Home »
Archive by category Domain trends
You always have to see things for what they are, if you are going to delve into a business or other opportunity, you need to know the rules or lack of rules of the road. There is a lot of anger in the business, it ratcheted up over the summer from some conversations I have […]
Continue reading
September 21, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends, Domaining 101
BrandBucket sent out their September newsletter, and while I know some readers believe if you don’t get the actual names that sold it’s worthless, I respectfully disagree. I would like the names too but I do believe any data you can attain has some value attached to it and is worth the read. Takeaways: When […]
Continue reading
September 18, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Brand Bucket, brandable domains, Domain trends, domaining news
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com My college days at The Chinese University of Hong Kong were about fun, friends, and sometime aimless activities. Yet, to some, it’s a place to germinate great ideas. Take Xiaoou TANG and Li XU, a CUHK professor and a PhD student respectively who in 2014 had an “aha!” moment and founded […]
Continue reading
September 16, 2018 Kassey Lee
AI, Chinese domain names, Domain trends
Verisign released the trending keywords for August and it was mostly a random group of names.
CryptoCurrency was 10th in .com, with Football coming back fan and bets made the top ten.
.COM
.NET
fan
hotels
grid
hard
grad
apps
email
cann...
Continue reading
September 11, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends
Image courtesy of various brands While traditional branding (Branding 1.0) focuses on “what”, domains add the “where” dimension to it. Well, I must say that I’m not a branding expert, so my knowledge about branding may be limited. As I understand, Branding 1.0 is about associating a brand with “what”. When you think of a […]
Continue reading
September 9, 2018 Kassey Lee
Chinese domain names, Domain trends, Domaining 101
Image courtesy of Walmart.com Apple has moved its Chinese iCloud data to China and India is considering a policy to require data to stay within its country. National governments across the world will likely impose requirements on local residence of local data as time goes on. The “one .com to rule them all” domain strategy […]
Continue reading
September 1, 2018 Kassey Lee
Chinese domain names, Coreile, Domain trends
Twitter auctions have no consequences for bad or illegal behavior There was a secondary discussion point in a post on Namepros about auction houses. @MetBob mentioned he saw that Daryl Lopes auctioned a name off on Twitter and thought it was a good idea. He wrote: For those on Twitter, I see that right now […]
Continue reading
August 30, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends
China is the largest owner of liquid domains according to the quarterly market report by GGRG.com. These are very short .com domains such as LL (letter-letter), NN (number-number), and LN (letter-number) .com which can be sold at any time because of a large pool of ready buyers. In this article, I’ll focus on the acronym […]
Continue reading
August 30, 2018 Kassey Lee
Chinese domain names, Coreile, Domain trends
He married a Chinese woman. He learned Chinese. And he connects with young Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg has made a lot of efforts to win friendship in China, including giving a talk completely in Mandarin at a top-notch Chinese university. Yet, Facebook is not in the Middle Kingdom. Well, it actually was in China – only […]
Continue reading
August 27, 2018 Kassey Lee
Chinese domain names, Domain trends
Verisign released their Q2 2018 DOMAIN NAME INDUSTRY BRIEF. There was an increase of approximately 6.0 million domain name registrations, or 1.8 percent, compared to the first quarter of 2018 From the report: .COM AND .NET BREAKDOWN The .com and .net T...
Continue reading
August 16, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends