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In this week's Top Topics, we look at Disney's use of the Go.com domain name, and we discuss illiquidity in domain names during an economic downturn. Elsewhere, investors comment on a rebrand, and have you noticed a large increase in sales...

Happy end of January and welcome to another edition of Top Topics here at NamePros.

The ultra premium domain TXT.com was sold for $300,000 dollars in a brokered deal; Domainers discuss their personal experience of being scammed by an...

Welcome to a brand new edition of Top Topics here at NamePros. This week:

A concerning email from Namecheap points to third party's service infiltration; Dropping competition appears to have increased a lot since the pandemic...

Happy April with a fresh round of Top Topics here at NamePros!

You're not a real domain investor without a few thousand domain names; Which service will become the next Dan.com? OpenAI filed a UDRP against the domain ChatGPT.com...

Hey! It's the latest review of weekly Top Topics here at NamePros!

Domain portfolio access lost at Epik; GoDaddy fails to sync domain pricing; Dan.com BTC payments are currently frozen; Wondering why your domain names aren't selling...

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

RIP Jason Sheppard, also known as DNKingpin; Epik LLC acquires its own assets back via a proxy buyer; Best way to get sales on Dan.com; Symbolics.com is now a domain...

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...

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

Meta rolled out Threads on a .net domain; Domain Agents: Use or not? Afternic "forever troubled" as far as BIN setting goes; Optimize a domain that earns $1 /day; How...

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

A former employee of Epik shares his experience in the domain industry; A growing trend among domain investors seems to upset some; Artificial intelligence (AI)...

Welcome to Sunday's review of Top Topics here at NamePros!

Your preferred method of domain verification on Sedo; Meet Cemal from Turkey; Dot .tech domain carries a $3,000 dollar renewal fee—why's that? Afternic wants you to prove...

NamePros has been active for many years, and is a gold mine of valuable content. In this article I highlight some of the most viewed articles.

I did not strictly list exactly the most viewed, but rather made a selection of highly-viewed articles...

While most modern businesses need a domain name, that does not mean that all sectors and niches offer an equal naming opportunity.

What are some of the factors that make names more likely to sell for good returns in a niche or sector?

In this...

I first became aware of ProductHunt in 2020, but never really paid much attention to it. When I interviewed Steven Tey for the NamePros Blog in 2020, Meet Steven Tey, The Young Developer of One Word Domains, he mentioned that One Word...

In a post on Network World, Zeus Kerravala takes a look at companies going back to .com in a world of so many choices.

He talks about one his favorite movies being Back to the Future and how many businesses are going back to the future for the...

The most popular discussions this week include a heated debate about domain investors struggling with the decision of using DropCatch due to the competition that it promotes, the excitement behind receiving your first parking payout, investing...

The most popular discussions this week include investing in domain names of the gTLD space after Konstantinos Zournas shared that he previously invested $50,000 in new gTLDs; how to sell domains faster; the SnapNames .Yoga auction, results, and...

I always find it interesting to look at previous domain sales to see what the new owners are actually doing with the domain names, so in this article I'll be looking at domain sales on Sedo.com from this time last year to see what's happening...

As I write this, Apple is finishing the Apple Keynote speech with some really interesting news regarding Apple Music, but as a domainer, I seem to have an ingrained tendency to ask myself "Who Owns the .COM?" I thought I'd share my findings, as I...

You may have read recently about Flippa's acquisition of Domain Holdings - with the two companies hoping to produce a combined sales total of around $70 million this year.

It looks as though Domain Holdings have already made their presence known...

If you haven’t taken notice, NamePros has been reporting the top domain sales from various marketplaces on a daily basis. I thought that it would be fun, and educational to some, to report on who purchased the domain names and how they are using...

Happy Monday! I've got a few of updates for you:

1. Due to a flood of nominations, a "run off round" of votes is needed to narrow down the field for THE Domain Conference Awards. Please take a minute to read the list, along with...

The most popular discussions this week include the dreaded hyphen and how much (or little) it can devalue your domain names, renewal strategies taken by domain name investors, speculation on Radix’s recent .online nGTLD, how to avoid being...

Yesterday, you may have read the Inside Interview with Rob Rawson, the founder of Staff.com - a domain name that he acquired for $430,000. Within that interview, Rob described a test that he performed before the acquisition of staff.com...

Back in May of this year, Elliot Silver posted a story about Clutter - an innovative storage service that had just raised $2 million in funding. I came across the company again on Crunchbase earlier this week after they had successfully...

The most popular discussions this week include the Indian ccTLD .in being the next speculated target for Chinese investments, looking back and determining the biggest regrets of domain name investing in the past year, domain investors sharing the...