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I noticed the likely sale of a high-value one-word .COM name recently, that doesn't seem to have been reported elsewhere. Olive.com was owned by Tim Olive Studios Inc, with the name hosting a basic homepage for the small company until earlier...

This week, we have an extended version of Top Topics! Due to a vacation and no connectivity, I am publishing Top Topics covering both this week and last week’s pick of nine discussions, polls and questions from the community. There are some...

We discussed how to understand hackers in part 1 and phishing emails in part 2. Now we discuss managing your personal information.

Managing your personal information is an important but often overlooked aspect of security...

A top-tier animal .COM domain name looks to have been sold recently. The domain name is Panda.com, which has moved from Network Solutions to a privacy protected Fabulous.com account this week. The domain name was advertised on NamePros in...

DomainMarket.com CEO Mike Mann revealed yesterday via Twitter that he is just 526 domains away from owning a portfolio of 350,000. This is a phenomenal milestone that just a handful of people will ever achieve, but it does come at a steep...

Long before General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance was a topic, GoDaddy and other registrars adopted a practice of obscuring WHOIS records and/or requiring persons interested in knowing the identity of the registrant to...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at the case of an investor who may need to use a wire transfer in order to keep a domain deal alive, and we discuss the subject of domain appraisals. Are they really necessary?

Elsewhere, domain...

Animal domain names have been desirable assets for investors thanks to their unique properties and versatility. Domain sales database NameBio is littered with animal .COM sales in the five and six-figure range including Walrus.com for a reported...

This weekend, I was in Zurich Switzerland for a short break and as a domainer, it’s difficult not to notice domains that are being used by local companies. It seems that although the ccTLD for Switzerland is .CH, many companies have opted to use...

Earlier this week the high-value domain name hippo.com apparently changed hands. The domain name now redirects to MyHippo.com, the site of Hippo Insurance. The company now brands simply hippo, writing it in all small...

There have been some stellar articles on the blog recently from a couple of new writers, @Bob Hawkes and broker @Darryl Lopes. So far, these published pieces have covered topics such as negotiation, domain sales and domain name data...

One of my favorite movies is Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. By watching this movie, I have developed a superior skill set for negotiations, based around illusion and a bluff, in a way that is not harmful to either party...

A sale that seems to have slipped under the radar is that of Meerkat.com. This popular animal domain name was owned by the original registrant up until this year, even after declining advances several years ago from the once-popular Meerkat live...

A major domain name acquisition took place in recent weeks, and that was Sobeys' acquisition of the Voila.com domain name. Sobeys, a large Canadian food retailer, recently announced plans for a food delivery network called Voila, which would be...

With the natural focus on selling domains, it is easy to overlook the fact that those domains can, and sometimes do, change lives. This point was highlighted in the recently-released 2019 Canada’s Internet Factbook that contained the catchy...

Before we get to Top Topics this week, there's news of a recent three-letter .COM domain sale that hasn't been covered elsewhere. The domain name ECG.com sold for an undisclosed amount, with the transaction seemingly taking place around late May...

The NameBio database this morning shows the sale of the new extension domain name test.center for $195,000 through a Sedo auction. This is the second highest-value new extension sale so far in 2019, with free.games...

George Hong, founder of @GUTA domain name brokerage shared a video on social media earlier, which featured an old interview with Lei Jun, the founder of one of China’s most successful companies, Xiaomi.

Dubbed the Chinese Steve Jobs...

The first half of 2019 has been great for domain sales with the rate of NameBio-reported sales up 28% and the average price up almost 17% compared to full year 2018. The sales rate is up in all three major legacy extensions .com...