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How GoDaddy and 9 other domain registrars looked 15 years ago

September 24, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Some domain registrars have been around a long time and their look has changed over the years. Here is a look at how 10 different domain registrars looked back in September of 2004. A lot has changed in 15 years and it’s funny to look back at what some of the websites looked like. I […]

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Filed Under: Domain Registrars, Domaining 101, Fabulous.com, Go Daddy, Name.com Tagged With: 101Domain, Dotster, Dynadot, Enom, Fabulous, godaddy, Name.com, Namecheap, Network Solutions, Register.com

A look at domain name negotiation from the buyer’s point of view

September 23, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

For the most part we analyze domain name negotiation from the domainer or broker’s point of view. Ryan Kulp is an interesting guy, he is the founder of Fomo, the world’s first social proof marketing platform. He is also a musician, coder and writes some detailed personal things about his life on his blog RyanCKulp.com. […]

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A look at how Know It Owl became Policy Genius

September 23, 2019 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

I read an article last night that gave an inside look at how the online insurance company Policy Genius got their name. The company founder started out with Know It Owl, explaining, “We thought it was a clever play on the term know-it-all.” The article went on to explain that when they started talking to […]

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Filed Under: Branding, Domain trends, Domaining 101

Domains based on simple English words have potential in China

September 21, 2019 by Alvin Brown 1 Comment

The unexpected can happen in China When you enter the China market, you need to translate your brand into Chinese and hopefully acquire its matching domain. Right? This is common knowledge after all, and the local should know better. However, just like many things in life, there are exceptions. Look at the global brands in […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Chinese Marketplaces, Domain trends, Grandseeds.com

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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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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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, Go Daddy

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

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