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In this edition of Detected Domains, we take a look at several @Sedo sales, @Frank.Schilling buys plenty of four-letter .COM's and Anything.com sells Finery.com. There have also been a couple of possible two-letter .COM sales and...

Recently, we published a blog post entitled “Five Domains Apple Does Own, and Five They Should Own”, which proved to be a popular topic, and one which we’ll be continuing here with SalesForce. SalesForce are one of the leading providers of...

Yesterday, we noticed the domain name Avoid.com entered into Escrow.com's holding account. This usually confirms that the domain name has been sold.

This morning, we have received confirmation from the seller that Avoid.com had indeed been sold...

Over the past few days, the domains BS.com and XS.com have been sold. There is one more two-letter .COM domain name that may be about to sell, and that is SW.com. The domain name was listed in the NamesCon extended auction, but didn't sell after...

Detected Domains is a series looking at the activity of prominent domain investors and large portfolio owners. In this edition, a two-letter .COM domain name is sold by NameFind to a Chinese domain investor and @Nat Cohen sells a one-word...

Throughout the process of selling a domain name, it is often necessary to list your domain name portfolio on various marketplaces to effectively reach a wide range of potential buyers. A typical problem of listing domain names on various...

In this edition of Detected Domains, we discover several recent purchases made by Andy (@andyboothsi) and James Booth (@BoothDomains). Elsewhere, @Rick Schwartz looks to have registered a political domain name, and...

Domain name investor George Kirikos has just published a series of tweets that seems to suggest that the domain name Angie.com sold for $300,000 in 2014.

The data that George discovered in an SEC filing by Angie's List shows that the...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we ask what happens to your domain names after you pass away, and we take a look at whether brandable domain names are worth investing in at the moment. Elsewhere, a domain investor reports their latest four...

Described by Michael Arrington as "one of my favourite new startups for 2010", Gogobot became a popular destination for planning vacations and excursions. The company experienced triple-digit growth and received close to $40 million in funding...

"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...

In this edition of Detected Domains, we get the backstory to a domain sale that has just entered Escrow.com’s holding account, and we also find out what some investors have bought and sold over the past few days. In China, there has been some...

In case you missed it, we recently published the first in our Domain Detection series in which we summarise the recent activity of large domain portfolio owners to see what they bought, sold or dropped. The data collected is fascinating, so...

Welcome to our domain detection series, where we take a look at some of the activity of the most prominent domain investors and domain portfolio owners to see what they’ve bought, sold, or dropped recently. In this edition, we take a look at some...

In previous editions of our Domain Data series, we’ve taken a look at a number of areas of domain name investing. We’ve also looked at the domains used by companies that have received investment from several different popular venture capital...

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...

Earlier this week, the sale of Sumo.com for $1.5 million was unveiled. The domain name's value itself has been discussed at length, but what hasn't been noted is the fact that the $1.5 million sale has given SumoMe a great domain in...

To what extent would you go to acquire the perfect domain name for your business? For SumoMe, a seven year pursuit of the incredible sumo.com domain name has just come to a conclusion. On Monday, we learned the news that SumoMe’s CEO Noah Kagan...

Domain name sales are traditionally cash based, but every so often, a buyer or seller may wish to trade a domain name in return for equity, products, or something more. A creative approach to domain name sales can sometimes help to facilitate a...

In last week's edition of Top Topics, we covered the news of a $10,000 .SHOP domain sale. The domain name was revealed this week Blade.shop and thanks to DomainIQ, we noticed that the name had recently changed WHOIS to show that the...

Mike Mann has been busy on social media overnight, publishing details of five recent domain name sales that he has completed, totalling $40,888. The domains, which we’ll list below, had a combined original acquisition cost of less than $200 in...

I am a regular Reddit reader, and one discussion that caught my eye was a Life Pro Tip (LPT) that recommended searching for “things I wish I knew before starting” before starting a new venture or hobby. This way, you’ll typically find...

In this week's Top Topics, we discover two big domain sales that have been reported on by the community recently. One is an incredibly valuable two-letter .TV domain, whilst the other is a one-word .SHOP that sold for a five figure fee.

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What is your favorite domain name from your own domain name portfolio? Every single domain investor has a personal favorite, which isn’t necessarily their best domain name, or their most valuable. It’s always a personal choice, which is what...

NamesCon, one of the largest global domain name conferences is happening right now in Las Vegas, with recent estimates putting the attendance at over 1,400 people from forty-three countries. While there are over 1,400 attendees, there are...