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information Top Topics: I've Been Threatened With a Lawsuit; Why Do We Monetize Domains?...

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...
 
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information Inside Interview: How Reink Media Group Acquired Investor.com

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...
 
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information Top Topics: I Sold Humanity.tv for $10,000; Would You Buy Gab.com?...

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...
 
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analysis Top 10 Sales of 2017: Where Are They Now?

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...
 
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information Top Topics: Trump Bought My Domain Name!; Dealing With Lowball Offers...

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...
 
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sales Braden Pollock Sold Q.org for $500,000

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...
 
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information Top Topics: Who's In Charge Anyway?; Do You Pay Taxes on Your Domain Sales?...

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...
 
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sales After $715 Million in Funding, View Acquires View.com

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...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: When Does It Make the Most Sense to Hire a Broker?

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...
 
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information Top Topics: How Do I Make $10,000 Per Month?; I'm Looking to Change Registrars...

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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news CT.com Acquired by Crypto News Site Cointelegraph

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 has seen many high value sales including the...
 
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information Top Topics: From $50 to $5,000 Per Month; Passive Inbound Income Strategy...

In this week's Top Topics, a domain investor shares their story from a $50 per month revenue in 2016 to $5,000 per month in 2018, including tips on how they managed such a feat inside of two years. Elsewhere, an investor accidentally accepted a $2,000 offer and a poll asks you to disclose the...
 
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information Top 10 Domains Owned by: The Booth Brothers

In the latest installment of our Top Ten series, we are taking a look at some of the best domains currently owned by James (@BoothDomains) and Andy Booth (@andyboothsi). These names, which combine both brother’s personal portfolios, show the type of domains the brothers are currently...
 
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information Top Topics: Mike Mann’s Selling Strategy; Staying Positive Between Sales…

Before getting into this week’s Top Topics, I have a warning. If you haven’t already added two-factor authentication to your registrar accounts, I would urge you to do it soon. I won’t go into details, but after an incident this week, some of my domain portfolio was at a high risk of being...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: Are Your Largest Sales from Outbound or Inbound Buyers?

As representatives for some of the world’s best domain names, our panel of expert brokers usually have a responsibility to monitor both inbound inquiries and perform outbound sales to actively find a buyer. Both inbound and outbound can produce impressive sales, but is one more effective for...
 
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information Top Topics: An Outbound Walkthrough for Beginners; I Got Paid in Just 9 Hours!...

British domain investor Andy Booth (@andyboothsi) today confirmed that he recently acquired the incredible one-word domain Zoom.com in a post to his Facebook page. According to DomainIQ, the name was previously owned by under privacy protection at GoDaddy, with WHOIS listings for...
 
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information QI: The TV Show With a Valuable 2-Letter Domain

When it comes to TV shows and movies, many media companies choose to go with low-cost alternatives to exact match domains. The movie Black Panther, for example, took just twenty-six days to reach $1 billion in revenue, yet Marvel opted not to acquire the BlackPanther.com domain name from...
 
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information Top Topics: My First Sale at $14,500; What Annoys You About the Domain Industry?...

As discovered by domain broker @Alan Dunn on Twitter, New York-based Jump Bikes recently acquired the Jump.com domain name. It's highly likely that the domain sold for a high amount, given the fact that Jump.com was part of Microsoft's vast domain portfolio. Jump Bikes was acquired...
 
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information 6 Great Domains Owned by Braden Pollock's Legal Brand Domains LLC

Continuing in our series of articles profiling great domains in the portfolios of leading investors and established companies, we are taking a look at six of the best names owned by domain investor @Braden Pollock's company, Legal Brand Domains LLC. According to DomainIQ, Braden's company...
 
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information Top Topics: Your Plan for 2019; The Final Minutes of a $22,000 Auction...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at strategies for domain investing in 2019, a domainer asks about conversion rates in outbound sales, and a poll asks how many domains you own in your domain portfolio. Elsewhere, an investor shares a video of the last moments of their $22,000 auction...
 
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poll Poll: Are You Consolidating Your Domains?

For domain investors with hundreds or thousands of names in their portfolios, management of those domains can be difficult. From ensuring all names are renewed to changing nameserver settings, doing this thousands of times across different registrars can be time consuming.

This is why many...
 
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information Top Topics: How Would You Invest $1,000?; Help! I've Had No Sales...

In this week’s Top Topics, an investor asks for advice on his investments after spending $500 on domain registrations. Elsewhere, we ask domainers to share the highest price they’ve paid for a name and another domainer asks for opinions on how best to spend a spare $1,000 on domain names...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: How Do You Qualify Potential Buyers?

Many top brokers look after some of the most sought-after domain names on the planet. This means an almost constant stream of inquiries and interest in these domains. The majority of interested parties will not be able to reach the often six-, seven-, or eight-figure prices required to acquire a...
 
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information Top Topics: A $100,000 Flippa Milestone; What Do You Look for in a Good Registrar?...

In this week's Top Topics, an investor shares the news that they have achieved $100,000 in sales at Flippa, beating their target of achieving that milestone by the end of 2018. Elsewhere, an investor gets blocked after attempting to perform outbound sales via Facebook and a poll asks whether...
 
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analysis 5 Great Domains Owned by Hasbro

American multi-national toy company Hasbro is considered to be the largest toy maker in the world in terms of stock market value. According to reports, the company produced revenues of $5.21 billion in 2017 thanks to existing lines in

Thanks to DomainIQ, we have been able to look through...
 
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information Top Topics: Does Anyone Still Make Money With Parking?; Over 30 Emails Received in 1 Day...

In this week's Top Topics, a domain name investor asks whether anyone still makes regular income via parking names anymore and a domainer reports their latest sale of a blockchain related domain. Elsewhere, George Kirikos posts a report about a six-figure domain sale and an investor shares the...
 
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analysis 5 Big Brands Who Don’t Own Their Exact Match .COM Name

The majority of big brands around the world, who have funding available for domain purchases, have already acquired their exact-match .COM names. Established companies such as Freedom Mortgage (freedom.com) and ICE (ice.com) have spent seven-figure fees to upgrade their domain names. However...
 
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information Top Topics: The Buyer Knows How Much I Paid; What's Your Development Project?...

In this week's Top Topics, we encounter a fairly unique situation in which a domainer has a deal canceled after the buyer finds out the domainer's acquisition price. We also take a look at the various development projects that are currently being undertaken by investors and we ask how outbound...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: What Are Your Top Tips for Successfully Closing a Domain Deal?

Our panel of expert domain name brokers have collectively closed hundreds of domain name deals worth millions of dollars. They have successfully refined their skills and can now be considered to be some of the best brokers in the industry.

In this edition of Expert Exchange, we’re lucky enough...
 
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information Top Topics: Do You Make 5 Figures Per Month?; Top 10 Mistakes With New gTLD's...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at a list of ten mistakes that new gTLD investors may be making. We also feature a poll asking domainers whether they are consistently making five-figures per month from domain investing and we look at the sensitive subject of sharing your portfolio with...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Why Perch Purchased Perch.com

In 2017, entrepreneurs Court Cunningham and Phil DeGisi founded Perch, a service that is rapidly transforming how people go about buying their homes. The company, who raised a total of $30 million in funding, are going from strength to strength. One of the company's most prized digital assets...
 
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information Top Topics: The Highest Offer You've Rejected; Can Hand Registered Names Be Flipped?...

In this week’s Top Topics, domain investors discuss the highest offers that they have rejected, with some revealing that they have previously declined six-figure offers. Elsewhere, a domainer asks for opinions on their portfolio strategy and a new investor asks whether hand registered names can...
 
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analysis Mike Mann's Top 10 Sales: Where Are They Now?

Mike Mann has a long and successful history within the domain name industry. As the founder of BuyDomains.com, Mike created the second largest market for domain names at the time and successfully exited the company in 2005. Now, @Mike Mann heads up DomainMarket.com and boasts a portfolio...
 
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information Top Topics: What Will the Industry Be Like in 10 Years?; How Domaining Changed My Life...

In case you missed it earlier this week, we reported on the news that Ice.com sold for $3.5 million. At the time of publishing, the buyer was unknown. However, since then, the name has started forwarding to TheIce.com, which is owned by Intercontinental Exchange, the company that owns the NYSE...
 
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sales ICE.com Purchased By Intercontinental Exchange

Yesterday, the news broke that the three-letter domain name Ice.com was sold in a deal brokered by @Brian Harbin and David Clements (@davidclements) of Brannan's. At the time of the news breaking, the buyer's identity remained a secret, but it was known that the buyer...
 
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sales Breaking: ICE.com Sells for $3.5 Million!

Behind the scenes, there are numerous seven-figure sales that occur without public attention due to various non-disclosure agreements (NDA's). However, in this case, we're able to disclose the news of the largest domain sale of the year by far. The domain name in question is Ice.com and the...
 
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information Top Topics: Have You Ever Met a Domainer?; The Story of My Latest Sale...

Last week, the sale of NBX.com was announced via @Sedo. The name sold for $130,000 and has subsequently moved to the new buyer. Due to GDPR, we are unable to see the full WHOIS details of the new owner, but it’s highly likely that the domain sold to the Norwegian Block Exchange.

The...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Why Adam Perzow Spent 7 Figures on Coins.com

The influx of interest and funding into the cryptocurrency industry has lead to some of the largest domain sales over the past few years. One of the most recent cryptocurrency related sales was that of Coins.com by Adam Perzow in a seven-figure transaction. Adam, an entrepreneur from Canada, has...
 
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domains WW.com, XW.com and BZ.com All Change Hands Today

With 676 two-letter .COM domain names in existence, transactions involving those names can be few and far between. In fact, the last time we reported on a two-letter .COM sale was almost two and a half months ago. Today, news has been disclosed of three separate two-letter .COM sales.

The...
 
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information Top Topics: The Dangers of Trends; I Sold 38 Domains to a Single Buyer...

Yesterday, we reported on the likely Crypto.com sale that took place recently. As expected, there was wide interest from the domain industry in this sale, including some fascinating Twitter comments from @MediaOptions CEO Andrew Rosener, in which he revealed that he knew of a...
 
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sales Crypto.com Sold in Undisclosed Deal

Crypto related domain names have been hot property for investors in the recent past with domains such as CryptoWorld.com and CryptoBank.com selling for six-figures a piece. Up until now, the ultimate crypto domain name has never been for sale, with its owner publicly revealing the name...
 
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analysis 8 Crypto and Blockchain Brands That Bought One-Word .COM’s in the Last 12 Months

Two industries that have caught the attention of the general public and domain investors over the past couple of years. Those are cryptocurrency and blockchain. Thanks to an influx of investment and funding available, many innovative companies have been created within the industries.

With ample...
 
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information Top Topics: Share Your Parking Data; The Best Platform to Monetize Chinese Traffic?...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we showcase a poll gauging the community's opinion of hand registering domains. Elsewhere, we take a look at some parking data that has been shared publicly by several domain investors. Speaking of parking, we also discuss the prospect of parking services...
 
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sales Top 10 Sales This Year: Where Are They Now?

It's now just over halfway through 2018 and with six months worth of reported sales behind us, it's an opportune moment to take a look at the top sales of the year so far. DNJournal regularly charts verified sales that are indexed in a yearly top one hundred sales.

We're going to take a look at...
 
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information Top Topics: Is It Possible to Beat DropCatch?; VM.com Looks to Have Been Sold...

It has been mentioned several times on Twitter, but another two-letter .COM looks to have been sold very recently. This name, VM.com, moved to Escrow.com's concierge account before moving under privacy protection to GoDaddy, which would indicate a sale. It's unclear who bought the name, but it's...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: Should You Always Quote a Price?

When it comes to selling a domain name, establishing price expectations is an important step. Whether it’s securing an outbound sale or negotiating an inbound inquiry, the price is a vital factor. In this edition of Expert Exchange, we are asking seven top industry brokers about how they handle...
 
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information Top Topics: I Sold SportsBet.tv For $7,250; Should I Register a Trademark?...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, the owner of a premium one-word domain asks the community how to go about selling their valuable name. Elsewhere, a domain investor announces the sale of a two-word .TV domain name, and some advice about domain trademarks is shared. There is also a poll in...
 
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domains 7 Great Domain Names Owned by Michael Cyger

Investor and entrepreneur @Michael Cyger became a well-known figure in the domain name industry thanks to his @DomainSherpa brand, which he created in 2012. Through DomainSherpa, Michael won several industry awards including Blogger of the Year, Developer of the Year and Goodwill...
 
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information Top Topics: Company Asked Me to Return Domain; I Quit Domaining...

Earlier this week, we asked whether a newspaper called the Patriot Ledger was in the process of selling the domain Ledger.com. Today, our suspicions were proven to be true as the domain moved into the possession of cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider Ledger. As of writing, Ledger.com...
 
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sales Did This Newspaper Just Sell Ledger.com?

Up until May 31st 2018, the premium one-word domain Ledger.com forwarded to PatriotLedger.com, a newspaper for the city of Quincy in Massachusetts. Despite the word being more commonly connected to economics, the Ledger.com domain has been associated with the Patriot Ledger newspaper for a long...
 
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