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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

Namecheap giving you a chance to win $5000 in cash

June 28, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Do you have a Twitter account ? Go here and check it out http://www.namecheap.com/contest/namecheap-rocks.aspx If no one tweets the message with the required elements after 7 hours, the LAST person who tweeted wins! To sweeten the deal, we are giving away $500 per week for eight weeks. Winner will be chosen at random from the […]

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Filed Under: Namecheap, Twitter

BtoB online covers marketers debate on new Gtlds

June 28, 2011 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

BtoBonline.com has come out with article about the debate between marketers on the new gtlds. Although most marketers have declined to comment publicly about their intentions, a handful, including Canon Inc. and Hitachi have disclosed preliminary plans to use top-level domains; Canon will use .canon, and Hitatchi will use .hitachi. Behind the scenes, other marketers […]

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Filed Under: New Tlds Tagged With: B to B, Domain Names, Go Daddy, Internet, New Gtlds

Interesting thread: The coming bear market for Geo domains ?

June 27, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

In a thread getting a lot of interest on Namepros.com, a poster has called a major bear market for Geo domains due to the new Gtld being passed. Seems a little presumptive with a lot of info still to come. Read the thread here :http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/720489-major-bear-market-expected-geo-domains.html

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Filed Under: Namepros, New Tlds

Peter Thiel on why he would not have started Paypal if he knew then what he knows now

June 26, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

In an interview with CapLinked.com (which Thiel is an investor in) Peter Thiel stated "My general analysis of my PayPal experience is that if I knew then everything I know now about the payments space, I would never have started the company. It would be too intimidating. There were a lot of extremely difficult challenges […]

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Filed Under: Web/Tech

five letter.com sales for the week

June 24, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Five letter.com sales reported to Dn Journal- Mon. June 13, 2011 – Sun. June 19, 2011 eCats.com $25,000 xCite.com $18,000 ProFm.com $14,400 AtNow.com $9,000 Keepz.com $9,000 Haipu.com $8,640 Actsi.com $5,188 Junyo.com $4,888 Luved.com $4,500 Acltd.com $3,588 Edfun.com $3,300 HrCam.com $3,288 Urown.com $3,000 Custy.com $2,880 Banci.com $2,232 Kobid.com $2,232 Gutao.com $2,115 Klood.com $2,000 5 character.com sales […]

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Evan Williams lists five reasons why domains are getting less important

June 23, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Evan Williams is one of the founders of Twitter. He also co-founded Pyra Labs, the creator of Blogger. He listed five reasons why domains are getting less important. 1) Google There was as time when you knew your friend’s and family member’s phone numbers. There may have been a time when you knew the addresses […]

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Will the small domainer be overwhelmed

June 23, 2011 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

Obviously the biggest domain story of 2011 is that ICANN has finally approved their new gTLD program. Now it will be some time before any new tld hits the market, most likely 2014. The exception to this is .xxx which got approved on its own. ICM registry, the .XXX registry, has announced the preliminary timeline […]

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