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Kassey Lee · Jan 5, 2016

When it comes to the use of hyphens in domain names, there isn't a global convention. A hyphen in a domain is generally not preferred in the U.S. but commonly used in countries like Japan. Bill Hartzer has written about the negative impact of hyphenated domains on search engine ranking...

James Iles · Jan 4, 2016

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 until a couple of weeks ago.

Since I've recently...

N-A · Jan 3, 2016

The most popular discussions this week include predictions about the domain market in 2016 such as China prices doubling, the India market emerging, and more; speculation on LLL .CH domain names; investing in the new gTLD .TOP; goals that domain investors set to have a profitable year; and...

Kassey Lee · Dec 31, 2015

If you are selling domain names to China, how do you set favorable prices on your domains? Are there any rules or standards that Chinese sellers use? Do the last few digits play an important role? This strategy is often referred to as psychological pricing, charm pricing, or price ending...

Kassey Lee · Dec 31, 2015

In this new blog series, I'm going to wear my Chinese hat to check whether user-submitted domain names can be turned into something meaningful and easy to remember for Chinese consumers. This is actually more challenging than it may sound, because numbers and letters do not have one-to-one...

James Iles · Dec 30, 2015

With the new year fast approaching, it’s a good opportunity to check that your domain names and your strategy are all set to make it a good year in terms of domain investing. Take a few minutes out of your day to make sure that your existing domain names are ready for the new year.

Sell...

Kassey Lee · Dec 30, 2015

Rumors are flying and Chinese news sites are reporting the sale of Nubia.com to mobile phone maker Nubia for US$2m. Some sources have speculated that GoDaddy was the seller.

According to the news release from mobile news site Qudong, Nubia.com (reported as "nubia.con" due to a...

James Iles · Dec 29, 2015

In April 2015, Freelancer announced a deal to acquire Escrow.com for $7.5 million. Since then, members of the domain community have expressed concerns regarding the future of Escrow.com as a company. In November 2015, the news of Brandon Abbey's departure from Escrow.com was...

Kassey Lee · Dec 28, 2015

Renting a place in China requires a lot of cash upfront. Apart from the one-month deposit, renters also need to pay three to six months of rent in advance when signing a contract, which may be difficult for people with good income but not much saving.

Huifenqi is an app and lending service...

N-A · Dec 27, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include an explanation on Sedo’s “Make Offer” and what it means, domain name investors sharing times in which they’ve gotten taken for a ride, inside the $125K sale of USA.tv after an initial $100K offer, all Chinese premium LLL888.com’s reported as...

James Iles · Dec 25, 2015

The Christmas holidays are here and naturally, being a domain investor, I can't help but take a look at some of the generic Christmas domain names and how they are currently being used. I’ve picked out five of my favorite .COM domain names that are relevant to this time of year...

James Iles · Dec 24, 2015

This evening, NamePros user @donnied79 revealed that he has sold USA.tv for a six-figure price, which will be reported to DNJournal.

The established member created a thread on Monday asking for opinions on an offer that he had received on the domain name. In his initial...

James Iles · Dec 22, 2015

Two-number .COM domain names are some of the rarest names in existence. There are only 100 possible two-number .COM's, and even rarer are those with repeating digits: 00, 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99.

Today I can reveal that 77.com has been sold. A source familiar with the sale told...

James Iles · Dec 21, 2015

What is it like to receive emails every week offering you a multiple seven-figure sum for your domain name? Meet @jason calacanis, the owner of 20.com, which he bought in 2006 for just $75,000.

Jason is no stranger to owning valuable domain names. As an entrepreneur, he has founded...

N-A · Dec 20, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include a showcase of long-tail keyword domains, investing in numeric domains in other ccTLD’s such as .CH, the perception of .XYZ domains and their legitimacy by the general public, a one-year outlook on Chinese premium LLLL.com’s, and the value of domains...

James Iles · Dec 19, 2015

China's inaugural domain name festival and digital asset summit has just been held in Shenzhen, which included a domain name auction. The main topic of the event was "domain names as digital assets."

Some of China's most respected Internet leaders were present at the event, which by all...

James Iles · Dec 18, 2015

With the hype around the influx of Chinese and Western domainers acquiring short .COMs, you may be forgiven for forgetting about some of the new gTLDs that have launched. Domain investors may be putting many new gTLDs to the side, but startups are using them as viable alternatives to spending a...

James Iles · Dec 17, 2015

In August of this year, ReviMedia announced the acquisition of the two-letter .COM domain name PX.com from MediaOptions in a transaction worth $1 million in cash, in addition to other considerations. Until yesterday, this remained the highest publicly revealed sale of a two-letter .COM domain...

James Iles · Dec 16, 2015

You may be aware that the domain name JG.com was put up for auction recently on NameJet, given the fact that it has received a lot of exposure. The highly sought after two-letter .COM domain that was owned by BrokerageFirm.com (according to a recent screenshot) has just sold on NameJet in...

James Iles · Dec 16, 2015

This week in NamePros.com’s New Names series, we take a look at five more recent purchases from @Ali Zandi, domain investor and director of sales and acquisitions at Perception.com.

In our previous New Names blog post, Ali revealed that he had acquired Raindrop.com for...

James Iles · Dec 15, 2015

With just under a month to go before NamesCon, this is a perfect time to prepare, pre-network, and talk about the powers of networking at the conference. NamesCon is not only a place to educate yourself in domain name investing from some of the best in the business, but it is also an...

N-A · Dec 12, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include the continuation of .BIZ speculation with a confirmed buyout of all 160,000 LLLL Chips, the recent acquisition of Worldwide Media’s domain portfolio by GoDaddy, domain speculators sharing their oldest domains, and user reviews of the different...

James Iles · Dec 11, 2015

The domain name 1998.com was sold yesterday for $190,000 USD, and the news has just been confirmed to me. The sale of 1998.com took place between two Chinese investors.

This makes the domain name the second highest publicly recorded four-number domain name sale of the year, only behind Rick...

Chris @ SwingNames · Dec 11, 2015

Liquid domain names are developing into mature tradable assets similar to stocks. The increasing demand from Chinese investors has been a driving force behind their recent growth.

ChaoMi.cc is a website that emerged to help Chinese investors stay informed with the trading activity of...

James Iles · Dec 10, 2015

At the end of November 2015, National Building Supply made a big announcement. They were rebranding the company to Supply.com - a memorable, generic one-word .COM domain name that they hoped would help with the extraordinary growth of their company.

At the time, CEO Marcus Morgan said in a...

AndrewRice · Dec 10, 2015

I've delved into CHiPS over the last month, and I feel like I've come late to the party and all the good CHiPS are gone. Now I'm kicking myself for not hand-registering 6N's (six-number .com's) a few months back. I could have prevented this mistake if I had exercised DiP...

Paul · Dec 9, 2015

In part 1, we covered how to avoid domain theft by understanding a bit about how hackers operate. Next, let's discuss phishing emails.

We're pretty lucky that phishing email senders aren't too smart. Most the phishing emails I see have poor English, look rather slipshod, and aren't...

James Iles · Dec 8, 2015

Political figures are often subjected to intense public scrutiny, and they often make national and international headlines for their decisions, speeches, and opinions. Owning their own name as a .COM domain name should be a priority for politicians to allow the public and the media to access...

James Iles · Dec 7, 2015

Over the weekend, an eName conference took place in China with some of the country's most respected entrepreneurs turning up. This meeting was, in part, celebrating the 10th anniversary of eName, one of China's most popular domain name registrars. In attendance were many domain name veterans...

Keith DeBoer · Dec 5, 2015

When you start a company, there are a thousand things to do. Often times, the domain name is the last thing on the list. That can be a huge mistake, and I wrote an entire article about it.

As a rule of thumb, startups do best when they launch with a dot com that passes the radio test and...

N-A · Dec 4, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include the Indian ccTLD .in being the next speculated target for Chinese investments, looking back and determining the biggest regrets of domain name investing in the past year, domain investors sharing the best of the bunch in their domain portfolios, and...

Joe Styler · Dec 3, 2015

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 due to this fact. The Chinese market has exploded...

James Iles · Dec 3, 2015

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing John Xu, the owner of the popular Chinese marketplace 4.cn. In addition to 4.cn, John owns and operates the escrow service DN.com. He also has a very sizable portfolio of domain names himself.

You may have read the breaking news on NamePros...

James Iles · Dec 2, 2015

Welcome to the brand new NamePros series called New Names. In this series, we will be discovering the domain names a successful domain investor has acquired recently. The subject for this series is @Ali Zandi. Aside from being a very popular NamePros member, Ali is the Director of Sales...

equity78 · Dec 2, 2015

This post will delve into the Sedo weekly sales report that was released on December 1, 2015. We will take a deeper look into certain themes and trends that many invest in on NamePros.

There was a tie at the top this week, Farma.com and Shoop.de both sold for 40,000 EUR...

James Iles · Dec 1, 2015

It's a term that has been frequently used by domain investors in the past few months, but what does it mean, why do we use this term, and what does it describe?

"Chip" is an abbreviation of "Chinese Premium." It describes a domain name that can be considered premium to a Chinese...

James Iles · Dec 1, 2015

Chinese domain investor and owner of 4.cn and DN.com John Xu has just announced that he's sold Daikuan.com "for an eight figure RMB fee." This equates to a sale price of at least $1,563,000 (according to XE.com). A final price hasn't been revealed publicly.

My contact has confirmed to me that...

James Iles · Nov 30, 2015

In September, the domain name GJ.com was sold at auction on NameJet for $694,095; a sale that currently sits at number 7 in DNJournal.com's Top 100 Sales Chart of 2015. Ever since this sale, I have been tracking the domain name.

I've noticed some activity on the domain name in the past...

N-A · Nov 27, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include the registrant on ABC.BIZ changing to reflect Alphabet Inc., domain hacks and their place in domain name speculation, domain markets coming to a crawl during the holidays, the future of domains, and what investors would do if they could go back in...

James Iles · Nov 27, 2015

Last week I revealed that the domain name 73.com had sold in a transaction between two Chinese domain investors. The new owner has a lot of high value domain names including 88.com, WJ.com, and HN.com (according to the WHOIS information available). At the time, very little information was...

James Iles · Nov 26, 2015

In recent years, the Thanksgiving festivities have moved online somewhat. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals readily available across the Internet, and many people searching for recipe and gift ideas in advance of their Thanksgiving celebrations, the festivities have developed a...

Paul · Nov 25, 2015

When you own online assets, security is particularly important. Think about it: what would happen if every web account you own was suddenly under someone else's control? Most people don't realize just how catastrophic that would be until it's too late.

Recently, the number of domainers...

equity78 · Nov 25, 2015

This post will delve into the Sedo weekly sales report that was released on November 24, 2015. We will take a deeper look into certain themes and trends that many invest in on NamePros.

The top sale for the week was Aflam.com at $34,000. Not far behind, Mike Berkens continued to work his...

James Iles · Nov 24, 2015

In this week's Inside Interview, I speak with John Quail, the owner of Claims.co.uk - a personal injury claims website that helps people to connect with solicitors in order to pursue compensation claims.

The domain name was acquired by John for £100,000, but this wasn't his first domain...

James Iles · Nov 23, 2015

With recent reports from NamePros members of domain names being stolen and accounts being hacked, I wanted to share the methods of activating two-factor authentication at a number of registrars and services that you may be using. This is a vital step that I think you should be taking...

Keith DeBoer · Nov 21, 2015

If I’m buying brandable domain names for resale then I need to know what’s selling and study the sale prices. That’s why I read the weekly list of the top 20 brandable domain sales by Doron Vermaat (@dv82). It’s also why I track brandable sales daily and post them weekly on Doron’s blog...

James Iles · Nov 21, 2015

Overnight there has been a change in ownership for the domain name 73.com. The domain has been sold by a Chinese investor, and the updated WhoIs details show that the new owner is another investor from China. The new owner also has many other high-value domain names including WJ.com and HN.com...

N-A · Nov 20, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include end users embracing new gTLD’s by rebranding from their .com to generic strings, the Chinese premium LLLL.org buyout that occurred earlier this week, 360° domains and what they are, buyouts of certain Chinese premium 5L.com patterns, and how to...

James Iles · Nov 19, 2015

A very good contact of mine in China has just shared an interesting piece of news with me. As you'll know, the Chinese domain market has taken off rapidly within the past six months in particular, and whilst Western investors are struggling to understand what's happening, it seems that many...

equity78 · Nov 19, 2015

This post will delve into the Sedo weekly sales report that was released on November 16, 2015. We will take a deeper look into certain themes and trends that many invest in on NamePros.

The top sale for the week was ICT.com at $40,617.

There were 6 new gTLD sales: IAC.pub sold for...

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