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Acroplex · Oct 19, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Goodbye Afternic; Speculator vs. Investor; Wake-up call for the Domain Industry; Best Registrar in 2025; NetSol charged me $53 to renew a .ORG!

Thank You and Good Bye Afternic.com
Domain investor AbdulBasit Makhrani has...

bhartzer · Oct 15, 2025

In 2025, domain theft has become a growing problem for investors, businesses, and brand owners. Well, it has been a problem more and more over at least the last 5 years. As someone who runs a stolen domain name recovery service, I can tell you that attackers aren’t always anonymous hackers in...

Sully · Oct 14, 2025

One of the hardest truths in domaining is this: buyers don't just buy domains — they buy confidence.
Or flip it to domainers don't sell names, they sell confidence.

You can have a great name, fair price, the whole package. But if the person reading your email doesn't trust you? Deal's...

Bob Hawkes · Oct 13, 2025

The hardest part of domaining is the waiting. Much of the time, unless you have a really strong and large portfolio, nothing is happening. No sales, maybe not even many inquiries or offers.

After a period of inactivity, you might be tempted to do something drastic, such as wholesale liquidation...

Acroplex · Oct 12, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Spaceship suspects buyer fraud after payment; Guide a newbie with 3 words; OnChain: Next trend? Domain jumped to premium overnight; Help a new domainer avoid making mistakes.

Spaceship suspects buyer fraud even after...

bhartzer · Oct 8, 2025

Every domainer has heard stories of quick flips, high-value sales, and expired domains with “instant authority.” The reality is different. Due diligence is critical. Not every expired domain is worth pursuing, and in many cases, Google’s policies make it clear that intent matters. Smart...

Sully · Oct 7, 2025

As domainers, we have to be careful not to let “rules” in domaining turn into blind spots. The market changes, buyers change, and the stories we tell ourselves need to change too. Here are a few myths I often hear, used to repeat—and why I don’t hold them as truth anymore.

Myth 1: “Short...

DomainIncite · Oct 6, 2025

How many domains in your portfolio contain numbers? If you’re a savvy domain investor, targeting end-user sales, chances are you don’t have many. So what if I told you that there are large gTLDs where the majority of domains have at least one number in them, and there's at least one namespace...

Acroplex · Oct 5, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Domain parking apocalypse; IDNs: Hidden goldmine; It's Google's problem; Domains with strong backlinks; Name.com: Crazy renewal prices for .com?

Domain Parking Apocalypse - 95% drop in past year
PPC revenue has declined...

bhartzer · Oct 1, 2025

Having been in the domain industry for over 20 years, I’ve observed that most domainers are focused on short, catchy, and easily brandable names. We often chase these domains because they are easy to remember and seem to carry instant branding potential. However, what so many overlook is the...

Sully · Sep 30, 2025

You and I have seen a lot of extensions ride waves of hype over the years. Some burned bright and fizzled out, others carved out a lasting place in the market. Right now, .AI is the hot story — headline sales, startup adoption, and nonstop media buzz. But here’s the thing: momentum isn’t the...

Acroplex · Sep 28, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Inbound sales won't save you; .AI domains—still the future? Bought my 1st domain! A 22 year old domain sold for $255? What defines a reliable domain registrar?

Inbound Won't Save You: Here's Your Wake-Up Call
Waiting for...

Sully · Sep 23, 2025

I get it. You've got a decent portfolio, maybe 200-500 names, and you're waiting for that sweet inbound email. "Hi, I'd like to purchase YourDomain.com for $50K."

Yeah, me too. Still waiting. In fact, when I first started domaining, I was under the false belief that "buy the domain and they...

Acroplex · Sep 21, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Domains to register for $1; AI Agent keywords trending; .XYZ: Single word cost vs. other TLDs; $4 .coms at Unstoppable; Odds of Spaceship sales vs. Afternic.

Ever wonder what domains you can register with a $1 budget?
If...

Sully · Sep 16, 2025

The other day, I posted a short thought on X (Twitter for those of us still getting used to the name):

“A good domain reduces marketing spend. A great one eliminates it.”

It’s one of those lessons that is more than obvious to me after years of watching businesses either...

Elie Eweka · Sep 15, 2025

Imagine for a moment: you hand-register every available name that looks interesting, or you grab every expired domain you come across. Before long, you’re sitting on 100,000 domains. At $12 per renewal, that’s a staggering $1.2 million every single year—just to keep them active.

That number...

Acroplex · Sep 14, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Why are my domains listed at GNAME? DubaiTravel.com, others, stolen; Commission rate for sale leads; Country names & gTLD issue; "Make fair offer" killed exchange.

Why are my domains listed at GNAME?
After adding their...

Bob Hawkes · Sep 11, 2025

It is easy to despise automated appraisal tools. For almost any name, when you query different sites, the values will range from $100, or less, to often tens of thousands of dollars. If you check a name that has recently sold, odds are many appraisals will be far off the actual selling price...

Acroplex · Sep 7, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Is Ai.net at $3k a good buy? Scam alert—Or so he claims; Super.xyz sold for $290k; Is Dynadot going too far? Best marketplace landers for your domains.

Is Ai.net at $2,949 a good buy?
Don't get your hopes up: GoDaddy lists...

Bob Hawkes · Sep 3, 2025

I have a problem. I have too many domain names. Or to be more specific, I have too many weak domain names. It is so easy to keep acquiring domain names, and each year I have more than the year before.

Domain name investing can be addictive. I thought it might help me, and maybe others, to...

Acroplex · Aug 30, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Spaceship flagged my account; Bought a drop—Sell to new owner or hold? World Cup domains; Next popular TLD after .AI? Are certain registrars more capable of helping you sell domains?

Spaceship flagged my account
At...

Bob Hawkes · Aug 27, 2025

It is challenging to be successful in the domain name business, and even harder to find consistent success. When that happens relatively early in a domain name journey, it is even more remarkable.

In mid-July, Michael Rader shared a multiyear summary of his domain name sales data...

Acroplex · Aug 24, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

My Afternic account got banned; Trademark.ai sold for $39k; How to get a Facebook-listed domain removed? One-word domains in various languages; Discounting your domain portfolio.

My Afternic Account Got Permanently Suspended...

Bob Hawkes · Aug 21, 2025

In Encore articles, I provide links to topics previous covered in the NamePros Blog, along with commentary on new tools, sites and resources not covered in the earlier articles.

This, the first encore article, covers resources related to the following:

How do potential buyers find your...

Acroplex · Aug 17, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

GoDaddy won't let you refund .AI domains; UDRP risk check; Holding time on brandable domains; If I started domaining today! Law.ai sold for a large chunk on Sedo.

For Your Information, Godaddy Will Not Let You Cancel and Refund...

Elie Eweka · Aug 12, 2025

There is no secret formula for pricing your domain name for a quick sale. You’ve probably heard people say, “A good domain name sells itself.” That may be true in some cases, but it’s not always that simple—and that’s likely why you’re reading this article.

Let’s explore some scenarios to...

Acroplex · Aug 10, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Unfair Afternic commission; Tech.ai sold for $111k; You're a Domainer? Prove it! Order of 2 word .com domains; I regret the rejected offers!

Unfair Afternic commission
A domain investor reports Afternic's outrageous 30%...

Bob Hawkes · Aug 7, 2025

What are the most common English words, and which would make effective brands? This article will look at that question, and introduce a well-established list of the most common words. That resource will tell you, for example, how frequently a word appears.

A made-up name is distinctive...

Acroplex · Aug 2, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!
GoDaddy got me Boosted; Delete Sedo listings; ZH.com sold for $1MM; Inquiry from broker—need help; When you get that pity offer.

I got GoDaddy / Afternic "Boosted" in an $8k sale
A domain investor closed on a nice $8k sale...

Bob Hawkes · Jul 31, 2025

There is a lot to read each week, but I want to focus on just one article. Michael Castello this week published an important article that every investor, domain or otherwise, should read, as well as those driving artificial intelligence developments.

It is a concise and accessible article —...

Acroplex · Jul 27, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!
First domain you ever registered; GoDaddy, fix this! Registered 600 domains but no sales; Is this IDN LLL .com saleable? Lowball offers: Is it intentional?

What's the First Domain You Ever Registered?
Once in a while...

Bob Hawkes · Jul 23, 2025

There is no doubt that most domain name sales are .com – that holds true whether we are talking number of sales, or total dollar volume.

But it is also true that by far the largest number of domain names that are listed for sale are also .com. If we scaled the sales dollar...

Acroplex · Jul 20, 2025

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Afternic lame delegation DNS glitch fixed; Got scammed by a fellow domainer; Fractional Domain Bundles; TM issues with AI-generated descriptions; Objective vs Subjective domains.

Afternic NS1/NS2 Lame Delegation Finally...

Bob Hawkes · Jul 15, 2025

We often talk about a domain name as being memorable. The term ‘memorable’ has been used on more than 4300 pages of the NamePros site, and no doubt on countless landers, descriptions, and outbound messages. The term ‘memorable’ appears, according to Google, in more than 370 million web pages...

Acroplex · Jul 13, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!
Accidentally acquired the exact match .com of a multi-billion dollar brand; Can only Spanish citizens own .es domains? Just decided on a simple URL forward for lander; Can I sell a domain before the 60 day period ends? Spent the...

Bob Hawkes · Jul 10, 2025

In last week’s NamePros Blog article domain name sales data from the first six months of 2025, I commented that while there is significant investor interest in the relatively new .now domain name extension, there had only about $26,000 in sales volume over the first six months of 2025...

Acroplex · Jul 6, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!
Did Provide.ai sell for $109k? Sold a name—Now it's back; Nearing expiry date and domain sales; Low response rate to outbound emails; Exorbitant PayPal fees on domain sales.

Provide.AI sold for $109,000
A seller's...

Elie Eweka · Jul 5, 2025

How can we unlock the mystery of the future when it remains unknown to us all? While certainty eludes us, we can still prepare for what lies ahead in every way possible. As Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam wisely said, “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Although we cannot physically...

Bob Hawkes · Jul 2, 2025

The first six months of 2025 produced 93,100 NameBio-listed domain sales, with a total reported dollar volume of just over $122 million. This represents an increase of 42.7% in dollar volume compared to the same six months of 2024. It is the strongest showing from the...

Acroplex · Jun 29, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Drop-catching is dead; Oh, silly boy; Not getting an inquiry for months—what should I do? Dynadot launched NameClub; Your opinion on brandable marketplaces

Drop catching is dead, a waste of time, a scam
Competition...

Bob Hawkes · Jun 25, 2025

Small daily habits can become stepping stones to long-term success. This article suggests ten possible parts of a daily domain name investing routine. You are probably already doing many of these, but hopefully everyone finds at least one new possibility in this list.

What Domain Names...

Acroplex · Jun 22, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Explain the opportunity, not the price; DAN.com closing on June 27; Dollars.com sold for $500k; Is the Domain Market waking up? Sharing my latest sale: OnlineBilling.com

Don’t Explain Your Price. Explain the...

Bob Hawkes · Jun 19, 2025

For each of our domain names, it is easy to visualize the name as selling quickly for a solid retail price. We acquire domain names that we see selling, so why would we even be in domain name investing if we were not optimistic? That way of thinking can be termed positive visualization, we...

Acroplex · Jun 15, 2025

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Happy Father's Day from NamePros!

GoDaddy LTO "breach of contract"? Domain scam using PayPal chargeback; Repricing domains is addictive; Seller refuses to disclose minimum asking price; Strange times for PPC earnings.

GoDaddy Lease-to-Own Breach of...

Bob Hawkes · Jun 12, 2025

It is common to use drop catch services to try to acquire expiring names you are sure that you want. But what if you have a less certain interest in a domain name – Is there an easy, and free, way to be notified when a domain name is close to expiration, has gone into an auction, is at...

Acroplex · Jun 8, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

GoDaddy invents automated cybersquatting; 11 Domain Marketplaces analyzed; Rate your old portfolios; Billboard advertising & Domains; Arbitrage.com sold for $350,000 dollars

GoDaddy invents automated cybersquatting...

Bob Hawkes · Jun 5, 2025

Starting in 2017, each year Escrow.com name the “ten highest grossing individual domain brokers of the previous year,” the Masters of Domains. The awards are based on domain name sales closed through Escrow.com.

While the exact dollar value is not given, it must be substantial...

Elie Eweka · Jun 3, 2025

If you’re just starting out in domain investing—or even just considering it—and you happened to come across this article, it’s no accident. Something inside you is curious, maybe even hungry, for something greater. Maybe you’ve heard a little about domain investing. Maybe you’ve read a few blog...

Acroplex · Jun 1, 2025

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A weekly news review at NamePros!

Gmail spam for LLLL .com domains; Feedback on UDRP draft email; Atom.com now an ICANN-accredited registrar; Perfect brand names: Do they matter? Google AI Overview & other tools' impact on domaining.

SPAM email inquiries...

Bob Hawkes · May 28, 2025

Google dominates search in most of the world. Partly in response to competition from AI tools replacing traditional search, Google is increasingly using AI Overviews.

While there are small icons for links to the original content, in many cases people are not following those links, ending their...

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