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This post will delve into the Sedo weekly sales report that was released on September 29, 2015 to take a deeper look into certain themes and trends that many invest in on NamePros.

The top sale for the week was actually a .de and not a...

Some people in the domaining industry (I’m talkin’ well-known professionals) say that there’s no money in brandables. And here’s why:

• They have no Exact Match Domain search results.
• There’s no Pay-Per-Click demand or competition...

The most popular discussions this week include the potential of scammers running rampant on GoDaddy’s auction platform due to their relaxed Terms of Service, what other domain extensions Chinese investors are eyeing, a surprising comeback for...

Twitter is an excellent place to find out the latest sales figures from some of the elites in the domain industry. This week, Mike Mann and Mike Berkens' Most Wanted Domains both reported five-figure sales on Twitter.

Earlier in the...

I am one of the many people that regularly monitors the activity of some of the most valuable domain names in existence: two-letter .com domains (Abbr. LL.com's) and two-number .com domains (Abbr. NN.com's). There's recently been an...

This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Punchbowl Founder and CEO Matt Douglas. Punchbowl is an online invitation and digital greeting card company that has gone from strength to strength since opening for business in 2007.

What...

This Monday's edition of Domain Development tackles the world of lead generation as an alternative way of making money with your domain names. This guide will also include one of my own websites which I successfully developed into a lead...

The most popular discussions this week include an announcement of scheduled auctions to assist a NamePros member in need; Facebook using an XYZ domain name for their live stream; Shane Bellone, a former Flippa broker, spilling the beans about the...

I've reported a couple of times on the domain name We.com, which sold via Sedo earlier this year. Through sources in China, I revealed an approximate sales price of around $8 million with Tencent cited as being the possible new owners.

We.com...

We have all been there. You pay too much for a name.

Maybe it’s been a pretty slow week on the drops and auctions when you see a nice name ending that day. Since you haven’t purchased many names this week, you convince yourself the name is...

There are five Gmail plugins that you should consider using if you're a domain investor who regularly uses Gmail to send sales emails or to manage domain name sales. These extensions have all been tried and tested by myself, and they are my own...

As part of my series on how to develop out your portfolio of domain names, we shall be looking at ways of making money from developing your domains into lead generation sites, affiliate sites and authority websites. Those subjects will be covered...

The most popular discussions this week include strategies to follow on pending delete and expiring auctions, what Pinyin domains are and why their popularity is on the rise, the value of domain names with reversed keywords, and Pheenix’s...

I have been noticing an uptick in 5N .net action lately. To be clear, this article in no way suggests for anyone to register them, and this article is not a recommendation for them. The research and homework on this topic is just beginning. That...

I recently returned from vacation after visiting Florida, and I had a great time. It's always good to unwind a little bit, take some sun in, and think about what's going on in your life, where you're headed, and what you're going to have to do...

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...

The auction action on 4.CN is heating up. The DomainFest Asia auction has a lot of top quality numeric domains on auction with 73.com being the best of the bunch.

Surprising some is the performance of 8.xyz at $53,358; there is less than 5 hours...

After reading a blog post by Elliot last week, I thought it would be useful to show you a website that I regularly use to check trademarks. In Elliot's post, he references an article in which 15 common English words or phrases are shown to...

Mike Mann - owner of DomainMarket.com - has just announced the $43,000 sale of a .CO domain name that he's owned since 2010. It's a sale that would put it at joint 18th on the highest ever publicly recorded .CO domain sales (according to...

Welcome to a Labor Day edition of Domain Development, a series in which I'll show you how to go about creating websites for your domain names. As parking revenue is virtually non existent for many domain names, developing your names into fully...

The most popular discussions this week include PayPal’s new service, PayPal.me, and the username speculation and squatting that is occurring with it; the best registrars for investors with large domain portfolios; renewal tips and techniques for...

This is my first blog post on NamePros, and I will be sharing my experiences and the lessons that I have learned in Domaining. Thank you to @NamePros and the domain community for the opportunity to share this information.

The first lesson...

This story centers around a domain name sale that took place a couple of years ago, but details only came to light recently thanks to @john_karr who posted a link to an audio file in which the seller describes how he sold the domain...

In 2002, Brent Oxley founded the web hosting company HostGator in his dorm room at Florida Atlantic University, and he quickly grew it from a small business with just 100 customers into one of the largest providers of reseller hosting.

In 2012...

Welcome to a brand new week, and a brand new edition of my series called Domain Development. Last week, I showed you the very basics of how to create a WordPress site. I recommend using the WordPress platform as it's a very simple platform...