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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...

If you take a look through NameBio, you’ll eventually notice that just a handful of seven figure domain name sales are reported every year. Since the start of 2015, just thirteen domains have been listed at NameBio as having sold for $1 million...

Aron Meystedt (@XF.com), domain investor, owner of Napkin.com Investments and entrepreneur in residence at Heritage Auctions has just confirmed the news that he has sold two two-letter .COM domain names from his personal portfolio. Those...

One of the most dominant discussions of this week is that if Mike Mann's sale of BlueTrading.com in exchange for 3.5BTC, which equates to around $12,000. Are cryptocurrency domain sales going to become more common in future? Do escrow companies...

It's often said that generic domain names can add value to a brand. The best domain in any category can elevate your project or website, giving it instant credibility. In this article, we take a look at seven sports domain names to see how what...

Detected Domains is an ongoing series in which we use DomainIQ's monitoring tools to follow the latest purchases and sales from some of the leading names in the domain name industry. In this edition, we take a look at sales from the likes of...

One of the largest global news stories of this week has been the $250 million record-breaking transfer of Brazilian soccer player Neymar from FC Barcelona to PSG. As domainers, we naturally look at the domains associated with these global...

Technology giant Microsoft has a portfolio of over seventy thousand domain names. Many of these names are defensive registrations for their products, but there are plenty of gems hidden within the portfolio. Over the past few months, Microsoft...

Back in 1997, David Kammerer registered the domain name 4001.com as a joke after saying the phrase “I have 4000 and one things to do today”. The name became a hobby site for David who used his domain as a base for guitar tabs for Irish guitarist...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at a potential deal involving one of Rick Schwartz's most prized domain names and we also explore the value of cryptocurrency domain names after the recent sale of BitcoinCash.org. Elsewhere, investors...

There is a belief that ten thousand hours of practicing a hobby or a skill will make you an expert in that particular activity. That means that if you spent two and three-quarter hours practicing something every day, you would amass ten thousand...

Did Ring.com sell for $1 million? Recently, we published an article pointing to evidence that the domain sold for $1 million to a security company previously known as DoorBot. After publishing this article, we received further details from...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at a report suggesting that the domain name Icon.tv has been sold for $25,000 and we look at some of the most profitable hand-registered flips from domain investors. Elsewhere, domainers including...

This is the final edition of our six-part series in which we have been taking a look at what domain names that have been sold for seven-figure fees are currently used for. Each domain name in our list has been reported by DNJournal as having sold...

Domain brokerage company Media Options often makes the headlines thanks to their brokered domain sales. Just last week, it was revealed that Media Options’ CEO Andrew Rosener brokered a deal that enabled billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk to...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at an incident between a domain investor and a former domain owner trying to recover their domain and we share the news of a four-figure .CO domain sale. Elsewhere, a domainer shares their late-night...

Our assembled panel of domain investors and brokers are described as experts thanks in no small part to their ability to continuously produce sales. In our final edition of the current Expert Exchange series, we take a look at the average sales...

Detected Domains is an ongoing series, in which we look at the recent purchases and sales of some of the top domain name investors in the industry. We start this week with news of a $24,000 sale from Mike Mann. Announced via Twitter, Mike told...

Earlier this week, we published a poll asking whether two-step verification was used by domain investors. After a couple of days of votes, it looks like around 30% of domain investors haven't set up this added layer of security on their...

Domain name security is something that should be taken extremely seriously. With regular reports of valuable short domain names being stolen, it seems that liquid domain names in particular are a target for opportunist thieves.

One of the...

One of the hottest topics in the mainstream media at the moment is the emergence of cryptocurrency into the public’s consciousness. Trending topics and niches usually means a lot of domain names being registered by investors hoping to capitalise...

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