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Acroplex · May 17, 2026

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Weekly news review at NamePros!

Domaining: Full Time business? .Art Celebrates 10 Years; Twig.com Sold for $695k; How to Sell Aged Domains? Domain Management Issues for Clients.

Is domaining your full time business ?
Are you involved with...

Sully · May 12, 2026

There is a difference between what domainers talk about and what founders actually do when it is time to launch.

That difference matters.

In domain circles, extension conversations can get out of hand fast. One week it is .ai. Then somebody says .io is losing steam. Then somebody else says...

Bob Hawkes · May 11, 2026

What do Bob, Ava, Toot, 7007, PFP, Digid, SMS, 2222, Stats, Nowon, and CPC have in common? Huh?!? Yes, that too!

They are all palindromes, a word, number, phrase or other combination that reads the same in either direction. Oh, and every entry in the above list, including ‘huh’, has...

Acroplex · May 10, 2026

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Weekly news review at NamePros!

Green.com sold for $7.5 Million; Canadian Domainers meetup in Vancouver; One-on-One conversation with your favorite Domainer; Why some available domains don't get picked? America is late on AI regulation.

Green.com domain name...

Ali Mustafa · May 9, 2026

Many people enter domain investing every day.

Some stay.

Most quietly leave.

At first, everything looks like opportunity.
Every domain feels like it could work.

But over time, a shift happens.
The real difference.
It is not luck.
It is not tools.
It is not even experience alone.
It is...

Sully · May 5, 2026

The domain industry changes all the time, but somehow the arguments stay the same.

New marketplaces, new hot extensions, whatever AI is doing this week. Someone posts a big sale, everyone reacts to it, and within a few comments, we are right back to the same debates we have been...

Acroplex · May 3, 2026

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Weekly news review at NamePros!

GoDaddy Gave Domain To Stranger; DotWeekly Curated Lists; Can't Close SnapNames Account! MainStreet.ai: Sold for $100k; Intuit Tries to Grab QB.com;

GoDaddy Gave a Domain to a Stranger Without Any Documentation
GoDaddy...

Sully · Apr 28, 2026

In the last article, I wrote about the idea that a lot of domains do not sell because nobody ever really sees them. They sit on a landing page or marketplace listing for years, and we mistake that for exposure.

I still believe that is true.

But there is another layer to it. Even...

Acroplex · Apr 25, 2026

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Weekly news review at NamePros!

Namecheap Blocking Mariupol? Atom Adds New End-user Pitch; What's .Now? Buyers Pay More For Expired Domains? Share Your Story.

Namecheap block Ukrainians from Mariupol and other occupied cities?
Four full years after the...

Sully · Apr 21, 2026

...Nobody Ever Sees Them

There is this idea floating around the domain world that if a name is good enough, it will sell eventually. Maybe not this year, maybe not next, but someday the right buyer shows up and recognizes it.

Technically, that can be true. I just do not believe it as...

Acroplex · Apr 19, 2026

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Weekly news review at NamePros!

Fuckers.org sold for $20k; Sales Down in last 3 months? NAS.com sold for $1.2M; LLL .AI Domain; Forum Communities & AI in 2026.

Fuckers.org Sold for $20,000
After receiving an offer of $1,000 dollars, the owner of this...

Sully · Apr 15, 2026

Here is one that has been scratching at my mind for a while. It's been a lingering thought and not something I planned to write about. Yet, here I am.

Years ago, I was a partner in a two-letter .com. I won't give up the exact name, but if you followed me over the years you can figure it out. We...

Bob Hawkes · Apr 13, 2026

These are important questions:

Is this domain name worth renewing?
What are my best domain names?
Which domain names have better probability of selling?
Which domain names should be repriced?
How can I improve the quality of my domain portfolio?
Is there a quantitative way...

Acroplex · Apr 12, 2026

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Weekly news review at NamePros!

Built a Private Domain Portfolio Manager; Good Domains Still Don't Sell; Genesis.ai Sold for $400k; Expired .com of Celebrities; Afternic & X: Got in Trouble!

I built a private domain portfolio manager that runs on...

Sully · Apr 7, 2026

One of the easiest ways to lose money in domains is to mistake attention for momentum.

A few reported sales hit the timeline. Investors start posting hand regs. A category gets labeled “hot” within a week. Then the pressure starts building. If you do not buy now, you missed it.

To be fair...

Acroplex · Apr 5, 2026

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Easter Sunday news review at NamePros!

Domain Search On NPs; Curse Word Prefix & Short .COM; Afternic Experience; Andrew Miller: New MVP Domainer; How To Monitor Domain Portfolio?

Domain search on NamePros!
Already being the #1 Domain Forum, NamePros...

Sully · Mar 31, 2026

One thing I keep noticing is how many investors use free or cheap appraisals as a stand-in for actual market testing. I've done it too. Not recently, but early on I held onto names longer than I should have because the number looked good. Nobody was buying. The tool didn't know that.

That was...

Acroplex · Mar 29, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Sedo purchase by mistake; Corgi.com sold at $118k; Comp-backed Appraisal Tool; Bar & Pub sold for $1MM; Appraise FlashSale.com.

Help me, purchase by mistake on Sedo
When making offers on domains make sure you...

Sully · Mar 24, 2026

I wrote recently about how skeptical this industry is toward new platforms, and how that skepticism is earned. We've watched enough launches come and go to know that trust accumulates slowly here.

That piece got me thinking about the other side of it.

Because there's a version of...

Acroplex · Mar 22, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Afternic canceled our sale! Domz.com—A New Model for Domain Listings; Rare Loss of John Berryhill; Could AI Manage Domain Portfolios? New Domainer: Valuate My Domains

Afternic cancelled our sale after sitting on it for weeks...

Sully · Mar 17, 2026

Bad names are easy to spot. So are great ones.

The bad names are the ones that never should have been registered. You know them when renewal season arrives and your stomach does that thing. The great ones practically explain themselves. You know why you own them. You know who wants them. You...

Acroplex · Mar 15, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Afternic sale in limbo; DomainWorld launched; Dutch Auction Marketplace rolls out; New TLDs in 2026 - Out yet? The Hidden Risk of Cheap domains

Afternic Import Lead sale stuck in limbo — buyer has domain, Afternic has funds...

Ali Mustafa · Mar 13, 2026

Many people enter domain investing because the entry cost looks very small. A person can register a domain for ten dollars or sometimes even less during promotions. At first, this looks like a good opportunity. The thinking is simple. If one domain sells for a few hundred dollars it can easily...

Sully · Mar 10, 2026

I recently wrote a review on my blog that got me thinking.

Domainers are not easy to impress.

A new marketplace launches and instead of excitement, the first response is usually a pretty simple question. Who's actually using it?

Not who's writing about it. Not who's in the press...

Bob Hawkes · Mar 9, 2026

Artificial intelligence offers breathtaking opportunities. AI also poses frightening risks. Lately, thinking about that keeps me awake at night. I imagine I am not the only one. Many of the most active and hotly debated discussions here on NamePros are about artificial intelligence.

This...

Acroplex · Mar 8, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Built DotWeekly & it's FREE! Afternic: Request Price Time; Late to Domain Flipping; Tell me if this is viable; Anthropic: AI War

Built DotWeekly.com — Free Expired Domain Search With Dictionary Filtering, Smart Tags, and...

Sully · Mar 3, 2026

I jumped on a call with Paul Rubillo this week to talk about what he's been building, what he's buying, and what he thinks happens next in domains as AI keeps steamrolling the internet. Talking with other domainers and entrepreneurs always gets me excited, and I think it is essential for...

Ali Mustafa · Mar 2, 2026

I am relatively new to domaining, but I come from a technical background. Looking at the rapid shifts happening across IT & AI agents, automation, APIs, cloud-native systems & I keep coming back to one foundational constant:

No matter how abstract the interface becomes, everything still...

Acroplex · Mar 1, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

PrivateLLM.com sold for $250k; AI is scary good! Domain value formation; Alliteration and Brandables; Why don't we have an app?

PrivateLLM.com sold for $250,000 at Afternic
Large Language Models (LLMs) are the core sets...

Sully · Feb 24, 2026

I spent two hours last Tuesday night on NameBio looking at comps for a domain I already knew I should price at $3,500. I knew it was a $3,500 name. I've been doing this long enough to recognize the structure, the buyer pool, the use cases. But I still went digging. Found a few sales that...

Acroplex · Feb 22, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Top 10,000 AI Names; GoDaddy no longer for consumers; Does .com mitigate fraud? Year 2 in Domaining! How to file claim for non-payment.

I analyzed 10,000+ AI Company Names to Identify Top Keywords, Trends & More
Now...

Sully · Feb 17, 2026

I spend a ridiculous amount of time talking about how to generate leads. Outbound strategies. Landing page optimization. Where to list. How to get in front of end users. All important stuff. I've written about most of it.

But the part that decides whether you get paid is what happens next. What...

Acroplex · Feb 15, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Delete.com closed at 6 figures; GoDaddy took domain back after 15 days; Is this AI Branding War? Surface.ai & Other .AI sales on Spaceship; AI.com buyer received a $500M offer

Delete.com auction closed at six figures
An...

Sully · Feb 11, 2026

"Defensive domains" is one of those phrases that gets repeated so often nobody stops to think about what it actually means anymore.

At its simplest, defensive domain registration is when you buy domains you have no intention of using, purely to keep someone else from owning them. Typos...

Bob Hawkes · Feb 9, 2026

Getting pricing right is one of the most challenging aspects of successful domain name investing. Doron Vermaat has been highly successful with his own portfolio, and has, through Efty, helped many other investors be successful.

When I heard Doron share ideas on aspirational pricing...

Future Sensors · Feb 8, 2026

For years, domain investors have experimented with AI in small, contained ways. Most of us have used prompts to generate name ideas, write descriptions, suggest BIN prices, or even help (co-)decide whether a domain should be renewed or dropped. These interactions are useful, but they are not...

Acroplex · Feb 8, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

AI.com sold for $70M; Atom Domain Registrar is live; .AI Price Increase; Spaceship: Customer Story; Public Sales and how you price your domains.

AI.com Sold for $70 Million in Biggest Domain Name Sale Ever Recorded...

Sully · Feb 8, 2026

Squarespace is running its 12th Super Bowl campaign this year, and for domainers, it is one of the cleanest mainstream “domains matter” moments we have seen in a long time. Big stage, big creative, and a simple message that every domainer has been yelling into the void for 20 years.

This year...

Sully · Feb 3, 2026

Most discussions in domaining focus on buying. What to register. What to acquire. What trends to chase. Far less attention is paid to the other side of the equation: selling.

Not because selling is unimportant, but because many investors quietly avoid it.

I am not talking about renewals or...

Acroplex · Jan 31, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

New Scam; Domain Sold During Negotiations; Bodis Shutdown; Ever Regretted Your Sale? New Monetization Feeds at Sedo.

New type of Scam
Be careful out there: A new type of scam does not seek a certificate of appraisal but...

DomainIncite · Jan 29, 2026

How scared should companies be of Donald Trump after they pay almost a quarter-million dollars to file their new gTLD applications with ICANN a few months from now? How scared should ICANN be that some applications might attract the wrong type of attention?

Let’s speculate.

To date, the second...

Sully · Jan 28, 2026

I spent my first few years in domains trying to be someone I wasn't.

I'd scroll through X (Twitter in those days), see posts about five-figure sales, and think "that's what success looks like." So I tried to copy it. I looked at what premium investors were buying and tried to find cheaper...

Acroplex · Jan 25, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Visited domains I dropped; NameBio access rules; Aged Domains valuation; Can AI register & monetize domains? Competing TLDs & yours.

Visited some of my old names that I let go...
Dropping domains is part of the...

Sully · Jan 20, 2026

Most people think the hard part of domain investing is finding good names. It is not. The hard part is figuring out who would actually buy them.

I am convinced that identifying real end users is the most difficult and most misunderstood skill in domaining. It is also the skill that separates...

Acroplex · Jan 18, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Is WHOIS privacy costing you? Free AI-powered appraisal tool; UDRP filed against generic domain; Only one nameserver for this domain; Domain mass-emailing pitfalls.

How much is WHOIS privacy actually costing you?
Domain...

Sully · Jan 13, 2026

Most portfolios are not collections of assets. They are collections of decisions made at different skill levels, in different market conditions, often by different versions of yourself. Some names were bought with clarity. Others were bought with hope. If I had to make a clean cut overnight, my...

Bob Hawkes · Jan 12, 2026

Each year, I look at dollar volume trends for sales reported in NameBio. This report is based on about 190,300 domain name sales recorded for 2025 at NameBio, with a total dollar volume of more than $244 million USD.

The domain name market, at least as reflected in the NameBio...

Acroplex · Jan 11, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Which domain will make you 6 figs? Custom NamePros Landers; Calculate profit when selling domains; Do US buyers pay VAT? Have I really failed?

Post one domain you think it'll make you 6 figures
At NamePros, the new year...

Sully · Jan 6, 2026

After you've watched enough domains expire, you stop thinking about them as inventory. You start thinking about them as decisions. Thousands of small decisions, made quietly, usually without anyone else watching.

At first, expirations feel random. Names you thought were solid disappear. Names...

Acroplex · Jan 4, 2026

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Your strategy for 2026; Pickle.com sold for $1.2M; Umami.com back to auction; Geodomains: Where to sell? Happy New Year, Domainers!

What's your DN strategy in 2026?
Another year, another round of "same old, same old!"...

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The domain industry changes all the time, but somehow the arguments stay the same.

In the last article, I wrote about the idea that a lot of domains do not sell because nobody ever really sees them. They sit on a landing page or marketplace listing for years, and we mistake that for exposure.