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Quick chat with Thunayan Khalid AL-Ghanim (elequa)

July 25, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Thunayan Khalid Al-Ghanim founded Future Media Architects and is best known in the domaining world as Elequa. Thunayan first came on the radar screen of domain investors when Ron Jackson interviewed him for DN Journal. Dn Journal interviewed him in April of 2003  in the second cover story ever done at the time, and then […]

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Filed Under: Interviews, Quick Chat

Dr. Chris Hartnett turned down $250,000 for StockMarket.tv in 2007

July 22, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

We get to hear what the big .com guys turn down all the time.  Berkens through WWMI.com, Schilling at DomainNameSales and Schwartz at Ricksblog.com. In an interview at Allthings.tv, Dr. Chris Hartnett a long time domainer and someone with an incredible story, told Ammar that he turned down $250,000 for StockMarket.tv in 2007. He also […]

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Filed Under: .tv Tagged With: .tv, Domain Names, Dot TV, guru, Intenet

You have to punch at your own weight class

July 21, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

By: Raymond Hackney I think its good to read the stories of successful people and try to learn from them.  The domain industry has a lot of success stories and they are worth reading. But you have to be careful in this business with such a low barrier to entry.  People think hey Rick Schwartz […]

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Filed Under: Opinion

Michael Castello shows there is magic in simplicity and a great domain

July 20, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

I just got done watching the interview Michael Cyger of Domain Sherpa did with Michael Castello of CCIN. Cyger again did a great job showing he truly knows his subject and asked great questions.  Castello gave one of the best straight forward interviews for this or any other industry. While I listened to the interview […]

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ICM releases PDF that covers the .xxx launch

July 19, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

ICM has released a pdf that details everything about the launch of the .xxx extension. It looks like they will have their own resolution policies along with UDRP.  They call one of their policies, "The Rapid Evaluation Service" or (RES). If you are thinking about regging and .xxx read this document. http://www.icmregistry.com/Launch%20Plan%20and%20Related%20Policies%20v1.0.pdf

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Filed Under: .XXX

If you don’t care, why do you spend so much time talking about it ?

July 19, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

By: Raymond Hackney I have always found the domaining industry rather odd, its the only industry where people bad mouth the people who are supposedly helping their business. Example 1 "All these new tlds suck they will only make .com stronger, my .com portfolio just went up in value, etc…" If they suck and are […]

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DomainPawn.com sells for $2280

July 16, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

In a heated back and forth on Go Daddy Auctions, the name DomainPawn.com sold for $2280.  There were 229 bids for the 10 year old domain. In the end bidder #1 got the domain. They were first bid at $10 and last bid at $2280.  Congrats to the buyer. SLnet.com a 16 year old five […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy

$5.99 special for Go Daddy up to 3 regs

July 15, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

Applies to new and transfer domains, up to ten registration years. Offer may not be used for renewals. $5.99* .COM offer limited to three domains per customer, additional .COMs just $7.49* per year. Promotion expires after 75,000 redemptions. Discount will be reflected in your shopping cart; cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy

Over 10 million people have joined Google+ and their mostly men

July 15, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

On the Google conference call yesterday, Larry Page mentioned, "First we launched Google+ to field trial invitation only Our goal with Google+ is to make sharing on the web like sharing in real life, as well as to improve the overall Google experienceCircles let you choose with precision who you are sharing with. Not surprisingly […]

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Filed Under: Google, social media

Google hits $600 a share for the first time since March

July 15, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Google on the strength of a strong earnings report hit $600 for the first time since March 7.  Google reported its strongest quarter in several years, with revenue handily exceeding all expectations,  EBITDA margins [held] steady at 54.5%, in line with consensus. The tech giant’s net revenues for the quarter — US$6.92-billion — came in […]

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Filed Under: Google Tagged With: Adsense, Domain Names, Google, Internet, YouTube

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