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Our domain detection series tracks the sales and purchases of some of the most prominent portfolio owners in the domain name industry. In this edition, we discover two of Nat Cohen's most recent sales and we look at several of Mike Mann's recent...

One of the most synonymous cultural figures surrounding Christmas is Santa. Also known as Santa Claus, Father Christmas or Kris Kringle, this legendary figure has been the subject of many movies, websites and apps. Santa trackers, messages from...

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...

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 published a list of ten domain names that Mark Cuban owns this week. The article received a lot of positive attention, thanks in no small part to a retweet that Mark sent out to his six million Twitter followers...

In February of this year, we spoke to Yigal Ben Efraim as a part of our Inside Interview series, after he completed the purchase of Scripts.com from domain broker Ali Zandi (@Zandibot). During that interview, Yigal told us that he had...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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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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...

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...

On December 16th and 17th, China’s second domain name festival was held in Chenzhou, a city in the south of Hunan province. I was kindly invited to attend this conference, but unfortunately couldn’t be there. However, the organizers, 190.com...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In case you missed it, Mike Mann recently announced his $50,000 sale of the domain name football.co. The WHOIS has just switched over to reflect the new owner, who looks to be an individual in California. Within the last twenty-four hours...

There are relatively few startups who truly appreciate the power of a great domain name, but in this Inside Interview, we are speaking to the CEO of a company that made the decision to create a smart workflow application and house it on an...