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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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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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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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Dot NYC Celebrates One Year Anniversary – Reaches 85,000 Registrations

October 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

.NYC is celebrating its one year anniversary and has reached the 85,000 registration mark. To mark the one-year anniversary of .nyc, the City of New York published the latest statistics on the state of the .nyc domain name, showcasing its growth. Unlike other top-level domain names, the .nyc web extension is available only to individuals, […]

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Filed Under: new gtlds

Mike Berkens Drops Five Figures to Pick up the best domain in the .Dating extension

September 2, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 13 Comments

Mike Berkens picked up the best domain imo in the .dating extension. He announced on Twitter that he picked up the name on EAP day 1, so that makes this a five figure pick up. I registered the one and only category defining term for the new gTLD .Dating today http://t.co/3uK5RntUJ8 on day one of […]

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Is The Alphabet Sexy ? Someone Thinks So – There is a Run on Alphabet new gtlds

August 11, 2015 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

We may have jumped the shark as a world wide regging spree of Alphabet related new gtlds is sweeping the net. The first 5 names I checked were all regged yesterday: Alphabet.domains Alphabet.Holdings Alphabet.Media Alphabet.Tech Alphabet.Wtf Add to the list Alphabet.sexy, is the Alphabet sexy ? How about Alphabet.photo ? Well it makes sense to […]

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TheNextWeb.com Gives 10 reasons to use a new gtld

August 8, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Mia Vals is out with an article on TheNextWeb.com, “10 reasons to use a new domain extension for your business” Mia took umbrage with some of the alt spellings that have been popular with startups over the last decade. She mentioned one of the reasons to think about new gtlds as price. That is not […]

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One of the better one day new gtld hauls – Mike Berkens Strikes Again

June 13, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 17 Comments

If and it is a very big if, the new gtlds do pan out and companies of the future seek out the best, spot on names, Mike Berkens picked up some names on Thursday that should be sitting pretty. These are the kind of names that have the best chance to be resold. When you […]

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Sold My First New gTLD

March 4, 2015 by Raymond Hackney 26 Comments

It is not something to shout from a mountain top or any huge deal, but I did complete my first new gtld sale. I have not gone wild with new gtld purchases, I have just registered 10 in total, and was trying to focus on topics that I actually like so if there was zero […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, new gtlds

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