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Doron Vermaat Looks to be liquidating part of his BrandBucket Portfolio

August 1, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Well after publishing an article on Saturday about Namepros becoming the wholesale arm of BrandBucket, here comes one of the biggest portfolio sales by a noted brandable domainer. Doron Vermaat owner of DNGeek.com and co – founder of Efty.com, has put a 68 name published portfolio on Namepros. The names will be sold as one […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains

How Namepros Became The Wholesale Platform for BrandBucket

July 30, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

About a year ago a new sales trend started on Namepros. The largest forum in the industry became the wholesale trading platform for BrandBucket. Without discussing it in the BrandBucket experience thread on Namepros, a couple of members Brand Pluck and Crocodile Dundee started a new kind of auction. They were auctioning off brandable domain […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain trends, Namepros

Frank Schilling’s speech and interview at World Domain Conference

July 28, 2016 by Alvin Brown 1 Comment

Today I’d like to share with you some tidbits that I’ve found in two articles published by West.cn recently about Frank Schilling when he was attending the World Domain Conference in Wuzhen July 6 to 9. Schilling has visited China many times. What he sees right now happening in China is like the 30s in […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile, Uniregistry

Verisign posts Premium New gTLDs that are free as .com handreg (8 regged immediately)

July 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

So Jeannie McPherson, the resident domain evangelist and marketing expert for Verisign took a look at some new gltd premium names and compared them to their available .com counterpart. Now Jeannie posted 14, there are thousands, but of the 14 she posted 8 quickly got registered. Premium Domain Name Registrar 1 Price Registrar 2 Price […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends, new gtlds, Verisign

Advice from Chinese startup CEO: domain name first

July 27, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

Chinese is a compact language. This is seen in the few words Chang CHENG uses to describe their branding strategy: 先找域名,再定品牌 (Find the domain name first, then settle the brand.) Early last year, the Lenovo executive was tasked to create an innovative line of mobile phones. Naturally, he named the new company ShenQi (magical) and […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

China’s bulls and bears

July 25, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

Last week I saw a post on Domain Name Wire inviting comments on the Chinese domain market and whether the bull run has ended. That got me thinking. According to World Domain Conference 2016, China now accounts for more than 40% of the global sales of domain names. Will China continue to grow and remain […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

The Seller’s Guide To Namepros

July 24, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 20 Comments

Of course everyone wants to sell their domains at retail level pricing. Find the perfect end user whether they be a startup, local mom and pop, Fortune 500 or non profit organization. There is also a need to move inventory at wholesale pricing for many, many domain investors. Most own too many domain names and […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domaining 101, Namepros

How About Getting Paid $10 To List Your Names

July 23, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 15 Comments

So you don’t like paying $10 to list your brandable domain on BrandBucket ? You don’t like paying 30% commission ? Well one website would like to pay YOU $10 to list your brandable names on their website. WantMyBrand.com formerly uBrandable.com, will pay you $10 for every domain they accept for listing on their website. […]

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YK.com and future of Chinese domain market

July 22, 2016 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

It’s in the news! YK.com was just sold to China. Naturally, we wonder who actually bought it. What’s the reason of this purchase? And, what does it tell us about the future of the Chinese domain market? A Whois check reveals that the new owner is 徐俊 (Jun XU, also known as Cai Jun XU), […]

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Filed Under: 2 letter domains, Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

Dot CC credible with some end users but adoption puzzling

July 21, 2016 by Alvin Brown 10 Comments

The performance of .cc has surprised me. In my July 15 post, I analyzed domain extensions used by the best rising stars in the internet world of China. What I correctly expected was the dominance of .com and .cn. What I didn’t expect was the appearance of .cc on the stage. In fact, this extension […]

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Filed Under: CCtld, Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

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