By Eric Lyon ScorpionAgency.com: It’s been a roller coaster ride the last few months folks. I’m taking a moment today to bring all my Source: Domaining     

By Doron Vermaat DNGeek.com: I wasn’t able to attend NamesCon this year because one of my friends tied the knot in Thailand around the same time. And although a sunny beach in Thailand sounds a whole lot better than a Vegas hotel lobby I did miss catching up with the friends that I have made…

DNJournal: The 2018 NamesCon Global conference continued Tuesday with the 3rd day & night of the 5th annual event in Las Vegas. We have all of the photos & highlights. Source: Domaining     

By Alvin Brown The Domains: Day’s One and Two are down in the books, and NamesCon Day Three is up to bat. Full steam ahead did the third day lead off with a Domain Name Industry Drivers keynote given by Verisign’s Scott Schnell. Scott discussed and expressed thoughts around a number of items, one being…

By Morgan MorganLinton.com: I just got back from Vegas, and yes, I’m tired, but I’ve learned that the best time to write a reflections post is right when you get back and you’re still in the moment. If I waited until Saturday, sure I wouldn’t be totally exhausted, but everything wouldn’t be quite as fresh…

By admin DropGRABS.com: Batch of 75+ Keyword Rich .COM’s and a Dozen + People Names Also in .COM Reg Fee Opps …. Source: Domaining     

By NamePros Daily TNTNames.com: Today: Budget: $10k – I’m looking for a shopping/price comparison domain / looking for the best .in or co.in-one word (not two-word domain) / “Coin” domain name needed / And more! Here are the new domain discussions and domain news. … → Source: Domaining     

By Elliot Silver Hilco Streambank is managing the auction for the sale of the NECO.com domain name. The company has obtained a $17,500 stalking horse bid for the domain name (from Media Options). The minimum overbid to participate in the auction is $19,500. The online auction is open for bidding and will end on February…

By Elliot Silver Every day, I look at domain name auction platforms to see what is coming up for auction. I actively bid on GoDaddy Auctions and NameJet, and I occasionally bid on Sedo, DropCatch.com, and a couple of others. I also sell domain names occasionally via auction. Millions of dollars worth of domain names…

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: Great.com was the big sale at NamesCon’s live auction last night. Some expressed doubts if the domain sale would close. We did a poll on Twitter with not many votes but the majority voted no it would not go through. Will the sale of https://t.co/mc2ppcTiof go through? #Namescon2018 — The…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Port-out scams involve the malicious transfer of a phone number, away from its current telephone company to another. By using social engineering and other methods, cybercriminals gain access to mobile phone numbers, subsequently taking over the digital assets of the person it belongs to. Shocking as it may seem, many phone company…

By Andrew Allemann Domain Name Wire: Auction grosses over $1.5 million; extended auction ends February 8. Right of the Dot held a live domain name auction at NamesCon last night in conjunction with NameJet. Compared to previous auctions, it seemed like the live auction hall stayed pack much longer than in previous years. The auction…

By Konstantinos Zournas OnlineDomain.com: Fabulous.com is preparing some big changes to the look and feel of their website. All the old tools will remain but some new ones are coming soon. Fabulous has made it possible for customers to list domains for sale on Sedo as well as the Fabulous Marketplace. Afternic is coming soon….

By Andrew Allemann Domain Name Wire: New site offers domain stats for most TLDs. The creator of new top level domain stats site NameStat.org has launched DomainNameStats.com in beta. DomainNameStats.com provides the latest stats about each top level domain name: new, old and country code. For each domain the site includes: Daily change in domains…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Fabulous.com has sent an email to its customers, with a “teaser preview” of what’s coming up in the next few weeks or months: We’ve made some big changes to the look and feel of Fabulous. Our designers and developers have been hard at work transforming your Fabulous experience. All the tools you…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: A few weeks ago, when I was reporting the conclusions of a probe into ICANN’s new gTLD program, I wrote a prediction on a piece of paper and placed it into a sealed envelope.* I wrote: “They’re gonna call this a whitewash.” And I was correct! Ta-dah! I’m here all week….

By Jamie Zoch DotWeekly: Welcome! Domain Movers researches domain name movements daily, with a focus on corporate related domain name transaction and reports these findings in Domain Movers. These are often very early transactions and can highlight new brands, domain name upgrades by companies, new products, services and more. These articles are provided to ……

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: Hilco Streambank is managing the auction for the sale of the NECO.com domain name. The company has obtained a $17,500 stalking horse bid for the domain name (from Media Options). The minimum overbid to participate in the auction is $19,500. The online auction is open for bidding and will end on…

By The Frager factor The Frager factor: What Your Profile Picture Says About You; E-Commerce Fraud: What Your SMB Needs to Know; Microsoft and Google prepare for big leaps in quantum computing; Learn PPC marketing: 5 BIG IMPACT tips; The secret sauce of any successful company are its employees; We Can Predict the Weather, Why…

By Team XYZ Gen.XYZ: SoaLee.xyz – Network Solutions customer (United States) The community of .xyz adopters is filled with masterful artists from every medium. From famous street artists like Levalet.xyz, to world renowned fashion designers like Goetze.xyz, and even art directors like Xand.xyz who is behind some of Nike and Jaguar’s biggest campaig… Source: Domaining…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Veteran domain industry professional, Sevan Derederian, has been hired by HasTraffic. Yancy Naughton, founder of HasTraffic, shared with us the news: “Sevan Derderian is the new Director of Business Development, and he represented HasTraffic during NamesCon 2018. Sevan will be working out of the Los Angeles office of HasTraffic… Source: Domaining     

By admin RegisterADot.com: Facebook Inc has announced that it is banning all Crypto adverts on there Facebook advertising platform. This could be a huge loss of revenue to Facebook as the crypto market is hot just now and only getting bigger. They haven’t said yet if they will ban any Crypto Facebook pages but it…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: Daily Domain Picks 1-31-18 Great.com selling for $900,000 was the highlight of last night’s auction. We had a lot of good banter live tweeting the event last night. Thanks to Mike and Konstantinos and Matt for their commentary. Go Daddy Auction Picks 1-31-18 Powered by ExpiredDomains.com A lot of solid names…

By Kevin Murphy DomainIncite.com: Government officials from both sides of the Atlantic have this week called on ICANN to preserve Whois as it currently is, in the face of incoming EU privacy law, at least for a select few users. The European Commission wrote to ICANN to ask for a “pragmatic and workable solution” to…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: Every day, I look at domain name auction platforms to see what is coming up for auction. I actively bid on GoDaddy Auctions and NameJet, and I occasionally bid on Sedo, DropCatch.com, and a couple of others. I also sell domain names occasionally via auction. Millions of dollars worth of domain…

By Josh E DSAD.com: Namescon 2018 is coming to a close today, another year of networking, seeing old friends and having a good time in general. While the sessions can be beneficial, the real value lies in bouncing ideas off other domainers, particularly those you only talk to once a year or people you’ve never…

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: NamesCon dominated the charts yesterday led by Great.com which sold for $900,000. NameBio recorded 240 sales for a total of $1,751,393 with an average sale price of $7,297. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 50% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount increased by…

By admin DropGRABS.com: Here’s a Quick Batch 500 Items .COM Short Five Character Domains Reg Fee Opps I am working on something else right now for YOU Something else I KNOW you will … Source: Domaining     

By Mike Sullivan SullysBlog.com: Lucky 13 of 21 days to becoming a better domainer. There’s one thing you’ve probably heard your entire career, no matter what field you’re in. It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. There is a lot of truth to that statement. The bigger your network, the more prospects you…

By Omar OmarAndWill.com: Have you ever wondered if you would be better off making your own landing pages to capture your domain inquires? Are you tired or just plain don’t like what the parking companies in the marketplace offer? We’ve been there too and have experimented with creating our own and using various company templates….

By Michael Sumner NameBio.com: Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise…

By Prathmesh Tokekar DomainMagazine.com: Yesterday, I was asked this question by one of the Indian NamePros members about companies preferring .co.in or .in domains in India. The answer might as well help some more people in the community. So here in this post, I will try to answer this question. Looking at .in history (…

By Alvin Brown The Domains: It’s a new day in Las Vegas as the Tropicana Hotel comes to life for Day Two of NamesCon 2018. NamesCon follows up a highly energized Day One event with yet another fast-paced day of “Domaining to the Future”. Day Two’s Keynote was Andrew Alleman (DomainNameWire.com) interviewing Megadeth’s David Ellefson…

By admin RegisterADot.com: Mike Mann’s domain business is definitely having a great start to 2018 with another reported domain sale this time he sold BasicsMarket.com for $14,888 from his domain marketplace DomainMarket.com Mike announced the sale on Facebook.com where he often discussed his domain name sales and thoughts, The whois has updated already a… Source:…

By Elliot Silver Prior to the live auction today at NamesCon, Escrow.com announced its annual Masters of Domains awards to the ten highest grossing individual domain investors of the past year. The award is based on brokered transactions closed via Escrow.com. Each award winner was presented a special trophy and prize honoring their achievement. This…

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: Josh Metnick continues to sell crypto domains, some of them I would never even think of like, 0x.fund. Josh sold it for $5,000. He explained to me in an email, (0x is shorthand for Ethereum — all Ethereum addresses start with a “0x…” e.g. check out 0xproject.com (symbol: ZRX) or…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: There were 135 lots in the NamesCon live auction. Of those 135 lots, 20 were new gtlds. 15 out of the 20 sold. The top sale was Business.Loans at $10,000. Tax.help sold for $6,000 and Porn.Club sold for $5,000. A lot of $300 and $500 sales that with a healthy commission…

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: There were 135 lots in the live auction and 82 sold. The top sale was Great.com at $900,000. The reserve was higher but looks like it was lowered and an online bidder won the auction. PayPerClick.com was sold at $100,000. ORDER DOMAIN 10 cryptocurrencyconverter.com $300 20 crypto.asia $1,400 30 bitcoiner.club…

By Raymond Hackney TLDInvestors.com: We wrote a year ago about FakeNews.com and it’s owner receiving 6 figure offers. There is a story on DallasNews.com today about a California man, George Bacon who purchased FakeNews.com 11 years ago for $250. From the article: Fakenews.com isn’t the only domain Bacon owns — he buys and sells them…

By NamePros Daily Domaining Tips: Today: Pump and dump in the domain industry / How to develop a domain into a niche job board / NamesCon/ROTD Auction Results (2018) / And more! Here are the new domain discussions and domain news. Quick Flip Domain Strategy – We all like to make a quick buck or…

By Elliot Silver Here’s a video of GoDaddy’s new television commercial that is being shown to viewers in the UK. The focus is on GoDaddy’s website builder platform, and you can see them also advertising a .co.uk domain name. Interesting, the web building platform is not advertised as GoCentral in the UK like it is…

By Elliot Silver DomainInvesting.com: Prior to the live auction today at NamesCon, Escrow.com announced its annual Masters of Domains awards to the ten highest grossing individual domain investors of the past year. The award is based on brokered transactions closed via Escrow.com. Each award winner was presented a special trophy and prize honoring their achievement….

DNJournal: Monday was quite a day and night at NamesCon with a real life rock star delivering the keynote speech and the annual Water Night fundraiser bringing in big money for the Water School. Source: Domaining     

By Elliot Silver There are quite a few domain name sales newsletters sent via subscription. Many of these are sent by domain brokers offering exclusive listings for sale, and others offer closeouts, house-owned domain names, or other types of wholesale deals on domain names. Today’s poll question is Do You Subscribe to Domain Sale Newsletters?…

By Travis M. DSAD.com: A comprehensive look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the auction list posted on January 29, 2018. If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had…

By Theo Develegas Acro: It’s getting close to that time of the year again, tax season. Whether you’re getting a refund from your domain investments, or have to pay taxes, the IRS isn’t the only party interested in your financials. Scams are on the rise right before and during the annual tax season, particularly since…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: A few weeks ago, Mike Robertson announced that veteran domain registrar, Fabulous.com is a live brand. Directnic, kind sponsors of this publication, acquired Fabulous.com and they are preparing for its official relaunch later this year. Two weeks ago, the fine folks at Fabulous.com registered the domain MakeDomainsFabulousAgain.com a… Source: Domaining     

By Raymond Hackney The Domains: Sedo reported their weekly sales and CarStore.com led the way at $82,500. Two 4L.coms made the top 6 with Hbus.com selling for $12,500 and oaio.com selling for 8,000 Euros, ($9,916). 43.com sales 14 cctld sales 8 other gtld sales .US woke up and charted three of the top five cctld…

By DomainGang DomainGang.com: Tracy Fogarty is an independent domain broker, and founder of eNaming.com, a premium domain brokerage. After moving away from the humid Florida shores to the dry heat of Arizona, Tracy Fogarty continues to broker high quality domain names on behalf of her clients. Tracy is currently attending NamesCon 2018, in Las Vegas,…