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NameJet January sales led by PY.net

February 6, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

NameJet released their January sales and PY.net was the top sale at $27,000. NamesCon results are not included in the list. ZSV.com was the first 3L.com sold and it went for only $11,100. The first non .com sale after Py.net was onyx.io for $6,100. Overall January looked slow to me, hopefully with NamesCon over things […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, domaining news, NameJet

Should you auction your new gtld at a live auction?

January 30, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

There were 135 lots in the NamesCon live auction. Of those 135 lots, 20 were new gtlds. 15 out of the 20 sold. The top sale was Business.Loans at $10,000. Tax.help sold for $6,000 and Porn.Club sold for $5,000. A lot of $300 and $500 sales that with a healthy commission probably add up to […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, new gtlds

Where did those 6 figure offers go for FakeNews.com?

January 30, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

We wrote a year ago about FakeNews.com and it’s owner receiving 6 figure offers. There is a story on DallasNews.com today about a California man, George Bacon who purchased FakeNews.com 11 years ago for $250. From the article: Fakenews.com isn’t the only domain Bacon owns — he buys and sells them regularly as a hobby […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, domaining news

Michael Krell is leaving his position at BrandBucket

January 27, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

BrandBucket sent out their January newsletter and it seems that Michael Krell will be leaving the company. Michael who is one of if not the most prolific seller in the history of the site will be leaving effective January 31. Best of luck to Michael who had a tough job balancing his own portfolio vs […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket

GoDaddy To Acquire Main Street Hub

January 23, 2018 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

GoDaddy is looking to expand it’s offerings in social media with the acquisition of Main Street Hub. I have looked into them before, I had someone who wanted to start a competitor since they were already doing this stuff on an informal basis. I want to see what the pricing will be when GoDaddy runs […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy

Mike Berkens snags another new gtld sale

January 8, 2018 by Raymond Hackney 11 Comments

Back in May of 2017 we posted about Mike Berkens selling Learn.Wine for a net of $10,000. Well Mike is back at it with the sale of Talk.Show. Mike tweeted out the details today and while there is an NDA, there is some info that can be taken away with regards to the domain sale. […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Michael Berkens, new gtlds

How to Negotiate Marketing Budget for Domain Lease Agreements

December 30, 2017 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

If you hang around the domain industry long enough, then you’ll likely discover most domain portfolios often sit priced unrealistically, and collecting more dust than inquiries and sales. And if researching and drumming up leads, inquiries, and sales for your domain portfolio is not within your wheelhouse, then things aren’t looking up for you, and […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, KickstartCommerce

NameJet Scores a COOL $3K Emoji Domain Auction Close

December 26, 2017 by Alvin Brown 8 Comments

It’s a been a few weeks since NameJet debuted its Premium .WS Emoji Domain Auction. In my opinion, the results have been interesting to say the least when compared to emoji domain auctions over at GoDaddy. GoDaddy has fallen completely off the map for emoji domain auctions in the last week or so, but that’s […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domain trends, Emoji, NameJet

Verisign Q3 report shows a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations, vs Q2 2017

December 19, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their Domain Name Industry Brief  for Q3 2017. Overall registrations were down vs the second quarter. Executive Summary The third quarter of 2017 closed with approximately 330.7 million domain name registrations across all top-level domains (TLDs), a decrease of approximately 1.2 million domain name registrations, or 0.4 percent from the second quarter of […]

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When making an accusation, make sure you got the whole story

December 17, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

2017 has certainly been a very contentious year, there have been scandals, possible scandals where not enough info came to the surface, and there have been a number of accusations thrown around. While we all want to see those who are cheating and scams brought to light, we do need to be careful on how […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Namepros

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