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Search Engine Land’s Top 15 SEO stories of 2024
SearchEngineLand.com published their 15 top stories for SEO in 2024. The two I was most interested in were number 8 and number 10. Organic traffic dropping by 25% by 2026 is a big number, this is of course because of AI. It will be interesting to see...
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Search Engine Land’s Top 15 SEO stories of 2024
SearchEngineLand.com published their 15 top stories for SEO in 2024. The two I was most interested in were number 8 and number 10. Organic traffic dropping by 25% by 2026 is a big number, this is of course because of AI. It will be interesting to see...
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December 27, 2024, 12:41 am
The Domains
Custom Checkout Link Moves to GoDaddy URLs
James Iles announced today that the custom checkout link at Afternic is moving to a GoDaddy url. I think that makes sense, the world knows GoDaddy, domain investors know Afternic. How do I create a Custom Checkout Link? Creating a Custom Checko...
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Custom Checkout Link Moves to GoDaddy URLs
James Iles announced today that the custom checkout link at Afternic is moving to a GoDaddy url. I think that makes sense, the world knows GoDaddy, domain investors know Afternic. How do I create a Custom Checkout Link? Creating a Custom Checko...
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December 24, 2024, 12:35 am
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Green.earth sold for 82,000 Euro
Phil Harris informed me that Green.earth sold for 82,000 Euro. This was not a one time payment. The final 12k euro payment they paid the last 6 months early to be done by year end. The total received in payments was 82k euro. We sold in under synergy...
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Green.earth sold for 82,000 Euro
Phil Harris informed me that Green.earth sold for 82,000 Euro. This was not a one time payment. The final 12k euro payment they paid the last 6 months early to be done by year end. The total received in payments was 82k euro. We sold in under synergy...
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December 22, 2024, 12:30 am
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Finding Trending Domain Keywords and using them to search for deals on Afternic.com
GoDaddy released a video to help find keywords that are trending and take the info and use it to search for names on Afternic. You do need to have a Domain Academy membership for this to be doable. From the video: In this video we discuss how to find...
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Finding Trending Domain Keywords and using them to search for deals on Afternic.com
GoDaddy released a video to help find keywords that are trending and take the info and use it to search for names on Afternic. You do need to have a Domain Academy membership for this to be doable. From the video: In this video we discuss how to find...
Discussion
December 21, 2024, 12:26 am
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Unstoppable Domains launches direct negotiations
I think it’s safe to say Unstoppable Domains is one of the new players that’s looking to be the new DAN. They are now giving customers complete control over negotiations on their marketplace. It’s something that a lot of domain inve...
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Unstoppable Domains launches direct negotiations
I think it’s safe to say Unstoppable Domains is one of the new players that’s looking to be the new DAN. They are now giving customers complete control over negotiations on their marketplace. It’s something that a lot of domain inve...
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December 19, 2024, 8:45 pm
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by MindSprint.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and MindSprint.com led the way at $150,000. CoMind.com sold for 59,000 Euro, ($61,949). Space.co.uk sold for 35,000 GBP, ($44,472). 37 .com sales 22 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoM...
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Sedo weekly domain name sales led by MindSprint.com
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and MindSprint.com led the way at $150,000. CoMind.com sold for 59,000 Euro, ($61,949). Space.co.uk sold for 35,000 GBP, ($44,472). 37 .com sales 22 cctld sales 8 other tld sales Highlights of public SedoM...
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December 17, 2024, 3:56 pm
The Domains
TheDomains.com turns 17
TheDomains.com turned 17 this month, it was back in 2007 when Michael Berkens decided to throw his hat in the blog arena. Michael started buying domains a decade earlier in 1997. The one and only Ron Jackson did a feature on Michael back in 2009. Dec...
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TheDomains.com turns 17
TheDomains.com turned 17 this month, it was back in 2007 when Michael Berkens decided to throw his hat in the blog arena. Michael started buying domains a decade earlier in 1997. The one and only Ron Jackson did a feature on Michael back in 2009. Dec...
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December 13, 2024, 10:02 pm
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Rick Schwartz $1.225M Lease with option deal on HurricaneDamages.com
Rick Schwartz posted on X that he booked a 7 figure lease with option deal on HurricaneDamages.com. Rick’s X is private so not as many people see his posts. As the turnaround continues… Inked a deal this morning for a lease with option t...
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Rick Schwartz $1.225M Lease with option deal on HurricaneDamages.com
Rick Schwartz posted on X that he booked a 7 figure lease with option deal on HurricaneDamages.com. Rick’s X is private so not as many people see his posts. As the turnaround continues… Inked a deal this morning for a lease with option t...
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December 12, 2024, 4:36 pm
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.ART Acquires HUG to Empower the Next Generation of Digital Artists
New York, NY & Washington, DC – December 12, 2024 .ART Registry, operator of the leading domain for the art and creative community, is proud to announce the acquisition of HUG (thehug.xyz), an inclusive social marketplace co-founded by Rand...
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.ART Acquires HUG to Empower the Next Generation of Digital Artists
New York, NY & Washington, DC – December 12, 2024 .ART Registry, operator of the leading domain for the art and creative community, is proud to announce the acquisition of HUG (thehug.xyz), an inclusive social marketplace co-founded by Rand...
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December 12, 2024, 1:38 pm
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Interview with GNAME’s Johnson Zhang
Johnson Zhang is the CEO of GNAME, they are based out of Singapore. Johnson took the time to answer some questions about GNAME and where he sees the domain industry going in the future. 1) It looks like 2024 has been a solid year for GNAME, are you h...
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Interview with GNAME’s Johnson Zhang
Johnson Zhang is the CEO of GNAME, they are based out of Singapore. Johnson took the time to answer some questions about GNAME and where he sees the domain industry going in the future. 1) It looks like 2024 has been a solid year for GNAME, are you h...
Discussion
December 11, 2024, 11:52 pm