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James Iles · Jan 27, 2018

Two Years As a Domainer: No Sales

Since 2016, this domainer has been a follower of the industry and has amassed a small portfolio of thirty-two domains. After acquiring these names and paying their renewal fees, they have struggled to sell them.

What would you recommend to help...

James Iles · Jan 26, 2018

At the end of November 2017, we published the news that DO.com had changed hands for an undisclosed fee. The domain, used by companies such as Microsoft and Salesforce in the past, looks to have been sold on to China just under two months later.

Domain investor George Kirikos...

James Iles · Jan 23, 2018

Last week, Elliot Silver (@EJS) of DomainInvesting.com revealed that NameBio created a new domain sales category to allow investors to easily track cryptocurrency related domain sales. According to @Michael from NameBio, the new category produces sales data based on a number of...

James Iles · Jan 19, 2018

Leading domain industry conference NamesCon is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas from January 28th through to January 31st. If you are attending, then you may be interested in the "Name Behind the Pro" meetup, hosted by GoDaddy. On Monday, January 29th from 3:30-5pm PST in the Nine Fine...

James Iles · Jan 15, 2018

In the first edition of Detected Domains for 2018, we use DomainIQ's portfolio monitoring tools to bring you the latest sales and acquisitions from some of the most well-known names in the domain industry. These include Media Options' sale of the one-word domain Impala.com, a possible...

James Iles · Jan 12, 2018

According to DomainIQ, it looks like Media Options sold the one-word domain Impala.com recently. In a March 2017 edition of the DomainSherpa Review, it was revealed that the domain was acquired for $30,000. This 1994 domain has now been sold to Tempting Brands AG, a European company that...

James Iles · Jan 10, 2018

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc is a popular professional wrestling company that offers live and televised events. Since the company’s creation in the 1980’s, WWE has become a publicly traded company with a current market cap of around $1.6 billion.

The company heavily protects their...

James Iles · Jan 5, 2018

In the first Top Topics of 2018, we discover why one domain investor thinks that any correlation between a domain's age and its value is a myth. We also read a report of a domainer making a $500 profit within minutes of reaching out to an end user. And finally, is the virtual reality (VR) domain...

James Iles · Jan 2, 2018

Last year, the digital investment space has been dominated by the continual rise of cryptocurrency. While the phenomenal potential returns from cryptocurrency investment have grabbed headlines around the world, the domain industry has continued to produce fascinating stories of its own. Here...

James Iles · Dec 29, 2017

While many domain investors have taken time off over Christmas to celebrate the festive period with friends and families, @Mike Mann is still closing deals before the year ends. Yesterday, Mike announced his most recent sale via Twitter. The domain, GreenBluff.com, was acquired by...

James Iles · Dec 22, 2017

In this week's Top Topics we ask how much O.com will sell for, we discuss domain landing pages and we look forward to 2018 by discussing targets for the upcoming year. If you celebrate Christmas, we hope that you have an excellent festive period. If you don't celebrate Christmas, then there are...

James Iles · Dec 20, 2017

Seasonal domain names can be profitable. We’ve seen in the past that Thanksgiving.com and Halloween.com receive huge spikes in traffic, and presumably revenue, around those specific holidays. One of the most popular seasonal domain names has to be Christmas.com.

With billions of dollars...

James Iles · Dec 18, 2017

Last December, I published an article entitled “By this time next year, I will…” which outlined my own domaining goals for 2017. Almost a year on from that article, I thought it would be an opportune time to review the year to see whether those goals had been met. As of writing, the...

James Iles · Dec 15, 2017

In this week’s edition of Top Topics, domain investors discuss a recent tweet from veteran investor Rick Schwartz, another investor reveals one of the top five .TV sales of the year and we discuss cryptocurrency’s impact on domain name investing. Elsewhere, a domain investor asks about the...

James Iles · Dec 14, 2017

Last month we published the news of a Chinese cryptocurrency exchange's acquisition of ZB.com for a digital asset service. This week, it seems that another cryptocurrency company has opted to acquire a two-letter .COM as UnitedBitcoin looks to have acquired the UB.com domain name from...

James Iles · Dec 13, 2017

In this the last edition of Detected Domains for this year, we have discovered some incredible purchases from some of the domain industry’s top investors as well as sales from companies such as DomainMarket.com, Media Options and Anything.com.

Thanks to DomainIQ’s portfolio monitoring tool, we...

James Iles · Dec 11, 2017

One of the biggest stories in domain investing this year was Elon Musk's acquisition of the X.com domain name from PayPal. The news, originally reported by DomainInvesting.com, made headlines around the World and put domain investing briefly into the spotlight. The entrepreneur and current...

James Iles · Dec 8, 2017

Our Top Topics this week are book-ended by two contrasting stories of recent domain transactions. We start with a domainer offering to donate a domain name to a startup and we finish with a report of a five-figure domain sale from a $1.99 domain registration. Elsewhere, an investor lists their...

James Iles · Dec 6, 2017

Consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble, also known as P&G, is one of America’s largest companies. Ranked at number thirty-six on the Fortune 500 chart, P&G has over 100,000 employees and boasted a total revenue of over $65 billion in 2016.

The company owns many of the world’s most famous...

James Iles · Dec 4, 2017

Cryptocurrency is a hot topic amongst investors. With Bitcoin surpassing $10,000 and Ethereum nudging $500 in recent weeks, the attraction of the digital currency industry is undeniable. This attraction has lead many domainers to register and acquire cryptocurrency related domain names in 2017...

James Iles · Dec 1, 2017

In this week's edition of Top Topics, a domain investor receives valuable advice after announcing that they were quitting domain investing. Elsewhere, two five-figure .TV sales were announced by the same seller. These domains were both one-word names that look to have been sold to end users. We...

James Iles · Nov 30, 2017

Two-letter .COM domain names are an extremely rare class of domain names. With just 676 in existence, their value has risen sharply over the past few years, thanks largely to participation from Chinese domain investors. What’s rarer than a two-letter .COM? Perhaps a two-letter .COM that is also...

James Iles · Nov 29, 2017

News reports and features from domain industry blogs are so frequent that it is often easy to miss some stories. Today, we're going to recap some of the articles from the NamePros blog that you may have missed over the past few months. These hand-picked articles range from important news updates...

James Iles · Nov 27, 2017

It’s always interesting to read stories from domain name investors. Domain investing is such a diverse and interesting industry that there’s certainly no lack of stories that investors can tell about their purchases, sales or deals gone wrong. Today, I wanted to briefly share the story of my...

James Iles · Nov 24, 2017

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we highlight a discussion dedicated to domain industry Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. We also take a look at the details of a four-figure .TV domain sale that was announced this week and we find out which domain name registrar has been voted as the...

James Iles · Nov 20, 2017

In this edition of Detected Domains, we take a look at some incredible acquisitions and sales from some of the most prominent domain name investors from the past few weeks. Thanks to DomainIQ’s suite of monitoring tools, we are able to detect some interesting domain purchases and sales that you...

James Iles · Nov 17, 2017

Regular readers of the NamePros Blog may recognise the name John Rampton from our Inside Interview series in which he discussed his $130,000 purchase of Due.com via the Flippa.com platform. With Due.com thriving, it seems that John has turned his attention to a new project, Calendar...

James Iles · Nov 17, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, we hear about an investor's four-figure .TV sale from a reg-fee domain name and Shane Cultra creates a popular "Ask Me Anything" discussion. Elsewhere, there is a major update on the recent SATI.com Sedo auction and domainers speculate on how much they would be willing...

James Iles · Nov 16, 2017

A leading lifestyle brand for gamers, Razer, has been one of the most popular companies on Crunchbase over the past few years. Having raised a total of $175 million in funding including a $50 million round in May 2017, the company has grown in popularity and now boasts a user base of around 35...

James Iles · Nov 15, 2017

In August, we published the news that the domain name Monkey.com had been sold in a deal worth $500,000. The sale, verified independently through an Escrow.com sales agreement, listed Daniel Mark Harrison of Monkey Capital as the buyer.

Daniel was scheduled to submit payments at regular...

James Iles · Nov 14, 2017

Every quarter, Giuseppe Graziano of GGRG.com and Intelium Corp team up to produce an industry-leading report detailing the current state of the liquid domain market. With the end of 2017 fast approaching, the latest liquid domain report is now available.

In this edition of Domain Data, we’re...

James Iles · Nov 13, 2017

In just over twenty years, e-commerce and tech company Amazon has revolutionised online shopping, becoming the world’s largest Internet company in the process. With over a quarter of a million employees and a market cap of over $329 billion, the company has exceeded the expectations of many...

James Iles · Nov 10, 2017

Last Saturday, we posted the news that the domain name Curve.com had been sold in a deal co-brokered by Monte Cahn and Joe Uddeme. At the time, the domain was “pending transfer”, which left us with little idea of who the buyer was. Earlier this week, the buyer was revealed as Brent Oxley...

James Iles · Nov 8, 2017

Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter in August to have his say on domain extensions. According to Vitalik, .IO and .ME are hot whilst .COM is “stale and boring”. Cryptocurrency, in general, is a hot topic at the moment, and Vitalik’s comments made us think.

Does the...

James Iles · Nov 7, 2017

Sedo’s senior broker Dave Evanson has just confirmed that the one-word domain name Mommy.com has just sold at Sedo. It looks as though this could be a sale brokered by Sedo themselves.

In a post to Dave’s Facebook page just now, he confirmed:

Mommy .com just sold by Sedo for $100,000...

James Iles · Nov 6, 2017

When a company launches, acquiring a premium domain name is either impossible due to budget restraints or low on the founder's list of priorities. However, as startups grow thanks to increased user bases and access to funding, it's often wise to secure the best domain possible for the brand...

James Iles · Nov 4, 2017

Today we are able to confirm the that the incredible one-word domain name Curve.com has just been sold in a transaction brokered by Right Of the Dot's Monte Cahn and NameExperts.com's Joe Uddeme. The news, confirmed by Monte earlier today, comes as the domain's WHOIS moves into "Pending...

James Iles · Nov 3, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, a domain investor shares details of their first ever domain sale for Bitcoin and a domainer asks for advice on a possible domain sale that may be in doubt. Elsewhere, there's an informative guide for newer investors on how to find potential buyers for your domain names...

James Iles · Nov 1, 2017

China's love of short domain names and cryptocurrency have intersected here as a new Chinese digital currency exchange has just launched on a two-letter .COM domain, ZB.com. Following China's ban on citizens trading in cryptocurrency, this site is attempting to skirt around those restrictions by...

James Iles · Oct 30, 2017

In this edition of Detected Domains, we look at some of the major purchases and sales from leading investors within the past few weeks. Thanks to data from DomainIQ's portfolio monitoring tool, we're able to detect some interesting domainer transactions including a cryptocurrency related...

James Iles · Oct 27, 2017

Brokerage company Media Options looks to have released a brand new design for their website. After sticking with the same design for many years, Media Options have revamped their website, allowing users to easily search for domain names listed on their platform whilst also offering easy...

James Iles · Oct 26, 2017

One of the biggest attractions of domain name investing is that there are so many ways that you could make money from domain names. The interviews that you watch and read from some of the industry’s leading figures is proof enough that there are numerous ways of making money from domain names...

James Iles · Oct 23, 2017

With Halloween fast approaching, it will be interesting to look at the history of the Halloween.com domain name. All Hallows Evening, shortened to Halloween, is a celebration observed in many countries on October 31st. The Halloween that we experience today actually originated from Celtic...

James Iles · Oct 20, 2017

Earlier this week, we published the news that Heritage Auctions acquired the one-word domain Heritage.com. Today, Candace from Starfire Holdings confirmed that they had brokered the deal for Heritage.com. Starfire Holdings, run by Ali Zandi and Kevin Fink, also added the Heritage.com...

James Iles · Oct 18, 2017

Global auction house Heritage Auctions is no stranger to premium domain names. Having hosted their main website on the two-letter .COM domain HA.com for many years, the company has now made the move to acquire the one-word domain Heritage.com in a deal that could be into the six-figure range...

James Iles · Oct 16, 2017

We've previously given several examples of corporations that own great .COM domain names, but today we are going to look at five music acts that have been smart enough to acquire a great .COM domain name. In some cases, the acts have been even smarter to hang on to those domain names as their...

James Iles · Oct 13, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, we explore the trend of double letter domain names that has been popular with startups. We also take a look at whether 2017 has been a slow year for domain names and one domain investor receives advice after revealing their plans to quit domaining for good. Elsewhere...

James Iles · Oct 12, 2017

In previous editions of Domain Data, we have given you some extremely valuable data about the type of domain names that startups buy, which domain extensions are most popular and more. Today, we wanted to bring you something slightly different. Here, we will be profiling seven recently funded...

James Iles · Oct 9, 2017

At the beginning of this year, NamePros published an article entitled “Five Of The Best Google Chrome Extensions For Domainers” in which we listed five Chrome extensions that could ameliorate your daily domaining routine. The fifth and final extension featured on that list was Hunter, a...

James Iles · Oct 6, 2017

In 2016, we published an interview with ViSalus CEO Ryan Blair who told us why he purchased Challenge.com and VI.com for a combined total of $825,000. Now, however, it looks as though those two domain names may have been put up for sale.

Domain Assets managing partner John Mauriello posted a...

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