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A debate about Hyphenated domain names

September 20, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Are you adding hyphenated .coms to your domain portfolio? Rob Monster started a thread where he expressed his optimism for an uptick in hyphenated .com domain names. Rob’s company just sold Sushi-man.com for $4,200. Just sold sushi-man.com from an Epik SSL lander for $4200. This is one of Epik’s O&O domains. I don’t normally report […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, Hyphenated Domain Names

Taylor Swift, Jumbo and Repair Verisign’s top trending keywords for August

September 19, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top 10 keywords in registered in .com and .net  for August. Jumbo was tops for .com and Repair for .net. TaylorSwift was popular in .net. .COM .NET jumbo repair diabetes taylorswift dorian loan claims piedmont airbnb dorian hurricane empower halloween small volume outlet bullet finder tahoe hills

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Verisign

Namesilo building a sales/brokerage stand alone platform

September 18, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Namesilo posted that they are going to be building out their own sales and brokerage platform. They are looking for feedback from domain investors as to what they want to see and not see. They posted on Namepros: We are in the process of building out a standalone domain sales/brokerage platform. As such, we would […]

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How to Discover Proxy Bid “Sweet Spot” and Win More GoDaddy Auctions

September 18, 2019 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

I share and discuss how to use GoDaddy Aftermarket data to determine a proxy bid amount likely to win more GoDaddy expired domain auctions. Over the last 18 months and counting, I’ve noticed an uptick in the number of bidders participating in GoDaddy expired auctions. Between auction bots and increased bidder count, closing auction prices […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Go Daddy, KickstartCommerce

It’s time for GoDaddy to start releasing sales data again

September 17, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

It’s time for GoDaddy to start releasing weekly sales data again. We have Sedo, Web.com with their NameJet/Snapnames monthly report and now Uniregistry is releasing weekly top 20 sales. So it would be nice for GoDaddy/Afternic to start releasing a sales report, they stopped when they were going public and yes there are some rules […]

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Uniregistry weekly sales led by Empresa.com

September 17, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Uniregistry released their top 20 sales for the week and Empresa.com led the way at $57,500. CoSpaces.com was second at $34,000 and BlueSuit.com was third at $21,750. BlueSuit is not what you would think, bought by an AI startup, BlueSuit handles the cumbersome task of pulling important information out of your contracts with machine learning […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Uniregistry

Some registrar deals you might be interested in

September 17, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Some registrar deals you might not have seen and maybe you don’t care, but for those who do: Name.com $0.99 .club .space $1.99 .email .life .live .software .today .us $2.99 .agency .biz .co .guru .media .moda .news .plus .style $3.99 .tech .center .codes .digital .energy $4.99 .bargains $8.99 .nyc Sales Page – https://www.name.com/domainsale NameSilo Until […]

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A constant pain, a Chinese startup, and a category domain

September 16, 2019 by Alvin Brown 3 Comments

How do you feel if you have to enter a password in order to use the free WiFi service of a store? How much pain is it when you are shopping at various stores? There is a simple solution, and, surprisingly, it comes from China. This story also reveals the ownership of a category domain. […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Domain trends, Start ups

Should you ever criticize the portfolio of another?

September 13, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

A bit of conversation today about critiquing another domain owners portfolio. MapleDots started a post on Namepros giving a tip of the cap to Morgan Linton on his apology post to a .cx registrant. Well I have looked at this from many angles for many years. Back when I started the .tv subforum when Namepros […]

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How much do you care about masked whois and has it affected your sales?

September 12, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

So Rob Monster started a thread about who should control a registrant’s whois? The thread also delves into how GDPR and how masked whois affects domain sales. Rob posted: Do professional domain investors accept these extra steps and tolerate the idea that their WHOIS data is masked or otherwise obscured, effectively forcing people to contact […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, Domaining 101, Epik, Namepros, Whois

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