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information Top Topics ๐Ÿ™‚ Namecheap & Ukraine; Atom adds Leads; What's .Now Now? Buyers & Expired Auctions; Share Your Domainer Story

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domains Most Domains Don't Sell Because...

...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...
 
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information Top Topics ๐Ÿ™‚ Fuckers.org sold @ $20k; Sales Down Last 3 Months? NAS.com Sold: $1.2M; LLL .AI Valuation; Forums & AI Slop!

Top Topics ๐Ÿ™‚ 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...
 
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domains I Sold a Two-Letter .com and Then Watched It Sit Dark for Years

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...
 
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analysis How I Ranked Every Name In A 2000+ Domain Name Portfolio

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...
 
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information Top Topics๐Ÿ™‚Private Portfolio Manager; Why Good Domains Don't Sell; Genesis.ai sold at $400k; Celebrity Domain Expired; Afternic & X Trouble

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domains How I Decide if a Domain Category Has Real Momentum or Just Hype

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 โ€œhotโ€ within a week. Then the pressure starts building. If you do not buy now, you missed it.

To be fair...
 
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information Top Topics: Domain Search on NPs! Curse+Single Word .com? Afternic Experience; A New MVP Domainer; How to Monitor Domain Portfolios?

Top Topics โค๏ธ 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...
 
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domains Appraisal Tools Are a Filter, Not a Verdict

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...
 
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information Top Topics: Sedo purchase by Mistake; Corgi.com sold at $118k; Comp-backed Appraisals; Bar & Pub .com for $1MM; Appraise FlashSale.com

Top Topics โค๏ธ 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...
 
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domains New Platforms Don't Fix Weak Inventory

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...
 
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information Top Topics: Afternic Canceled Sale! Domz.comโ€”New Platform; Rare Loss for Berryhill; Can AI Manage Domain Portfolios Expertly? Valuate My Domains!

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domains The Middle-Class Domain Problem

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...
 
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information Afternic sale in limbo; DomainWorld launch; New Dutch Auction marketplace; New gTLDs in 2026; Cheap Domains & Risk

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strategy The Hidden Risk of Cheap Domains

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...
 
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domains New Platform Skepticism

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...
 
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news Agents Everywhere: AI Agents Become More Powerful, Personal and Omnipresent. What Does It Mean For Domain Names?

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...
 
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information Top Topics: Why I Built DotWeekly; Afternic Request Price; Late to Flipping Domains; Is this viable? Anthropic AI & Wars

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domains Paul Rubillo Told Me Something That Hit Different

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...
 
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analysis Domains in the Age of AI: Infrastructure, Not Just Branding

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...
 

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information Top Topics: PrivateLLM.com sold for $250k; AI: Scary good! Domain Value Formation; Alliteration & Brandables; NamePros App in the works?

Top Topics โค๏ธ 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
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domains When Comps Become Noise

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...
 
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information Top 10k AI Brands; GoDaddy not for Consumers; .COM & Fraud; Year 2 in Domaining; Non-payment at NameSilo

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domains What Happens After the Inquiry Comes In

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...
 
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information Top Topics: Delete.com closed at 6 figs; GoDaddy Clawed Back Domain; AI Branding War? Surface.ai & other Spaceship Sales; AI.com buyer offered $500M

Top Topics โค๏ธ 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
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information Defensive Domain Registration

"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...
 
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interviews Aspirational Pricing on Select Domain Names: An Interview with Doron Vermaat

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...
 
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technology How Far Should Domain Investors Trust AI Agents?

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...
 
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information Top Topics ๐Ÿˆโค๏ธ AI.com Sold for $70M; Atom Registrar is Live! .AI Price Increase; Spaceship: A Customer Story; Public Sales & Domain Pricing

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sales EmmaStone.com, The Super Bowl, and An 8-Day Deal With 15 Years of Patience Behind It

Squarespace is running its 12th Super Bowl campaign this year, and for domainers, it is one of the cleanest mainstream โ€œdomains matterโ€ 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...
 
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advice Why We Donโ€™t Sell

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...
 
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information Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ New Scam; Domain Sold During Negotiations! Bodis Shuts Down; Ever Regretted a Sale? New Monetization Feeds at Sedo

Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ 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...
 
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new gtlds Is Trump the elephant in the room for new gTLDs?

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?

Letโ€™s speculate.

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strategy You're Learning From the Wrong People

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...
 
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information Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ Domains I dropped; NameBio access; Aged Domains Valuation; AI and Monetization automation; Competing TLDs & Pricing

Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ 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...
 
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domains Finding Real End Users Is the Hardest Skill in Domaining

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...
 
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information Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ Is WHOIS Privacy costing you? Free AI-driven Appraisals; UDRP & Generic domains; Is one DNS enough? Mass-email & Outbound Sales: Spam?

Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ 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...
 
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domains If I had to cut my portfolio in half tomorrow, I would not start with spreadsheets, tools, or comps. I would start with honesty.

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...
 
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analysis 2025 Domain Name Market Dollar Volume Trends based on NameBio Data

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...
 
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information Top Topicsโ™ฅ๏ธDomains that'll sell for 6 figs; Custom NamePros Landers! Calculate profit: How? VAT & US buyers; Have I really failed?

Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ 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...
 
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opinion What Expiring Domains Teach Us

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...
 
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information Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธDN Strategy in 2026; Pickle.com sold for $1.2M; Umami.com back in auction; Geodomains: Where to sell? Happy New Year Domainers!!!!!!!!!!!

Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ 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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advice Your Portfolio Isn't Diversified, It's Unfocused

โ€œIโ€™m diversifying my portfolio.โ€

It sounds responsible. It sounds like you are managing risk. It sounds like you are thinking like an investor. A lot of the time, it is just a polite way of saying, โ€œI have no idea what Iโ€™m doing, but Iโ€™m staying busy.โ€

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information Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ DudeRanch.com sold; Stop Flexing Money! My GoDaddy DDC; First EVER domain sale; GameFi.com sold for $300k on Christmas Eve

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opinion Why This Domain?

Nobody is born knowing how to recognize true valueโ€”itโ€™s a skill developed over time through experience, observation, practice, and education. Psychologists agree that the ability to identify and prioritize value is shaped more by nurture than by nature.

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analysis Trends Domain Investors Talk About vs Trends Buyers Actually Act On

These past few months, I have spent a lot of time in domain forums and social media and I've noticed something weird.

The stuff we talk about constantly, which extensions are hot, which niches are dead, what's trending on Twitter, barely lines up with what actually sells.

We'll have fifty-page...
 
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information Top Topicsโ™ฅ๏ธFemale domainers; BM.ai registrant passed; Cybersquatting 101; Seniors & Domain investments; Expired domains and IP

Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ A weekly news review at NamePros!

A female domain investor's journey; BM.ai registrant passed; Is this Cybersquatting? Senior seeking advice on domains; Are expired domains abandoned property?

A Woman's Journey in a High-Stakes Market
A female domain...
 
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advice Why DNSSEC can break your domain lander and how to fix it

Quick heads-up for domain investors: DNSSEC can be a useful security feature when you run and control a live website and its DNS signing, but in the domain aftermarket it's usually a problem rather than a benefit. A leftover DNSSEC setting from a previous registrant can make your lander...
 
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domains Domain Pricing Advice Fails in the Real World

Domain pricing is supposed to get easier with experience.

It usually doesnโ€™t.

Well, maybe it gets a little easier. Maybe you get a little better, a little closer. But even investors who have been buying and selling for years will admit, quietly, that pricing still feels uncertain. Not because...
 
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information Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธWonderly: $100k; Can I trust Afternic Brokers? Domaining vs Gambling; Appraisal tools & newbies; Crazy sales for sub-par domains

Top Topics โ™ฅ๏ธ A weekly news review at NamePros!
Wonderly.com sold for $100k; Can I trust Afternic brokers? Domaining vs. Real Estate & Gambling; Appraisal tools question; Ridiculous domain sales.

Wonderly.com Sold For $100,000 At Afternic
Afternic might be valuing...
 
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