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James Iles · Nov 3, 2019

In this week’s Top Topics, we explore an interesting negotiation strategy in which an investor suggests raising their “buy now” price, a domainer lists every single sale of $10,000 or more from the last year and two years after a five-figure sale, the seller realizes that the domain is still...

Bob Hawkes · Oct 31, 2019

Today is Halloween, and I thought it might be fun to have a look at Halloween domain names. As well as summarizing historical sales in Halloween-themed domain names, I survey what is currently for sale. I even find a few possibly interesting domain names still available at standard...

James Iles · Oct 27, 2019

In this week's Top Topics, we touch on the subject of motivation. With domaining being largely an individualistic venture, how do you keep yourself motivated? Elsewhere, investors are discussing the subject of terminology for landing pages, after Rick Schwartz mentioned that "Price Upon Request"...

Bob Hawkes · Oct 24, 2019

Many domain investors have avoided domain names with hyphens. It is not rare to see in the NamePros Requests section the wording “no hyphens”. @Rob Monster of Epik recently started a thread arguing that hyphenated .com domain names are back in fashion. He also indicated a...

James Iles · Oct 19, 2019

Domain investor and broker James Booth (@BoothDomains) announced his latest acquisition yesterday, the three-letter .COM name DND.com. Today, he has tweeted the news that the domain has been sold! Congratulations to James on another quick flip.

Here are this week's Top Topics...

Bob Hawkes · Oct 17, 2019

Impressive recent new-extension domain sales have been widely discussed on NamePros. Not only are the five-figure sales noteworthy on their own, they may also represent new ways to use domain names. While it is natural to be excited about high-value sales, it is important to keep in mind that...

James Iles · Oct 13, 2019

I noticed the likely sale of a high-value one-word .COM name recently, that doesn't seem to have been reported elsewhere. Olive.com was owned by Tim Olive Studios Inc, with the name hosting a basic homepage for the small company until earlier this year.

From data available at DomainIQ...

Bob Hawkes · Oct 11, 2019

It is important to know how much actual internet traffic there is on a domain extension, or top level domain (TLD), since this is one indicator of the health of the extension. There are various measures of internet website use, with the main ones being Alexa, Cisco Umbrella...

James Iles · Oct 6, 2019

This week, we have an extended version of Top Topics! Due to a vacation and no connectivity, I am publishing Top Topics covering both this week and last week’s pick of nine discussions, polls and questions from the community. There are some fascinating discussions covering a multitude of...

Bob Hawkes · Oct 4, 2019

In many things in life, taking a break can be healthy, and domain investing is no different. If you are getting frustrated from lack of sales, or losing your passion for domain investing, one option might be to give yourself a break. Even if you don’t briefly take a complete break from domain...

Paul · Sep 25, 2019

We discussed how to understand hackers in part 1 and phishing emails in part 2. Now we discuss managing your personal information.

Managing your personal information is an important but often overlooked aspect of security. Unfortunately, many organizations use personal information...

James Iles · Sep 21, 2019

A top-tier animal .COM domain name looks to have been sold recently. The domain name is Panda.com, which has moved from Network Solutions to a privacy protected Fabulous.com account this week. The domain name was advertised on NamePros in July by Grit Brokerage, with user @Keith...

Bob Hawkes · Sep 18, 2019

The premium domain name July.com recently changed hands. While no price has yet been disclosed, I speculate that this is probably a six-figure sale. The domain name is already in use by the Australian travel products firm July, redirecting to their GetJuly.com site. The...

Bob Hawkes · Sep 17, 2019

A domain hack uses content from both sides of the dot to form a word or phrase – for example: s.top. While domain investors have created many imaginative domain name hacks, the number in actual use is much smaller. In this post, I look at a selection of short single-word domain hacks...

James Iles · Sep 13, 2019

DomainMarket.com CEO Mike Mann revealed yesterday via Twitter that he is just 526 domains away from owning a portfolio of 350,000. This is a phenomenal milestone that just a handful of people will ever achieve, but it does come at a steep cost, literally. Aside from acquisition fees...

Rob Monster · Sep 10, 2019

Long before General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance was a topic, GoDaddy and other registrars adopted a practice of obscuring WHOIS records and/or requiring persons interested in knowing the identity of the registrant to visit their website to retrieve the properly...

James Iles · Sep 8, 2019

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at the case of an investor who may need to use a wire transfer in order to keep a domain deal alive, and we discuss the subject of domain appraisals. Are they really necessary?

Elsewhere, domain marketplace DomainAgents shares a list of American vs...

James Iles · Aug 30, 2019

Animal domain names have been desirable assets for investors thanks to their unique properties and versatility. Domain sales database NameBio is littered with animal .COM sales in the five and six-figure range including Walrus.com for a reported $55,000, which now looks to have been resold based...

Bob Hawkes · Aug 29, 2019

Dan Bingham (@DefinitelyDomains) asked an intriguing question: At what point do you stop buying domains? The question could mean, “When do you stop adding to your portfolio?” or “When do you get out of domain investing?” Good advice related to both...

James Iles · Aug 26, 2019

This weekend, I was in Zurich Switzerland for a short break and as a domainer, it’s difficult not to notice domains that are being used by local companies. It seems that although the ccTLD for Switzerland is .CH, many companies have opted to use .COM instead. Tourist destinations such as the...

Bob Hawkes · Aug 21, 2019

Earlier this week the high-value domain name hippo.com apparently changed hands. The domain name now redirects to MyHippo.com, the site of Hippo Insurance. The company now brands simply hippo, writing it in all small letters.

Hippo is licensed to offer...

James Iles · Aug 16, 2019

There have been some stellar articles on the blog recently from a couple of new writers, @Bob Hawkes and broker @Darryl Lopes. So far, these published pieces have covered topics such as negotiation, domain sales and domain name data. A quick tip for those of you who may have missed...

Darryl Lopes · Aug 16, 2019

One of my favorite movies is Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. By watching this movie, I have developed a superior skill set for negotiations, based around illusion and a bluff, in a way that is not harmful to either party.

Credit: History...

James Iles · Aug 11, 2019

A sale that seems to have slipped under the radar is that of Meerkat.com. This popular animal domain name was owned by the original registrant up until this year, even after declining advances several years ago from the once-popular Meerkat live broadcast app.

The buyer of Meerkat.com is a UK...

Bob Hawkes · Aug 8, 2019

Domain name sales of value $100,000 or more represented only 0.10% of all publicly-recorded .com sales in 2018, but they accounted for almost 30% of the dollar volume of sales for the year. While average sales prices can be useful, they mask the fact that most sales...

James Iles · Aug 4, 2019

A major domain name acquisition took place in recent weeks, and that was Sobeys' acquisition of the Voila.com domain name. Sobeys, a large Canadian food retailer, recently announced plans for a food delivery network called Voila, which would be launching in Toronto in 2020. Upon launching the...

Bob Hawkes · Aug 1, 2019

With the natural focus on selling domains, it is easy to overlook the fact that those domains can, and sometimes do, change lives. This point was highlighted in the recently-released 2019 Canada’s Internet Factbook that contained the catchy graphic the internet changes lives....

James Iles · Jul 27, 2019

Before we get to Top Topics this week, there's news of a recent three-letter .COM domain sale that hasn't been covered elsewhere. The domain name ECG.com sold for an undisclosed amount, with the transaction seemingly taking place around late May to early June 2019.

According to DomainIQ's...

Bob Hawkes · Jul 25, 2019

The NameBio database this morning shows the sale of the new extension domain name test.center for $195,000 through a Sedo auction. This is the second highest-value new extension sale so far in 2019, with free.games having sold in May 2019 for $335,000...

James Iles · Jul 21, 2019

George Hong, founder of @GUTA domain name brokerage shared a video on social media earlier, which featured an old interview with Lei Jun, the founder of one of China’s most successful companies, Xiaomi.

Dubbed the Chinese Steve Jobs, Lei Jun described the importance of domain names...

Bob Hawkes · Jul 17, 2019

The first half of 2019 has been great for domain sales with the rate of NameBio-reported sales up 28% and the average price up almost 17% compared to full year 2018. The sales rate is up in all three major legacy extensions .com, .net, and .org, although average prices are down...

James Iles · Jul 12, 2019

Last week, we shared the news that the NCC.com domain name had sold for an undisclosed six-figure fee. I noticed in this week's DNJournal sales chart that the domain's sales price has been revealed at $300,000 with Mark Thomas of VIP Brokerage responsible for the deal. This means...

James Iles · Jul 10, 2019

We're able to disclose a few details of another one-word .COM domain sale this week. The domain name Wind.com has changed hands in a deal facilitated by BQDN's James Booth (@BoothDomains) for an undisclosed fee.

The four-letter domain was previously owned by Alex Tabibi's ZCapital, who...

James Iles · Jul 7, 2019

In this week's Top Topics, our featured discussion is regarding the .UK domain extension release. It seems like hundreds of investors have been looking to pre-register and acquire .UK domains, which have been released to the general public this week. Elsewhere, domainers talk about GrubHub's...

James Iles · Jul 7, 2019

Three-letter .COM domain names have the cabability to sell for six or seven-figures a piece. In the last year, we've seen DXL.com sell for $1.15 million, NWM.com for $325,000 and PFF.com for $270,000. Today we can report on another likely six-figure sale, and that's NCC.com.

The NCC.com domain...

James Iles · Jun 30, 2019

In case you missed it, we shared details of two domain sales this week, the first being the €700,000 sale of Links.com at a record "buy now" price, and the second being the undisclosed sale of Orion.com. These two sales are only the tip of the iceberg in terms of other recent six and...

James Iles · Jun 28, 2019

There have been some stellar six, seven, and eight-figure one-word .COM domain sales recently and while some, such as the $30 million Voice.com sale, have been disclosed publicly, there are plenty of deals happening behind the scenes.

One such recent deal looks to be Orion Advisor Solutions'...

James Iles · Jun 25, 2019

This morning, Sedo announced via Twitter that they sold the domain name Links.com for €700,000. The domain marketplace routinely brokers six-figure sales including the recent $400,000 Casinos.org sale, but what makes this more interesting is that Links.com was sold at the "buy now" price...

James Iles · Jun 23, 2019

It’s rare to hear from the owner of an ultra-premium domain name on their reasons for selling a domain name, but the original registrant of Coconut.com commented on a recent story to explain his rationale for selling the name to James Booth (@BoothDomains). According to the comment...

James Iles · Jun 20, 2019

The majority of domain investors will have come across a domain owned by Digimedia at some point while navigating the web. Lead by founder Scott Day and president Jay Chapman, Digimedia started registering and acquiring an expansive portfolio of highly valuable domain names in the late 1990s...

James Iles · Jun 16, 2019

In case you missed it, we published an analysis of several well-funded companies that might consider rebranding since their ultimate .COM domain name is unavailable. It is, I believe, a reality check. There are a large amount of companies that still do not understand the value that a...

James Iles · Jun 14, 2019

In the domain industry, we regularly read reports about startups or established companies that have made the monumental decision to upgrade their domain names from something obscure to a powerful, short, one-word .COM. Recently, for example, MassDrop rebranded to Drop and acquired the...

James Iles · Jun 9, 2019

According to my DomainIQ monitors, Nat Cohen’s Telepathy Inc, which holds an incredible portfolio of premium names, sold the domain Properly.com this week. The buyer is a holiday home management company called Properly, who upgraded from ManageProperly.com.

According to Crunchbase, there are...

James Iles · Jun 7, 2019

Recently, we published an article looking at how various animal domain names are used. We highlighted animal .COM domains since they are a versatile type of domain name that is coveted by investors and end users alike. Another niche that is highly desirable is color domains. Exact match color...

James Iles · Jun 3, 2019

Analytics company MicroStrategy owns a stellar portfolio of domain names, which we have profiled on the blog in the past. Alongside names such as Emma.com, Hope.com and Alert.com is the highly valuable Voice.com domain. It seems that MicroStrategy has just sold this name.

The domain moved...

James Iles · Jun 2, 2019

In this week's Top Topics, we find out more about the best way to acquire a complete domain name portfolio, and an investor asks about the lack of demand for new gTLD's. Elsewhere, this week's featured poll asks domainers to vote on the number one factor to take into consideration when choosing...

James Iles · May 30, 2019

In 2012, ICANN started the monumental process of releasing the new class of domain extensions. This represented the largest introduction of new extensions in over two decades. As such, over 1,900 applications were submitted to ICANN, with 751 of those applications being contested. Large...

James Iles · May 25, 2019

This week's Top Topics comes to you from Dublin, Ireland! From a domaining point of view, Ireland is heavily invested in their .IE extension. The large majority, probably close to 85%, of billboards and local advertisements I've seen, have contained a .IE domain name. In comparison to my...

James Iles · May 22, 2019

Brothers Michael and David Castello are founders of CCIN (Castello Cities Internet Network), a portfolio of domain names and city-based websites that has been amassed since 1994. Previous sales from the brothers’ portfolio include Whisky.com for $3 million, Rate.com for $725,000 and Driven.com...

James Iles · May 18, 2019

We recently wrote an updated "Top 10" domains article profiling the recent acquisitions of James Booth (@BoothDomains). One more name that could be added to that list is Booth.com's recent purchase of Coconut.com, which was announced by James on social media this week. This monster name is...

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