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Kintera.org closes at $30,250 close to 5m links

August 14, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Kintera.org was in the non profit space as a Software as a Service (SaaS) provided. The company raised venture capital and eventually went public. They started to struggle and were acquired by Blackbaud Internet Solutions (NASDAQ: BLKB) a company I competed against in the non profit sector two decades ago. Blackbaud, made an offer of […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, expiring domains

Sean Markey featured on NichePursuits.com

April 21, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Sean Markey’s Strategies for Buying, Flipping, and Building Sites With Expired Domains was published Wednesday on NichePursuits.com. The popular blog run by Spencer Hawes. Sean Markey talks about starting a CBD affiliate site and how he sold that site in the high 6-figure range. Sean and Spencer also talk about how he bought an expired […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, expiring domains

CookiesCupcakesandCardio.com a bit of drama around the former website

November 28, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

COOKIESCUPCAKESANDCARDIO.COM was a popular website run by Jenn Johns that has a Facebook page with over 550,000 likes. The YouTube channel has over 2.2 million subscribers. So what happened? The domain name expired and closed at $7,050 on GoDaddy auctions. There is a video on YouTube that was discussed on Reddit. Some say that it’s […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, expiring domains, Go Daddy

LiveWell.com – From Marchex to a failed financial company to $53,100

August 5, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

LiveWell.com was one of the 200,000 names GoDaddy purchased from Marchex back in April of 2015. A few months later LiveWell.com was acquired by Live Well Financial. Here was a blurb from RichmondBizSense.com: Richmond, VA – Live Well Financial is excited to report the relaunch of their website on a new website domain, LiveWell.com. The […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales, expiring domains, Go Daddy Tagged With: godaddy, LiveWell.com, Marchex

One Hell of A Spirited Debate – To DropCatch or Not To DropCatch That is The Question

April 14, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

There is one hell of a discussion brewing about the business model of DropCatch.com, the drop catching service is a part of the Reberry empire that includes Huge Domains, Name Bright, Expire.com and a ton of company owned registrars. One Namepros member started a thread on why he will no longer use the drop catching […]

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Filed Under: DropCatch, expiring domains, NameJet, Namepros

There is just something about an expired domain

November 29, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

It certainly seems that many average domains sell for bigger amounts when they are an expired domain.  You can look at Go Daddy and see expired domains sell for prices that you would never see if being shopped by the owner. Even with quality names things are funny. EAM.com is currently on auction at Go […]

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