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This article covers 2019 sales of .com domain names that are made up of three or four words. The analysis is limited to sales reported in the NameBio database.

There were 49 sales above $7500 of domain names comprised of at least three...

Recently, a discussion has arisen on NamePros, asking whether the Chinese domain market could be at an end. This question comes after a couple of months of declining prices after a period of steep growth at the end of 2015. In this article, I...

The first half of 2019 has been great for domain sales with the rate of NameBio-reported sales up 28% and the average price up almost 17% compared to full year 2018. The sales rate is up in all three major legacy extensions .com...

Geo-targeted domain names have often been a popular source of income for domain investors, with some still making a living from buying and selling this category of name. However, there are some common questions that need answering. How do you...

Crypto related domain names have been hot property for investors in the recent past with domains such as CryptoWorld.com and CryptoBank.com selling for six-figures a piece. Up until now, the ultimate crypto domain name has never been for sale...

Aftermarket sales of .xyz are having a stellar 2021. Even at the midway point of 2021, the sales dollar volume has more than tripled over the 2020 whole year total. To put it in perspective, during the first half of 2021 the sales volume of...

In the past few months, I've bought more domain names than I have in the past two years. These have been through marketplaces, via private deals and of course on NamePros. Throughout all of these deals, there are a few rules that I try to follow...

Technology giant Apple is currently listed by Forbes as the largest tech company in the world, beating the likes of Samsung, Microsoft and Alphabet (Google) thanks to their array of popular products such as the iPhone and the MacBook Pro. I am an...

Many domain investors and startup owners are enthusiastic about the .io domain extension. Quality single word names can command five-figure prices. The extension has one of the best global sell-through rates of all extensions.

The rate of...

Domain investor @Mike Mann is the owner of several hundred thousand domains. All domains in this portfolio are available to buy through his company DomainMarket.com, with prices ranging from three to seven figures. With such a large...

Chrome is Google’s free web browser, and as you’d expect, it’s very popular. In fact, according to W3Schools.com, Google Chrome had a 73.8% market share in November 2016, up from 67.4% at the same point last year.

One of the attractions of...

The NameBio database this morning shows the sale of the new extension domain name test.center for $195,000 through a Sedo auction. This is the second highest-value new extension sale so far in 2019, with free.games...

Do you hold pairs of domain names that you try to sell as a package? These might include both the plural and the singular forms of a word, the UK and American spelling, a hyphenated and non-hyphenated version, or the same name with two different...

Sedo domain broker @Dave Evanson announced his latest six-figure sale this afternoon, confirming on social media that he had brokered the sale of Kush.com for $500,000. The sale is among the top ten four-letter .COM sales of the...

The past year has been a strong one for country code domain extensions in general, with the generic extensions .io and .co particularly active. This has prompted discussion around what might be the next generic country code to...

The influx of interest and funding into the cryptocurrency industry has lead to some of the largest domain sales over the past few years. One of the most recent cryptocurrency related sales was that of Coins.com by Adam Perzow in a seven-figure...

Whether you are the king of domains and sitting on countless super valuable domains or someone just starting out who spent days scraping through dropping lists to buy a handful of domains you found that others may have overlooked, our portfolios...

Technology giant Microsoft has a portfolio of over seventy thousand domain names. Many of these names are defensive registrations for their products, but there are plenty of gems hidden within the portfolio. Over the past few months, Microsoft...

Investor and entrepreneur @Michael Cyger became a well-known figure in the domain name industry thanks to his @DomainSherpa brand, which he created in 2012. Through DomainSherpa, Michael won several industry awards including Blogger...

NameJet, the domain aftermarket auction company, is one of the premier destinations for domain investors looking to buy quality domain names. Their inventory of short domains, one-word .COMs and two-word .COMs in particular, cater to the desires...

Occasionally in domain name investing, one believes that there's a name which could fetch two to ten times its purchase price in days. These domain speculators buy names with intentions to flip quickly for a profit. This can happen with some...

Animal domain names are some of the most sought after investments in the domain space? According to NameBio, domains such as Walrus.com and Snake.com have sold to investors for five and six-figures a piece, but why? What makes an...

An eye opener for anyone with a domain portfolio for sale should be that selling one of those properties can be as easy as going out to dinner.

Last night, my fiancée and I were debating what we should do for dinner. We went back and forth with...

Conducting outbound domain name sales can be a difficult practice that requires a high level of repetition to find the right techniques in order to improve. There are many resources available to find out about how to send outbound sales messages...