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Namepros has a thing for April Fool’s Day

April 3, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Each year, many tech companies and websites do something special for April Fools’ Day, and Google has done some of the best. They spend weeks and sometimes months preparing elaborate April Fools’ Day jokes, pranks, and/or features – all in good fun. NamePros has been participating each year for the past four years to bring […]

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When making an accusation, make sure you got the whole story

December 17, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

2017 has certainly been a very contentious year, there have been scandals, possible scandals where not enough info came to the surface, and there have been a number of accusations thrown around. While we all want to see those who are cheating and scams brought to light, we do need to be careful on how […]

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Eric Lyon provides an update and his latest venture OfficeDrift.com

November 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Eric Lyon provided an update and some pics about his maiden voyage set to take place. Eric also has a new project where he will be detailing him and his family hitting the road. The site will be called OfficeDrift.com. Update: getting ready for the maiden voyage on the 22nd we decided to add 2 […]

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12 years ago it was very different

November 12, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

12 years ago this past Friday was one of the moments in my domaining career that changed things for me. I had registered domains starting back in 1997 but it was November 2005, when I started the .tv forum on Namepros. Today there are tons of niches and people who focus on a narrow category […]

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Eric Lyon gives an update on how his family is doing

October 2, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Eric Lyon provided an update on how things are going one month after Hurricane Harvey. Eric’s fundraising goal on GoFundMe was surpassed and Eric has also received direct donations through Paypal. I was just getting ready to pm for an update when I saw he posted. Update: I just wanted to provide another update so […]

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Longtime Namepros member Randy Pendleton has passed away

August 10, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

I was saddened to see a post by Michelle on Namepros that longtime member Randy Pendleton (Archangel) had passed away. Randy was a bright guy who dealt with a lot of health problems in his life. Randy was a member since June of 2004 and had over 10,000 posts. Randy was a published writer and […]

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Namepros/NameJet user creates fake accounts to show how to shill bid

July 23, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Namepros member Hookbox posted that to test NameJet’s system, he created three accounts and could be set up to shill if need be. I want to make clear before people lose their minds, he did it to point out the problems with monitoring for shill bids. Here is the post: So now I have 3 […]

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Grab the popcorn

July 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Sometimes you just grab some popcorn, Sit back and just watch a thread become entertainment. Domains wanted thread started out like: Collecting 2 letter .com domains Can pm me Only .com domains do not send anything Budget 100$ to 999$ depends on the domain Read the thread on Namepros

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BrandBucket rant apparently brings about a change

June 24, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Namepros member JudgeMind posted what he called a rant with regards to brandable domain marketplace, BrandBucket. The thread that goes on for 4 pages shows some of the difficulties that arise when people who are employees compete against their own customers. For those who don’t know, sellers pay a $10 listing fee if their name […]

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Are more domainers a good or bad thing?

June 12, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 12 Comments

Interesting question posed today on Namepros that brought me back to a conversation from last week. Last week a long time domainer who I had not spoken to or texted with in months, texted, “There are just too many people in this business.” I replied, I think there are more coming, he replied back with […]

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