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In recognition of the 15th anniversary of general availability of the .me domain extension, I thought it was a good time to look at the performance, use and sales record for the extension.

The registry has a 15th Anniversary promotion on – you...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at full-time domain investors and their portfolio sizes, plus a domainer is looking for a more profitable opportunity than domain parking. Elsewhere, an investor is ready to quit the industry and Yuga...

There have been many discussions surrounding a possible Chip crash this week, with some investors suggesting that four-letter Chinese premium .COMs will continue to decline in price, a move that could produce ripples throughout the rest of...

I regularly look through Crunchbase to see what new startups are doing, and I came across a company using a .BIKE domain name: the first .bike domain name that I’ve seen in action.

The .BIKE domain name belongs to a company called Cobi...

In this week’s edition of Top Topics, domain investors discuss a recent tweet from veteran investor Rick Schwartz, another investor reveals one of the top five .TV sales of the year and we discuss cryptocurrency’s impact on domain name investing...

During some research this week, I came across a one-word .COM domain sale that I don't think has been reported before. The domain Abstract.com looks to have sold to workflow platform Abstract as a direct upgrade from GoAbstract.com. Abstract...

It's now just over halfway through 2018 and with six months worth of reported sales behind us, it's an opportune moment to take a look at the top sales of the year so far. DNJournal regularly charts verified sales that are indexed in a yearly top...

Last year, we wrote several articles about famous people who haven’t secured their .COM domain. In a world in which social media is the leading way of communicating with fans, celebrities and their respective management services may put...

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The root nameservers only delegate authority: they don’t actually provide hostname to IP address lookups, with a few exceptions. For example, the root nameservers assign the com and net TLDs to...

The most popular discussions this week include choosing between a new generic Top Level Domain and a Second Level Domain; the current, past, and future outlook on LLLL.com’s price floor; technical advances being made that could end domain name...

In the first Top Topics of 2018, we discover why one domain investor thinks that any correlation between a domain's age and its value is a myth. We also read a report of a domainer making a $500 profit within minutes of reaching out to an end...

Michael Cyger, the founder of DNAcademy, hosted his second “Quarantine Social”, an hour-long chat hosted on Zoom. The chat attracted over fifty people, but if you weren’t able to make it, there’s a recording of the chat in the DNAcademy blog.

I...

Welcome to a fresh, weekly edition of Top Topics here at NamePros!
A domain investor with domains at One.com is having serious management issues; Will domain names become obsolete in the future? Domainer's own landing pages make him...

The domain name industry as a whole moves a significant amount of money each year, with both companies and domain investors buying and selling thousands of domains for millions of dollars.

However, something that the domain name industry lacks...

This week, we published a poll based on domain name pricing, asking how often a domainer changes the pricing on their domains. The results show an interesting split between monthly, quarterly and annually adjusting prices, but it's safe to...

After you have sold a domain name, how much of the profit do you invest into new domain names in order to grow the value of your portfolio? It’s difficult to know whether to put 100% of your profits into additional domain names, which is why...

In this week's Top Topics, we look at the recent $149,000 sale of Meta.so, sold by domain name investor Nikul Sanghvi. From a sale to an acquisition, a domainer shows off an exceptional recent buy, and is there a parking service purely for great...

Welcome to this week's Top Topics. "China will block the .COM extension" is a bold prediction from a member in one of NamePros.com's most active discussions this week. Elsewhere, DN.com released some very interesting information regarding triple...

Domain name investing is hard. Typically only about 1% of names sell by the end of a full year. Many names will not sell for a very long time, or ever. Naming trends and popular niches may change.

Pricing is difficult. If you price too high, the...

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...

Mike Mann, domain investor and owner of DomainMarket.com announced several more sales this week including Sushma.com, which sold for $10,000 after Mike purchased the domain for $190 in May 2011. Another four figure sale that Mike announced is...

Welcome to our weekly review of Top Topics here at NamePros!

Brokered offer of $10,000 dollars indicates end-user value? Find premium domains registrant forgot to renew; NameJet's new look, good or bad? Lost access to my domains at...

I came across an interesting article today that covered their version of "10 Strange Domain Name Facts." I thought I would go over them and add my personal thoughts. This should be fun, right? Let's find out!

1. Webmasters purchasing...

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Sten Lillieström challenged some common assumptions about domain names and brands in the first part of the interview. This week, I ask him questions around the theme of how to create an effective and distinctive brand name.

Creating...

Successful domain investment depends on the art of selecting effective names, as well as the science of using measures to evaluate positive attributes of names.

We often consider various metrics, such as the number of extensions, or how...