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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...

One of the most anticipated live auctions in domain industry history is about to get underway in Las Vegas.

The NamesCon auction, which is being run by RightOfTheDot, is expected to be one of the largest auctions the domain industry has ever...

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...

Social media usernames and domain names have more in common than you might think. The right username, just like the right domain name, can bring you traffic, improve your brand and attract attention from potential buyers or advertisers. Many...

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...

Twitter is one of the most popular ways to communicate and stay up to date with the latest news, and I think it’s an excellent way to stay up to date with the latest happenings in the domain world, with some news and opinions covered on Twitter...

For brand new startups, domains are usually a necessity to show potential clients and potential investors exactly what they offer, and why they’re different from the rest. The domain names of valuable startups have often been analysed, but what...

Another two-letter .COM domain name has been sold to China, from the USA. According to WHOIS data this afternoon, the domain name JR.com has just transferred to a new owner, represented by 62.com.

JR.com was owned by a New York based company...

In December 2016, we brought you the first part of a brand new series in which we ask several domain industry experts to answer a single question. In this article, our second installment, we find out whether there really is a more...

In this week's Top Topics, one investor asks the community for advice on their first four figure aftermarket domain name purchase, and we discuss whether domain name buying is an addiction.


My First Big Aftermarket Buy. Should I Go For...

Frank Schilling is one of the most recognizable names in the domain name industry. He has built a domain name portfolio that consists of hundreds of thousands of domains, including some of the most valuable digital properties on the Internet...

I’ve never been one for new years resolutions. In my experience, the idea of deciding to start or stop something specifically because it’s the new year rarely works. Statistics back this up, too. According to a British survey last year, 63%...

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...

Welcome to the first Top Topics of 2017. This is a bumper edition, covering the most interesting and thought provoking discussions of the past two weeks in the domain name community. We'll start with four topics from last week, followed by four...

We recently brought you part one of our mini-series documenting the state of every single seven figure domain name sale that has ever been listed on DNJournal.com. In part one, we looked at the top twenty sales, from Sex.com to Candy.com...

We’re coming towards the end of 2016 now, and so we thought it would be interesting to take stock of a year in domaining and recap some of the highlights of this year. Below, we take a look back at some of the biggest stories of the year...

Sunday is usually a day in which even the domain industry rests somewhat, but not today. George Kirikos, investor and owner of Leap of Faith Financial Services, has uncovered another seven-figure domain sale, which was previously unreported.

In...

Giuseppe Graziano is the founder and CEO of GGRG, a domain brokerage company that concentrates on short, liquid domain names; a category that has been extremely popular over the past couple of years, thanks to China’s continued involvement in the...

This will be the last Top Topics before Christmas, so if you are celebrating Christmas, then we wish you a happy holiday! NamePros has some interesting articles lined up for publication over the next week or two, so make sure to periodically...

Crunchbase is a great place to find data about domain names. Through Crunchbase, you can get an incredible amount of data on names, brands, industries and more. Today, as a part of our domain data series, we’re bringing you a look at the domain...

In this week's Top Topics, we are looking at what the domain community can do to become more credible in the eyes of end users, we see what the biggest mistakes of investors are, and a domainer analyses HugeDomains.com's recent purchases at...

Welcome to a brand new Q&A series on the NamePros Blog. Each article in this series will ask numerous domain name industry experts a single question. The questions and answer will hopefully give you an insight into how these successful industry...

On Wednesday, we started a brand new Q&A series, in which we ask one question and get a number of experts to respond. Our first question was based around the idea of what type of domain names you should consider buying when you’re starting...