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James Iles · May 31, 2020

In this week's Top Topics, we feature a debate about the ethics of staying quiet when a newer investor spends thousands of dollars on poor quality domains. Elsewhere, a domainer has shared a list of the five thousand most popular prefixes and suffixes, and someone asks the community for advice...

Bob Hawkes · May 28, 2020

Most domain name investors start out with hand registrations. Many later move on to acquiring domain names mainly through expired auctions or closeouts. While it is true that many of the best domain names were registered long ago, creative domain investors can occasionally find worthwhile names...

James Iles · May 24, 2020

One of my favorite parts of the week is choosing the discussions for Top Topics. I get to take some time to browse the talking points of the week and compile a little list of Top Topics that I think will be interesting to you, the reader. I hope you like this week's selection, but as always, I'm...

Bob Hawkes · May 21, 2020

It seems that everyone is using Zoom and talking about Zoom, or more formally Zoom Video Communications Ltd. To domainers, part of the conversation is about the .us domain extension the company uses.

Samer started a NamePros discussion asking why they continue...

James Iles · May 17, 2020

Yesterday, I noticed that the domain name Stash.com had changed WHOIS status. It had moved from "ClientTransferProhibited" to "ok," signifying that the domain has been unlocked. This often implies the domain is about to move. Typically, this wouldn't even be close to being newsworthy, but this...

Bob Hawkes · May 13, 2020

A wholesale domain name transaction refers to a domain investor acquisition. For example one investor buying a domain name from another here on NamePros, or an investor acquiring a domain name in an expired domain auction.

A retail transaction is a sale to the business, organization...

James Iles · May 10, 2020

In this week's Top Topics, we feature the latest from an investor's test of the effectiveness of Afternic, and we hear from a domainer as to why they became a member of the ICA. Elsewhere, we see details of a domain flip that occurred just three hours after the investor registered the domain...

Bob Hawkes · May 6, 2020

Domain names can be viewed as either a product or a service. In the product model, a potential purchaser browses available names, selecting one that is a good match.

Seen as a service, the domain expert works with a client to identify aspects of an optimum name, and then helps them...

James Iles · May 3, 2020

In case you missed it, NamePros writer @Bob Hawkes produced an in-depth look at portfolio diversification this week. A highly diversified domain name portfolio may be better prepared to stand the tests of an economic downturn. If you are curious about exploring the concept of...

Bob Hawkes · Apr 29, 2020

Domain names in health and education have recently seen increasing demand, while some other areas have fallen slightly out of favour. Those who held quality domain names across many sectors were less impacted, both positively and negatively, than those with narrow specialization. This article...

James Iles · Apr 26, 2020

In case you missed it, Facebook likely acquired the domain Rooms.com for an undisclosed fee very recently. The news was first mentioned by myself on Twitter and first covered on Elliot Silver's (@EJS) DomainInvesting.com. This acquisition comes as Facebook released its Zoom rival...

Bob Hawkes · Apr 22, 2020

Interviews provide insights directly from those involved in domain name sales, acquisitions and the industry. Nothing can quite replace hearing domain industry influencers speak in their own words.

While several of the well known domain industry blogs and podcasts serve up interviews weekly, I...

James Iles · Apr 19, 2020

The Pronoun.com domain sold at an expiry auction this week for $9,999. The name certainly has a prestigious history. According to DomainIQ, the domain was owned by Nat Cohen's Telepathy Inc until July 2017, when Pronoun.com was acquired by Macmillan Publishers for their Pronoun self-publishing...

Bob Hawkes · Apr 17, 2020

This morning the Premium Domains division of Donuts confirmed the sale of the domain name My.Life for $175,000. I had reached out to them a few days ago, after rumours of the sale first emerged on NamePros.

If, or when, the sale is listed on NameBio, it would become by far the...

Bob Hawkes · Apr 15, 2020

Many have speculated on how the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated business climate, will influence the domain name sales market. In this article I look for statistical evidence of recent changes in domain name sales numbers or total dollar volume.

I also collected opinions from domain...

James Iles · Apr 12, 2020

In this week's Top Topics, we look at the potential correlation between the Coronavirus pandemic and domain name sales, and we see which prominent industry figures domainers respect the most. Elsewhere, Dofo's founder shares an analysis of the.COM extension and an investor has trouble tracking...

Bob Hawkes · Apr 8, 2020

The book Domnomics: The business of domain names authored by John McCormac, provides historical, statistical and economic insights on the development of the domain industry.

Domnomics is a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of how the domain business has...

James Iles · Apr 3, 2020

Is automation powerhouse Zapier about to rebrand to Zap? It looks like the company bought Zap.com earlier this year, anyway. According to DomainIQ, the name moved from NameCheap to Name.com under privacy protection in January, with Zap.com now redirecting to Zapier.com. Incidentally, Name.com is...

Bob Hawkes · Apr 1, 2020

This article looks at .org extension domain name sales during 2019. I use data from the NameBio database, only considering sales at prices of $5000 or more.

There were 123 sales above $5000, accounting for a total sales volume of just over $1.6 million.

The...

James Iles · Mar 29, 2020

In this week's Top Topics, an investor asks whether it's an opportune time to perform outbound sales in light of the social isolation that much of the world is experiencing right now, thanks to the Coronavirus. Speaking of the Coronavirus, a domainer shares their story of how their domain...

Bob Hawkes · Mar 24, 2020

The headlines continue to be dominated by the health risks associated with the COVID-19 virus, along with the economic impact of pandemic mitigation steps.

NamePros members have discussed the pandemic itself, the ethics of holding coronavirus domain names, whether the demand for...

James Iles · Mar 22, 2020

Michael Cyger, the founder of DNAcademy, hosted his second “Quarantine Social”, an hour-long chat hosted on Zoom. The chat attracted over fifty people, but if you weren’t able to make it, there’s a recording of the chat in the DNAcademy blog.

I think it’s a superb community initiative that...

TCK · Mar 18, 2020

The Coronavirus crisis will eventually end. When? That is difficult for the experts to predict. Unfortunately, politicians and red tape may stand in the way. In the meantime, more and more people are working from home. Could this be an opportunity for you to focus more on growing your domain...

James Iles · Mar 15, 2020

After reading Jamie Zoch’s blog post at the Uniregistry Blog entitled “Break Your Domain Routine”, I’ve been inspired to try out some changes of my own. As a domainer, it’s often easy to get stuck in a routine, so breaking your routine to find out whether you can improve on certain aspects...

Bob Hawkes · Mar 11, 2020

In a world absorbed by concern over community spread of the coronavirus, many large gatherings are being cancelled or altered. For example, the South by Southwest events in Austin, TX have been cancelled for 2020. Last year the combined attendance at the events was about 400,000.

The...

James Iles · Mar 7, 2020

In this week’s Top Topics, we feature the news of the reported $8,133,000 domain sale that investor George Kirikos unveiled. This sale surpasses that of the $8 million fee paid WE.com, which I revealed on this blog several years ago. The new sale sits firmly on the list of the largest...

Bob Hawkes · Mar 4, 2020

This article covers 2019 sales of .com domain names that are made up of three or four words. The analysis is limited to sales reported in the NameBio database.

There were 49 sales above $7500 of domain names comprised of at least three words. These sales represent 3.9% of all .com...

James Iles · Mar 2, 2020

In this week’s Top Topics, we see the reaction to the news that GoDaddy has acquired the Coronavirus.com domain name and is doing something positive with it. Elsewhere, investors discuss their preferred marketplace and there’s reaction to a Motley Fool article that describes domain names as...

James Iles · Feb 22, 2020

Broker James Booth announced his latest sale this week, Palace.com, a name that has been picked up for development by a casino, according to a tweet from James.

Booth also revealed the sales price of the domain - $306,000, which would rank as the highest sale on DNJournal’s 2020 chart to...

Bob Hawkes · Feb 18, 2020

The NamePros Blog has been providing domain name investing news, information, interviews, tips, analysis, and strategies for many years. For this article, I searched the archive of blog posts, looking for articles particularly relevant to those relatively new to domain name investing. Although...

James Iles · Feb 14, 2020

If you have followed domaining news this week, you might have seen Verisign's proposal to increase .COM registration and renewal prices. This news has not been received well by domain investors and leading domaining companies alike.

The day this is published, February 14th is the final day...

Bob Hawkes · Feb 12, 2020

Short domain names have impact, and there can be no shorter domain name than one with a single character to the left of the dot. Unfortunately, most of the single-character domain names in the major legacy extensions are not available at any price.

There are, however, single-character domain...

James Iles · Feb 9, 2020

Hostgator founder Brent Oxley has amassed an impressive portfolio over the past couple of years, with names like Broker.com, Drone.com, and VT.com under his possession. One of the leading domains in his portfolio is Create.com. This versatile name has sat idle for some time, but it looks like...

Bob Hawkes · Feb 5, 2020

Do you hold pairs of domain names that you try to sell as a package? These might include both the plural and the singular forms of a word, the UK and American spelling, a hyphenated and non-hyphenated version, or the same name with two different extensions.

While there are good arguments, in...

James Iles · Feb 2, 2020

In this week’s Top Topics, we feature four discussions from the world of domaining. Firstly, an investor asks for advice and feedback regarding their direct mailing outbound sales strategy, and we look at the results of the NamesCon live auction, with investors giving their thoughts on the...

Brian Harbin · Jan 27, 2020

A dad was in his home office on an important phone call when his 5-year-old son came in and asked him if he could play. The dad said, "Not right now son, I’m busy." The young boy left and came back a few minutes later with a hopeful expression, "Now are you ready?" The dad tried to stay calm...

James Iles · Jan 25, 2020

Recently, the original owner of the 1T.com domain name took to NamePros' marketplace to sell the domain name. It was good news for the seller since they were able to find a buyer willing to offer an acceptable amount. The sales price isn’t known, but the name previously held a $99,999 asking...

Bob Hawkes · Jan 22, 2020

Over the past five years the average price for domain name sales listed in the NameBio database is about $1473, compared to $1306 for year 2019 alone. In the first part of this series I looked at domain name sales volume, while this time I look at average price trends.

I start by...

James Iles · Jan 19, 2020

In this week's Top Topics, there is intense debate about GoDaddy's new logo, and we discover what domain investors learned in 2019. Elsewhere, we see whether reading will maximize returns as a domain investor, and there is speculation that we have established a bottom for the three-letter .COM...

Bob Hawkes · Jan 15, 2020

In recent years the total domain name sales volume reported in the NameBio database has ranged from just under $110 million in 2018, to almost $142 million in 2019. This includes results from all domain extensions, but only includes sales of $100 and greater.

The complete sales volume is...

James Iles · Jan 12, 2020

If you are looking to bid on any domain names that are being auctioned off in the NamesCon 2020 auction event, DomainSherpa has compiled a helpful list of all the domain names being auctioned, as well as data such as their reserve range and their current auction price. You can find the list on...

Bob Hawkes · Jan 8, 2020

A year-end domain portfolio sales analysis can help inform possible changes to implement. In this article, I consider numerical measures that could be used in an analysis. In determining your profitability, it is important to consider changes in domain portfolio worth resulting from sales and...

James Iles · Jan 5, 2020

In the first Top Topics of the new decade, we feature a discussion in which domain investors are asked to share the offers they have received so far in 2020. This includes a $16,000 opening offer for a "chain" domain name. Elsewhere, a domainer shares their 2019 review and we take a look at how...

Bob Hawkes · Jan 2, 2020

I contacted a number of prominent domain industry people to ask what they saw for the year ahead. I suggested ten questions, ranging from Overall, are you positive about domain investing in 2020? to Is there an important topic that is being overlooked? I asked each person to...

James Iles · Dec 29, 2019

Last week, we brought you news of the likely Everest.com sale. At the time, we had no official verification of the sale, but thanks to a helpful senior staff member from National Gun Trader who confirmed the company’s acquisition of the domain name. No details of the domain’s sales price...

Bob Hawkes · Dec 26, 2019

So much happens every year on NamePros that it is possible to overlook noteworthy content. In this post, I draw attention to eleven topics from 2019 that I found particularly valuable. They cover domain name acquisition, pricing, selling, negotiation, security, and more. Readers are urged to...

James Iles · Dec 22, 2019

A tweet from Shane Cultra (@Domain Shane) prompted me to look into a possibly monumental domain sale. Earlier this year, Lumis was brokering the sale of the Everest.com domain name, with an asking price of $1 million.

This week, Shane tweeted about the current use of Everest.com...

Bob Hawkes · Dec 18, 2019

In early December new extension domains reached the 30 million registration point according to nTLD statistics. The previous high of about 29.5 million was established in April 2017, although over most of last two years the total was not far from 26 million registrations. The number of...

James Iles · Dec 15, 2019

In this week’s Top Topics, an investor shares their story of negotiating their way from a $3,000 offer to a $26,000 sales price. Elsewhere, domainers are hosting their own end of year awards ceremony and this week’s featured poll asks investors to vote on their most productive platform for...

Bob Hawkes · Dec 11, 2019

It is not surprising that single words and short acronyms attract most of the attention at the high end of the domain name sales news. For example, voice.com sold for $30 million, and California.com, EKO.com, TM.com and RX.com all above one million dollars in...

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