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NameJet and Go Daddy picks 12/15

December 15, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

NameJet and Go Daddy picks for 12/15 NameJet picks which have to be backordered by 8pm Pacific 12/15 Janks.com pronounceable 5 letter .com CargoSkirt.com decent number of advertisers on Google for this clothing item. Demo.net certainly a nice name but already at $2500 so only for those with deep pockets. Name owned by Mrs Jello/Igal […]

Sedo premium .co auction ends tomorrow 12 pm Eastern/5pm GMT

December 14, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

safe.co 11h 16m 2,800 USD – 31 finder.co 11h 16m 1,050 USD – 15 wear.co 11h 16m 1,050 USD – 37 horoscopo.co 11h 16m 1,050 EUR – 23 stereo.co 11h 16m 450 USD – 22 control.co 11h 16m 600 USD – 6 gear.co 11h 16m 600 USD – 20 fax.co 11h 16m 500 USD – […]

Even without SOPA there is plenty of non sense

December 14, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

TheVerge.com did an excellent article on the battle between Universal Music Group and the file sharing site Megaupload. For those who want a glimpse of what a SOPA Internet could look like, just read the story. Taken from the article: Universal had Monday's episode of Tech News Today pulled off of YouTube for simply reporting […]

Understanding how to get your content to go viral

December 14, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

As domainers and web developers we hope that something we write or create gets shared all over. That it becomes a viral hit. Here is an illustrated look at the process of getting your content shared all over the net.

Econsultancy: Holiday online spending approaching $25 billion

December 13, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Econsultancy reported that online sales for this holiday season are approaching $25 billion. Taken from the article: Early sales and heavy discounts figured prominently in their strategies, leading some to wonder whether they'd do too much, too early, leading to a drop-off in sales as the season progressed. We quickly learned that the strong start […]

Four figure expiring auction results at Go Daddy 12/5 – 12/11 Headlined by IndianJewelry.com at $16,005

December 13, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

IndianJewelry.com was the big seller for the week of 12/5 to 12/11 at GoDaddy auctions. The 14 year old domain had 116 bids and jumped $5000 at the end of the auction. It was a duel between bidder 3 and bidder 11. The bidding jumped $1700 at first from $8500 to the $10,200 range and […]

Go Daddy needs to better explain their valuations

December 12, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

Written by RH I am a big fan of Go Daddy auctions so this is not a smear piece. When you go to Go Daddy auctions certain auctions have a valuation number. Seasoned domain investors know not to trust this number completely. New domain investors may not and that is where I think Go Daddy […]