1 million discussions on the site. Other milestones coming up are 6 million posts and 1 million members. Here is a look at the current numbers: Discussions: 1,000,151 Messages: 5,985,593 Members: 997,198 Congratulations to Eric Lyon and his crew.

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Namepros

Mike Mann sells Football.co for $50,000

January 19, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Mike Mann announced on Twitter that he sold Football.co for $50,000. Go Skins? Sold https://t.co/ve5yIH8hoV $50,000. Bought cheap day one. .co is queen. Not a gTLD — Mike Mann (@mikemanndotcom) January 18, 2017 Back in 2011 Mann sold News.co for $50,000. Mike Berkens wrote about other .co sales by Mike Mann in 2011. Mike has […]

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Filed Under: .CO, Domain Sales, domaining news

Huge Domains is a huge player on GoDaddy Auctions

January 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 19 Comments

  Namepros member Arca put together a very interesting post on Huge Domains and their participation in GoDaddy Auctions. Now it’s no surprise that other industry players bid on domain name auctions at GoDaddy. Arca’s test showed Huge Domains winning 50% of the auctions they were monitoring or bidding on against Huge Domains. I’ve been […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain trends, domaining news, Go Daddy, Huge Domains

Amazon tops Verisign’s top trending keywords for December

January 10, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top 10 trending keywords for December, and Amazon was number one in .com. The Christmas holidays no doubt catapulted this one to the top. The rest of the list is rather random, lawn was number two and fake was number three. Fake had to do with fake news. .Net showed near as […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Verisign

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