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When the value proposition changes you need to reassess

February 23, 2017 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Things change in the domain business all the time, from certain naming categories that go out of favor, to the new hot extension flavor of the month. Registrars and marketplaces change both in terms of policy and in popularity. As a domain investor you have to constantly assess if you are getting what you signed […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Domain trends

Behind The Keyword – Spotlight on “Web”

February 21, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Welcome to Behind The Keyword, I will be taking a look at the most popular keywords that sell, get listed and get developed. Whether it be on big marketplaces like Sedo and Afternic or specialty sites like BrandBucket. Today we are looking at the keyword – Web Some Online related statistics: 7,670,000,000  results for the […]

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Rosy long term growth of Chinese domain market

February 19, 2017 by Alvin Brown 4 Comments

China is a great domain market for those who like to study data and try to draw a big picture of where the country will be heading. There are reports constantly published to help you understand the internet in general and domain name in particular. The latest one I just finished reading is 互联网发展趋势报告2017 (translation: […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

Namepros reaches another milestone

February 17, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

A little over a week ago I wrote about Namepros hitting a milestone of 1 million discussions. They were closing in on two other metric milestones, 6 million messages and 1 million members. Today they hit the 6 million messages mark. They were just under 15,000 messages away back on Feb 8 when they hit […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Namepros

Michael Bilde sells another cvcv.com at BrandBucket for close to $70K

February 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Back on January 7th I wrote about two four letter cvcv.coms selling at BrandBucket. Teso.com sold for $69,995 and Mino.com sold for $64,995. The one thing those names had in common was that they both moved to privacy at Safenames. DNBolt reported over at Namepros that another CVCV.com sold, Nelo.com and the price was $69,995. […]

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Filed Under: 4 letter domains, Brand Bucket, Domain Sales, Domain trends

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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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

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