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$35,000 to shave two letters off the domain name

September 23, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Upper is a European firm that looks to match companies with freelancers in the tech industry. They believe the future of employment is freelance and remote. They are backed by Cavalry Ventures, along with venture capitalist another.vc as well as business angels Vassil Terziev, co-founder of Telerik, and Christian Rebernik, former Managing Director and CTO […]

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How to Correctly Appraise A New Generation of Domain Names

September 22, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Each domain investor should know the value of their domain names. Before 2014, we had 3 main domain extensions in internet space: .com, .net and .org. Domain names in those extensions have more-less the same yearly renewal fee (approximately $10), and as their sales were recorded in public sources for 30 years, it becomes easier […]

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Filed Under: Marek Eckhaus, new gtlds

ConstitutionUS.com updated, same site – new registrant country

September 21, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Looking at ConstitutionUS.com today, the expired domain name that closed at $103,000 at GoDaddy auctions on 9/12. The domain has updated in the whois and now shows the Registrant Country: IL for Israel. The site was owned by George W. Baltzell, a Missouri resident who sadly passed away at age 69 last June. The site […]

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Detour.com has quite the history, expires and closes at $65,006

September 20, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Detour.com was registered in 1994 and sold for $15,000 on Moniker in 2009. The domain name was then developed into a GPS based walking tours website. The company was self funded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason. They described themselves as: Detour is a brand new way to experience the world. Gorgeous audio […]

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How A Bad Website Address Is Damaging Your Organization

September 19, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

“Ouch, I just saw a really HORRIBLE website address!”, I complained to my friend after I recently saw an add on LinkedIn. The add, created by a large government organization, was graphically very nice, and apparently they tried their best to attract students to find more information on their website about one of their programs, […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Marek Eckhaus, new gtlds

OTI.net owned by some heavy hitters through the years, gets sold at BuyDomains for close to 5x

September 18, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Oti.net is a domain name that has been around the block. Registered in 2003 after being dropped one time before. The domain name has been owned by a lot of heavy hitters in the domain industry. OTI.net was owned by Thunayan K. AL-Ghanin’s Future Media Architects, it moved along to the namefind portfolio, Oliver Hoger […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, BuyDomains, Domain Sales

Initial offer on Voice.com was $150,000

September 17, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Michael J. Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy the company that sold Voice.com for $30 million last year. CryptoNews.com published a story (hat tip to George Kirikos) today on how the negotiations went. They apparently started at $150,000 and Saylor would not get on the phone with the buyer until the offer hit $22 million. […]

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$48,888 buyer of Daring.com revealed

September 16, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Last week I wrote about Mike Carson of Park.io selling Daring.com for $48,888. Daring.com sold on Flippa in 2015 for $3,500 a bargain price for Mike’s company Introvert.com LLC. The domain name was registered in 1998 and now the buyer is shown to be Daring Foods Inc. which was operating at DaringFoods.com. Founded in 2018 […]

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Relation between domain length and sell through %

September 15, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Darpan Munjal of Squadhelp tweeted out a graph that tested the correlation between domain length and STR. Darpan pointed out this was purely an STR comparison. Also, this analysis may not be valid outside Brandable marketplaces. For example, most 4Ls do not include real words & it can be relatively harder to discover them via […]

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Marek Eckhaus on “How to start with Domain Name Investing”

September 14, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Being a domain name investor since 2014, so many people ask me daily how to start with the domain name investing, what skills one needs to have, and, of course … How Much Money One Can Make. Especially that “How Much Money One Can Make” is the most common question by far. The short answer is […]

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