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James Iles · Sep 23, 2015

I am one of the many people that regularly monitors the activity of some of the most valuable domain names in existence: two-letter .com domains (Abbr. LL.com's) and two-number .com domains (Abbr. NN.com's). There's recently been an upsurge in activity in domain transfers to China...

James Iles · Sep 22, 2015

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Punchbowl Founder and CEO Matt Douglas. Punchbowl is an online invitation and digital greeting card company that has gone from strength to strength since opening for business in 2007.

What makes Punchbowl so interesting from a domain...

James Iles · Sep 21, 2015

This Monday's edition of Domain Development tackles the world of lead generation as an alternative way of making money with your domain names. This guide will also include one of my own websites which I successfully developed into a lead generation site, and eventually sold on to a company in...

N-A · Sep 18, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include an announcement of scheduled auctions to assist a NamePros member in need; Facebook using an XYZ domain name for their live stream; Shane Bellone, a former Flippa broker, spilling the beans about the platform; the Chinese premium LLLL.com bubble...

James Iles · Sep 17, 2015

I've reported a couple of times on the domain name We.com, which sold via Sedo earlier this year. Through sources in China, I revealed an approximate sales price of around $8 million with Tencent cited as being the possible new owners.

We.com has now started to resolve to a Chinese web page...

12345 · Sep 17, 2015

We have all been there. You pay too much for a name.

Maybe it’s been a pretty slow week on the drops and auctions when you see a nice name ending that day. Since you haven’t purchased many names this week, you convince yourself the name is better than it really is. You and another bidder go at...

James Iles · Sep 15, 2015

There are five Gmail plugins that you should consider using if you're a domain investor who regularly uses Gmail to send sales emails or to manage domain name sales. These extensions have all been tried and tested by myself, and they are my own personal recommendations.

Gmail has been publicly...

James Iles · Sep 14, 2015

As part of my series on how to develop out your portfolio of domain names, we shall be looking at ways of making money from developing your domains into lead generation sites, affiliate sites and authority websites. Those subjects will be covered in subsequent posts, as today I'm going to show...

N-A · Sep 11, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include strategies to follow on pending delete and expiring auctions, what Pinyin domains are and why their popularity is on the rise, the value of domain names with reversed keywords, and Pheenix’s significant change to its business model to publicly...

equity78 · Sep 11, 2015

I have been noticing an uptick in 5N .net action lately. To be clear, this article in no way suggests for anyone to register them, and this article is not a recommendation for them. The research and homework on this topic is just beginning. That said, it does seem every name that drops that does...

Omar Negron · Sep 11, 2015

I recently returned from vacation after visiting Florida, and I had a great time. It's always good to unwind a little bit, take some sun in, and think about what's going on in your life, where you're headed, and what you're going to have to do when you get back home to achieve certain goals in...

James Iles · Sep 10, 2015

All bidding has now closed at the DomainFEST Asia auction with 4.cn. In all, there were thirteen NNN.com domains, one LL.com, forty-six LLL.com, and other excellent names such as text.com and soft.com.

Here are some of the highlights from the auction:

73.com failed to reach...

equity78 · Sep 10, 2015

The auction action on 4.CN is heating up. The DomainFest Asia auction has a lot of top quality numeric domains on auction with 73.com being the best of the bunch.

Surprising some is the performance of 8.xyz at $53,358; there is less than 5 hours left and there have been 65 bids.

Where do you...

James Iles · Sep 9, 2015

After reading a blog post by Elliot last week, I thought it would be useful to show you a website that I regularly use to check trademarks. In Elliot's post, he references an article in which 15 common English words or phrases are shown to be trademarked.

Those words are:

Astroturf...

James Iles · Sep 8, 2015

Mike Mann - owner of DomainMarket.com - has just announced the $43,000 sale of a .CO domain name that he's owned since 2010. It's a sale that would put it at joint 18th on the highest ever publicly recorded .CO domain sales (according to NameBio).

News of the domain sale was published on Mike's...

James Iles · Sep 7, 2015

Welcome to a Labor Day edition of Domain Development, a series in which I'll show you how to go about creating websites for your domain names. As parking revenue is virtually non existent for many domain names, developing your names into fully functioning websites is a viable alternative...

N-A · Sep 4, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include PayPal’s new service, PayPal.me, and the username speculation and squatting that is occurring with it; the best registrars for investors with large domain portfolios; renewal tips and techniques for those vested in brandable domain names; and the...

vickyhunter · Sep 3, 2015

This is my first blog post on NamePros, and I will be sharing my experiences and the lessons that I have learned in Domaining. Thank you to @NamePros and the domain community for the opportunity to share this information.

The first lesson that I'm going to cover is the power of the follow...

James Iles · Sep 2, 2015

This story centers around a domain name sale that took place a couple of years ago, but details only came to light recently thanks to @john_karr who posted a link to an audio file in which the seller describes how he sold the domain name ME.DM to Twitter's co-founder, Evan Williams...

James Iles · Sep 1, 2015

In 2002, Brent Oxley founded the web hosting company HostGator in his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University, and he quickly grew it from a small business with just 100 customers into one of the largest providers of reseller hosting.

In 2012, Brent sold HostGator to EIG for a reported $225...

James Iles · Aug 31, 2015

Welcome to a brand new week, and a brand new edition of my series called Domain Development. Last week, I showed you the very basics of how to create a WordPress site. I recommend using the WordPress platform as it's a very simple platform with no experience of coding required.

WordPress...

N-A · Aug 30, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include the dreaded hyphen and how much (or little) it can devalue your domain names, renewal strategies taken by domain name investors, speculation on Radix’s recent .online nGTLD, how to avoid being flagged as spam when contacting end users, and the...

James Iles · Aug 28, 2015

Outcome Brokerage Founder and CEO Ryan Colby confirmed that his company had sold $1.45m worth of domain names in August alone.

In a Tweet posted on Friday, Ryan (@RJColby on Twitter) stated:

Ending the month of August strong with over $1,450,000 in private, non-disclosed domain sales...

James Iles · Aug 26, 2015

Yesterday, you may have read the Inside Interview with Rob Rawson, the founder of Staff.com - a domain name that he acquired for $430,000. Within that interview, Rob described a test that he performed before the acquisition of staff.com, which he now carries out on every domain name...

Edward · Aug 25, 2015

“When I set out to do this, new domains were kind of a bad word,” said Daniel Negari while making a speech to the Southern California Domainers Meetup last Thursday in Santa Monica. He further added that if we fast-forward to present day, we have large companies like Google registering...

James Iles · Aug 25, 2015

In the sixth issue of my regular series of Inside Interviews, I speak to Rob Rawson, the owner of Staff.com - a platform for remote job opportunities. In this interview, Rob discusses many topics such as how he acquired Staff.com, his views on new gTLDs, and he reveals exactly how much he...

James Iles · Aug 24, 2015

Happy Monday! I've got a few of updates for you:

1. Due to a flood of nominations, a "run off round" of votes is needed to narrow down the field for THE Domain Conference Awards. Please take a minute to read the list, along with how to submit your votes. I'm pleased to...

James Iles · Aug 24, 2015

In the first of another new series of blog posts, I'm going to be featuring some information on how to develop your domain names.

The development of domains has become increasingly popular since the decline in parking revenue, and you can now produce a number of sites for a fairly small outlay...

JamesCrew · Aug 23, 2015

Today I feel excited to let my fellow domainers know that I have successfully sold my very first domain name! I think that makes me a domainer; right? It took almost a year since I restarted my learning of domaining, and I don't have words to explain the excitement and happiness I am going...

N-A · Aug 21, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include a comparison for both buyers and sellers on Flippa and NameJet, an increase in spam to anyone owning a Chinese premium LLLL.com domain name, the most regrettable negotiation endings in domain investing, and the lack of professionalism of some Flippa...

James Iles · Aug 19, 2015

The domain name investing industry doesn't take a break, even if we try to. Last week, I went away and refrained from using technology as much as I could. I did, however, succumb to using my iPhone to check in on NamePros to see the latest news, as well as visiting a couple of apps to ensure...

equity78 · Aug 19, 2015

A normal day on GoDaddy Auctions tends to find 3 to 6 five-number .com auctions ending, but yesterday, there were 58 of them. We have the closing prices for you. This data is not listed anywhere else.

These names were not registered two years ago like many we see expire. These names for the...

James Iles · Aug 18, 2015

A couple of weeks ago, I started a thread on NamePros asking members to submit some of their own mistakes, or listing very common mistakes that some investors make early on in their domaining careers. I'm posting this article not to poke fun at individuals for making mistakes but rather to...

equity78 · Aug 18, 2015

I was looking at what is getting registered in .XYZ with all the hoopla around Google, Alphabet, and ABC.xyz.

Trademark violations
Actress Names
5N
3Character
Multi Hyphens

All of the above naming conventions were registered yesterday.

AnneHathaway.xyz - The academy...

James Iles · Aug 17, 2015

As you may know, THE Domain Conference is taking place from 26th - 29th September 2015 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. If you are going, you can expect days full of networking, workshops, talks, a keynote speech from Morgan Linton and a "State of the Industry" presentation from DNJournal's Ron...

N-A · Aug 14, 2015

Discussions galore this week! The most popular include the redesign of Flippa’s homepage and category pages; Google’s parent company Alphabet rolling out with a .XYZ domain name, which made many others find new and unseen value in them; the chances of drop catching at Pheenix; and the most...

equity78 · Aug 11, 2015

Here is a look at the Top 20 five number .com sales that have been actually reported. I am sure there have been more on Chinese domain exchanges but we have to use what is reported.

Interestingly, one domain name was actually sold twice: 44477.com. Another thing of note is most do not resolve...

James Iles · Aug 10, 2015

In this article, we'll be looking at numeric domain names owned by Chinese companies and investors. If you missed the last "Domain Data" article regarding LL.com and LLL.com domains owned by China then you can view that here.

In early 2014 (possibly slightly earlier), the value of...

N-A · Aug 7, 2015

The most popular discussions this week include whether it’s acceptable or not to purchase a domain name of an established site in another extension, a look at the current floor price of 5N.com or NNNNN.com domain names, the weight that MOZ holds on domains now that PageRank isn’t a factor, and...

James Iles · Aug 5, 2015

I've been told by a reliable source who wishes to stay anonymous that the domain name WE.com sold for $8 million. The sale was confirmed earlier in the year but price and details of the transaction were never disclosed.

In an earlier article, I was able to confirm that the brokerage fee was...

James Iles · Aug 4, 2015

In this week's Inside Interview, I had the pleasure of chatting with Blain Reinkensmeyer; a partner at Reink Media Group. Along with a team of three others, Blain runs the popular StockBrokers.com service, which provides unbiased reviews and ratings for online brokers.

Having originally created...

James Iles · Aug 4, 2015

I have been alerted to the fact that the domain name 21.com has been stolen from its original owner.

The domain name, which sits in an eName.com account, was stolen by a Chinese individual who also stole 611.com - although this domain name has now been recovered. eName Technology Co., Ltd. is a...

James Iles · Aug 3, 2015

We start the week with the news from Bhanu Prasad, the domain investor who sold 4G.com for a high six figure fee earlier this year. He's recorded another high value domain sale today, and that is the sale of FoodMall.com for $50,000.

The buyers are (according to WhoIs) Fujian...

James Iles · Jul 31, 2015

In the first of a mini series looking at the domain names that Chinese investors own, we look at the amount of two and three letter .com domain names that are owned by individuals or companies in China. The data here is courtesy of DomainTools.

WHOIS data isn’t perfect, especially from...

N-A · Jul 31, 2015

The most popular discussions last week include speculation on whether GoDaddy is selling your personal information; the true value of automated appraisals; trademark infringement explained for plural names; a buyout of 30,000 Chinese LLLL.net domains in one hour; and investors share when and why...

James Iles · Jul 30, 2015

One of our most popular topics on NamePros Blog is the regular sales updates from Mike Mann. Our articles about his sales figures regularly attract a lot of discussion, and also a lot of speculation as to how much money Mike makes from domain names.

For those who aren’t familiar, Mike Mann is...

James Iles · Jul 29, 2015

You may have read an article I wrote a couple of months ago about two NamePros members - @Omar Negron and @Willox Perez. The article, which was given the unofficial moniker of “Trust Your Instincts” showed why you should sometimes trust your instincts when it comes to a good...

James Iles · Jul 28, 2015

In 2011, the domain name Nuts.com was acquired by Jeff Braverman, the CEO of a family nut shop first set up in 1929. As a college freshman, Jeff created NutsOnline.com which helped Nuts.com become what it is today. Since 2002, the company has grown revenue from $1.5 million to $35 million...

N-A · Jul 27, 2015

The most popular discussions last week include how to negotiate and price a domain sale with a well-funded startup, time traveling back to 1995 to buy domains, what one could realistically expect to earn in two years of domain name investing or developing, and GoDaddy tossing out an odd error...

equity78 · Jul 24, 2015

There is a lot of discussion and buying and selling by Western domain owners that center around Chinese themes, 4L.com without aeiouv, 4 to 6 number.com, etc. Some of the others center around the JS88888 or HG999 type stuff, and I have been seeing some sales related to LLNN.com which I have...

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