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The Brandosphere – A look at BrandBucket’s Top Sellers In June

July 18, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

DNBolt put together a chart that gives some insight into June sales at BrandBucket. After Michael Krell who once again dominated, other top sellers were Ike Hook and Brandologist with 3. Boxador who is the company behind BrandBucket had 2 sales. DNBolt also included the number of names each seller has listed at BrandBucket. You […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain Sales

Best Chinese brands and their domain names

July 17, 2016 by Alvin Brown 4 Comments

While researching to write the post on Line.com, I read about the World Brand Summit held in Beijing last month. During the conference, a list of the 500 most valuable Chinese brands was released to the news. Naturally, my attention was drawn to the domain names these brands use. So, I used Baidu to find […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

Does BrandBucket Have A Confidence Problem ?

July 16, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 17 Comments

When doing business in an industry like domaining you may run into conflicts of interest, or perceived conflicts of interest more often than other industries. For the most part the companies you do business with all started out small and may still be in direct competition with their customers. I am not in competition with […]

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A Look at 5 Brandable Sales from the latest Uniregistry Reveal

July 15, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

Looking at the recent new sales data that Uniregistry shared with DN Journal was interesting. Taking a look at some of the prices attained was eye opening to some and puzzling to others. Commenters on forums have wondered how some names sold for such a high price. Since we are always looking at brandables on […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Branding, Domain Sales, Uniregistry

How I look at aeiouv04 in Chinese domain names

July 14, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

Knowing what Chinese buyers like is important when, according to World Domain Conference 2016, China now accounts for more than 40% of the global sales of domain names. One debate that has been going on in the domain investment community is whether Chinese like domain names containing aeiouv04 or not, thus affecting their values. First […]

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Michael Krell Hits Another one out of the park with Fondly.com

July 13, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 6 Comments

Michael Krell is a fan of domains that end in ly, he has made several sales on BrandBucket that end in the popular suffix. In March of 2015 Michael purchased Fondly.com for $2,500 according to Namebio. Looking at Domain Tools this syncs up as the domain went from whois privacy at Enom to Michael’s account. […]

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How long is too long for Chinese domain names?

July 13, 2016 by Alvin Brown 4 Comments

When sale of a Pinyin domain name is reported in Chinese news, it is often described as 1-pin, 2-pin, etc. These terms indicates the number of Pinyin words in a domain name. The more pins a domain name has, the longer it becomes. So the question is: how many pins will Chinese companies go before […]

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Worlds and Casino Top Verisign’s Trending Keywords for June

July 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Verisign is out with their top trending keywords for June. With the recent news that the U.K. is leaving the European Union, Brexit made the top 10 for .com. Worlds and Casino were the top two .com keywords. Pass and Luxury were the top two trending keywords in .net.

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WalMart Using BrandBucket for Domain Acquisition

July 12, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 13 Comments

Michael Krell is the most prolific seller on BrandBucket, month in and month out Michael racks up at least a dozen sales. One name that was reported sold in May was TechBetter.com, the name apparently sold for $2,395 according to DNBolt.com. The whois has updated and the buyer is WalMart. The fixed pricing of BrandBucket […]

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Mark Monitor has a new owner as Thomson Reuters Sells Unit

July 11, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Thomson Reuters announced last November that they were exploring options for their Intellectual Property & Science unit. Today they made a deal with private equity firms Onex Corp and Baring Private Equity Asia for $3.55 billion in cash. The IP & Science unit is headquartered in my hometown of Philadelphia. The division contributed about 8 […]

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Filed Under: domaining news, Publicy traded domain companies, Registrars

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