Domain name investing is hard. Typically only about 1% of names sell by the end of a full year. Many names will not sell for a very long time, or ever. Naming trends and popular niches may change. Pricing is difficult. If you price too high, the rate of sales may go down, but if you price too low, you can't be profitable. While opinions of others...

Welcome to the Easter Sunday Top Topics review here at NamePros! :) How popular are Sedo themed auctions? You can lead an outbound sale horse to water; Afternic/GoDaddy versus Dan landers; Domains, trademarks, and UDRP avoidance; Sell domains quickly: Sedo vs. Afternic. How popular are Sedo theme auctions? Should we see more bidding by now in th...

NVIDIA has received a lot of attention of late. The company stock value has surged about 240% over the past year, and NVIDIA is currently the third largest company in the world in terms of market cap, at about $2.21 trillion. Microsoft and Apple are numbers 1 and 2, with Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta in positions 5, 6 and 7. On March 18, 2024 NVIDIA ...

Welcome to the latest Top Topics review here at NamePros! :) The Epik.com login page is deleted or disabled; GoDaddy is monetizing their appraisal tool; What's the worth of .XYZ domains? The .AI Registry now requires a 5% deposit to bid; Is GoDaddy adding 5% more to its Afternic commission? Epik.com login page/link deleted or disabled Users of E...

NamePros has been active for many years, and is a gold mine of valuable content. In this article I highlight some of the most viewed articles. I did not strictly list exactly the most viewed, but rather made a selection of highly-viewed articles that I think also retain interest and value today. Chinese Pinyin Domain Names By far the most viewe...

Welcome to the latest Top Topics review here at NamePros! :) Cognition.ai was sold for $110,000 dollars; Hey newbies: Domaining is dead! A complicated offer at GoDaddy; Never use a broker for outbound sales again; JM Bullion has acquired Gold.com. Cognition.Ai was acquired by Cognition Labs for $110,000 dollars Another week, another grand .ai brok...

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 article, I consider 8 relevant factors for sectors that offer strong naming potential. With a bit of twis...

Welcome to the latest Top Topics review here at NamePros! :) The domain UKR.net was disabled by the domain registrar; Toros.com UDRPYou make the call; GoDaddy nightmare; Domain that expired in October has not dropped yet; Squadhelp, Brandbucket, or Sedo? UKR.net domain was disabled by the domain name registrar for unknown reasons The domain name...

Most domain name marketplaces do not report sales, at least not fully, so it is difficult to assess their reach and effectiveness. If you have a large and successful portfolio, and have been in domain investing for some years, you probably have a good idea of what works for the type of names that you invest in. While visits to a marketplace do ...

Welcome to the latest Top Topics review here at NamePros! :) Girlfriend.ai was sold for $170,000 dollars; Record number of UDRP cases at the WIPO in 2023; Howard Neu - A valuable member of the domain community has passed; Swetha, XYZ Queen, has changed the DNS of her domain portfolio; GoDaddy registers domains appraised via its tool, claims invest...

One key to domain investing success is to be well informed with up-to-date information. NameBio just made that easier, with introduction of NameBio Trends Reports. In this article, I take a look at the different components of the NameBio Trends Reports, as well as complementary resources from other companies. I provide six suggestions for ways you...

Welcome to the latest Top Topics review here at NamePros! :) Afternic has closed its marketplace; Bet.bet was sold for $600,000 dollars; Selling Bei.jing to the Chinese; Do not transfer domains renewed during the 45 day auto-renew period; Are aged domains worth more? Afternic has closed its domain marketplace Citing a new approach that takes vis...

Over the last few years we have seen an increasing rate of price increases in the domain name world. If you operate developed sites, or have names you feel sure you want to keep long term, in most cases it makes sense to renew in advance of price increases. But to do that, you need to know about price increases before they happen. Registries provi...

Welcome to the latest Top Topics review here at NamePros! :) Contract based domain sale without using an escrow; Trading .in domains banned; Dan.com issue with landing pages; Does anyone feel domainer guilt? Portfolio valuations by a "big dog" registrar might lead to a lawsuit; big dog lawyer needed. Contract Based Domain Sale without Escrow!? A...

TLD-LIST is my go-to site for comparing registration, transfer and renewal prices at different registrars. While that is the main way TLD-LIST is used, the site can do much more. Finding Lowest Prices Before we look into what else TLD-LIST can do, let's review the basics of using TLD-LIST for domain extension price comparisons. TLD-LIST currently...

It's Big Game Sunday and our review of Top Topics here at NamePros! What are the worst domain investments you ended up losing money from? Google shutting down web sites; SnapNames at it once again; Domain name has been reclassified as premiumwhat to do? What's the most you ever paid for a domain name? What are your worst domain name investments...

If you watched the 66th Grammy Awards ceremony on Feb. 4, 2024, odds are the duet by Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs is a lasting memory. Tracy Chapman made the song Fast Car a huge hit in 1988, while the 2023 Luke Combs rendition made the song popular once more. Their memorable duet performance left such an impression that within 24 hours Tracy Chapm...

Welcome to Sunday's review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :) Why .ai domain registrations cost so much? How to delete GoDaddy appraisals; What's your most powerful keyword? Domain tools you pay for; Most successful domain investors began 15-30 years ago. Why .ai domain registrations cost so much? Domains ending in .ai are managed by Anguilla, th...

Electricity is pretty incredible. Think how easy it is to take the electricity provided by your utility company, and use it to cook your meals, power entertainment devices, operate an air conditioner or heat pump, charge devices, run motorized equipment, and so much more. You could not be a domain investor if electricity had not been invented. But...

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 maturity in domain investing. New TLDs are still hard to sell compared to .com domains? Dot .com domains exist since t...

In response to a NamePros Blog article a few week's ago, Arslan Nawaz asked that I write an article on Domain Investing Dos and Don'ts. The following is an amalgamation of my own ideas along with views expressed by many other people over a number of years. Near the end is a list of articles related to the topic. I hope NamePros community members ...

Welcome to Sunday's review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :) Domain investor sold domain with content but buyer didn't pay; Clean your cookies to avoid frontrunning, says domainer; The domain 7.io sold for $150,000 dollars; The State of the Industry 2024; Dot .desi is possibly shutting down. Get Domain Back To My Godaddy Account The sale of a dev...

We are fortunate to have many tools and metrics to assist and guide domain investing, many that are either free or have a free version. Probably none is more vital to domain investing than ExpiredDomains.net. Back in 2022, I provided an introduction to getting started with ExpiredDomains in the article: Finding Expiring and Recently Expired Domain...

Welcome to Sunday's review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :-) Your preferred method of domain verification on Sedo; Meet Cemal from Turkey; Dot .tech domain carries a $3,000 dollar renewal feewhy's that? Afternic wants you to prove you are not an elephant; Why are domain names tough to sell? What's your preferred method for verifying SEDO domai...

The new year brings new domain name opportunities and challenges. Definitely 2023 saw a mix of both. This article is not about resolutions, but it is about reflecting on the past year, and setting the stage for the new one. Reflection is a helpful exercise in most things, and domain investing is no exception. 1. Unexpected Sales Did you sell na...

Welcome to the first review of Top Topics in 2024 at NamePros! :) Can a domain be blocked due to incorrect WHOIS data? Using pot when weed is not available; Rick Schwartz invests in .ai domains; How to stop someone trying to list my domain at Afternic? GoDaddy Auctions winners have not paid in two weeks. Can a domain be blocked due to an incorre...

This report is based on 145,100 domain name aftermarket sales recorded for 2023 on NameBio, with a total dollar volume of just over $139 million USD. The domain name market, at least as reflected in the NameBio data, was down 21.2% in dollar volume when 2023 is compared to 2022. Not only was the dollar volume down when compared to the previous ye...

Welcome to the final review of Top Topics in 2023 at NamePros! Roundup of John Berryhill's UDRP performance in 2023; Hacked PayPal account used to buy a domain on Dan.com; How to sell a domain name right after registering it; Flippa doesn't seem to favor domain only sales listings; Bloomberg UDRP filed against Bloomberg.ai. 2023 UDRP roundup an...

This article takes a look at the highest-value domain name sales from 2023, at least those reported on NameBio. I also compare the year with the preceding few years, to get a sense of the nature and health of the upper end of the domain market. Keep in mind that by no means all sales get reported on NameBio, so this is a subset of the total sales ...

Welcome to our weekly review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :smuggrin: "AI" keyword popularity plunges, as far as Afternic searches are concerned; Share your process of performing outbound email marketing; Can the UDRP process be used to take away Country .com domain names? Big debate: Keyword+ai .com versus Keyword .ai domain registrations; A fr...

2023 was a particularly active year in the domain world. I wanted to overview many of the changes, to make sure you can take advantage of any important to you. In this article I am not covering things like trends in popular extensions, such as .ai, or niches and sectors. Early in 2024 I will have my annual detailed analysis of how different extens...

Welcome to our weekly review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :xf.cool: Domain investor got scammed while helping someone who earned his trust; HealthRight.com sold for $210k; Would you use a domain marketplace based on crypto? Anonymous domain sell/buyis it possible? Do you use a security key to protect your registrar account? I got scammed whil...

As domain investors, we are in the business of providing names that businesses and organizations will use. Succeeding at that can be a win-win-win situation. We do well, but startup owners are well served by many good name choices in efficient marketplaces. The marketplaces also benefit when there is synergy between the names provided and the names...

Welcome to our weekly review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :xf.grin: Sedo sale within a 60 day registration window; Eleven.io sold for $121k at Squadhelp; GoDaddy auction win ends in redemption; Is Onlyfans.wtf worth anything? Domain investor believes he beat Snapnames. Sold a .org for $4,500 within 60 days conflict Adding a domain to the SedoM...

Successful domain investing is acquiring domain names that users will want, pricing them effectively, and getting the names noticed by those in a position to buy them. That last step just got easier for .io and .xyz domain names with the announcement today that Afternic Fast Transfer premium network now supports those two extensions. This was the...

Welcome to our weekly review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :xf.cool: The impact of a logo on the sale of domain names; Afternic: Fast Transfer nightmare; The futility of chasing the Queen of domain TLDs; Dot .in Registry requires KYC; New broker assigned to a domain on Afternic, so what does that mean? Logo impact on domain sale When selling a...

Most large businesses will brand on a single-word domain name, whether that is a dictionary word, a creative spelling, or a made-up word. Still, it is true that there is a place for longer domain names. In this article I look at the sales record, at least as indicated by NameBio, for domain names including three or more words. How Many Words for ...

Welcome to our weekly review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :xf.wink: Miri.com was sold for almost $200k; Venting off while being impatient with domain investing; GoDaddy Auctions Beta are a hot mess; Epik.com are (still) untrustworthy; Threads.net was threatened by Threads.app. Miri.com Sold For $199,995 USD At SquadHelp. Domain investor Andy ...

Several domain name niches have received a lot of attention lately, all related to some aspect of artificial intelligence or automation. Each week dotDB publish a list of trending terms based on new registrations. In the most recent report, grok and gpts were at the top of the list. 249058 Elon Musk announced a chat bot, and underlying AI...

Welcome to our Sunday review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :xf.grin: BBC: The race to buy .AI domain names; Epik's Masterbucks balances are not available; GoDaddy Auctions jacks up base bid to $25; Most domainers aren't eager to share their entire portfolio with the public; A domain seller's question about valuation vs. selling price. BBC...

A year ago OpenAI publicly released ChatGPT. Within weeks nearly everyone was trying it out and talking about it. Now worldwide there are over 100 million active users. AI is having a significant impact on the domain world. This year .ai one of the hottest extensions. Names geared to artificial intelligence applications are also selling in...

Welcome to our Sunday review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :xf.cool: Showcase your fresh .bot domain names; Are LLLL .com prices crashing down? Hurt.com was sold for $1.5 million dollars; Sleep Number attempted to reverse domain hijack Beds.com; Elon Musk wants more money for a Twitter handle than the matching .com domain's cost. Showcase...

Perhaps you have decided to reduce the size of your domain portfolio and retain only the better names. Or you are scaling down, as you have less interest or time to devote to domain investing. Possibly you simply have less confidence in certain sectors or niches, and want to get rid of names in those sectors. A key question is whether to...

Welcome to another recap of Top Topics here at NamePros! Domain investors discuss whether domain parking is alive, dying, or already dead; $600,000 USD was paid for the domain name Socrates.com recently; Exploration of whether four-letter (LLLL) .com prices are crashing; A list of domain brokers who sell domains faster than the rest... Is...

The demand for names for new businesses globally is immense. While current figures are probably even higher, Moya K. Mason estimated that worldwide about 305 million businesses are attempted each year, of which roughly one-third, or 100 million businesses are actually started globally each year. Let that figure sink in. For comparison...

Welcome to our Sunday review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :xf.grin: Expired domain Accelerator.com was sold for $145k at GoDaddy auctions; Get an .ing domain for a million+ bucks; Sedo ownership verification: How to combine it with Afternic DNS; NameJet isn't accepting new private listings; Your first four figure saleWhen did it happen...

Pricing of domain names is hard. If you price too high, your sell-through rate may go down. If you price too low, you leave money on the table. But what is the right price point? While various automated appraisal systems are available, they disagree wildly on almost all names, and few have confidence in them. Should you have fixed prices, or...

Welcome to our Sunday review of Top Topics here at NamePros! :woot: Nissan.com domain theft update; How fast can you sell 100 domains? Registrar of the year annual poll; Selling .AI domains to companies that operate on the .com; Buyer's request to change DNS before the saleis it strange? Any update on Nissan.com theft? Not too long ago...

Most domain name investors concentrate on making money through selling domain names. For some, that is supplemented by using monetized parking. There are some indications that the domain market may be trending downward recently. It almost certainly is down from the heights of the pandemic-driven transition to a more online economy. Also, of...

Welcome to our Sunday review of Top Topics here at NamePros! (y) GoDaddy says Mega.net is worth only $15k, how accurate is that? The WIPO served a domain investor with a UDRP; Where and how to approach big investors with liquid domains? University.com was bought by Andrew Tate; Sedo traffic stats: Do they include bidding activity? How much...