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Beginners guide to Go Daddy Auctions

July 14, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 51 Comments

A Guide to GoDaddy Auctions Go Daddy is the largest domain registrar in the world.  So you should get to know their auction marketplace “Go Daddy Auctions” Go Daddy does charge a $4.99 membership each year.  You do not have to pay a membership if you are only going to use the closeouts category. When […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy Tagged With: auctions, Domain Names, Go Daddy, Internet, selling domain

USA Today “Cities could cash in on new domain extensions”

July 12, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

USA Today did a piece on how cities could benefit from new extensions. Excerpt from the article : New York Councilwoman Christine Quinn said such cyberbranding could be an instant revenue booster. "This is a fantastic opportunity for New York City establishments … and for the city of New York, which will benefit from the […]

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Filed Under: New Tlds Tagged With: .COM, Domain Names, Icann, Internet, New Tld

Jugantor.info sells for $2,442 on Go Daddy auctions

July 10, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Not too many days you see a .info auction ending in four figures. But today on Go Daddy on a sleepy Sunday morning, Jugantor.info sold for $2,442.  Go Daddy assigns valuations to many of the names expiring and they had a much larger valuation for Jugantor.info. $10,248 to be exact. Jugantor was according to Wikipedia, […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Go Daddy

Business Daily Africa asks, “Who will get the crown jewels ?”

July 9, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Business Daily Africa did a piece on the battle for dot Africa.  The writer had an interesting take on why this would not create confusion, but rather diversity.  Adding that it would increase exposure of cctlds like .ug (Uganda) or .ke (Kenya). Excerpt: Create diversity No! An organisation going by the name DotConnectAfrica (DAC) (http://www.dotconnectafrica.org/) […]

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Filed Under: Dot Africa, New Tlds

Network Solutions advertising under DomainNames.com

July 9, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Back on 6/4 we wrote about a new ad format on Google. Network Solutions had a button that said “View Offer” and it took you to a coupon page. Well today I noticed another site using the same format. The site is DomainNames.com. It is a different url, but its the same company. Network Solutions […]

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Filed Under: Google, Network Solutions

The Register “Top level domain explosion could wreak MAYHEM on NET”

July 5, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

In an article out today The Register talks about how things could get screwed up with the new gTLD program. From the article: A plan to populate the internet with hundreds or thousands of new top-level domains has security researchers pondering some of the unintended consequences that could be exploited by online criminals. Some of […]

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Filed Under: New Tlds Tagged With: Domain Names, Go Daddy, Icann, Internet, New Tlds

.com vs .co

July 3, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 11 Comments

.Com has had enough and looking to kick some butt.  

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Filed Under: .CO

BestDiets.tv sells on Flippa for $17,000

July 2, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

BestDiets.tv a website dedicated to dieting has sold on Flippa.com for $17,000. From the sales page: BestDiets.TV — The Inside Story. BestDiets.TV is a HUGE video website, with over over 2,000 diet videos — and growing at the rate of 30-50 new videos per day with over 15K visitors so far in June…. over 130K […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Flippa

With possible buyout coming, Go Daddy does away with $1 auctions

June 30, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

For those not familiar with Go Daddy auctions, when an expiring name gets no bid at its starting price of $12 it moves to what is called “Closeouts.” Now you do not have to even have a membership to Go Daddy Auctions to participate in closeout auctions. The names start at $11, you have 24 […]

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Filed Under: Go Daddy Tagged With: auctions, Domain Names, Go Daddy, Internet, Websites

Sedo and Afternic homepages leave a lot to be desired

June 29, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Sedo and Afternic are the two most prominent domain marketplaces.  Its where many who know nothing or very little about the domain market go to look for a purchase. These sites should be displaying names on the front page imo. Taking up the majority of the homepage with recent sales, auctions and a place for […]

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Filed Under: Afternic, Sedo Tagged With: Afternic, Domain Names, Internet, Sedo, Selling Names

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