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24 hours left in the most contentious, heated, best registrar poll ever

March 29, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Things got quite spicy in this year’s Namepros best registrar in the business poll. I have run a poll the last three years, this one was started a little earlier because I was just having some fun timing it with March madness. As with most things in domaining it can never just be a smooth […]

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Khols.com already lost once in a UDRP closes at $81,559 on NameJet

March 29, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Kohl’s is a department store with over 1,100 stores making it one of if not thee largest department store chain in the U.S. According to marketwatch Kohl’s have about 5 months of cash available, so the extended closures caused by Covid-19 are affecting them big time. So it’s interesting to see someone win an auction […]

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Namepros updates their commenting system

March 27, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Namepros made a change today that has been a long time coming. For some it’s trivial, others they wish to see it disappear and for others it’s about time. When someone comments on Namepros, members could like, dislike or thank. Much debate took place for years on whether disagree is more palatable than dislike. Members […]

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The slope is getting even more slippery

March 27, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Didn’t take long for the slope to get a bit more slippery. Yesterday I wrote about the industry going down an interesting path. Elliot Silver published the news this morning that GoDaddy the 800 pound gorilla is not going to allow Coronavirus/Covid names to be sold. GoDaddy clarified its policy regarding the registration of coronavirus […]

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Shop.app just one of 3 sales $60,000 or more on Thursday

March 27, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

It was a busy day on Thursday with 4 five figure closes or better. shop.app 200,000 USD 2020-03-26 Sedo uhr.de 77,483 USD 2020-03-26 Sedo stagram.com 61,000 USD 2020-03-26 GoDaddy newgamernation.com 10,055 USD 2020-03-26 DropCatch Shop.app sold for $200,000 and it was an investor sale not a registry sale. UHR.de sold for $77,483 and Stagram.com closed […]

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Yesterday’s Corona related registrations – Would have been better to have used the cash as toilet paper

March 26, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 8 Comments

Typos of coronavirus domain names. Or names like coronalicious.com. It seems that this money would have been better spent on toilet paper or donations to a food bank. Forget morality, forget your stance on regging these kinds of names. And these names will just be deleted next year, flushing money down the toilet. Just look […]

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Are registrars and marketplaces going down a slippery slope with Covid-19?

March 26, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

So a couple days ago I wrote a post about Covid names and how people feel about those who register them. The conversation got a tad nasty on both sides. So now DAN.com (an advertiser here) tweeted today they are removing Coronavirus/Covid-19 from their platform. Starting from today, we will be removing all Corona Virus […]

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Merrill Corporation Rebranding to Datasite

March 25, 2020 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Merrill Corporation is a SaaS-based technology platform for the M&A community. They are now rebranding to Datasite. They do have the matching .com datasite.com. They explained the reasons for the rebrand in a press release. The new brand identity was created to better reflect the completion of the company’s 2018 digital transformation, which included divesting […]

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Timely domain sale as WashYourHands.com sells for $17,500

March 24, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

via GIPHY Wash your hands is something everyone should have been doing long before the Covid-19 pandemic. But now the call to action is everywhere and the domain name registered in 1998 has sold for $17,500 on Sedo. The domain name was owned for many years by an organization called Learning Plus. Ownership not updated […]

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Will people selling covid/coronavirus names affect your opinion of them?

March 23, 2020 by Raymond Hackney 31 Comments

So with everything going on in the world with the Covid-19 pandemic, it seems some want to dabble in pandemic related names. I woke up this morning to an email asking me if I had a list of namepros members selling covid names? When I replied I don’t, why? The person said they were looking […]

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