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Not all those .blog names will be priced reasonably

September 17, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Many are getting excited for the upcoming launch of Dot Blog. Namepros conducted an interview with Matt Mullenweg  the creator of WordPress. One question asked in the interview was the following: NP: With reports of some new gTLDs failing to perform well during the renewal phase, how do you plan on maintaining high renewal rates? […]

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Learning from Chinese domain auction sites

September 15, 2016 by Alvin Brown 5 Comments

At college I studied consumer behavior, market research, and other subjects in marketing. Most of them have long been forgotten, but one of the few ideas I still remember is this: knowing your customers. Unfortunately, when I look at the world around me, I often see businesses not trying to understand their customers and serving […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

What domain names are Chinese retailers using?

September 14, 2016 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

I’m always interested in Chinese company ranking lists because they tell me the kind of domain names end users prefer. So, I was delighted to find the 2016 Top 100 Public Retailing Companies list in an eName news story today. eName did a wonderful job by adding the domain names used by these companies. Because […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

Verisign Top Trending Keywords for August – Videos and Weed

September 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign released their top trending keywords for August. Videos was number one in .com and number five in .net. Not one keyword from July was in the August list. .com .net videos options weed big drug foundation treatment tree options videos states drone alcohol brain drones safety weather dogs wheel bot Compare to July

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A Funny Take on Expiring Domains

September 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Eric Lyon takes a humorous look at one of the daily experiences that plays out every day in the domain industry.

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Namepros

Brandable Bits for 9-12-16 Not Everyone likes getting contacted by BrandBucket

September 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Brandable Bits – Bite size nuggets of Brandable news and info BrandBucket reaching out to some domain owners is not welcomed BrandBucket has apparently been emailing some people to come sell their domains on BrandBucket and some do not like it. One commenter here said the following: Mike says August 28, 2016 at 10:04 pm […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Bits, Brandable Domains, Branding, Domain trends

Make Sure You Know What You Are Agreeing To – The First 30 Days Matter

September 11, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Most domain investors don’t know what they are agreeing to when they create an account with a domain registrar. They just click a box agreeing to the terms of service. With some registrars you are agreeing just by logging in. Now to be fair you don’t have a choice, you can’t register a domain name […]

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How to use Google Translate for acronym domain names

September 10, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

Google Translate may be not always reliable. But, for domain investors who do not understand the Chinese language, it may be the best tool available to find Chinese meanings for acronym domain names. In fact, this tool is quite simple to use, so let’s take a look. First, go to the home page of Google. […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

BrandBucket August Sales 6 Character Tops The Invented Category

September 9, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

BrandBucket released their August newsletter, they mentioned the recent news about Keith DeBoer becoming a brand ambassador, (congrats to Keith). August Sales While we experienced an expected lull at the beginning of the month, things picked up significantly, and August proved to be another strong month of sales with 45 different sellers selling names. The average […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Branding, Domain trends, domaining news

How to use Chinese keyboard for acronym domain names

September 8, 2016 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

Yesterday I wrote about making Chinese friends. I think this is probably the best method when you need to find Chinese meanings for your domain names. If you have one or two Chinese friends, then you can get help readily and most likely not having to pay for it. Well, maybe just a good meal […]

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