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Enom's auction lock is something that most of us have experienced at one time or another, but for those who haven't heard of the feature, I want to give you a brief explanation and warning about auction lock.

Auction lock is a feature that...

Consumer goods corporation Procter & Gamble, also known as P&G, is one of America’s largest companies. Ranked at number thirty-six on the Fortune 500 chart, P&G has over 100,000 employees and boasted a total revenue of over $65 billion in 2016...

Detected Domains is a series that is conducted to show domain investors exactly what some of the most successful portfolio owners are buying and selling. With the help of DomainIQ, we are discovering some fascinating data that may even help you...

Our Top Topics this week are book-ended by two contrasting stories of recent domain transactions. We start with a domainer offering to donate a domain name to a startup and we finish with a report of a five-figure domain sale from a $1.99 domain...

In this week’s edition of Top Topics, domain investors discuss a recent tweet from veteran investor Rick Schwartz, another investor reveals one of the top five .TV sales of the year and we discuss cryptocurrency’s impact on domain name investing...

Life is a series of negotiations: whether you’re buying a car, asking for a raise at work or selling a domain name. So I picked up the book Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It figuring I could learn...

"Fake news" is a term that has become extremely popular over the last few months, thanks in no small part to President Trump. Fake news has become a catch-all phrase for the President's distrust of many mainstream media outlets, and has been...

Recently, we brought you the news that Avoid.com had been sold for $117,500. The new owner of Avoid.com has commented on our article to confirm the purchase and to explain some of the details behind the deal. The new owner didn't reveal why...

NameJet, the domain aftermarket auction company, is one of the premier destinations for domain investors looking to buy quality domain names. Their inventory of short domains, one-word .COMs and two-word .COMs in particular, cater to the desires...

It’s always interesting to read stories from domain name investors. Domain investing is such a diverse and interesting industry that there’s certainly no lack of stories that investors can tell about their purchases, sales or deals gone wrong...

In this week's Top Topics, there is an excellent discussion based around discovering trending niches for potential investment, with some excellent advice from the community for trend investors. Elsewhere, John Berryhill gives an update on the...

Ethereum co-creator Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter in August to have his say on domain extensions. According to Vitalik, .IO and .ME are hot whilst .COM is “stale and boring”. Cryptocurrency, in general, is a hot topic at the moment...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, a domain investor receives valuable advice after announcing that they were quitting domain investing. Elsewhere, two five-figure .TV sales were announced by the same seller. These domains were both one-word...

News reports and features from domain industry blogs are so frequent that it is often easy to miss some stories. Today, we're going to recap some of the articles from the NamePros blog that you may have missed over the past few months. These...

When I started domaining about a year ago, I was sure that I would hit the jackpot! It's easy to get caught up in that dream when first entering the domain name business. I have sold a few domains since then, but more importantly, I have learned...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we highlight a discussion dedicated to domain industry Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals. We also take a look at the details of a four-figure .TV domain sale that was announced this week and we find out...

In this edition of Detected Domains, we take a look at some incredible acquisitions and sales from some of the most prominent domain name investors from the past few weeks. Thanks to DomainIQ’s suite of monitoring tools, we are able to detect...

A leading lifestyle brand for gamers, Razer, has been one of the most popular companies on Crunchbase over the past few years. Having raised a total of $175 million in funding including a $50 million round in May 2017, the company has grown in...

Regular readers of the NamePros Blog may recognise the name John Rampton from our Inside Interview series in which he discussed his $130,000 purchase of Due.com via the Flippa.com platform. With Due.com thriving, it seems that John has...

In this week's Top Topics, we hear about an investor's four-figure .TV sale from a reg-fee domain name and Shane Cultra creates a popular "Ask Me Anything" discussion. Elsewhere, there is a major update on the recent SATI.com Sedo auction and...

Every quarter, Giuseppe Graziano of GGRG.com and Intelium Corp team up to produce an industry-leading report detailing the current state of the liquid domain market. With the end of 2017 fast approaching, the latest liquid domain report is now...

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...

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...

In just over twenty years, e-commerce and tech company Amazon has revolutionised online shopping, becoming the world’s largest Internet company in the process. With over a quarter of a million employees and a market cap of over $329 billion, the...

When a company launches, acquiring a premium domain name is either impossible due to budget restraints or low on the founder's list of priorities. However, as startups grow thanks to increased user bases and access to funding, it's often wise to...