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It’s been a while since the emoji domain grinch came a knocking on the door for emoji domain renewal payment. The grinch of emoji domains is back at it as 725 emoji domains expire in auction this upcoming week. Out the the 725, there are only 10 Single...
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June 9, 2018 Alvin Brown
Domain trends, emoji
Thursday was another shining example of why it’s good to be GoDaddy. Someone let’s 44 six number .coms that start with 888 expire and BAM. $48,000 plus for doing nothing. Thanks to Namebio for the data: 44 Total Sales $48.7k Dollar Volume $1,106 Average Price $173 Standard Deviation $363 Low Price $1,556 High Price 888263.com […]
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June 2, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends, Numerical Domains
Of course, financing domain names is nothing new under the sun. Domain leasing and financing certainly happens each and every week, if not on a daily basis. It’s not news to read about a person or company leveraging varying financing options to hopefully stake their claim to highly-valued virtual real estate. The question I pose […]
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May 29, 2018 Alvin Brown
Domain trends, Domaining 101, KickstartCommerce
As we get closer to GDPR being official more and more reactions and questions come in. I noticed today that Theo at DomainGang.com is going to block Europe from accessing his blog. Someone told me I should do that two weeks ago. I had a couple readers express their desire to ban Europeans from making […]
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May 24, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news, gdpr
There are countless carcasses littering the domain investing journey. Folks often enter domain investing thinking it’s nothing more than buying domains while sipping mai tai cocktails on a beach. And if not that image, then the image is that domain investors purchase domains at standard registration fees on Monday and flip them them for 5, […]
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May 23, 2018 Alvin Brown
Domain trends, KickstartCommerce
There was a thread that’s now closed on Namepros where someone pointed out that a member wanted an auction to end 278 hours after the last bid. Some felt that this is fine, let the seller take as long as they like, they are trying to promote a good name. The name is average at […]
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May 18, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends, Domaining 101, namepros
via GIPHY Domain scams and cons are not uncommon, front running, stolen domains and shill bidding are just a few of the many cons that domain investors have to be on the look out for. With whois going away, we might just be entering the Golden Age of domain scams. It’s going to be harder […]
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May 13, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends, Domaining 101, domaining news
Welcome to Behind The Keyword, I will be taking a look at the most popular keywords that sell, get listed and get developed. Whether it be on big marketplaces like Sedo and Afternic or specialty sites like BrandBucket. Today we are looking at the keyword – App Some App related statistics: 1,720,000,000 results for the […]
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May 8, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Behind The Keyword, Domain trends
Efty ( an advertiser here) wrote a blog post detailing their preparation for GDPR. Here’s why Efty users are best prepared for GDPR Unless you have been living under a rock for the past months you probably know that after May 25th public access to WHOIS is going to change when the European Union’s General […]
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May 7, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends, Domaining 101, efty
So last week Rick Schwartz posted a semi – cryptic blog post. Some see it as a potential return to blogging. I thought either blogging or starting up a new forum, or conference. I had mentioned it in conversation to a few people over the weekend. One person asked me why I thought that was […]
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May 1, 2018 Raymond Hackney
Domain trends, Domaining 101