NamePros Blog

Animal domain names are some of the most sought after investments in the domain space? According to NameBio, domains such as Walrus.com and Snake.com have sold to investors for five and six-figures a piece, but why? What makes an...

You may have read recently about Flippa's acquisition of Domain Holdings - with the two companies hoping to produce a combined sales total of around $70 million this year.

It looks as though Domain Holdings have already made their presence known...

Do you hold pairs of domain names that you try to sell as a package? These might include both the plural and the singular forms of a word, the UK and American spelling, a hyphenated and non-hyphenated version, or the same name with two different...

Earlier this week the high-value domain name hippo.com apparently changed hands. The domain name now redirects to MyHippo.com, the site of Hippo Insurance. The company now brands simply hippo, writing it in all small...

Global auction house Heritage Auctions is no stranger to premium domain names. Having hosted their main website on the two-letter .COM domain HA.com for many years, the company has now made the move to acquire the one-word domain Heritage.com in...

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...

You're most likely aware that the domain 358.com expired recently, reached "Pending Delete" status, and then SnapNames caught the name. At the last count, the domain had reached a record setting price of $430,000 with 7 bidders above...

Over the weekend, an eName conference took place in China with some of the country's most respected entrepreneurs turning up. This meeting was, in part, celebrating the 10th anniversary of eName, one of China's most popular domain name...

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...

In recent years, the Thanksgiving festivities have moved online somewhat. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals readily available across the Internet, and many people searching for recipe and gift ideas in advance of their Thanksgiving...

Many have speculated on how the COVID-19 pandemic, and associated business climate, will influence the domain name sales market. In this article I look for statistical evidence of recent changes in domain name sales numbers or total dollar...

You may have seen my article on Thursday about the sale of SX.com on NameJet for $555,050. The auction was won by NameJet user "first", and it turns out that the domain name may have already been resold.

In the comments section on an...

In December 2015, we published the news that the domain name 77.com had been sold for a fee that was thought to be around $5 million. The valuable two-number .COM domain name was acquired by DomainEmpire.com Ltd of London, a domain...

In December 2015, NamePros brought you the exclusive news that 77.com had been sold for a multiple seven-figure fee, thought to be above $5 million. Today, we are able to tell you that another valuable two-number domain name, 66.com, has...

Disclaimer: This post is not intended to be a negative one, in fact, quite the opposite. It is meant to motivate - drive - inspire. So take it with a grain of salt, if you dare.

Click to expand...

Hard work. Sound familiar? To some, it doesn’t. Sadly, it is...

Most domain name investors start out with hand registrations. Many later move on to acquiring domain names mainly through expired auctions or closeouts. While it is true that many of the best domain names were registered long ago, creative domain...

Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT-3 in late November 2022, it seems everyone is talking about ChatGPT.

Earlier in the NamePros Blog, I ‘interviewed’ ChatGPT on domain topics. I think most will agree that ChatGPT did an impressive job on most...

I was on FaceBook today when I came across a post on James Wester's Timeline asking the following question:

Question: Is it now common practice as a company to focus 99% of your marketing budget on customer acquisition and 1% on customer...

Click to expand...

With NamesCon 2017 just about to start, it's an excellent opportunity to remember the incredible job that @Edward Zeiden and his team did in producing coverage of last year's NamesCon event.

One of the many video highlights of NamesCon...

Giuseppe Graziano is one of the domain industry's leading brokers. Through his brokerage company, GGRG.com, Giuseppe has been involved in millions of dollars worth of sales in the short domain name categories that have dominated the market in...

Last week’s NamePros Blog post took a look at domain name appraisals – why you might want an appraisal, who could provide it, the different types of appraisals, and some caveats about interpreting appraisals. This week’s post looks into the...

We are fortunate to have many tools and metrics to assist and guide domain investing, many that are either free or have a free version. Probably none is more vital to domain investing than ExpiredDomains.net.

Back in 2022, I provided an...

The original intention was that extensions would play a key role in specifying the type of website that would be on that domain name. Domain names ending in .com were originally intended to be commercial in nature, while .org was...

TLD-LIST is my go-to site for comparing registration, transfer and renewal prices at different registrars. While that is the main way TLD-LIST is used, the site can do much more.

Finding Lowest Prices

Before we look into what...