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information Top Topics: How Do I Make $10,000 Per Month?; I'm Looking to Change Registrars...

How do you go about making $10,000 per month from domain names? That question forms the basis for one of the most popular discussions of this week, one that also provides some helpful insights from investors who have achieved that level...
 
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news CT.com Acquired by Crypto News Site Cointelegraph

The majority of sales of two-letter .COM's that we have covered on the NamePros Blog have been acquired by Chinese investors or companies. China has been one of the big trends in domaining, but one of the most recent is cryptocurrency.

This year...
 
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information Top Topics: From $50 to $5,000 Per Month; Passive Inbound Income Strategy...

In this week's Top Topics, a domain investor shares their story from a $50 per month revenue in 2016 to $5,000 per month in 2018, including tips on how they managed such a feat inside of two years. Elsewhere, an investor accidentally accepted a...
 
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poll Poll: Are You Consolidating Your Domains?

For domain investors with hundreds or thousands of names in their portfolios, management of those domains can be difficult. From ensuring all names are renewed to changing nameserver settings, doing this thousands of times across different...
 
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information Top Topics: Mike Mann’s Selling Strategy; Staying Positive Between Sales…

Before getting into this week’s Top Topics, I have a warning. If you haven’t already added two-factor authentication to your registrar accounts, I would urge you to do it soon. I won’t go into details, but after an incident this week, some of my...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: Are Your Largest Sales from Outbound or Inbound Buyers?

As representatives for some of the world’s best domain names, our panel of expert brokers usually have a responsibility to monitor both inbound inquiries and perform outbound sales to actively find a buyer. Both inbound and outbound can produce...
 
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information Top Topics: An Outbound Walkthrough for Beginners; I Got Paid in Just 9 Hours!...

British domain investor Andy Booth (@andyboothsi) today confirmed that he recently acquired the incredible one-word domain Zoom.com in a post to his Facebook page. According to DomainIQ, the name was previously owned by under privacy...
 
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information Top Topics: My First Sale at $14,500; What Annoys You About the Domain Industry?...

As discovered by domain broker @Alan Dunn on Twitter, New York-based Jump Bikes recently acquired the Jump.com domain name. It's highly likely that the domain sold for a high amount, given the fact that Jump.com was part of...
 
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information QI: The TV Show With a Valuable 2-Letter Domain

When it comes to TV shows and movies, many media companies choose to go with low-cost alternatives to exact match domains. The movie Black Panther, for example, took just twenty-six days to reach $1 billion in revenue, yet Marvel opted not to...
 
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tips How to Find Chinese Buyers for Your Domain Names

Many Chinese companies use Pinyin domain names to run their businesses. However, many of them later upgrade from their long Pinyin name to the short acronym equivalent. If you own an acronym domain name, such as LL, LLL, or LLLL, you may already...
 
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analysis 5 Big Brands Who Don’t Own Their Exact Match .COM Name

The majority of big brands around the world, who have funding available for domain purchases, have already acquired their exact-match .COM names. Established companies such as Freedom Mortgage (freedom.com) and ICE (ice.com) have spent...
 
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information Top Topics: Your Plan for 2019; The Final Minutes of a $22,000 Auction...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at strategies for domain investing in 2019, a domainer asks about conversion rates in outbound sales, and a poll asks how many domains you own in your domain portfolio. Elsewhere, an investor shares a...
 
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interviews Expert Exchange: How Do You Qualify Potential Buyers?

Many top brokers look after some of the most sought-after domain names on the planet. This means an almost constant stream of inquiries and interest in these domains. The majority of interested parties will not be able to reach the often six-...
 
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information Top Topics: A $100,000 Flippa Milestone; What Do You Look for in a Good Registrar?...

In this week's Top Topics, an investor shares the news that they have achieved $100,000 in sales at Flippa, beating their target of achieving that milestone by the end of 2018. Elsewhere, an investor gets blocked after attempting to perform...
 
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analysis 5 Great Domains Owned by Hasbro

American multi-national toy company Hasbro is considered to be the largest toy maker in the world in terms of stock market value. According to reports, the company produced revenues of $5.21 billion in 2017 thanks to existing lines in

Thanks to...
 
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tips Checking domain name availability without using a website

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interviews Expert Exchange: What Are Your Top Tips for Successfully Closing a Domain Deal?

Our panel of expert domain name brokers have collectively closed hundreds of domain name deals worth millions of dollars. They have successfully refined their skills and can now be considered to be some of the best brokers in the industry.

In...
 
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information Top Topics: The Buyer Knows How Much I Paid; What's Your Development Project?...

In this week's Top Topics, we encounter a fairly unique situation in which a domainer has a deal canceled after the buyer finds out the domainer's acquisition price. We also take a look at the various development projects that are currently being...
 
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information Top Topics: Do You Make 5 Figures Per Month?; Top 10 Mistakes With New gTLD's...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at a list of ten mistakes that new gTLD investors may be making. We also feature a poll asking domainers whether they are consistently making five-figures per month from domain investing and we look at...
 
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interviews Inside Interview: Why Perch Purchased Perch.com

In 2017, entrepreneurs Court Cunningham and Phil DeGisi founded Perch, a service that is rapidly transforming how people go about buying their homes. The company, who raised a total of $30 million in funding, are going from strength to strength...
 
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opinion Owning Multiple Domain Names for the same website

If we already have a website with a very good domain name, why would we want another domain for the same website? In this post, I will outline some benefits of owning multiple domain names that forward to the same website.

Understand Where...
 
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information Top Topics: The Highest Offer You've Rejected; Can Hand Registered Names Be Flipped?...

In this week’s Top Topics, domain investors discuss the highest offers that they have rejected, with some revealing that they have previously declined six-figure offers. Elsewhere, a domainer asks for opinions on their portfolio strategy and a...
 
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analysis Mike Mann's Top 10 Sales: Where Are They Now?

Mike Mann has a long and successful history within the domain name industry. As the founder of BuyDomains.com, Mike created the second largest market for domain names at the time and successfully exited the company in 2005. Now, @Mike Mann...
 
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sales ICE.com Purchased By Intercontinental Exchange

Yesterday, the news broke that the three-letter domain name Ice.com was sold in a deal brokered by @Brian Harbin and David Clements (@davidclements) of Brannan's. At the time of the news breaking, the buyer's identity remained a...
 
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information Top 10 Crypto Domain Sales From the Past 12 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...
 
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