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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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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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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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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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Two $40K plus closes for Mixx.com and JM.org at GoDaddy auctions

April 10, 2022 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Two really solid names closed over $40K today at GoDaddy auctions. Mixx.com closed at $46,000. Registered in 1995. The name looks to have been owned by Uber Media. It was used years ago in coordination with popurls as an aggregator of content. Here is an archive.org entry from 2016. JM.org registered in 2000 closed at […]

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After once telling people not to register .tv domains GoDaddy will now run the registry

December 14, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

GoDaddy will be taking over for Verisign in managing the .tv registry. The Ministry of Justice, Communication and Foreign Affairs, Tuvalu Government posted on Facebook: The Ministry is excited to announce that the Government of Tuvalu has selected GoDaddy Registry as the new registry service provider for Tuvalu’s .tv Country Code Top-Level Domain! The Government, […]

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Filed Under: .tv, domaining news, Go Daddy

mCoin.com closes at $28,263 at GoDaddy

October 30, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

mCoin.com closed at $28,263 at GoDaddy Auctions. The domain name was the developed business of a company providing a carrier billing solution that allows faster and safer micropayments on web and mobile. The payments made by customers are charged to their mobile phone bills by the mobile operators.  There is also a cryptocurrency that was […]

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Registrar of the year poll opens at Namepros – Can anyone beat Dynadot?

October 23, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

The 2021 Registrar of the year voting has opened at Namepros. The poll will run through the end of the year. Over the years we have seen GoDaddy decline and Dynadot ascend. GoDaddy with over 52% in 2016 https://www.namepros.com/threads/favorite-domain-registrar-poll.933122/ GoDaddy wins in 2017 https://www.namepros.com/threads/who-is-the-best-registrar-in-the-business.1051189/ 18 months later NameSilo won https://www.namepros.com/threads/who-is-the-best-registrar-in-the-business-2019-edition.1135392/ Epik won the early 2020 […]

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