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information Detected: Nat Cohen Sells Gremlin.com; Andrew Rosener Buys Jellyfish.com With Bitcoin...

In this edition of Detected Domains, we look at some of the major purchases and sales from leading investors within the past few weeks. Thanks to data from DomainIQ's portfolio monitoring tool, we're able to detect some interesting domainer...
 
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information Top Topics: Is .TV Still Valuable?; How Not to Bid on DropCatch...

Brokerage company Media Options looks to have released a brand new design for their website. After sticking with the same design for many years, Media Options have revamped their website, allowing users to easily search for domain names...
 
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poll Where Does the Majority of Your Domain Profit Originate?

One of the biggest attractions of domain name investing is that there are so many ways that you could make money from domain names. The interviews that you watch and read from some of the industry’s leading figures is proof enough that there are...
 
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domains The Story of Halloween(.com)

With Halloween fast approaching, it will be interesting to look at the history of the Halloween.com domain name. All Hallows Evening, shortened to Halloween, is a celebration observed in many countries on October 31st. The Halloween that we...
 
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information Top Topics: What Motivates You?; Were Four-Letter Domains an Example of Pump and Dump?...

Earlier this week, we published the news that Heritage Auctions acquired the one-word domain Heritage.com. Today, Candace from Starfire Holdings confirmed that they had brokered the deal for Heritage.com. Starfire Holdings, run by Ali Zandi...
 
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information Heritage Auctions Acquires Heritage.com Domain Name

Global auction house Heritage Auctions is no stranger to premium domain names. Having hosted their main website on the two-letter .COM domain HA.com for many years, the company has now made the move to acquire the one-word domain Heritage.com in...
 
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information 5 Music Acts Using Great .COM Domain Names

We've previously given several examples of corporations that own great .COM domain names, but today we are going to look at five music acts that have been smart enough to acquire a great .COM domain name. In some cases, the acts have been even...
 
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information Top Topics: Where Did the Double Letter Trend Begin?; Is It Time to Give Up Domaining?...

In this week's Top Topics, we explore the trend of double letter domain names that has been popular with startups. We also take a look at whether 2017 has been a slow year for domain names and one domain investor receives advice after revealing...
 
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data Domain Data: 6 Funded Startups That Upgraded Their Domains Recently

In previous editions of Domain Data, we have given you some extremely valuable data about the type of domain names that startups buy, which domain extensions are most popular and more. Today, we wanted to bring you something slightly different...
 
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information Improve Your Outbound Domain Sales With Hunter

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information Top Topics: My Mistakes in Domaining Revealed; Are VI.com and Challenge.com for Sale Again?...

In 2016, we published an interview with ViSalus CEO Ryan Blair who told us why he purchased Challenge.com and VI.com for a combined total of $825,000. Now, however, it looks as though those two domain names may have been put up for sale.

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information 10 Great Domains Owned by Telepathy

After acquiring his first domain names in 1998, Nat Cohen began amassing one of the most valuable portfolios of domain names. Under the guise of Telepathy, Inc, Nat has bought several thousand domain names including one-word .COM’s, two-letter...
 
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information Detected: Andrew Rosener Buys Bungalow.com; Mike Mann Sells CraftFloor.com for $15,000

In this edition of Detected Domains, we are looking at the domain names that famous investors and portfolio owners have bought and sold since our last instalment a couple of weeks ago. Thanks to DomainIQ, this issue of Detected Domains includes...
 
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information Top Topics: AOL Bought My Domain; Did I Mess Up My First End-User Sale?...

This week, we published a poll based on domain name pricing, asking how often a domainer changes the pricing on their domains. The results show an interesting split between monthly, quarterly and annually adjusting prices, but it's safe to...
 
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poll How Often Do You Change the Pricing of Your Domains?

As the owner of a certain domain, it is your prerogative to price that domain name. You can take guidance from other investors or use sales data to influence your price tag, but ultimately it is down to you to price each of your domain names as...
 
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data Domain Data: Top 5 Most Popular Alternatives to .COM in 2017

What are the top five most popular alternative extensions to .COM? To find out the answer to this question, we have taken data from almost six thousand companies that received funding in between January 1st and June 30th, 2017. This was an easy...
 
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information Top Topics: The Best Landing Page Example; Is It Time to Sell Four-Letter .COM’s?…

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we take a look at one investor's ten most recent domain sales and we ask is it now time to sell your four-letter .COM's? Elsewhere, a domainer is looking for examples of excellent landing pages and we feature...
 
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data Domain Data: Analyzing Uniregistry's $17.2 million in Sales

Popular domain marketplace Uniregistry announced this week that the company sold over $29 million worth of domain names in the first eight months of 2017. Yesterday Uniregistry's VP of Sales, Jeff Gabriel, shared a list of the company's domain...
 

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information 10 Great Domain Names Owned by Google

Since launching in 1998, Google has become one of the most popular Internet companies, with Google.com currently boasting the highest Alexa ranking. According to estimates, Google processes around 40,000 search queries per second. However...
 
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information Top Topics: How Much Is Your Portfolio Worth?; Can Domaining Become an Addiction?...

In a recent edition of Top Topics, we covered the news of the GoFundMe page that was set up after NamePros administrator Eric Lyon lost everything in Hurricane Harvey. This week, the page's creator George Verdugo confirmed that the page had been...
 
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information 5 Great Education Domains and How They’re Used

With the northern hemisphere’s summer drawing to a close, students are gradually returning to their classrooms. With the US investing around $68 billion into their education system in 2016 and top global universities such as Harvard boasting...
 
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information Cryptocurrency Exchange ShapeShift Upgrades to ShapeShift.com

Recently we brought you the news that cryptocurrency firm Monkey Capital acquired the Monkey.com domain for a deal worth $500,000 in cash and cryptocurrency. Today, we're able to bring you the news that leading cryptocurrency exchange...
 
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information Detected: Mike Mann Sells Koniku.com for $30,000; Andy Booth Buys DLS.com…

@Mike Mann recently announced the sale of Koniku.com for $30,000. This domain name was acquired by Koniku, a Californian neurocomputation company that has raised a total of $1.65 million in funding since 2014. The Koniku.com domain...
 
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information Top Topics: How India Uses .IN Domains; Would You Read a Domaining Magazine?...

If you follow Mike Mann on Twitter, you'll notice that he has revealed some impressive sales figures recently. His sales include Koniku.com for $30,000, IdeasOfOrder.com for $18,000 and IncreaseMyIncome.com for $9,888. Due to Mike's...
 
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sales Sedo Sells WMP.com for $275,000

In 2017 we have seen many six-figure sales for three-letter .COM's. LEV.com, DCC.com and BMT.com are just three of the eleven six-figure sales that NameBio has recorded this year. The attraction of three-letter .COM's to established businesses...
 
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