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Daniel Negari introduced the new gTLD of .XYZ which has a little over 860,000 registrations to date. After which, he brought .rent and the little known .college to the public.

Donuts came in to compete in the same market with...

It was widely anticipated that Apple would introduce at the annual 2023 Worldwide Developers Conference goggles to support virtual reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Extended Reality (XR)...

The metaverse does not yet exist, but everyone is talking about it. Domain investors have had their eye on the metaverse for some time, particularly since the domain name metaverse.io was sold by Andrew Rosener’s MediaOptions...

It is hard to read anything these days without some mention of NFTs, non-fungible tokens. Earlier this month, Christie’s auction house sold a Beeple NFT collage “The First 5000 Days” for $69 million. Mike Winkelmann, Beeple, who...

I have more information regarding the recent sale of We.com that you may all find interesting. As I reported last week, We.com recently changed hands, and at the time I speculated that the buyer was probably Chinese. I can now confirm that...

Several domain name niches have received a lot of attention lately, all related to some aspect of artificial intelligence or automation. Each week dotDB publish a list of trending terms based on new registrations. In the most recent report...

One key to domain investing success is to be well informed with up-to-date information. NameBio just made that easier, with introduction of NameBio Trends Reports.

In this article, I take a look at the different components of the...

I've followed Yoyo.Email with some interest ever since I learned that Giovanni LaPorta (CEO of Yoyo.Email) registered around 4,000 company .email domain names to create a "certified email service."

It seems, however, that Yoyo.Email's plans...

A year ago OpenAI publicly released ChatGPT. Within weeks nearly everyone was trying it out and talking about it. Now worldwide there are over 100 million active users.

AI is having a significant impact on the domain world. This year .ai one of...

Do we need another automated domain name appraisal instrument? While automated domain name appraisals have their critics, and are certainly not precise instruments, some find them useful in certain circumstances.

While some instruments like...

To celebrate one year of official live launch of the popular .me domains, Brands-and-Jingles has issued a white paper on how “me”-branded names are used in marketing. In its effort the advertising agency wants to congratulate .me registry team...

The Marijuana discussion/showcase thread on Namepros is one of the most read and liveliest conversations on the forum. There was a bit of news out a couple days ago that should have those invested in the niche enthusiastic. I want to put...

Khloe Kardashian has filed a UDRP for KhloeKardashian.com, according to UDRPSearch. The case - which was opened yesterday has been filed by Khlomoney, Inc of Woodland Hills, CA. Khlomoney is Khloe's own brand which owns 78 trademarks for...

Successful domain investing is acquiring domain names that users will want, pricing them effectively, and getting the names noticed by those in a position to buy them.

That last step just got easier for .io and .xyz domain names with the...

2023 was a particularly active year in the domain world. I wanted to overview many of the changes, to make sure you can take advantage of any important to you.

In this article I am not covering things like trends in popular extensions, such as...

Are we approaching a time when domain names will be considered an asset class, like bonds, stocks, real estate, currencies and commodities?

Will investors be able to hold domain name investments without the need to be directly involved in...

“You wouldn’t buy a bag of chips or a toothbrush made by Tide, would you?” Matt Mickiewicz said after I inquired why all of his companies have separate brand identities and are separate entities unlike Google or Apple. He further...

The Telegraph published a piece on the race between Internet giants to provide satellite Internet to the world, especially to developing countries that are currently without it.

Elon Musk, the billionaire technology entrepreneur, has announced...

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The valuable two-letter .com domain name EG.com has been sold.

The news broke when George Kirikos wrote a tweet stating that EG.com has been unlocked, which would then permit for a domain transfer to take place.

Minutes later, Andrew Rosener...

Theo of DomainGang (@Acroplex on NamePros) reported that the controversial website Ebola.com went live. This is after the exchange of nearly $200,000 in the form of cash and stock options in the medical marijuana company...

Up until recently, a company called Drawbridge had been using the domain hack drawbrid.ge to host their main website. This week, it has been confirmed that they have acquired the domain name Drawbridge.com in a private transaction...

The last week has seen heated debate following the announcement by GoDaddy/Dan that commissions would be aligned across the Afternic, Dan, GoDaddy and Afternic platforms, resulting in savings for many, not all, sales at Afternic, but higher...

Next month in San Francisco TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 is happening. This event brings together tech leaders and enthusiasts, startup founders, and early stage investors.

It struck me that the conference agenda and speaker list could provide...

Rumors are flying and Chinese news sites are reporting the sale of Nubia.com to mobile phone maker Nubia for US$2m. Some sources have speculated that GoDaddy was the seller.

According to the news release from mobile news site Qudong...

The majority of sales of two-letter .COM's that we have covered on the NamePros Blog have been acquired by Chinese investors or companies. China has been one of the big trends in domaining, but one of the most recent is cryptocurrency.

This year...