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Google’s John Mueller “Your domain name is never going to make or break your SEO”

February 16, 2024 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

John Mueller from Google had conducted a chat on Mastodon, there was a question that was domain name related. An #seo question from the X-Twitter world: In the domain name, is the use of dash ( – ) recommended or not? Mueller gives a few points and ends the first reply with “Your domain name […]

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Filed Under: Domaining 101, Google, SEO

My once again leads the Afternic keyword chart for December 2023

February 15, 2024 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Afternic for those not familiar tends to run a couple months behind with it’s keyword chart. This list comprises the top keywords sold at Afternic. Today we have the December 2023 report. My stays at number one, Ai in the third spot. But the surprise was New which moved from 14th in November 2023 to […]

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Filed Under: Afternic, Domain trends, Uncategorized

Be.Love sells for $51,000

February 15, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Valentine’s Day might have been yesterday but the love came today. Be.Love sold for $51,000. InternetNaming.co sold the name. This is by far the highest reported .love domain name sale of all time. Only 5 reported .Love sales all time: be.love 51,000 USD 2024-02-15 InternetNaming.co oneworld.love 9,499 USD 2022-06-28 TOP.DOMAINS freedom.love 6,499 USD 2021-10-15 TOP.DOMAINS […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, new gtlds

Apple purchases iWork.ai

February 14, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

iWork.ai was acquired by Apple. The domain name was left to expire and it Apple picked the name up for reg fee it looks like. This is being covered in plenty of publications like AppleInsider.com and 9to5Mac.com. BuyAiDomains.com was the first to publish the news. Some are speculating that Apple will be relaunching their iwork […]

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Filed Under: .ai, Apple

WebUnited and .WS Pioneer DNS-Mirroring in Web3: A Landmark Partnership

February 13, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

WebUnited put out a press release on a partnership with .ws to be the first registry to fully mirror their extension on the blockchain. It will be interesting to see if more country codes follow this trend. Press Release: Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — .WS, the country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) for […]

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Filed Under: Blockchain, Web3

66B.com sold for $9,999 in 2016 left to expire

February 12, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

66B.com was actually purchased in 2016 at Sedo for $9,999. The domain name was left to expire and 8 years later it closes at $18,090 on GoDaddy auctions. It looks like it was a Chinese casino website, you can check out this snapshot from Archive.org. A lot of Chinese casino sites use short LN, NL, […]

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SouthDakota.net expires

February 9, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

I always think it’s interesting to see how the market values a name in the same market environment when the same name expires year after year or every two years.Today SouthDakota.net expired and closed at $2,650. Now last year it was allowed to expire before being renewed and closed for $1,000 less. Each auction took […]

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Filed Under: .net, Auctions, Go Daddy

Three letter .com EFQ.com expires closes at GoDaddy Auctions

February 8, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

EFQ.com expired and closed at $18,500 at GoDaddy auctions. This domain name sold back in 2015 at NameJet for just $8,988. There are not a lot of obvious acronyms for EFQ. I often think of 3L.coms ending in Q are nice for a quarterly publication. Electronic Finance Quarterly perhaps? Just making that one up on […]

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GameGenie.com sells for $65,000

February 7, 2024 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

GameGenie.com sold for $65,000 at Sedo. It looks like this might have been a website buy instead of just a domain name purchase. There is an old school like late 90’s type website up on the domain name. Copyright reads, © 1996-2024 Danworld, Inc. It will be interesting to see if the website changes and […]

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Dog.ai leads all .ai expired auctions at Dynadot

February 6, 2024 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

Dog.ai edged out insure.ai for the top spot in the February 2024 .ai expired auctions. I know a few people who really liked perceptive.ai, I do not know how high they went. 6 names closed in five figures. 390 auctions in total. $361,3000 or $926 average price. dog.ai 47,150 USD 2024-02-05 Dynadot insure.ai 41,150 USD […]

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Filed Under: .ai, Auctions, Dynadot

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