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GoDaddy was busy with 3Character and 4 Character names on Saturday. H33.com tops the list at $19,500 it sold for $9,200 in 2015

January 15, 2023 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Quite a lot of action in the mixed letters and numbers genre on Saturday. From the classic LNN to the same LLNN, GoDaddy did well. H33.com was the high close at $19,500. H33.com previously sold for $9,2000 back at Sedo in 2015. Kind of will that the retail price was half the expired market price […]

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Filed Under: 3character, 4 character.com, Auctions, Domain Sales, Go Daddy, Uncategorized

GoDaddy makes a move to simplify commissions within the GoDaddyVerse

January 4, 2023 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

So it looks like GoDaddy is moving towards simplifying commission structures within all their properties. When you do business within the GoDaddyVerse, you have 4 options: GoDaddy Auctions, Afternic, Uniregistry Market and Dan.com. They put out a full release on their blog which you can read here. One note Import your own leads will continue […]

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Filed Under: Afternic, DAN.com, Go Daddy, Uniregistry

XMX.com closes at $252K it reportedly sold for $3.9M a few years ago

November 18, 2022 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

In 2019 Theo over at DomainGang.com posted about XMX.com selling for $3.9M. It was never added to Namebio. From the article: According to Chinese domain investor, Kassey Lee, the domain was bought by Hong Yu, founder of XMAX Foundation. The company issues XMX coins which are traded on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges. On July […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, Auctions, Go Daddy

IQTests.com sold for $20K in 2015 left to expire

November 9, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

IQTests.com was sold at Uniregistry back in 2015 for $20,000. The domain name did have a developed website up but was left to expire. Today IQTests.com closed at $18,250 at GoDaddy auctions. IQtests is registered in 23 extensions according to DotDB.com. No backlinks on this one, so the price was just on the strength of […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy

HealthyChild.org closes at $60,000 with solid link profile

September 22, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

HealthyChild.org was another big link play that closed at $60,000 on GoDaddy auctions. Taking a look Ahrefs Domain Rating 68 Backlinks 181,671 97% dofollow Referring Domains 3,727 85% dofollow You can take a look at what the website looked like thanks to archive.org. It’s a shame the $60K is not going to the work the […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy, SEO

GoDaddy domination – A look at the number of .com sales over the past few years

July 23, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

When looking at sales data reported on Namebio it’s clear that GoDaddy rules the roost when it comes to the number of reported .com domain name sales. For the most part these sales are at the wholesale or investor level as names are won on GoDaddy auctions. You will see in the data below how […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, Domaining 101, Go Daddy, Go Daddy Closeouts

“This is one of the darkest days in domaining”

June 28, 2022 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

With the news that DAN.com is joining forces with GoDaddy, the dominance of one company in the domain industry grows deeper. I got a phone call this morning from a friend who was like this is one of the worst days in domaining. I had not read the announcement yet and was not sure what […]

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Filed Under: DAN.com, domaining news, Go Daddy

LocalMotors.com looks to have been renewed (No $88K for GoDaddy) and BitcoinWisdom.com new website

June 11, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

A couple recent big money closes at GoDaddy auctions have updated. LocalMotors.com closed at $88,000. Local Motors out of Chandler, Arizona closed on 14 January 2022, with their closure announced by Chris Stoner, their former VP of sales and customer success. It looks like whoever was in control of domain names there got the name […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, domaining news, Go Daddy

A bunch of repetitive NNNLLL lead the GoDaddy auctions on 6/2

June 2, 2022 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

A lot of odd looking names topped the charts of domain name sales at Namebio today. A lot of repetitive type NNNLLL names, the kind we used to see frequently when the Chinese favored names were going for solid prices. Back when CHIP was a popular buzzword. 999JJJ.com was the high close at $36,006. Not […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Chinese Domain Names, Go Daddy

LocalMotors.com expires and closes at $88,000 at GoDaddy auctions

May 7, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

LocalMotors.com registered in 2005 expired and closed at $88,000 today on GoDaddy auctions. The site was up for many years according to archive.org. The company was based out of Chandler, AZ. One product looked to be called Olli. Olli delivers autonomous mobility to improve transportation operations and passenger experience. They have a Wikipedia entry, Local […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy

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