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GoDaddy valuations change again 2 days later NH.tv up $5k

May 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Two days ago I wrote about GoDaddy valuations changing and them dipping for most of the names where I knew the valuation exactly. NH.tv a name of mine was valued at $11,833 and it’s now at $8,935. Anchorman.net I just sold on Namepros when I posted the auction and quoted the valuation, it was $1,896. […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Go Daddy

Won in expiry auctions last month – Here is a look at Siku.com, Webmonkey.com and more

May 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

When domains expire and go for a nice to very nice price, many often wonder what will happen with the domain? Some are skeptical that the name went too high and that something shady is going on. Others want to see what someone will do with them and when nothing is done people start yelling […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales, Go Daddy

Another expired 3L.com closes at GoDaddy – 3 in one month

April 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Over the last couple weeks there have been three 3L.com that were allowed to expire. On Saturday Hyw.com closed at $21,850. The domain looked to have had a variety of Chinese owners over the years. A couple weeks back XGO.com closed at $25,600 and GYR.com closed at $17,500. XGO.com was purchased by Michael Bilde and […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, Domain Sales, Go Daddy

Siku.com closes at $64,500

April 13, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Siku.com closed at $64,500 providing  another windfall for GoDaddy for doing basically nothing. The domain name was owned by an Alaskan based construction company. It was part of a group of companies under the Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation. The domain name does have a little trust flow and citation flow. Certified.org closed at $15,055 this domain […]

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GoDaddy sells former Mike Berkens name Dirty.com

March 31, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Dirty.com was one of the one word generics that GoDaddy acquired in the Michael Berkens/Most Wanted Domains portfolio purchase. There is a popular website on TheDirty.com which has a long and interesting history. Last week Elliot Silver mentioned in a tweet that he thought the name was on the move. https://twitter.com/DInvesting/status/1243496982766858241 It now looks like […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, domaining news, Go Daddy, Michael Berkens

Compete.com expires already over $62,000

March 20, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Bill Gross that’s Bill T. Gross, is a legendary entrepreneur who has founded many companies. Gross has been important in domain circles as he founded GOTO.com which later became Overture Services, then Yahoo! Search Marketing. Domain investors at the time used the overture search tool to find domains on Overture that possessed numerical values with […]

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Be careful of possibly stolen domain names starting with “Go”

February 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Namepros member SuperBrander made a post in warnings/alerts of a potential domain theft. Seems like the names have one thing in common, they start with the prefix GO. Recently I bought at Godaddy three domains that are/were also registered at Godaddy: GoSystems dot com, GoToys dot com and GoEducation dot com. A few days ago […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Go Daddy

Some domain registrants look to profit off the passing of Kobe Bryant

January 27, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Sunday was a terrible day as Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and 7 other passengers were killed in a helicopter crash. Kobe went to high school around where I live, he played at Lower Merion, High School in Ardmore, PA. I had friends who met him at the Bellevue Hotel and got autographs way back […]

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GoDaddy puts out a video on how to make money with domain names

December 19, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

How to buy and sell domains for a profit. That’s the video GoDaddy released today on You Tube. 195 views and 13 likes so far. The video is the basics to help bring new people looking to make some money with a side hustle. The video is 8 minutes long. I was discussing GoDaddy and […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Go Daddy

Popular typo of Qantas airlines over $3,800 at GoDaddy Auctions

December 16, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Australian airline Qantas is the third oldest airline in the world and registered Qantas.com in May of 1996. Many consumers spell Qantas wrong and a lot add the letter u to make it Quantas.com. In November of 1999 Quantas.com was registered and in 2004 there is a whois record for a Quantas Associates Inc, a […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

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