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CloudPay.com closes at $31,612

June 10, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

There have been some solid domains that expired lately on GoDaddy. BlueDot.com which closed at $33,100, 3196.com which still has days to go and jumped to $27,500 in the first few hours. I especially liked CloudPay.com which just closed at $31,612. This was a Name.com name, not GoDaddy. Cloud and Pay are two very popular […]

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Using dotDB in domain research

June 10, 2019 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

I’m a garbage miner. Everyday, I go to the garbage dump of expiring domains to try to find one tiny nugget of ‘gold’. While this is fun, I can’t do it without tools. Recently, I was given a complimentary membership to try a tool called dotDB. So, today I’ll talk about my experience in using […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Grandseeds

Your best bet for liquidity probably still lies with auctions

June 8, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

As the discussion about the Uniregistry liquidity program rages on at Namepros.  Some interesting points have been brought up both in that thread and offline. Offline a friend asked me why anyone would want to allow the cherry picking type transaction? Elliot Silver shared some great info on his blog and even more in the […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales, Domain trends, Domaining 101

A Chinese unicorn with a long numeric domain

June 5, 2019 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

What do you see in the number 10101111? You may think it has to do with something digital because the number consists of only 0 and 1. Well, the answer may surprise you, and it comes from a Chinese startup in the ride hailing industry. Shen Zhou Zhuan Che (神州专车) is a chauffeured car service […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Domain trends, Grandseeds

Be careful bidding on an expired name of a troubled company

June 5, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

You always need to be cognizant of what kind of business was run on a name you are bidding on in an expired auction. There is a lot of excitement around the auction of Trustify.info on GoDaddy auctions. Currently the name that GoDaddy values at $265 has a high bid of $8,900. I am sure […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101

Sales and Trends report for May 2019

June 1, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Looking back at May here we will examine sales data trends for certain naming categories. Overall Namebio recorded 10,200 Total Sales ($100 or more) for a dollar amount of $7.1m. This is down $700,000 from April. The average sales price was $703. Free.games was the high sale at $335,000. There were 2 sales that reached […]

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BrandBucket April sales data

May 31, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket sent out their May newsletter and released sales data for April. Removing sales over $10k, the average sale amount was $2,881.  In March the average sale was $2,793. A total of 59 different sellers sold a name this month, an increase of 5 over March. A new feature this month “Average Listing Time” The […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain trends

See this is why we can’t have nice things

May 28, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

The headline is a quote from Paul Nicks of GoDaddy where he accurately posts back at a member on Namepros with regards to Uniregistry and their new wholesale liquidation program. Vito from Media Branding (who is a friend of mine and a contributor here) posted that he was excited about the new program and wanted […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Namepros, Uniregistry

What’s in a name?

May 27, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

What’s in a name? Would telling someone to Backrub it sound just as sweet as telling them to Google it? Here is a look at some original names of companies that you use their goods and services everyday. Google –  Backrub – Yep, when Larry Page and Sergey Brin begun work on their search engine, […]

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Kassey Lee rebrands Coreile.com to a new name

May 26, 2019 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Kassey Lee a contributor here at TLDinvestors.com has rebranded his Coreile.com to Grandseeds.com. Domains are like seeds. When carefully cultivated, they develop into grand trees bringing in massive revenue. Grandseeds offers a fine collection of domains to help startups create brands with matching domains. A brand-matching .com starts you as a global player on day […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile, Grandseeds.com

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