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In this latest edition of Detected Domains, we take a look at domain acquisitions and sales from notable investors and portfolio owners that we've discovered over the past few weeks. These detected domain purchases and sales, discovered by using...

According to DNJournal's chart of the top one hundred sales of 2017, there were six domains listed as selling for over $1 million. There's likely to be another seven-figure sale, which we are currently trying to verify. The domain in...

Two-letter domain names are one of the rarest classes of investment assets for domainers. With just 676 possible two-letter .COM's available, these names now demand six and even seven-figure fees thanks largely to interest from wealthy Chinese...

In this week's Top Topics, we learn about one domain investor's attempt to acquire a one-word domain name for $100,000. Elsewhere, a domainer is looking for advice on how to spend $8,000 to get the best return on investment and we also learn...

Just how do you make investors and end users aware that you have put a domain name up for sale? For many investors, promoting their domain names effectively is vital for creating a cash flow for their domaining business. In the first edition of a...

Following Friday’s revelation of the multi-million dollar sale of Yes.com, we have an additional sale to report. Another three-letter .COM domain, DBA.com, sold recently in a deal thought to be worth around $150,000. We were unable to...

The market for three-letter .COM's is well established with even the worst letter combinations routinely selling for five-figure fees. In the past twelve months, a couple of three-letter .COM domain names have even sold for seven-figure fees...

Fourteen years ago, Craig Clark and his wife Abby founded Pacific Pillows whilst Craig was on active duty in the Marine Corps. Using the PacificPillows.com domain name, the company flourished but by 2010, the company was looking to change their...

In this week's Top Topics, domain investors are showcasing their five favorite new gTLD names from their own portfolios and a domainer shares a number of examples of outbound sales emails for use in a varying number of situations. Elsewhere, the...

Domain acquisitions by companies in the crypto industry are becoming a regular occurrence. Recently, we published the news of crypto-securities company Harbor acquiring both Harbor.com and Harbour.com. Other high-value domains such as...

Recently, Elliot Silver (@EJS) of DomainInvesting.com revealed that Tokens.com sold for $500,000. This week, Starfire Holdings' @Candace took to NamePros to confirm that the transaction has now closed, with crypto company...

Around a year ago, domain investor Josh Shapiro acquired the two-letter .COM domain FO.com. Based on DomainIQ’s WHOIS listings, it looks as though Josh has now sold this domain to a Chinese financial organization. The domain was acquired by...

Back in 2011, @Ron Jackson of DNJournal announced that domain investor @Braden Pollock acquired the domain Local.ly for $100,000. It was revealed that Braden immediately flipped the domain, but the price was undisclosed. This...

Despite a recent downturn in the fortunes of the cryptocurrency market, investment into future crypto technology is rife. Security solutions for cryptocurrency and blockchain applications seem to be a popular area of investment with companies...

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...

At the beginning of this week, we published the news of @Telepathy's sale of NTW.com. Thanks to James Booth of BQDN (@BoothDomains), we have news of a second recent three-letter .COM sale. A New York architecture company looks...

Nat Cohen's @Telepathy Inc owns a vast portfolio of high-value domain names including several two-letter .COM's and hundreds of three-letter .COM's. In 2017, Telepathy sold several three-letter .COM's including WMN.com for $200,000...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...