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The worldwide entrepreneurial network Techstars has been helping startups grow since 2006. Co-founded by angel investor David Cohen, this network has invested more than $3.5 billion in over one thousand companies including SendGrid, ClassPass and...

Stock symbols are used globally to identify publicly traded companies that offer their shares on a stock exchange. Depending on the stock exchange in question, these symbols are typically limited to three or four characters. Thanks to the brevity...

In previous editions of Domain Data, we have given you some extremely valuable data about the type of domain names that startups buy, which domain extensions are most popular and more. Today, we wanted to bring you something slightly different...

The prestigious DNJournal has been collecting data since 2003 and compiling it in a weekly sales report. Operated by Ron Jackson, DNJournal is one of the most credible sources for the domain name industry and has been referenced in outlets such...

This year’s NamesCon was the largest ever. Over the past three years, the domain name industry event has evolved from a conventional domain conference into a four-day powerhouse of entertainment and networking.

NamesCon attendance has doubled in...

The Second Beijing Domain Auction was successfully held in Beijing, China on April 24, 2015. The auction resulted in seven figures worth of domain sales. We've included pictures from the event including some results from the domain auction. For...

All bidding has now closed at the DomainFEST Asia auction with 4.cn. In all, there were thirteen NNN.com domains, one LL.com, forty-six LLL.com, and other excellent names such as text.com and soft.com.

Here are some of the highlights...

One measure of domain name sales success is the sell-through rate (STR). For your own portfolio, that is simply the number of domain names that sell in a time period, usually one year, divided by the average number of domain names for sale...

When you are considering a domain name acquisition, does it matter who owned the name previously, what price they asked, and the marketplaces they used to try to sell the domain name? We all know to check for possible developed use of a domain...

The question of whether aged domain names have greater value has been discussed in various NamePros threads over the years. Here are a few of the points expressed:

• Age by itself does not determine the worth of a domain name.
• In the...

Domain name security is something that should be taken extremely seriously. With regular reports of valuable short domain names being stolen, it seems that liquid domain names in particular are a target for opportunist thieves.

One of the...

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...

When it comes to the use of hyphens in domain names, there isn't a global convention. A hyphen in a domain is generally not preferred in the U.S. but commonly used in countries like Japan. Bill Hartzer has written about the negative impact...

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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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...

For as long as domain speculation has existed, there have been investors in the name of gaining a penny off of tragic situations. From nearly every terrible incident that claimed one life to hundreds of thousands, there has been someone to claim...

Many domain investors are familiar with the site:TLD Google search command. This allows you to restrict search results to either an individual website or to a certain extension.

For example, it can be a useful indicator of how much use, at...

Last December, I published an article entitled “By this time next year, I will…” which outlined my own domaining goals for 2017. Almost a year on from that article, I thought it would be an opportune time to review the year to see whether...

Up until May 31st 2018, the premium one-word domain Ledger.com forwarded to PatriotLedger.com, a newspaper for the city of Quincy in Massachusetts. Despite the word being more commonly connected to economics, the Ledger.com domain has been...

Ring has become a leading brand in the home security industry, having raised over $200 million in funding from famous faces such as Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson. The innovative Ring team lead by inventor Jamie Siminoff have released some of...

Rumors are flying and Chinese news sites are reporting the sale of Nubia.com to mobile phone maker Nubia for US$2m. Some sources have speculated that GoDaddy was the seller.

According to the news release from mobile news site Qudong...

In March 2019, the domain name DoubleDutch.com expired after being used since the 1990s by a Minnesota-based multicultural leadership development company. The owner likely received some offers in that time, but for whatever reason, the domain...

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...

To many readers, the domain name AUS.com may be familiar. Once owned by Ali Zandi (@Zandibot) and mentioned on a DomainSherpa review of his recent flips, the valuable three-letter .COM has been sold between various domain investors, until...

Domain name investor George Kirikos has just published a series of tweets that seems to suggest that the domain name Angie.com sold for $300,000 in 2014.

The data that George discovered in an SEC filing by Angie's List shows that the...