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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?

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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!"...

Sully · Dec 30, 2025

“I’m diversifying my portfolio.”

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, “I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m staying busy.”

Let’s separate two things that get lumped...

Acroplex · Dec 28, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

DudeRanch.com expired, sold; Stop Flexing Money! My GoDaddy DDC; First EVER domain sale; GameFi.com sold for $300k.

DudeRanch.com expired (pending delete), and I acquired it for $17,949
Some dude spent almost $18k...

Elie Eweka · Dec 26, 2025

Nobody is born knowing how to recognize true value—it’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.

The same principle applies when choosing...

Sully · Dec 24, 2025

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...

Acroplex · Dec 21, 2025

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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...

Future Sensors · Dec 21, 2025

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...

Sully · Dec 16, 2025

Domain pricing is supposed to get easier with experience.

It usually doesn’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...

Acroplex · Dec 14, 2025

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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...

Sully · Dec 9, 2025

There's a strange phenomenon in this industry that everyone sees but almost nobody talks about. It doesn't show up in conference panels, it rarely appears in forum threads, and you certainly won't catch it on a registrar's marketing page. It's quieter than bad renewals and sneakier than...

Bob Hawkes · Dec 8, 2025

While it is instructive to look at domain name sales volume data, that, by itself, does not show whether the volume is made up of a large number of modest sales, or a smaller number of high-value sales.

Each month Afternic provides filtered and unfiltered lists of the top selling keywords. Most...

Acroplex · Dec 7, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

NetSol suspended my ChatGPT domain; AbdulBasit moved to NamePros landers; Is the Crypto domain market dead? Top 5 domain trends in 2026; Creative ideas for domain names

NetworkSolutions Suspended My Domain CHATGPT4.WIN w/o...

Future Sensors · Dec 7, 2025

This year has once again shown why NamePros is the beating heart of the domain industry. Day after day, forum members bring curiosity, experience, and a willingness to share hard-won lessons. That steady, collective effort makes the forum more than a message board: it is a living laboratory...

bhartzer · Dec 4, 2025

Domain investing has evolved over the years, which is a good thing. Search engines are smarter now. Brand enforcement by companies is more aggressive than it has been in the past. And AI makes it easier to spot possible legal and reputation risks before you buy a domain.

As a domain investors...

Sully · Dec 3, 2025

I've been calling myself a domain investor for almost twenty years. It's what was on my NamePros profile, what I had on my blog bio, what I mumble when someone wants to know why I own so many random URLs.

But I've been thinking lately that the title doesn't really fit anymore. Maybe it never...

Acroplex · Nov 30, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!
Gname scammed me for $10k; Is Escrow.com still working? Quotes about domains from end-users; Longtail domains: A hidden cash engine; Geo-domains: City/Niche order.

GNAME scammed me with $10k domain purchased at their marketplace...

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