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James Iles · Mar 15, 2019

I had planned a full article about this subject, but I think my point can be summed up here. With ZenSourcer’s recent rebrand to Gem.com, the crypto marketplace Gem (operating on Gem.co) have lost much of the Gem brand control and power that they may previously have had.

The company operating...

James Iles · Mar 12, 2019

Inside Interview is a series in which we talk to buyers of high-value domain names to discover why they purchased these names, and what they’re doing with them. In this edition, we’re speaking with Jacob Smith, CMO of Packet, a cloud computing company based in New York.

In 2018, Packet made the...

James Iles · Mar 10, 2019

We have been following the progress of the gem.com domain name after reporting on a transaction involving the domain recently. This week, the name has started to resolve to ZenSourcer, a talent CRM co-founded by Nick Bushak, a former Facebook employee. Will ZenSourcer be rebranding as Gem?

Here...

James Iles · Mar 6, 2019

When contacting a prospective buyer via an outbound email, what exactly do you say? That is one of the many questions we're going to attempt to answer in the third installment of our outbound sales series. This series is being compiled with the generous help of @Mike Robertson, the...

James Iles · Mar 3, 2019

In case you missed it, we broke the news that the highly valuable Gem.com domain name moved into Escrow this week in a reported seven-figure deal. Domain brokerage company Lumis followed our story by posting a tweet, confirming that they were involved with the sale. As of publishing, the...

James Iles · Feb 28, 2019

The domain name Gem.com has moved into Escrow.com's holding account today, signaling that a deal involving this three-letter .COM domain has been agreed. Registered in 1992, Gem.com has been owned by the Roglenn Inc since at least the late 1990s, based on archival copies of the...

James Iles · Feb 27, 2019

Every week, we get to hear about some of the domain industry's largest recent sales thanks to DNJournal's highly respected weekly sales chart. However, most sales do not get reported for one reason or another. Experts such as Jamie Zoch (@Yofie) regularly post domain name movements, but...

James Iles · Feb 23, 2019

Yesterday, Elliot Silver (@EJS) reported on Jamie Zoch's (@Yofie) discovery that the domain name Medicine.com had been sold recently. Not much is known about the purchase, but the new WHOIS showed Hampstead Trust of Auckland, New Zealand as the buyer.

This trust has a...

James Iles · Feb 20, 2019

Founded in 2002 by Thunayan Al-Ghanim, Future Media Architects (FMA) has amassed a portfolio spanning thousands of premium domain names. Historically, FMA has been known to rarely sell their domains. However, since transferring over 100,000 domain names to Uniregistry in 2014, the company...

James Iles · Feb 17, 2019

In this week’s Top Topics, a four-figure domain sale is revealed, a domainer shares their journey of how they became an investor and we read the interesting story of someone that teamed up with another investor to produce a sale.

Elsewhere, an innovative outbound idea sees the community...

James Iles · Feb 13, 2019

In the first of our four-part series on outbound domain sales, we learned about some of the basic steps that you should consider taking before sending any outbound emails. With the help of @Mike Robertson, Director of Business Development at Fabulous.com, our sales expert for this...

James Iles · Feb 12, 2019

Three-letter .COM domain names are highly sought after by investors and end users alike. In the past twelve months alone, ICE.com, DXL.com, and EEN.com have all sold for six and seven-figure fees to end users. The KOS.com domain name now joins the ranks, as it has been acquired by KOS Naturals...

James Iles · Feb 10, 2019

One of the largest sales of the recent NamesCon 2019 auction was that of DomainNames.com for $370,000. The name was purchased by @Frank.Schilling's Uniregistry, which left a lot of investors speculating on what Frank might do with the domain. According to WHOIS, DomainNames.com has now...

James Iles · Feb 6, 2019

Single-word .COM domain names are some of the most sought after digital assets for both investors and end users. Thanks to their desirability, many of these one-word domains can fetch six or seven-figure sales prices to the right buyer. Often, the right buyer is a venture-capital backed company...

James Iles · Feb 3, 2019

This week was the final NamesCon in Las Vegas before it heads to Austin next year. Whilst it was the last Las Vegas NamesCon, 2019 also my first. I would like to publicly thank the NamePros staff and members for making me feel very welcome. If you are in two minds about going to the NamesCon...

James Iles · Jan 29, 2019

The Live NamesCon auction in Las Vegas has just finished with some impressive domain name sales posted. Here are the auction results, as recorded live at the event. I believe these listings are correct, but there may be discrepancies. If there are, please add a comment, and the list will be...

James Iles · Jan 27, 2019

This is the first Top Topics written at 38,000 feet over the Atlantic! I’m heading to Las Vegas because NamesCon starts this weekend, and if you're going, I hope to see you there! There is a planned meetup at 5pm on Sunday 27th January at the 9 Fine Irishmen across the street from the Tropicana...

James Iles · Jan 22, 2019

Outbound domain sales can be an effective means of producing cash flow for your domain portfolio. Rather than simply relying on buyers to come to you, outbound marketing relies on contacting specific potential buyers to try and secure a deal.

When it’s performed properly, outbound sales can...

James Iles · Jan 20, 2019

Earlier this week, I came across Trig, a design an innovation firm. Usually, this would not be newsworthy at all, but what I found interesting was at the top of their homepage, there is a banner notifying users that "Trig Acquires Trig.com". In the subsequent press release posted in May...

James Iles · Jan 18, 2019

In March 2018, Sedo sold the domain Handle.com for $95,378. At the time, there was a lot of speculation regarding the buyer of the name, and whether an end user had got a bargain buy. However, the name's buyer wasn't an end user, but rather an investor.

DomainIQ's WHOIS shows that...

James Iles · Jan 15, 2019

It’s very rare that a brand new startup with minimal funds would initially create their online presence on a premium .COM domain. Bootstrapped businesses may, therefore, opt to go with an alternative extension, create a brandable name or use a subsequent imperative word such as “Get” or “Buy”...

James Iles · Jan 13, 2019

In this week's Top Topics, we have a number of featured discussions relating to sales and potential sales of domain names. First, we have the news of a $9,000 .TV sale that took place on the Afternic platform, then a domain investor reveals a recently rejected $95,000 offer to purchase their...

James Iles · Jan 7, 2019

With 2019 just beginning, it’s an opportune time to theorize on the current state of the domain name market and speculate on what might happen in the coming twelve months. To do this, we contacted nine domain industry experts who have a vast amount of data available to form a valid opinion on...

James Iles · Jan 5, 2019

In our first Top Topics of 2019, we take a look at an in-depth analysis of reported outbound sales from 2018, and a domainer asks other investors to share their realistic domaining goals for 2019. Elsewhere, someone asks for feedback on some advice they dispensed and our featured poll asks for...

James Iles · Dec 31, 2018

With the end of 2018 upon us, it’s an opportune time to reflect on the year. As usual, domain names have had an interesting year, and NamePros has covered some of the most popular news items and features from the past twelve months.

In this handy recap, we relive the best moments of the year...

James Iles · Dec 28, 2018

For those who missed it, on Christmas Eve, we published an interview with HostGator founder Brent Oxley, who has amassed a domain portfolio worth around $10 million. The majority of Brent’s portfolio has been listed in the NamesCon auction, and Brent explained his reasoning for doing this...

James Iles · Dec 24, 2018

Brent Oxley is an important part of the Internet's history. Back in 2002, Brent founded HostGator, a hosting company that quickly became one of the most popular hosting services in the world with Inc. Magazine ranking HostGator as 21st on its list of fastest growing companies in 2008. By 2012...

James Iles · Dec 21, 2018

This is the final edition of Top Topics before Christmas, so I want to take a second to wish a Happy Christmas to all readers who celebrate the occasion. Whilst the festive period tends to be a quiet time in domaining, it can be an opportunity to acquire expiring domains at auction with a little...

James Iles · Dec 18, 2018

In October 2018, UserEngage made the monumental decision to pay $150,000 to acquire the domain User.com in a transaction brokered by Sedo. Since then, UserEngage has rebranded to User.com, putting the memorable four-letter domain to use almost immediately.

In this Inside Interview, we’re going...

James Iles · Dec 14, 2018

This week, we confirmed the news that Duck.com had been transferred into DuckDuckGo’s possession. Following that news release, the article was referenced and mentioned in major news outlets such as TechCrunch, The Verge, and Gizmodo, resulting in over seventy thousand extra visitors to the...

James Iles · Dec 10, 2018

Recently, Jamie Zoch (@Yofie) questioned whether search engine DuckDuckGo had acquired the Duck.com domain name from Google.

Search giant Google acquired the Duck.com domain name in 2010 with the acquisition of On2, a video codec company.

Today, DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg...

James Iles · Dec 9, 2018

In this week's edition of Top Topics, an investor tells the community about their latest .APP sale, we take a look at the potential correlation between .COM, .NET and .ORG sales and a domainer looks for a little bit of outbound advice. Elsewhere, a question of strategy is addressed.

I...

James Iles · Dec 5, 2018

Last week, we released the first of our two-part series looking at $10.7 million worth of three-letter .COM sales that took place on the NameJet platform since 2011. We looked at establishing domain name and pricing data, showing statistics such as the average sales price.

In this second...

James Iles · Dec 2, 2018

In this week’s Top Topics, investor AbdulBasit Makrani shares his experience with numeric domain names, domainers discuss the recent $853,000 sale of Translate.com and we ask, what ever happened to emoji domain names?

My Experience With Numeric Domains

Veteran domain name investor...

James Iles · Nov 29, 2018

Every month, domain auction house NameJet sends out a report of all domain sales from that month. Each report also contains a log of every month’s sales from June 2011 to the present day. All data from NameJet is publicly available via NameBio, where all purchases of $100 or more are tracked...

James Iles · Nov 25, 2018

In this week's Top Topics, an investor asks what you would do if you were the owner of Ethereum.com, would you sell it or keep it? Elsewhere, domainers disclose their best month of 2018 for sales and this week's featured poll asks whether .CO or .IO would be better for investment for one-word...

James Iles · Nov 22, 2018

MicroStrategy may not be one of the world’s most instantly recognisable brands, but they have amassed a portfolio of highly valuable domains. Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy has offered business intelligence and analytical services ever since. The company has also amassed a portfolio of one-word...

James Iles · Nov 16, 2018

This afternoon, I was informed by Sedo that the domain Trainings.com sold on its platform for $30,000 in September 2017. The details haven’t been made public until now. Trainings.com, registered in 2009, looks to have been previously owned by Domain Developers Fund, according to DomainIQ’s WHOIS...

James Iles · Nov 15, 2018

Sedo domain broker @Dave Evanson announced his latest six-figure sale this afternoon, confirming on social media that he had brokered the sale of Kush.com for $500,000. The sale is among the top ten four-letter .COM sales of the past five years, joining the likes of Give.com...

James Iles · Nov 14, 2018

With Christmas in just forty-one days, consumer activity in preparation for the big day is increasing day by day. Estimates show that spending in the USA for Christmas tops $1 trillion, with much of that spending taking place online. One of the most obvious type-in destinations for...

James Iles · Nov 10, 2018

Recently, we broke the news of @braden Pollock’s $500,000 sale of Q.org. At the time, the buyers were unknown since the domain held no content and was registered under privacy protection. This week, the domain’s content changed to display Q, a worldwide distributed cryptocurrency...

James Iles · Nov 7, 2018

Michigan-based Reink Media Group may be familiar to you as the company that purchased StockBrokers.com for $185,000 in 2011. In a 2015 interview, managing partner Blain Reinkensmeyer told us his reasoning for acquiring the name. This year, Reink Media Group added to their portfolio...

James Iles · Nov 3, 2018

Based on results from DomainIQ’s detection toolkit, the domain name Jellyfish.com may have been involved in a domain sale or a lease deal. The name has started forwarding to Jellyfish.co.uk, a British digital marketing agency. A potential deal hasn’t been verified with either the buyer or...

James Iles · Oct 31, 2018

Last year, DNJournal recorded more than $26 million worth of sales in their "Top 100 Reported Sales" table, lead by six deals valued at $1 million or more. It's can be interesting to revisit past sales, especially high-value sales, to see exactly what the name is now being used for and whether...

James Iles · Oct 28, 2018

In this week’s Top Topics, a domain investor reveals that a name from their portfolio was recently acquired by The Trump Organization. Elsewhere, a domainer asks how to deal with lowball inbound offers, and one seller has a particularly difficult situation to maneuver. We also ask what the...

James Iles · Oct 22, 2018

In February 2017, domain investor and CEO of Legal Brand Marketing, @Braden Pollock, acquired a portfolio of single-character .ORG domain names for an undisclosed fee. The names in the portfolio included A.org, B.org, R.org, T.org, Z.org and 8.org, which have all been put to use by Braden...

James Iles · Oct 19, 2018

In case you missed it, we covered the news of View's acquisition of the one-word domain View.com earlier this week. Whilst the sales price has not been revealed to us by either party, one investor shed some light on the possible sales price in the comments section after speaking with...

James Iles · Oct 17, 2018

Another highly valuable one-word .COM is off the market forever as View, an "intelligent glass" company based in California, has acquired the domain View.com from a New York-based company. Founded in 2006, View had a mission to reinvent the window with something called dynamic glass.

This idea...

James Iles · Oct 16, 2018

Domain name brokers are experts in buying and selling domain names on behalf of their clients, but in which scenarios should you consider hiring a domain broker? In our final installment in this series of Expert Exchange, we ask our assorted panel of domain name brokers to describe the...

James Iles · Oct 14, 2018

How do you go about making $10,000 per month from domain names? That question forms the basis for one of the most popular discussions of this week, one that also provides some helpful insights from investors who have achieved that level. Elsewhere, a poll asks how you made your biggest sale, and...

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