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Google wants to know who you are

August 28, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Apparently some of the buzz from the Edinburgh International TV Festival was identity.  Google Ceo Eric Schmidt was asked a question about the need for real names. He replied by saying that G+ was built primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build […]

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Domain blogs by Alexa ranking: TheDomains.com leads the way

August 27, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Quick look at the current Alexa ratings for Domain Blogs. Alexa Traffic Rank A measure of a sites popularity. The rank is calculated using a combination of average daily visitors to a site and pageviews  over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combination of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1. Updated Daily […]

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Filed Under: Domain trends Tagged With: Alexa, Domain Blogs, Domain Names, Rank, The Domains

Don’t do just for the sake of doing

August 27, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

This article is speaking from a purely business standpoint, nothing related to personal, social or philanthropic. There are only 168 hours in the week, a finite amount of time. Your time is your most valuable asset. Don’t just do something for the sake of doing something. There needs to be a focus and a reason […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101 Tagged With: Domain Names, focus, goals, strategy, time management

P.tv does not sell at Great domains auction

August 25, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

P.tv was on auction at Sedo and only received a high bid of $15,500 and did not sell. The domain was registered on 3/18/2010 during the glitch that allowed many premium names to be regged for no premium. The registrant of P.tv got lucky with D.tv the same day he regged P.tv. Michael Berkens of […]

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Filed Under: .tv

When the new Gtlds come .travel,.name,.jobs should be hot, OH wait they are already available

August 25, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

There seems to be this logic from those with a horse in the new tld race, that you cannot look at the unsuccessful extensions of the past, because this time its different. Well jobs is a great keyword and so is travel, and even though there are some restrictions on these sponsored tlds, its not […]

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Filed Under: New Tlds

Ad platform that turns still images into an ecommerce store front

August 25, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Stipple launched an ad platform that turns still images into ecommerce storefronts. The platform allows consumers to mouse over any product in a tagged photograph in online magazines or publisher Web sites to reveal brand name, pricing and links to save or make purchases. Stipple CEO Rey Flemings refers to the platform as AdWords for […]

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Filed Under: advertising, ecommerce Tagged With: Advertising, Adwords, Domain Names, Ecommerce, Stipple

GoDaddyCloseout picks 8/24

August 24, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

MontanaPhysicians.com 9 year old domain .org regged HawkIsland.com 9 year old domain. Looks to have a couple Geo references one in Lansing Michigan. GetLa.com 7 year old domain. Pronounceable and could be used for Get LA. Robka.com 7 year old domain. 5 letter .com pronounceable. .Net regged. At $5 so hurry if you want. RamBooks.com […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy Closeouts Tagged With: Go Daddy Closeouts

One group that needs to think about .xxx cybersquatting CELEBRITIES

August 22, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

I was reading the .xxx cybersquatting piece on Domain Name Wire. Andrew mentioned who he thought should protect their brand and who did not have to worry about it.  Kevin Murphy from Domain Incite  mentioned in the comments, “another category you might want to mention is celebrities.” I agree with Kevin 100 % and I […]

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Filed Under: .XXX Tagged With: .xxx, Beyonce, Domain Names, Kim Kardashian, Miley Cyrus

New Tlds can be successful without unseating the King

August 20, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

CircleID published an article where it talked about a new TLD can compete with .com if its quality. TheDomains.com posted about it and you get the normal .com is king comment and a few posting not knowing what they are owning. .CO is a cctld you can call it a gTld but its not.  If […]

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Filed Under: New Tlds Tagged With: Domain Names, Internet, minds and machines, New Tlds, Websites

Will Domaining be affected by a “Post Pc world” ?

August 19, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Good piece done by Dan Mosher on MediaPost about how mobile will reshape the net. How this will affect domain values should be a topic of interest for anyone new or old in the space. The World Wide Web turns 20 years old this month, and to that I say, "Happy Birthday WWW!"  It was […]

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Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Apps, Domain Names, Domain values, Mobile Internet, Online tv

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