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There are five Gmail plugins that you should consider using if you're a domain investor who regularly uses Gmail to send sales emails or to manage domain name sales. These extensions have all been tried and tested by myself, and they are my own...

Jason Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur and angel investor who has had his fair share of success when it comes to online businesses. After selling Weblogs Inc to AOL for around $30 million, Jason worked with Sequoia Capital before...

Here is a look at the Top 20 five number .com sales that have been actually reported. I am sure there have been more on Chinese domain exchanges but we have to use what is reported.

Interestingly, one domain name was actually sold twice...

It's now just over halfway through 2018 and with six months worth of reported sales behind us, it's an opportune moment to take a look at the top sales of the year so far. DNJournal regularly charts verified sales that are indexed in a yearly top...

Last year, DNJournal recorded more than $26 million worth of sales in their "Top 100 Reported Sales" table, lead by six deals valued at $1 million or more. It's can be interesting to revisit past sales, especially high-value sales, to see exactly...

In the latest installment of our Top Ten series, we are taking a look at some of the best domains currently owned by James (@BoothDomains) and Andy Booth (@andyboothsi). These names, which combine both brother’s personal portfolios...

Viacom is one of America's largest brands and the ninth largest broadcasting company in the World. The company operates some of the most powerful brands in media including MTV, Paramount and Nickelodeon. With revenues of over $13 billion last...

Brothers Michael and David Castello are founders of CCIN (Castello Cities Internet Network), a portfolio of domain names and city-based websites that has been amassed since 1994. Previous sales from the brothers’ portfolio include Whisky.com for...

Since entering the industry in 2015, James Booth has been responsible for hundreds of high-value domain sales, which has seen him ranked consistently in Escrow.com's annual Masters of Domains list. In October 2018, we published a Top 10...

Back in 2002, Florida Atlantic University student Brent Oxley created a hosting company from his dorm room. This little company, HostGator, reached its first milestone of one-hundred users by February 2003 and quickly broke the one-thousand user...

Founded in 2002 by Thunayan Al-Ghanim, Future Media Architects (FMA) has amassed a portfolio spanning thousands of premium domain names. Historically, FMA has been known to rarely sell their domains. However, since transferring over 100,000...

The majority of domain investors will have come across a domain owned by Digimedia at some point while navigating the web. Lead by founder Scott Day and president Jay Chapman, Digimedia started registering and acquiring an expansive portfolio of...

The name George Kirikos (@GeorgeK) may be familiar to you if you follow domain name news since George regularly uncovers previously unreported domain sales such as the $2.1 million Vivo.com sale. Aside from George’s regular contributions to...

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...

Choices can be wonderful, letting us feel better about an action, or empowering new ways to accomplish a goal. But is it possible to have too many choices? Are you, or the marketplace you use, presenting potential purchasers with too many...

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...

Whether prior to acquisition of a domain name, or to help with pricing, we often use comparator sales listed on NameBio.

But what do you do if a preliminary search does not yield any comparator sales for a particular domain name? With some...

Scammers and rip-off artists are everywhere on the Internet. The domain name business is no exception. Here are some tips to help you avoid being scammed while executing domain name transactions, and to prevent your domains from being stolen:

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Buying brandable domain names is a great way to make money in the domain industry. Brandable names are often sold to startups because they are, you guessed it, brandable. In other words, they work well as brand names for companies to use and...

If you happened to catch the live NamesCon 2015 auction, by live streaming video, reading the end results or at the Tropicana Hotel during the event itself, you know that there was quite a lot of excitement when new gTLD’s hit the...

If you haven’t taken notice, NamePros has been reporting the top domain sales from various marketplaces on a daily basis. I thought that it would be fun, and educational to some, to report on who purchased the domain names and how they are using...

Up until a few weeks ago, I had a few Gmail plugins that I used religiously to help make my outbound sales process that little bit easier. I used Sidekick, WiseStamp, Rapportive, and a couple of other plugins. I never thought of using any others...

When following domain name sales on NameBio, certain sales seem surprising. In some cases, the price was due to a strong link set. Also, now and then, it might be a domain name that was let to expire by mistake and the owner needs to bid to...

Welcome to our Sunday review of Top Topics here at NamePros!

Some things you must be aware of when investing in .XYZ domains; Reza, founder of Dan, might return to domain investing; Fast transfer concerns; The future of GPT domain...