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Verisign: “Internet Grows to 370.7 Million Domain Name Registrations”

November 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their Q3 2020 Domain Name Industry Brief. .Coms increased, new gtld’s were down 1.5 million vs Q2. However year over year registrations were up. From the report: The third quarter of 2020 closed with 370.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), an increase of 0.6 million domain name registrations, or […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Verisign

$45,000 buyer of HeyDay.co comes out of Stealth mode

November 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

I was surprised at the great price Grit Brokerage got for HeyDay.co. The domain name sold for $45,000. A few weeks ago. The company that bought it just got featured in Forbes. From the article: A San Francisco-based company called Heyday has raised $175 million from General Catalyst, Khosla Ventures and other investors to buy, […]

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Filed Under: .CO

SchoolWebsite.com once sold for $30.8K by Frank Schilling left to expire

November 23, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

SchoolWebsite.com was picked up for $888 back in 2004 at Snapnames. The buyer was Frank Schilling. Frank held the name for 9 years and then sold it for $30,800 at Uniregistry. The buyer was a British company Founded by Daniel Clarke in 2004. Crunchbase description: School Website is the UK’s leading provider of websites to […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales

Top.Domains records second highest reported .link sale

November 21, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Go.Link becomes the second highest reported .link sale of all time. Selling for $26,000. Top.Domains was the seller and they picked the name up back in 2017. App.link is the highest reported .link sale. The buyer looks to be an organization named Adjust. A lot of the whois info is obscured. The domain name moved […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, new gtlds

$29,888 buyer of Fantaseek.com revealed

November 20, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Mike Mann sold Fantaseek.com for $29,888 last month and now there is a website up but it looks a little incomplete. Mike got a great price, this is the kind of brandable that a brandable boutique would price in the $2,000 – $3,000 range. Real fantasy adventures, thus the play on seeking fantasy with Fantaseek. […]

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A.I. and voice recognition and their impact on Startup naming trends

November 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Startup naming trends – a return to literal and proper spelling? Stephen Moore over at Marker wrote an interesting article on a return to proper spelling in the world of startups. He goes into the practice of disemvoweling and how it became a thing in the previous decade. He writes: In 2010, Flickr co-founder Caterina […]

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Filed Under: Branding, Domain trends

Money down the drain on StreamCast.com, FXSC.com and more

November 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Looking at some drops over the last couple days you see a lot of wasted money down the drain. StreamCast.com was actually dropped in 2014 after being a personal website for a gentleman involved in tech. Back then it closed at $6,553. You won’t find it on Namebio because it did not cover DropCatch until […]

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QRapp.com purchased for $10,000 last month now live

November 18, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

QRapp.com was purchased for $10,000 last month on Sedo. QRapp.com was sold on NameJet for $501 in 2016, the 4 year hold paid off for the domainer who bought it with a $10,000 sale. The domain name is now up and running with a live website. The buyer Zygomatic is an online publisher out of […]

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Filed Under: Web Development

Pricing Domain Names – Opinions vary

November 17, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Pricing your domain names. It’s a topic that can stir up debate, confusion, even fear. Yes fear, the fear of missing out (FOMO) on the big sale. Domain investors tend to take a look around at what others are doing. It makes sense to get a broad sense of what your peers are doing. But […]

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You need to do a lot more than just glance at the sales data

November 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

New domain name investors often are given the advice, “Check the sales data to learn about what’s a good domain name.” A cursory glance of the sales data provided by Namebio or DNJournal can leave one confused or hastily registering bad domain names. You need to go much deeper into the data. If you are […]

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