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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...

James Iles · Oct 11, 2018

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...

James Iles · Oct 7, 2018

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...

James Iles · Oct 3, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 30, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 26, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 23, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 20, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 16, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 13, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 8, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 5, 2018

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...

James Iles · Sep 2, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 30, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 26, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 23, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 19, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 16, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 10, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 8, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 4, 2018

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...

James Iles · Aug 1, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 29, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 26, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 20, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 18, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 17, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 17, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 16, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 11, 2018

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...

James Iles · Jul 7, 2018

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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