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There Has To Be A Business Model

November 29, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

By: RH I have friends who know that I work with domains and websites run ideas by me all the time. They think the Internet is magic. Just by putting up a website they are going to make money because all they read about are the successful websites. They are asking me about domain names […]

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Filed Under: Opinion

Shouldn’t Sales Commissions Be Coming Down ?

November 20, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

By: RH We see more and more partnerships between Aftermarket sites and Registrars. On September 26 Sedo announced they were expanding their partnership with Go Daddy. They wrote in their press release, "Go Daddy customers will now be able to purchase previously owned premium domains names Sedo users have listed as “Make Offer.” Previously, only […]

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Aged Domains are nice if there is some other value to go with it

November 9, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

By: RH I have new domainers ask about age and domains, they put a bunch of myths together like, Google favors aged domains and it has to be valuable if its been regged for 14 years. First off if you are not developing a name the Google footnote does not mean as much if the […]

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Filed Under: Opinion

You Cannot Define The Indefinable

November 8, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

By: RH There are always those looking for guarantees with domain investments or trying to break domaining down and define it like its a science. People create threads on forums wanting to know if .com will last forever, will .co supplant for the top extension and what % is the .org worth if the .com […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Opinion

It is time to skip the live auctions ?

October 8, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 15 Comments

By: RH There has been quite a bit of commenting about the live auction that wrapped up today at T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Many thought the names were bad and should have never been in the auction in the first place. Others felt that lack of online bidding really hurt the auction and some believe that the auction […]

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Filed Under: Opinion

Look past the noise for opportunity

October 7, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Ever since I joined forums many years ago I have been fascinated by the time wasted arguing back and forth.  For the most part no one is really changing minds and it is more a pseduo-intellectual excercise in mental masturbation. It can be looked at from a lot of ways that each get easily ridiculed. […]

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Filed Under: Opinion

TRAFFIC Auction favorites

October 4, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

By: RH My favorite names at TRAFFIC Live Auction The final list is complete for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C Show and there are some really good names in there imo. I stayed away from the lots as some I liked and some I did not. Lots are hard to sell because if there is no common theme, […]

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What is the future for a domainer ?

September 21, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

By: RH What is the future of a domainer ? For many years the domain industry has been a low barrier to entry market with minimal start up costs. You could register a few domains, park them, maybe make a few quick flips turning $7 into $100 or more. Parking may have provided you with […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Opinion

Our 1000th post

September 12, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

This is our 1000th post on TLDinvestors.com. The first post was October 13,2010 and it has been quite a journey since. I would like to think that we provide a good breadth of topics and hopefully have been informative and entertaining. I hope moving forward that we can keep our readers coming back and expand […]

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NFC and Mobile Payment domains will they be a hit or a fad ?

September 7, 2012 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

By: RH Interest seems to be heating up in the domain market for NFC and Mobile Payment type domains. NFC stands for Near Field Communication,Wikipedia on the subject: Near field communication (NFC) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish radio communication with each other by touching them together or bringing […]

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Filed Under: Mobile, Opinion, Web/Tech

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