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XCI.com dropped where will it close ?

February 15, 2017 by Raymond Hackney

Registered back in 1993 XCI.com was allowed to drop and it was caught by DropCatch. The domain was owned by a resident in Carson City, Nevada up until July of 2015. The domain was at GoDaddy and moved to TLD Registrar Solutions. The domain auction is currently at $8,050. Leave a comment on where you […]

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Filed Under: 3 letter domains, domaining news, DropCatch

Trump takes top spot in .com and .net for January

February 14, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their January top trending keywords for .com and .net. No surprise the top keyword was Trump for both .com and .net. America was number 2 in .com and number 6 in .net   .COM .NET trump trump america out wall fundraising rent living porn luxury videos america cell marijuana fest property marin valley […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news, Verisign

FakeNews.com owner says he paid $250 and has had six figure offers

February 13, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Fake news has certainly become a big buzzword over the last few months. There isn’t a day that goes by where someone on CNN or Fox is not discussing fake news. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo had to apologize for saying a fake news accusation is like the N-word for journalists. There is a story on […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, domaining news

How long can you hold names and how many times can you be wrong ?

February 11, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

I think its good to read the stories of successful people and try to learn from them. The domain industry has a lot of success stories and they are worth reading. But you have to be careful in a business with such a low barrier to entry. People think hey Rick Schwartz just hand regged […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101

Heritage client looking to sell a sweet .co portfolio

February 8, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

It looks like one of the better .co portfolios around is hitting the market. Aron Meystedt from Heritage Auctions sent out an email with a list of approximately 750 names. Names on the list include: Ad.co Adult.co Animation.co Annuity.co Answer.co Ant.co Auction.co Bet.co Bid.co Bill.co Cab.co Call.co Care.co Click.co Computer.co Coupon.co CV.co Date.co Deal.co Digital.co […]

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Filed Under: .CO

Namepros hits 1 million discussions

February 8, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

It took 14 years and now Namepros has hit 1 million discussions on the site. Other milestones coming up are 6 million posts and 1 million members. Here is a look at the current numbers: Discussions: 1,000,151 Messages: 5,985,593 Members: 997,198 Congratulations to Eric Lyon and his crew.

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, domaining news, Namepros

Podcast gives details into Sumo.com deal $1m to be paid over 5 years

February 8, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Stitcher.com has a podcast today about the Sumo.com purchase. As was reported everywhere today, SumoMe.com purchases Sumo.com for $1.5 million. In the podcast it is revealed that $500 k was paid upfront and $1 million over the next five years. Noah Kagan explains that paying over 5 years made sense to him, 16,000 a month, […]

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You might sell a domain for $100K but can you sell a Cheeto for $100K ?

February 7, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

You might be able to sell a domain name for $5,000, maybe even $100,000, but do you think you can sell a Cheeto for $100,000 ? That’s right a cheese puff just sold on Ebay for $99,900. Of course it could be a publicity stunt, let’s actually hope it is, but it just shows how […]

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Namerific recent sales and updates to their service

February 7, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

I spoke to Namerific and they gave me some updates on new developments and sales. 1. We have decreased the domain listing fee to just $4 ( at just $4 we create an attractive logo for your domain and write a nice description as well), 2. We have decreased the domain review time to just […]

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Filed Under: Brandable Domains, Namerific

GoDaddy updates 2 factor security

February 6, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Joe Styler posted an update on Namepros We finally released an update to our 2 factor security which I know many people have been asking for. You can now add a backup besides your phone to receive the codes such as an app like Google Authenticator. You can now set the 2fa up for the […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy

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