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Godaddy Just Made a Big Change – Will Your Domain Sales Increase?

July 30, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

GoDaddy just made a major change to their bulk search feature… Huge change! This change might lead to increased sales for domain name investors who have names listed on GoDaddy & Afternic with Buy it Now prices. “So, what have they done?” you may be asking. GoDaddy has changed the results algorithm on bulk searches. […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Go Daddy

Suite101.com once one of the fastest growing sites – Closes at $35,501 Sunday

July 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Sunday was a hot day with excessive heat warnings in place. Things were heated at GoDaddy as well for Suite101.com. Suite101 was a collaborative publishing site based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It formerly generated revenue from advertisements and shared that revenue with contributors; but effective November 1, 2013, that revenue sharing program was terminated. […]

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GoDaddy to start releasing some sales data

June 17, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

For many years we have missed the sales reports from Afternic and GoDaddy. Since GoDaddy became a public company they have not released any sales data. Joe Styler wrote on Namepros: We would like to release more sales data than we do but there are certain things we have to account for and work out […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, Go Daddy

“Demand for closeouts is extremely high”

June 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

DomainVP asked a question and started a thread that I found interesting. We all know the rules for expiring domains at GoDaddy auctions when they are registered at GoDaddy. Sometimes when it’s the expiry stream from another registrar you can still get the registrant renewed. You don’t get the name and get a refund. But […]

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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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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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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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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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