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BrandBucket.org rebrands to a .shop and gets a trademark approved

November 10, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Back in December of 2016 I wrote an article about BrandBucket.org. It seemed odd for a brandable marketplace to use the same name as the leader in that niche. A Norwegian man has filed a trademark application for brandbucket. The applicant has registered the domain name brandbucket.org. From Trademarkia: Status Update! On Saturday, December 3, […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, domaining news

That’s a big hit on a great name

October 31, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Most of the time it’s safe to assume that you will only take a small haircut if you need to sell a truly solid .com name. But this past week the owner of NaturalBeauty.com took a big haircut. The name acquired on NameJet in 2008 for $64,900 sold on 10/26 for $9,999 at Sedo. Namebio […]

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Mike Berkens hits another one out of the park

October 23, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Mike Berkens announced this morning that he sold SexAdvisor.com at the Buy it now price of $48,888, someone just clicked the buy it now and didn’t try to negotiate. Congrats Mike Sold https://t.co/VQJ2USoCEs for $48,888 BIN price #Domains — MostWantedDomains (@mwd) October 23, 2017

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Michael Berkens

Verisign trending keywords for September Irma,Pic and Lean

October 10, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for September with Irma leading the .com trend. Really a random selection of generic words in September. Keywords like pic, lean and tile were at the top of the list.   .COM .NET irma base pic tile lean testing jerseys drain prices relief parks tickets disaster proofing aspen inspections […]

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Eric Lyon gives an update on how his family is doing

October 2, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Eric Lyon provided an update on how things are going one month after Hurricane Harvey. Eric’s fundraising goal on GoFundMe was surpassed and Eric has also received direct donations through Paypal. I was just getting ready to pm for an update when I saw he posted. Update: I just wanted to provide another update so […]

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Trending keywords in August Crypto,Houston and Mortgage

September 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign released their trending keywords for August and Crypto topped the list, no surprise there. Bit and block were also up there. .COM .NET crypto west bit bit mortgage he block soft chain texas loan repair houston camp harvey houston equity harvey attorney med

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Do you need to own Chinese domain names?

August 28, 2017 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

A large number of Chinese domain extensions have been released in the last few years, and you may have already come across some of them by chance. You may even wonder if you should acquire some Chinese domain names for your business. Today let’s look at this issue. First of all, what is a Chinese […]

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Would you distrust a business simply for operating on a non com?

August 25, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

I was having a three way conversation with two other domain investors about esports. The conversation was about esports but it turned to domain names when the prospect of finding a project name came up. I had mentioned that esports names were pretty well mined, with either outrageous premiums in new gtlds or taken in […]

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BrandBucket paid out $2,063,088 to sellers in 2016

August 22, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket released some interesting sales data for 2016. On their blog they shared the news that they sold 1017 domain names and a whole lot more: Overall Domain Name Sales 1017 domain names sold $3070 average sale price $2295 median sale price Our average price continues to go up year-over-year, and even with more high-value […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains

Longtime Namepros member Randy Pendleton has passed away

August 10, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

I was saddened to see a post by Michelle on Namepros that longtime member Randy Pendleton (Archangel) had passed away. Randy was a bright guy who dealt with a lot of health problems in his life. Randy was a member since June of 2004 and had over 10,000 posts. Randy was a published writer and […]

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