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The most important point in last week’s NamePros Blog article Six Years of Domain Name Mistakes was to acquire names that will have multiple potential users who are in a position to pay a solid retail price.

Each domain name is...

Domain investor George Kirikos (@GeorgeK) has uncovered yet another high value domain sale, thanks to his research into a company's recent SEC filing. After reading Bryn Mawr's quarterly filing, George noticed that the company...

In this week's Top Topics, a domain name investor asks whether anyone still makes regular income via parking names anymore and a domainer reports their latest sale of a blockchain related domain. Elsewhere, George Kirikos posts a report about a...

Welcome to another recap of Top Topics here at NamePros!

Domain investors discuss whether domain parking is alive, dying, or already dead; $600,000 USD was paid for the domain name Socrates.com recently; Exploration of whether...

In this week's Top Topics, an investor asks whether it's an opportune time to perform outbound sales in light of the social isolation that much of the world is experiencing right now, thanks to the Coronavirus. Speaking of the Coronavirus, a...

In case you missed it, we broke the news that the highly valuable Gem.com domain name moved into Escrow this week in a reported seven-figure deal. Domain brokerage company Lumis followed our story by posting a tweet, confirming that they...

Authorities in Beijing have announced this week that company names may now be just a number. This string can be up to five numbers long, but authorities will consider companies using longer number combinations. Could this have a direct...

The most popular discussions this week include a recent two-day promotion for discounted .net registrations that resulted in 14,000 new LLLL.net’s, the current and future value of .biz domain names, 6N .com’s having 500,000 reported registrations...

Welcome to the first edition of New Names in 2016. This series shows you the recent purchases of other domain name investors to give you insight and inspiration for your own acquisitions.

This week we look at purchases that NamePros members have...

We published an interesting interview this week with Recycle Track Systems, who bought RTS.com for between $50,000 and $100,000 last year. Instead of settling for a longer name, they invested in RTS.com, and described the purchase as “one...

In this week's Top Topics, we look at single word .COM domain names to discuss their value. Are all single word .COM domains valuable? Elsewhere, an investor shares details of a recent negotiation that started at $100 and ended in a $10,000 sale...

Chinese domaining activity has dominated the headlines of blogs over the past couple of years. The buying power of Chinese investors drove a renewed desire for short domain names, which in turn saw wholesale prices increase across the board...

A major domain name acquisition took place in recent weeks, and that was Sobeys' acquisition of the Voila.com domain name. Sobeys, a large Canadian food retailer, recently announced plans for a food delivery network called Voila, which would be...

One of the most dominant discussions of this week is that if Mike Mann's sale of BlueTrading.com in exchange for 3.5BTC, which equates to around $12,000. Are cryptocurrency domain sales going to become more common in future? Do escrow companies...

Our assembled panel of domain investors and brokers are described as experts thanks in no small part to their ability to continuously produce sales. In our final edition of the current Expert Exchange series, we take a look at the average sales...

Last week, we brought you the news that James Booth sold the three-letter domain GMA.com to a Marksmen client. Yesterday, Jamie Zoch (@Yofie) broke the news that the eventual buyer has been revealed as Hyundai AutoEver America.

It's...

Welcome to the latest edition of Top Topics here at NamePros!

Reza Sardeha rolls out Anyone.com as a real estate market disruptor; Domainer receives an offer for their oldest domain name; Becoming a domain registrar is inherently...

In case you missed it earlier this week, we reported on the news that Ice.com sold for $3.5 million. At the time of publishing, the buyer was unknown. However, since then, the name has started forwarding to TheIce.com, which is owned by...

Not to be confused with Jonathan Frakes (although there is a slight resemblance), @Jothan Frakes co-founded NamesCon with Richard Lau and is a renown TLD expert. With over 28 years of tech and domain industry experience in pivotal roles...

Before getting into this week’s Top Topics, I have a warning. If you haven’t already added two-factor authentication to your registrar accounts, I would urge you to do it soon. I won’t go into details, but after an incident this week, some of my...

Electricity is pretty incredible. Think how easy it is to take the electricity provided by your utility company, and use it to cook your meals, power entertainment devices, operate an air conditioner or heat pump, charge devices, run motorized...

James Booth, founder and CEO of BQDN.com, looks to have sold the domain name GMA.com. According to DomainIQ, the domain name has just moved into possession of Marksmen Inc, a domain acquisition service. There are currently now clues as to...

In response to a NamePros Blog article a few week’s ago, Arslan Nawaz asked that I write an article on Domain Investing Dos and Don’ts.

The following is an amalgamation of my own ideas along with views expressed by many other people...

Spelling is an interesting subject in domaining. Much of the world speaks English, but the spelling can be different. Outside of North America, many English words have subtle differences. The British spelling would be used across several...

We recently wrote an updated "Top 10" domains article profiling the recent acquisitions of James Booth (@BoothDomains). One more name that could be added to that list is Booth.com's recent purchase of Coconut.com, which was announced by...