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Domain investing is a 24/7 industry, with deals being made around the clock in many different time zones. With the attraction of making vast amounts of money, we can easily spend all our free time in front of a screen. If you're struggling to...

Frank Schilling is the founder of InternetTraffic.com, DomainNameSales.com, and Uniregistry. In this interview, Schilling shares his insights on new gTLDs, the Chinese market, the relationship between Bitcoin and domain names, and more. He even...

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...

In this week's Top Topics, we have a couple of success stories from both outbound and marketplace sales. It's always nice to see an investor complete a marketplace sale, but an outbound sale can be even more difficult to achieve. We also have an...

Last week, we brought you the news that the two-letter domain name BY.com had been sold to a Chinese investor, after failing to sell in the NamesCon auction earlier this year. Today, the seller of BY.com, André Eidskrem, revealed that he...

The impact of Chinese investors on the domaining industry has been well documented, and during the periods of rising prices during 2015 in particular, many domainers started to acquire "Chinese Premium" domain names with the aim of either selling...

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...

Last week, we brought you news of the sale of BY.com. Today, another two letter .COM domain has been sold, and again, the buyer is in China. The name in question is ZQ.com, which was owned by a company based in Vancouver, WA and sold to a Chinese...

We have brought you a number of interviews about companies that have created brands on ultra-premium .COM domains. Today, we have the pleasure of interviewing the team behind an investment company that has decided to place a considerable amount...

Last week, the Global Domain Summit in Hangzhou closed with the biggest domain name auction of all time. According to reports from eName and TLD Investors, the auction finished with over $46mm in domain sales, with banana.com being...

The two-letter .COM domain name BY.com has just moved to a Chinese registrant after being sold by a Norweigan company this week. The news of this transfer was broken by Jamie Zoch of DotWeekly on his Twitter page.

BY.com was put into the...

In this week's edition Top Topics, there are a couple of discussions about outbound domain sales, with many investors seemingly turning to outbound sales again after riding the wave of the Chinese market. Are you still heavily involved in Chinese...

When I started domaining about a year ago, I was sure that I would hit the jackpot! It's easy to get caught up in that dream when first entering the domain name business. I have sold a few domains since then, but more importantly, I have learned...

Data can help us make more informed decisions about our domaining activity, including which domains to acquire and which to sell at a specific time. One of the leading investment categories over the past twelve months has been the four-letter...

What type of domain names do Unicorns own? In business, a Unicorn is a startup that is valued at over $1 billion, and as you may expect, they usually have the budget for high value domain name purchases to help to promote their brand online...

Some time ago, NamePros published an article about securing your domain name registrar accounts by using two-factor authentication. After my own experiences this week, I've found there's one problem with this security system, and that is...

We hear so much about Chinese investors owning elusive short .com domains. So, me being British (Scottish), I thought that I would do a little research on the United Kingdom based businesses that are using two-letter (2L) and three-letter...

With only 1,000 three-number .COM domain names available for registration, they are a highly sought after category for investors with a large budget. Today, the auction for one of these 1,000 domain names has closed at the popular NameJet...

The first .COM domain name was registered in 1985 and since then, the .COM market has become a very crowded, with over 120 million .COM names currently registered. The emergence of new gTLDs gives companies another option when looking to either...

The most successful people in the domaining industry have incredible instincts when it comes to domain names. Whether it's buying or selling, it seems that the pros have a talent for paying under the odds and selling high. While some of this can...

The domain market has been slow recently, with public domain sales records for this week showing no sales above $65,000. Privately however, there are plenty of deals happening amongst investors, brokers and end-users, well into the seven...

Record car sales in 2015 have seen new growth within online automotive business that could change the way the industry operates forever. According to eMarketer, the US automotive industry will spend $8.71 billion on digital campaigns within...

Time flies, don't it? It's been a while since I've written anything over here at NamePros (or even at all). Life gets insanely busy, and even more so when you're juggling 7,485.37 things at once, but nothing like an early morning Hawaiian style...

Alan Dunn is the managing director of NameCorp, a digital agency that focuses on premium domain names. Recently, Alan published an article on Medium.com, entitled "One Domain Name Can Change Everything". Within the article, Alan describes...

Whilst the Chinese domain market may be down in the past few months, I've received four offers on a four character (LLNN) .COM domain name within the past 24 hours. These four offers are from four different people; three in China, and one in...