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Discussions galore this week! The most popular include the redesign of Flippa’s homepage and category pages; Google’s parent company Alphabet rolling out with a .XYZ domain name, which made many others find new and unseen value in them; the...

As you may know, THE Domain Conference is taking place from 26th - 29th September 2015 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. If you are going, you can expect days full of networking, workshops, talks, a keynote speech from Morgan Linton and a "State of...

The most popular discussions this week include a comparison for both buyers and sellers on Flippa and NameJet, an increase in spam to anyone owning a Chinese premium LLLL.com domain name, the most regrettable negotiation endings in domain...

I reported last week that the domain name oomi.com sold for $130,650 in a DropCatch.com auction. It seems that the winning bid was false, as the auction has been re-started at $59. In an email from DropCatch.com, auction participants were...

Well over the last two weeks I wrote about a couple epic auction battles on Go Daddy Auctions. These have been min bid battles back and forth for hours. Yesterday I watched one that lasted til past Midnight in the Eastern time zone.

Yesterday's...

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...

The most popular discussions this week include the dreaded (but sometimes good) number “4” in numeric domain names; momumental and historic investments made by Kevin Ham, FMA, and Marchex; the best new gTLD’s to invest in; and how many times have...

The most popular discussions this week include end users embracing new gTLD’s by rebranding from their .com to generic strings, the Chinese premium LLLL.org buyout that occurred earlier this week, 360° domains and what they are, buyouts of...

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...

The most popular discussions this week include predictions about the domain market in 2016 such as China prices doubling, the India market emerging, and more; speculation on LLL .CH domain names; investing in the new gTLD .TOP; goals that domain...

Welcome to this Good Friday edition of Top Topics. This week, we bring you five discussions that will prove both interesting and insightful. In other news, our Expert Exchange series continued this week with our guest, successful domain investor...

The domain market has been slow recently, with public domain sales records for this week showing no sales above $65,000. Privately however, there are plenty of deals happening amongst investors, brokers and end-users, well into the seven...

Some time ago, NamePros published an article about securing your domain name registrar accounts by using two-factor authentication. After my own experiences this week, I've found there's one problem with this security system, and that is...

The most popular discussions this week include a few tricks to ease domain name portfolio management using Excel functions, 9N .com domain name buyouts in certain patterns, Adam Dicker addressing concerns from previous customers and employees...

In this week's Top Topics, we highlight a couple of discussions based around your domaining income and your day jobs. It's been well documented that it's difficult to make a good living through domain investing, but it can be done. A little hard...

Mike Mann has announced two more domain sales this week. The was a $17,000 sale of SweetLegs.com, a domain that Mike acquired in 2004 for $900. This has been acquired by the owner of SweetLegs.ca, a Canadian clothing company. The second is...

Political figures are often subjected to intense public scrutiny, and they often make national and international headlines for their decisions, speeches, and opinions. Owning their own name as a .COM domain name should be a priority for...

In case you missed it, we recently published the first in our Domain Detection series in which we summarise the recent activity of large domain portfolio owners to see what they bought, sold or dropped. The data collected is fascinating, so...

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...

In April, we published the news that the valuable two-letter .COM domain name HH.com had sold. Since then, the legal firm that owned the name has been in the process of transferring data to a new domain.

This week we received notification...

Earlier this week, we published a poll asking whether two-step verification was used by domain investors. After a couple of days of votes, it looks like around 30% of domain investors haven't set up this added layer of security on their...

In this week's Top Topics, domain name investors give their opinion on Rick Schwartz's latest cryptocurrency related domain name purchases, and we find some excellent recommendations for tools and services relating to outbound domain sales...

In this week's Top Topics we ask how much O.com will sell for, we discuss domain landing pages and we look forward to 2018 by discussing targets for the upcoming year. If you celebrate Christmas, we hope that you have an excellent festive period...

According to DomainIQ, it looks like Media Options sold the one-word domain Impala.com recently. In a March 2017 edition of the DomainSherpa Review, it was revealed that the domain was acquired for $30,000. This 1994 domain has now been...

Last week, the sale of NBX.com was announced via @Sedo. The name sold for $130,000 and has subsequently moved to the new buyer. Due to GDPR, we are unable to see the full WHOIS details of the new owner, but it’s highly likely that the...