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At the beginning of this year, NamePros published an article entitled “Five Of The Best Google Chrome Extensions For Domainers” in which we listed five Chrome extensions that could ameliorate your daily domaining routine. The fifth and...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

@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...

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...

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...

The worldwide entrepreneurial network Techstars has been helping startups grow since 2006. Co-founded by angel investor David Cohen, this network has invested more than $3.5 billion in over one thousand companies including SendGrid, ClassPass and...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we discuss the plethora of new gTLD's that are currently on the market, asking whether any extension will survive and thrive in the future. We also find out more information about an investor's first-ever...

Originally created in February 2004, Facebook membership was initially limited to a select few universities and high schools. Thirteen years later, over two billion people use Facebook every month and the company has made founder Mark Zuckerberg...

Have you ever tried to build lists of domain names from words or multiple words? It can sometimes be a long process to turn those words into fully formed domain names that you can then attempt to register, check the domain's status or more...

One of the most popular series on this blog has been the Inside Interview series in which we speak to end users to discover why the acquired a specific domain name. We are currently looking for suggestions as to who we should include in...

Did Media Options sell Santa.com recently? According to the WHOIS history records available on DomainIQ, Santa.com moved from Media Options to Santa Holdings II LLC earlier this month. The domain's website has also been updated from a...

Blockchain development and news and information service company Monkey has confirmed the acquisition of the domain name Monkey.com for a fee of $500,000. The Singapore-based company is lead by entrepreneur Daniel Mark Harrison, who initially...

In this week's Top Topics, domain name investors give their opinion on Rick Schwartz's latest cryptocurrency related domain name purchases, and we find some excellent recommendations for tools and services relating to outbound domain sales...

In the domain industry, there are plenty of services available to help you promote your domain names. Some platforms cater more towards domain investors, whilst some have the ability to reach vast numbers of end users.

GoDaddy’s Afternic...