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What is the best way to make GoDaddy auctions better?

January 20, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Last week GoDaddy announced they would be changing how they handle closeouts on GoDaddy auctions. No surprise many are not happy. The discussion over at Namepros has gotten a bit spicy. The pricing structure will be handled in Dutch Auction format. Day 1: $50 Day 2: $40 Day 3: $30 Day 4: $11 Day 5: […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain trends, Go Daddy, Go Daddy Closeouts

Climate.vc highest reported .vc sale

January 20, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

The .vc country code got a lot more attention in 2020 than in previous years. I had a solid sale on IP.vc over at Epik. But there have not been many big sales, to be fair there has never been a big sale. The highest reported .vc sale was only $10,000 and it took place […]

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Filed Under: .vc, CCtld, Domain Sales

Understand Your Own Magic Words

January 18, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Future of New Domain Names in Voice Recognition and AI. Since 2014, hundreds of new domain extensions (new domain names, or new gTLDs) were introduced into internet space. Now we can register domain names in extensions like .life, .world, .live, .online, .store, .xyz, or .photo. New domain names have one very interesting property, which, in […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Marek Eckhaus, new gtlds

Seller of Masks.com drops asking price

January 16, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Last month I wrote about the website Masks.com going up for sale on Flippa. The starting price was $975,000 and the other part of the equation was that the ownership of Masks.com did not come in the deal. The entrepreneur running the business (by himself) has a perpetual lease for Masks.com through Kevin Ham’s Venture.com. […]

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Dynadot wins the Namepros end of the year favorite registrar poll

January 15, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

So Dynadot won the Namepros end of the year poll. The poll was held to get the voting on schedule for future years. Epik still won best registrar 2020. This poll had some different mechanisms such as three votes. Even though it said no employees vote, some employees did vote, but no way to prevent […]

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Filed Under: Domain Registrars, domaining news, Dynadot, Namepros

Wales.com worth £3,000,000?

January 14, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

North.Wales published an article about Wales.com. The purchase price and what one domain broker estimated today’s value at. From the article: A Freedom of Information request has revealed a Welsh Government official with foresight managed to acquire the Wales.com domain name for £100,000 back in 2008 – a domain one expert has said now could […]

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First RonnieWood.com now MacyGray.com expiry auction goes for a big number

January 14, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

So last week I wrote about RonnieWood.com closing at $60,000 at GoDaddy auctions. Now another musician .com closes for 5 figures. Natalie Hinds known by her stage name Macy Gray is an R&B singer and performer. There is a website at MacyGrayOfficial.com. The official website looks to be MacyGray.com. MacyGray.com closed at $22,700 on Wednesday […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Celebrity Domains, Go Daddy

.IO a look back at 2020 from sales to complaints

January 13, 2021 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

.IO domain name sales were up in 2020 vs 2019 by over $500,000. They were slightly higher than 2018 figures. In addition to sales 2020 the Chagossians filed a to THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN & PEOPLES’ RIGHTS. The Chagossians are dealing with a lot of concerns but as you would imagine .IO is high […]

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DotDB.com releases Top Domain Name Keywords Report

January 12, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

DotDB.com is a very popular website for domain investors. It provides a lot of useful tools. One of the most popular tools is seeing how many extensions a keyword is registered in. DotDB.com has now released the top 500 keywords registered for free. Some of these keywords are corporate names like Microsoft. Years ago LeanDomainSearch […]

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Daily Mail covers MagicMillions.com and calls owner a squatter

January 11, 2021 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

The Daily Mail is covering the topic of domaining by focusing on Namepros member @Winna Jeff Gainey. Gainey acquired the domain name MagicMillions.com for $2,500 a few years ago. He is asking $1m for the name. Magic Millions racing carnival one of the biggest events on the Gold Coast calendar. The annual event has been […]

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