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In this week's Top Topics, we look at a new .TV sale that makes the top twenty list for 2019, and investors discuss the .ORG extension after the recent news that could mean that .ORG prices are drastically increased. Elsewhere, we get an...

There’s no place like home for the holidays – or wherever your computer happens to be!

The domain market is a global market and anyone not living in a cave somewhere for the last year has been aware of how much and how quickly things can change...

In September, Jamie Zoch tweeted the news that collaboration platform Postman acquired the domain Postman.com from its previous owner. This week, I received information that the company acquired the domain name for $85,000. Postman upgraded...

In this week’s Top Topics, we explore an interesting negotiation strategy in which an investor suggests raising their “buy now” price, a domainer lists every single sale of $10,000 or more from the last year and two years after a five-figure...

Short domain names tend to have a high value attached to them, mainly due to their rarity. Two-letter .COM’s for example, have seen exponential growth that has made seven-figure sales an almost regular occurrence.

One category of domain names...

Domain investor and broker James Booth (@BoothDomains) announced his latest acquisition yesterday, the three-letter .COM name DND.com. Today, he has tweeted the news that the domain has been sold! Congratulations to James on another...

In this week's Top Topics, we touch on the subject of motivation. With domaining being largely an individualistic venture, how do you keep yourself motivated? Elsewhere, investors are discussing the subject of terminology for landing pages, after...

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...

Disclaimer: This post is not intended to be a negative one, in fact, quite the opposite. It is meant to motivate - drive - inspire. So take it with a grain of salt, if you dare.

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Hard work. Sound familiar? To some, it doesn’t. Sadly, it is...

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...

Yesterday, we brought you the news that Vivo.com had been acquired by a Chinese smartphone company for $2.1 million. The news, courtesy of George Kirikos on Twitter, created quite a stir with many people asking why a company would pay...

Last week, 19 year old Erwan Kina (@ErwanKina) made an announcement that his investment group will be acquiring over $20 million worth of domain names in 2016, with their focus being on buying short .COM domains. Why are they putting so...

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...

In 2012, ICANN started the monumental process of releasing the new class of domain extensions. This represented the largest introduction of new extensions in over two decades. As such, over 1,900 applications were submitted to ICANN, with 751 of...

Domain investing is a 24/7 industry, with deals being made around the clock in many different time zones. With the attraction of making vast amounts of money, we can easily spend all our free time in front of a screen. If you're struggling to...

Analytics company MicroStrategy owns a stellar portfolio of domain names, which we have profiled on the blog in the past. Alongside names such as Emma.com, Hope.com and Alert.com is the highly valuable Voice.com domain. It seems that...

In the domain industry, we regularly read reports about startups or established companies that have made the monumental decision to upgrade their domain names from something obscure to a powerful, short, one-word .COM. Recently, for example...

This morning, Sedo announced via Twitter that they sold the domain name Links.com for €700,000. The domain marketplace routinely brokers six-figure sales including the recent $400,000 Casinos.org sale, but what makes this more interesting...

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...

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...