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Three-letter .COM domain names have the cabability to sell for six or seven-figures a piece. In the last year, we've seen DXL.com sell for $1.15 million, NWM.com for $325,000 and PFF.com for $270,000. Today we can report on another likely...

Domain names can be viewed as either a product or a service. In the product model, a potential purchaser browses available names, selecting one that is a good match.

Seen as a service, the domain expert works with a client to...

"We're all here at a really interesting moment in time because this is probably the best domain show I've been to in five years," said Frank Schilling during his keynote speech at NamesCon 2015.

But don't take it from Frank alone...

Color is important in branding, whether the color is explicitly part of the domain name or not. If you use a logo or graphical background in domain presentation, it is important to consider the impact of different color choices.

This article...

As we all know, NamesCon is being held on January 11th-14th in 2015. Many will be attending and looking forward to networking with other domain investors, industry leaders, and related companies. In business, networking is a task that should be...

In a world absorbed by concern over community spread of the coronavirus, many large gatherings are being cancelled or altered. For example, the South by Southwest events in Austin, TX have been cancelled for 2020. Last year the combined...

In this, my last post of 2020, I highlight NamePros discussion threads started in 2020 that merit a second read. In making my selections, for the most part, I excluded posts about sales, even spectacular ones, or topics that were time sensitive...

There have been recent reports of unexpected payments issued to GoDaddy customers. We’ve just received word that these payments were the result of a glitch in GoDaddy’s billing system, which has since been resolved.

Previously...

This morning the Premium Domains division of Donuts confirmed the sale of the domain name My.Life for $175,000. I had reached out to them a few days ago, after rumours of the sale first emerged on NamePros.

If, or when, the...

It's no secret that I often tell developers to stick with geo-targeted domain names as an investment. There's a good reason that I make this suggestion. It’s because I have found them to convert better, compared to a national or international...

I have discussed the “translation” of acronym domain names into meaningful Chinese names in previous blog posts such as Your Guide to Chinese Domain Names: From A to Z. In this post, I share the toolbox that I use to find Chinese meanings...

Welcome to our weekly review of Top Topics here at NamePros!

Elon Musk has potentially acquired ai.com; Billing error at GoDaddy reverses acquisition; Afternic broker involved in trademark case; Advice about how to best manage...

Last week, we brought you the news that the two-letter domain name BY.com had been sold to a Chinese investor, after failing to sell in the NamesCon auction earlier this year. Today, the seller of BY.com, André Eidskrem, revealed that he...

Today we are able to confirm the that the incredible one-word domain name Curve.com has just been sold in a transaction brokered by Right Of the Dot's Monte Cahn and NameExperts.com's Joe Uddeme. The news, confirmed by Monte earlier today, comes...

Monster Worldwide (NYSE:MWW), one of the most popular careers websites, has sold a portfolio of domain names, with the current WHOIS information showing BuyDomains.com as the new owners. According to reports, Monster have sold over 14,300...

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...

Sedo’s senior broker Dave Evanson has just confirmed that the one-word domain name Mommy.com has just sold at Sedo. It looks as though this could be a sale brokered by Sedo themselves.

In a post to Dave’s Facebook page just now, he confirmed...

Given concerns related to the economic upheaval resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, many have speculated on whether domain sales have decreased or increased. In this article, I look at domain name sales data for the first six months of...

We recently brought you part one of our mini-series documenting the state of every single seven figure domain name sale that has ever been listed on DNJournal.com. In part one, we looked at the top twenty sales, from Sex.com to Candy.com...

Welcome to the third installment of our “Where Are They Now?” series. We’re taking a look at every single seven figure domain name sale that has been publicly revealed to see what those names are being used for today. In this edition, we’re...

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...

If you visit DNJournal, you’ll notice that there is a section called “YTD Sales Charts”, which lists the highest sales of the year to date. There’s also a fantastic archive of domain sales dating back to 2004, and is one of the most...

Million Dollar Sales is a sporadic series in which we take a look at every single seven and eight-figure domain name sale that has been listed on DNJournal since its inception in 2003. In our previous...

In this mini-series entitled Million Dollar Sales, we have been taking a look at every single seven-figure domain name sale that has been reported on DNJournal to see what those domain names are used...

Many investors dream of one day making a million dollar domain name sale. The odds are against you, with only 156 sales at this price point recorded on NameBio over all time. I take a look at those sales, and how the names are being used...