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James Iles · Oct 4, 2017

After acquiring his first domain names in 1998, Nat Cohen began amassing one of the most valuable portfolios of domain names. Under the guise of Telepathy, Inc, Nat has bought several thousand domain names including one-word .COM’s, two-letter .COM’s and three-letter .COM’s.

The company also...

James Iles · Oct 2, 2017

In this edition of Detected Domains, we are looking at the domain names that famous investors and portfolio owners have bought and sold since our last instalment a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to DomainIQ, this issue of Detected Domains includes domain purchases from Andrew Rosener, Ali Zandi...

James Iles · Sep 29, 2017

This week, we published a poll based on domain name pricing, asking how often a domainer changes the pricing on their domains. The results show an interesting split between monthly, quarterly and annually adjusting prices, but it's safe to say that generally, domainers move their prices...

James Iles · Sep 27, 2017

As the owner of a certain domain, it is your prerogative to price that domain name. You can take guidance from other investors or use sales data to influence your price tag, but ultimately it is down to you to price each of your domain names as you see fit.

The prices that you...

James Iles · Sep 25, 2017

What are the top five most popular alternative extensions to .COM? To find out the answer to this question, we have taken data from almost six thousand companies that received funding in between January 1st and June 30th, 2017. This was an easy process thanks to a Crunchbase Pro license. As you...

James Iles · Sep 22, 2017

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we take a look at one investor's ten most recent domain sales and we ask is it now time to sell your four-letter .COM's? Elsewhere, a domainer is looking for examples of excellent landing pages and we feature an interesting poll asking you to reveal your own...

James Iles · Sep 20, 2017

Popular domain marketplace Uniregistry announced this week that the company sold over $29 million worth of domain names in the first eight months of 2017. Yesterday Uniregistry's VP of Sales, Jeff Gabriel, shared a list of the company's domain sales with NameBio's Michael Sumner. The full...

James Iles · Sep 18, 2017

Since launching in 1998, Google has become one of the most popular Internet companies, with Google.com currently boasting the highest Alexa ranking. According to estimates, Google processes around 40,000 search queries per second. However, Google's business model has gradually moved away...

James Iles · Sep 15, 2017

In a recent edition of Top Topics, we covered the news of the GoFundMe page that was set up after NamePros administrator Eric Lyon lost everything in Hurricane Harvey. This week, the page's creator George Verdugo confirmed that the page had been closed after reaching a total of $16,580. If you...

James Iles · Sep 14, 2017

With the northern hemisphere’s summer drawing to a close, students are gradually returning to their classrooms. With the US investing around $68 billion into their education system in 2016 and top global universities such as Harvard boasting multi-billion dollar budgets, it’s safe to say that...

James Iles · Sep 13, 2017

Recently we brought you the news that cryptocurrency firm Monkey Capital acquired the Monkey.com domain for a deal worth $500,000 in cash and cryptocurrency. Today, we're able to bring you the news that leading cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift has acquired the ShapeShift.com domain name...

James Iles · Sep 11, 2017

@Mike Mann recently announced the sale of Koniku.com for $30,000. This domain name was acquired by Koniku, a Californian neurocomputation company that has raised a total of $1.65 million in funding since 2014. The Koniku.com domain was acquired by the company as an upgrade from...

James Iles · Sep 8, 2017

If you follow Mike Mann on Twitter, you'll notice that he has revealed some impressive sales figures recently. His sales include Koniku.com for $30,000, IdeasOfOrder.com for $18,000 and IncreaseMyIncome.com for $9,888. Due to Mike's substantial portfolio, he needs to continually close...

James Iles · Sep 6, 2017

In 2017 we have seen many six-figure sales for three-letter .COM's. LEV.com, DCC.com and BMT.com are just three of the eleven six-figure sales that NameBio has recorded this year. The attraction of three-letter .COM's to established businesses means that we continue to see impressive sales...

James Iles · Sep 5, 2017

The worldwide entrepreneurial network Techstars has been helping startups grow since 2006. Co-founded by angel investor David Cohen, this network has invested more than $3.5 billion in over one thousand companies including SendGrid, ClassPass and Digital Ocean.

These companies plus hundreds...

James Iles · Sep 1, 2017

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we discuss the plethora of new gTLD's that are currently on the market, asking whether any extension will survive and thrive in the future. We also find out more information about an investor's first-ever sale, and an investor asks about the difficult...

James Iles · Aug 30, 2017

Originally created in February 2004, Facebook membership was initially limited to a select few universities and high schools. Thirteen years later, over two billion people use Facebook every month and the company has made founder Mark Zuckerberg into the world’s fifth richest person with a net...

James Iles · Aug 29, 2017

Have you ever tried to build lists of domain names from words or multiple words? It can sometimes be a long process to turn those words into fully formed domain names that you can then attempt to register, check the domain's status or more.

There are likely to be several solutions to help...

James Iles · Aug 25, 2017

One of the most popular series on this blog has been the Inside Interview series in which we speak to end users to discover why the acquired a specific domain name. We are currently looking for suggestions as to who we should include in upcoming editions of our series. If you have any...

James Iles · Aug 23, 2017

Did Media Options sell Santa.com recently? According to the WHOIS history records available on DomainIQ, Santa.com moved from Media Options to Santa Holdings II LLC earlier this month. The domain's website has also been updated from a parked page to show a coming soon page.

Here are the...

James Iles · Aug 21, 2017

Blockchain development and news and information service company Monkey has confirmed the acquisition of the domain name Monkey.com for a fee of $500,000. The Singapore-based company is lead by entrepreneur Daniel Mark Harrison, who initially launched the company using the domain name...

James Iles · Aug 18, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, domain name investors give their opinion on Rick Schwartz's latest cryptocurrency related domain name purchases, and we find some excellent recommendations for tools and services relating to outbound domain sales. Elsewhere, domainers speculate on the future of...

James Iles · Aug 17, 2017

In the domain industry, there are plenty of services available to help you promote your domain names. Some platforms cater more towards domain investors, whilst some have the ability to reach vast numbers of end users.

GoDaddy’s Afternic platform, for example, has partnered with a number of...

James Iles · Aug 14, 2017

If you take a look through NameBio, you’ll eventually notice that just a handful of seven figure domain name sales are reported every year. Since the start of 2015, just thirteen domains have been listed at NameBio as having sold for $1 million or more. Are seven figure sales just a rare...

James Iles · Aug 11, 2017

Aron Meystedt (@XF.com), domain investor, owner of Napkin.com Investments and entrepreneur in residence at Heritage Auctions has just confirmed the news that he has sold two two-letter .COM domain names from his personal portfolio. Those names are OC.com and XF.com.

In July, Domain Name...

James Iles · Aug 11, 2017

One of the most dominant discussions of this week is that if Mike Mann's sale of BlueTrading.com in exchange for 3.5BTC, which equates to around $12,000. Are cryptocurrency domain sales going to become more common in future? Do escrow companies need to expand their services to incorporate...

James Iles · Aug 9, 2017

It's often said that generic domain names can add value to a brand. The best domain in any category can elevate your project or website, giving it instant credibility. In this article, we take a look at seven sports domain names to see how what they display, and whether they are being used to...

James Iles · Aug 7, 2017

Detected Domains is an ongoing series in which we use DomainIQ's monitoring tools to follow the latest purchases and sales from some of the leading names in the domain name industry. In this edition, we take a look at sales from the likes of @Mike Mann, Andrew Rosener and Anything.com.

A...

James Iles · Aug 4, 2017

One of the largest global news stories of this week has been the $250 million record-breaking transfer of Brazilian soccer player Neymar from FC Barcelona to PSG. As domainers, we naturally look at the domains associated with these global stories.

It was interesting to note that whilst French...

James Iles · Aug 2, 2017

Technology giant Microsoft has a portfolio of over seventy thousand domain names. Many of these names are defensive registrations for their products, but there are plenty of gems hidden within the portfolio. Over the past few months, Microsoft has sold many names such as Firefly.com, Kin.com and...

James Iles · Jul 31, 2017

Back in 1997, David Kammerer registered the domain name 4001.com as a joke after saying the phrase “I have 4000 and one things to do today”. The name became a hobby site for David who used his domain as a base for guitar tabs for Irish guitarist and songwriter Rory Gallagher. This resulted in...

James Iles · Jul 28, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at a potential deal involving one of Rick Schwartz's most prized domain names and we also explore the value of cryptocurrency domain names after the recent sale of BitcoinCash.org. Elsewhere, investors ask about the effectiveness of Afternic's price...

James Iles · Jul 26, 2017

There is a belief that ten thousand hours of practicing a hobby or a skill will make you an expert in that particular activity. That means that if you spent two and three-quarter hours practicing something every day, you would amass ten thousand hours of practice in ten years time...

James Iles · Jul 24, 2017

Did Ring.com sell for $1 million? Recently, we published an article pointing to evidence that the domain sold for $1 million to a security company previously known as DoorBot. After publishing this article, we received further details from an anonymous source regarding the Ring.com sale...

James Iles · Jul 21, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at a report suggesting that the domain name Icon.tv has been sold for $25,000 and we look at some of the most profitable hand-registered flips from domain investors. Elsewhere, domainers including Uniregistry broker Darryl Lopes share their tips to help...

James Iles · Jul 19, 2017

This is the final edition of our six-part series in which we have been taking a look at what domain names that have been sold for seven-figure fees are currently used for. Each domain name in our list has been reported by DNJournal as having sold for $1 million or more.

In part six, domain name...

James Iles · Jul 17, 2017

Domain brokerage company Media Options often makes the headlines thanks to their brokered domain sales. Just last week, it was revealed that Media Options’ CEO Andrew Rosener brokered a deal that enabled billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to reacquire the X.com domain name from PayPal...

James Iles · Jul 14, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at an incident between a domain investor and a former domain owner trying to recover their domain and we share the news of a four-figure .CO domain sale. Elsewhere, a domainer shares their late-night registration mistakes!

I Sold a Three-Letter...

James Iles · Jul 12, 2017

Our assembled panel of domain investors and brokers are described as experts thanks in no small part to their ability to continuously produce sales. In our final edition of the current Expert Exchange series, we take a look at the average sales prices of domain names, reported by each expert in...

James Iles · Jul 10, 2017

Detected Domains is an ongoing series, in which we look at the recent purchases and sales of some of the top domain name investors in the industry. We start this week with news of a $24,000 sale from Mike Mann. Announced via Twitter, Mike told his followers that he had sold...

James Iles · Jul 7, 2017

Earlier this week, we published a poll asking whether two-step verification was used by domain investors. After a couple of days of votes, it looks like around 30% of domain investors haven't set up this added layer of security on their accounts. Should domain registrars make a greater...

James Iles · Jul 5, 2017

Domain name security is something that should be taken extremely seriously. With regular reports of valuable short domain names being stolen, it seems that liquid domain names in particular are a target for opportunist thieves.

One of the most common ways to counter possible domain theft...

James Iles · Jul 3, 2017

One of the hottest topics in the mainstream media at the moment is the emergence of cryptocurrency into the public’s consciousness. Trending topics and niches usually means a lot of domain names being registered by investors hoping to capitalise on the trend.

According to Verisign, the terms...

Noteworthy · Jul 3, 2017

Noteworthy Sales:

Block.one Acquires Voice.com for $30 million

Duck.com Transfers to DuckDuckGo

Tesla Motors Acquires Tesla.com

ICE.com Sells...

Noteworthy · Jul 3, 2017

Helpful Articles:

Types of .IO Domain Names That Sell and Where

How to Find Acronyms for Chinese Pinyin Domain Names

Investing in LLLL.com – A Starter Guide

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Noteworthy · Jul 3, 2017

Notable Interviews:

Interview With Jason Calacanis

We Talk .BLOG With WordPress Creator Matt Mullenweg

Meet Dr. Paul Mockapetris: Inventor of the Domain Name System...

James Iles · Jul 1, 2017

Regular readers of the NamePros blog may recognise the name Blain Reinkensmeyer. In 2015, we published an interview with Blain, profiling his purchase of the domain StockBrokers.com for $185,000.

Since then his company has been busy developing the domain ForexBrokers.com into a fully...

James Iles · Jun 30, 2017

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at the tax implications of buying and selling domain names. Some useful information is provided on the subject of taxes, which should be noted by many domainers. Elsewhere, we take a look at the potential sale of cryptocurrency domain name ETH.com and a...

James Iles · Jun 28, 2017

Recently, we brought you the news that LR.com had been sold to a client of Chinese domain marketplace 4.CN. After publishing that article, we received an email from Igloo.com’s Tessa Holcomb, who confirmed that the sale was brokered by Igloo.com, but was unable to provide details of the...

James Iles · Jun 27, 2017

Pillow Homes Inc, known simply as Pillow, is a short-term rental management startup, which was launched a few years ago to facilitate the process of renting out your apartment through the multi-billion dollar marketplace Airbnb. Since then, the company has gone from strength to strength and has...

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