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Company domain name upgrades are fairly common. The domain industry regularly hears reports of companies making the monumental step to upgrade their domain name to help to bring their online brand to another level.

Domain name purchases can be...

My favorite app to use when sending out domain sales emails is Sidekick by Hubspot. This app (formerly called Signals) is a simple email tracking service that lets you monitor when each email you send is opened, how many times it's been...

Recently, Verizon announced the news of a brand new company, Oath, which will be created by merging Yahoo! and AOL. This comes on the back of Verizon's agreement to purchase Yahoo! for $4.5 billion.

The news, which was originally broken by...

The easiest part of domain name investing is buying. Anyone with $10 can buy a domain name, but the most important part of being a successful domain investor is knowing exactly how to sell a domain. There are many different options available when...

In the domain name industry, we are very lucky to have such a wide variety of websites and resources to help us keep track of what is happening and to help us all profit from that. Fortunately, many of these resources are free to use.

I wanted...

Subject lines are the most important part of an outbound sales email in my opinion. This short, informative line will determine whether your prospective buyers will open your email or delete it without reading. It's a great skill to be able to...

Finding suitable connections is an important part of any profession; knowing the right people can help create new opportunities and new possibilities. This is, of course, the same for the domain industry. Good connections with investors, brokers...

You're trying to find end users to contact in order to sell a domain. You've found their company website and have identified the person you need to email, but you don't know their email address. Not to worry, there are a few very simple ways to...

The domain name HH.com has just been sold to Chinese domain name brokerage company 62.com. We first noticed activity on the domain name earlier this week when the nameservers for HH.com changed. At the same time, the domain name also went under...

In this week’s Top Topics, investors are questioning the value of a two-word hyphenated .DE domain name that sold at Sedo recently for over $50,000. Why would someone be prepared to pay this much? We find out. Also in this week’s Top Topics, a...

In case you missed it, we broke the news of the $1.75 million sale of 20.com over the weekend. The domain was sold by entrepreneur and angel investor @Jason Calacanis with the help of broker @Joe Uddeme. A broker from...

James Booth has only been a part of the industry for two years, but during that time he has produced some impressive sales figures. Very recently, James has crossed a significant milestone of $10 million in sales. Here, we speak with James about...

Jason Calacanis is an American Internet entrepreneur and angel investor who has had his fair share of success when it comes to online businesses. After selling Weblogs Inc to AOL for around $30 million, Jason worked with Sequoia Capital before...

Microsoft aren’t known for selling their domain names, but it looks as though one of their names could have sold this week. The domain name in question is Jellyfish.com. Thanks to DomainIQ, we can see that the name’s status just changed...

Up until a few weeks ago, I had a few Gmail plugins that I used religiously to help make my outbound sales process that little bit easier. I used Sidekick, WiseStamp, Rapportive, and a couple of other plugins. I never thought of using any others...

Data is an extremely important part of domain investing; it drives what you buy, and how much you buy it for. In this series, called Domain Data, we delve into sales data provided by NameBio to help you make more informed decisions about your...

Aron Meystedt, owner of XF.com Investments and Director of Intellectual Property at Heritage Auctions has sold the domain name Tablets.com.

The news was confirmed by Aron (@XF.com) today, telling NamePros that an investor had acquired the...

After you have sold a domain name, how much of the profit do you invest into new domain names in order to grow the value of your portfolio? It’s difficult to know whether to put 100% of your profits into additional domain names, which is why...

Mike Mann, domain investor and owner of DomainMarket.com announced several more sales this week including Sushma.com, which sold for $10,000 after Mike purchased the domain for $190 in May 2011. Another four figure sale that Mike announced is...

Chinese domaining activity has dominated the headlines of blogs over the past couple of years. The buying power of Chinese investors drove a renewed desire for short domain names, which in turn saw wholesale prices increase across the board...

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...

Detected Domains is a series in which we look at the activities of premium domain names and prominent portfolio owners to discover their recent purchases and sales. We hope that this series is inspirational, informative or just interesting for...

After publishing my article on how to set up a lead generation website, I received a couple of messages asking one very important thing: How do you get paid for the leads you generate? I shall endeavour to answer that question in this week’s...

Following yesterday's discovery of Aron Meystedt's sale of Tablets.com, we have uncovered another sale that occurred a couple of months ago.

The domain name in question is Chili.com, which was sold by an individual from Hong Kong...