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Namepros members divided over shill bidding accusations

October 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Accusations of shill bidding are getting a lot of people riled up on Namepros. David Walker who was a moderator at one time has done some detective work and believes he has uncovered shill bidding by a member and their friends. The flipside of the coin is that the friends were just bidding on names […]

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A look at reported Namebio sales that are now available to register again

October 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

DNBolt.com took on a pretty big project and just released their findings. The goal was to look at Namebio reported sales and find which names once sold, were available to register again. There are over 3,900 names. The post shows how so many sales are one off, one time sales. Some of the names would […]

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Filed Under: Available Domains, Domain Sales, Domaining 101, domaining news

Ethics question spurs one hell of a debate

September 20, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Namepros just closed a thread that had one of the more heated debates we have seen in a long time. The debate sparked over ethics, whether or not cutting a broker out of the deal, is unethical or smart business. The thread starter (talhahassan) decided to call out Shane Bellone and use his name in […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Namepros

BrandBucket August Sales 6 Character Tops The Invented Category

September 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket released their August newsletter, they mentioned the recent news about Keith DeBoer becoming a brand ambassador, (congrats to Keith). August Sales While we experienced an expected lull at the beginning of the month, things picked up significantly, and August proved to be another strong month of sales with 45 different sellers selling names. The average […]

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

BrandBucket Sales Data Charts for June through August

September 4, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Ruben Couto over at HDName.com put together a pretty cool set of charts related to Brandable domain sales. The chart takes a look at BrandBucket sales from June through August. Now as a disclaimer it’s important to understand the data came from DNBolt.com. This data has not been verified by BrandBucket.

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

Interview with Doron Vermaat of Efty and DnGeek

August 31, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Today we are chatting with the man behind DNGeek.com and Efty, Doron Vermaat. 1) How did you get involved in domaining ? I co-founded an employment website for the Greater China region in 2006. That company didn’t make it and was shut down four years later. The domain, which was administered by a web development […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Interviews

Possibly The Most Chatted about auction ever on Namepros closes at $3,600

August 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

There really has never been an auction on Namepros that has been chatted about as much as the 68 domain BrandBucket portfolio of Doron Vermaat. The auction perked up and brought attention to the rules at Namepros when Doron sold SchoolPanda.com for $2,995 on BrandBucket while the auction was running. The auction closed at $3,600 […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, domaining news, Namepros

No surprise what the top two trending keywords were for July

August 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for July and the top two spots were no surprise. The Pokemon Go craze went worldwide and Go and Pokemon were top two in both .com and .net. Panda made it in the top 10, I have been writing about School Panda for close to a week.

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Verisign

Some Major Internet Brands Used Escrow.com to close the deal

August 7, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Escrow.com updated their homepage to show some of the big brands that were purchased using Escrow.com to facilitate the transaction. It really is some of the biggest brands on the Internet. Pretty cool.

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

Eric Lyon Lays Out What’s Allowed And What’s Not on Namepros Auctions

August 6, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

After all the discussion that took place on Namepros this week with regards to people listing BrandBucket published names, Eric Lyon made a post to make it clear what’s allowed and what’s not. Eric laid out contingency plans if a domain sells on BrandBucket while still being in a live auction on Namepros. Eric brought […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news, Namepros

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