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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...

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...

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...

In this week's Top Topics, we focus on a ten-year-old company that has rebranded to an ultra-premium .com domain. Elsewhere, we want you to share how much money you started your domain investing career with, and an end-user has asked for advice...

In this week’s Top Topics, we learn that audio-based social network Clubhouse acquired Clubhouse.com, and are Handshake domain names the future? Elsewhere, we look at .IO’s recent bubble and there’s an interesting article from Protocol.
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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!

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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...

News reports and features from domain industry blogs are so frequent that it is often easy to miss some stories. Today, we're going to recap some of the articles from the NamePros blog that you may have missed over the past few months. These...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we ask what happens to your domain names after you pass away, and we take a look at whether brandable domain names are worth investing in at the moment. Elsewhere, a domain investor reports their latest four...

It's May 25th, which means that GDPR goes into effect today. Aside from DomainGang being unavailable to European readers, a number of news sites such as LA Times and Chicago Tribune are blocked for those in Europe. Britain's Nominet has also...

In this week’s Top Topics, we look at two mammoth seven-figure sales that were announced this week. We also focus on a useful quality that domain investors need to succeed, and we discuss coping with barren periods without a domain sale...

Seasonal domain names can be profitable. We’ve seen in the past that Thanksgiving.com and Halloween.com receive huge spikes in traffic, and presumably revenue, around those specific holidays. One of the most popular seasonal domain names has to...

In December 2015, we published the news that the domain name 77.com had been sold for a fee that was thought to be around $5 million. The valuable two-number .COM domain name was acquired by DomainEmpire.com Ltd of London, a domain...

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

Are new TLDs hard to sell compared to .com domains? Mistakes you made as a domain investor; Worth renewing .it.com domains? Bison.ai and other sales on Namecheap; The...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we find out what a typical day looks like for a full-time domain name investor and a domainer asks for help after a $30,000 initial offer comes in out of the blue. Elsewhere, we discuss the impact of the...

In this week’s Top Topics, investors are questioning the value of a two-word hyphenated .DE domain name that sold at Sedo recently for over $50,000. Why would someone be prepared to pay this much? We find out. Also in this week’s Top Topics, a...

In this week's edition of Top Topics, we take a look at one investor's ten most recent domain sales and we ask is it now time to sell your four-letter .COM's? Elsewhere, a domainer is looking for examples of excellent landing pages and we feature...

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...

The annual NamesCon domain industry conference is under way in Las Vegas, with many opportunities for those in attendance to learn from some of the best in the business.

Today marks one of the most important events during NamesCon: the keynote...

In case you missed it, we published a list of ten domain names that Mark Cuban owns this week. The article received a lot of positive attention, thanks in no small part to a retweet that Mark sent out to his six million Twitter followers...

In this week's Top Topics, we take a look at strategies for domain investing in 2019, a domainer asks about conversion rates in outbound sales, and a poll asks how many domains you own in your domain portfolio. Elsewhere, an investor shares a...

In this week's Top Topics, we look at two six-figure domain sales, one of which sold at DropCatch after former owner Accenture let the domain expire. Elsewhere, we ask which companies you trust in the domain industry.


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In this week's Top Topics, we discuss what it means to be a domainer, and a new investor shares what they've learned after spending their first $500 on domain names. Elsewhere, a gaming studio secures a major domain upgrade, and investors share...

Detected domains is an ongoing series in which we publish details of recent purchases and sales from some of the industry's top domain name investors. Thanks to DomainIQ, we're able to present some interesting discoveries. In this week's edition...