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Cisco and Intel roll out websites built on a .tech

November 20, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Radix who is a sponsor here on TLDinvestors is seeing some big companies develop on their .tech extension. .Tech has been one of the new gtld’s that I have liked and felt stood a good chance for success. Now when it comes to domain investor’s reaching success with sales, that’s a separate issue. I had […]

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Filed Under: .Tech, new gtlds, Radix

Mike Berkens sells Learn.Wine

May 15, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Mike Berkens sold Learn.Wine for a net gain for $10,000. Mike told me two weeks ago that he had a potential .wine sale and it’s now official. Congrats to Mike on what I think is a great price. We @mwd sold the new gTLD Learn(.)wine for a net to us of $10K through @GoDaddy brokerage […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Michael Berkens, new gtlds

Some insights into the buyer of Video.Games

April 5, 2017 by Alvin Brown 4 Comments

Previous to writing this story, I just Googled this… How much money is in the gaming industry “This is more than double the revenue of the international film industry in 2013. In 2015 it was estimated at US $91.5 billion. The largest nations by estimated video game revenues in 2016 are China ($24.4B), the United […]

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Filed Under: new gtlds

New Gtlds, the series – Chapter 1 ICANN

March 24, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 11 Comments

Many try to talk about the new gtlds in very simplistic terms, naysayers just want to group them altogether and say they suck, failed, are dead. Proponents want to say they are the future, give them time, .com is AM radio. I would argue the new gtlds are a much more complicated animal. There are […]

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Uncertainty is a killer for domain sales

March 8, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Unless you took the day off yesterday you are probably aware of the news out of Uniregistry. Domain Incite detailed comments from Frank Schilling on the upcoming price increases for several Uniregistry extensions. People as well as markets hate uncertainty, not knowing what your registrations are going to cost you year in and year out […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, new gtlds

Enter the .Global Christmas Calendar for a chance to win free domains

December 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

If you are looking for a chance to win free .global domains, there is a contest going on. I actually found out about this on Namepros, the first day I entered, I got an email the next day that I won Conference.Global. So I won the Bearglecorn contest at Name.com which included a free .games […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, new gtlds

No, .com is not losing its grasp

November 24, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

In a post on The Next Web titled, “8 myths about new gtlds” the author Jason Chernofsky decided to keep with one of the oldest tropes out there. .Com is losing its grasp. No, no it’s not. Jason also made the rather ignorant assumption that all .coms are owned by “squatters.” The new gtlds need […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news, new gtlds

Not all those .blog names will be priced reasonably

September 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Many are getting excited for the upcoming launch of Dot Blog. Namepros conducted an interview with Matt Mullenweg  the creator of WordPress. One question asked in the interview was the following: NP: With reports of some new gTLDs failing to perform well during the renewal phase, how do you plan on maintaining high renewal rates? […]

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Filed Under: .blog, new gtlds

Verisign posts Premium New gTLDs that are free as .com handreg (8 regged immediately)

July 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

So Jeannie McPherson, the resident domain evangelist and marketing expert for Verisign took a look at some new gltd premium names and compared them to their available .com counterpart. Now Jeannie posted 14, there are thousands, but of the 14 she posted 8 quickly got registered. Premium Domain Name Registrar 1 Price Registrar 2 Price […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, new gtlds, Verisign

Are High Annualized Domain Name Renewal Fees a Recipe for Failure?

May 25, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Most of us are familiar with the concept of registering a domain name for around $10.00 USD and then renewing said name for around $10.00 per year. Some of us are attuned to the concept of buying a domain name in the aftermarket for a greater sum and then renewing that domain name for around […]

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