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Last month we noticed that two high-worth domain names had transferred ownership, IT.uk and IT.co.uk. We did not know the price of the sale until today, however, when the domain name appeared in the weekly Sedo sales list.

The...

Another highly valuable one-word .COM is off the market forever as View, an "intelligent glass" company based in California, has acquired the domain View.com from a New York-based company. Founded in 2006, View had a mission to reinvent the...

Every week, we get to hear about some of the domain industry's largest recent sales thanks to DNJournal's highly respected weekly sales chart. However, most sales do not get reported for one reason or another. Experts such as Jamie Zoch...

Hostgator founder turned domain investor Brent Oxley has put together a portfolio of highly valuable one-word domains. In a recent feature, we showcased ten of Brent's best domains that would make most investors envious. Today we can reveal...

The domain name Gem.com has moved into Escrow.com's holding account today, signaling that a deal involving this three-letter .COM domain has been agreed. Registered in 1992, Gem.com has been owned by the Roglenn Inc since at least the late...

Chinese domain investor and owner of 4.cn and DN.com John Xu has just announced that he's sold Daikuan.com "for an eight figure RMB fee." This equates to a sale price of at least $1,563,000 (according to XE.com). A final price hasn't been...

Mike Mann has just announced his latest domain name sale. The founder of DomainMarket.com has confirmed the sale via Twitter, telling his followers that the domain name Estera.com had just been sold for $41,000 after Mike purchased the name...

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...

Another two-letter .COM domain looks to be off the market forever after California-based Ubiquiti Networks stealthily acquired the UI.com domain name, upgrading from the four-letter domain UBNT.com.

Ubiquiti, founded in 2005, is a...

Two-letter .COM domain names are an extremely rare class of domain names. With just 676 in existence, their value has risen sharply over the past few years, thanks largely to participation from Chinese domain investors. What’s rarer than a...

Analytics company MicroStrategy owns a stellar portfolio of domain names, which we have profiled on the blog in the past. Alongside names such as Emma.com, Hope.com and Alert.com is the highly valuable Voice.com domain. It seems that...

You may be aware that the domain name JG.com was put up for auction recently on NameJet, given the fact that it has received a lot of exposure. The highly sought after two-letter .COM domain that was owned by BrokerageFirm.com (according to a...

Two-letter domain names are one of the rarest classes of investment assets for domainers. With just 676 possible two-letter .COM's available, these names now demand six and even seven-figure fees thanks largely to interest from wealthy Chinese...

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 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...

Monster Worldwide (NYSE:MWW), one of the most popular careers websites, has sold a portfolio of domain names, with the current WHOIS information showing BuyDomains.com as the new owners. According to reports, Monster have sold over 14,300...

Overnight there has been a change in ownership for the domain name 73.com. The domain has been sold by a Chinese investor, and the updated WhoIs details show that the new owner is another investor from China. The new owner also has many other...

The domain name SX.com has just been sold for a record amount of $555,050 on NameJet, after reaching its reserve price earlier today.

SX.com - which is owned under privacy - had 282 active bidders, with 13 participating in the auction after the...

Here is a look at the Top 20 five number .com sales that have been actually reported. I am sure there have been more on Chinese domain exchanges but we have to use what is reported.

Interestingly, one domain name was actually sold twice...

This morning, Sedo announced via Twitter that they sold the domain name Links.com for €700,000. The domain marketplace routinely brokers six-figure sales including the recent $400,000 Casinos.org sale, but what makes this more interesting...

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...

Like many of us, I have been flabbergasted by the recent release of previously unreported Uniregistry domain sales from the period between February 2015 to June 2016. As a domain investor in the making and an industry follower, I believe that we...

Yesterday, the news broke that the three-letter domain name Ice.com was sold in a deal brokered by @Brian Harbin and David Clements (@davidclements) of Brannan's. At the time of the news breaking, the buyer's identity remained a...

The shortest domain name possible, at least within the centralized domain name ecosystem, is 3 characters in total, a single-character country-code extension name.

However, for many country-code extensions, single letters are not released, so...

It's extremely rare to see a three-letter .COM expire. With even the worst three-letter .COM's now worth at least $15,000 to an investor, they're prized assets that are popular worldwide. Recently, the news broke that the domain VIQ.com was due...