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There was a poll on one of the forums regarding domainer earnings. 21% of domainers operate at a loss, 14% breaks even and close to 18% makes $100 a month or less. For various reasons our industry still has a gold rush like image which attracts all sorts of newcomers on a daily basis but unless...

Elliot Silver shares where his prospects are coming from: I wanted to share some stats with you regarding the location of people who are interested in buying my domain names. The information is from the last few months, and it counts the location of the people who click on the inquiry link at...

At the Global Mobile Internet Conference in 2013, Tencent CEO Hua Teng MA famously said, “We even think that the internet may not need domain names in the future.” Few years later, what do we see in China now? It appears the opposite is actually happening. Chinese consumers welcome short domain...

Here’s a story you’ve not heard told: For many years, the number of UDRPs aimed at .COM domains has been declining. Does that come as a surprise? We hear about high-profile UDRPs all the time, and the newsworthy cases usually involve some valuable domain name that has been put in jeopardy...

Muhammad Ali Enterprises has filed its first UDRP to Gain Control of the domain name TheGreatestAli.com. The domain name TheGreatestAli.com was registered by Michael Green of Austin Texas on his date of death June 3, 2016. The domain is going to a site containing pictures of Muhammad Ali and...

Why would you park a domain like this one? There are several reasons that the Chinese owner of F5.net just lost the domain name in a UDRP to F5 Networks, Inc. But one of them should be a warning for owners of short domains: the ads on the parked page were related to the complainant’s business...

Warning: (1) Bulk trading has no truth because of the burden of renewal, so the boom of 2015 will not come again. (2) Weixin is eating websites (domain names). Weixin public accounts have quickly grown to 15 millions — much more than the 4.2m Chinese websites developed since 1984. Companies...

BitTorrent.com has acquired the domain name BT.co. The domain name was listed for sale for $75,000 on Sedo and was owned by the .co Registry, .CO Internet S.A.S. which is owned by Neustar (NSR). BitTorrent is ranked as a top 5,500 in terms of traffic in the world by Alexa. Source

New gTLD registry, Donuts, rolled out dot .Group very recently, and it’s already at almost 4,000 registrations. There’s no better affirmation of a new gTLD’s worth, other than seeing a major corporation adopt it en masse. Software giant Microsoft registered several dot .Group domains, and...

How is a domain’s value calculated? That’s the million dollar question every savvy domain investor ponders over, at least once a day! Quite often, it’s not the domain itself that defines its value, but rather, how it’s being used. In the case of a domain name that paraded itself in social...

Company registers domain on first day of EAP. Radix started the Early Access period for .store today. When I wrote about it yesterday, I noted Radix’s steep day one prices of about $30,000 retail. I wrote: “While that number might seem crazy, I can’t blame .store registry Radix for trying.”...

How to sell a really valuable domain name like Rate.com. Kate Buckley just brokered the sale of Rate.com to GuaranteedRate.com for $725,000. In this episode of the Domain Name Wire Podcast, she explains her process for selling Rate.com, which should help you when you try to sell a valuable...

In recent years, China‘s financial markets have become the new Wild West East where fortunes are made, or one’s own shirt is lost. Just a year ago, the loss of $5 trillion dollars in stock valuation was China’s largest stock market bubble burst. Recently, SoftBank Group Corp, the largest...

Nike® is one such famous trademark – although we could argue about how the Greek goddess of victory became a protector of sports shoes. Regardless, Nike® is a famous, strong brand and the company used that to wrestle away the 20 year old Romanian ccTLD domain, Nike.ro. NIKE, Inc. and Nike...

1. Use a “For Sale” landing page Use a service like Afternic or Domain Names Sales where you can easily get a landing page up on your domain that clearly indicates it is for sale. If you think you can make some money parking, use a parked page with a for sale banner, but whatever you do, make...

The new gTLD .XYZ has passed .info to become the 4th most registered Top Level Domain Extension in the world. According to RegistrarStats.com, .info has 5,508,922 domain names registered. The zone files for yesterday have not updated but TheDomains.com reached out to the .XYZ registry who...

Mutual funds investing in domain names are still rare in China, but this morning I came across one which I find very interesting. First of all, the organizer says that their first fund has completed. The fund invested in a 4N .com domain name and sold it within 2.5 months for 1m CNY, yielding...

Choosing a Domain Name It’s been 20 years since I registered my first domain name. Over these 20 years, I have been involved in more than $50 Million in transactions, managed one of the industry’s leading brokerage houses, and worked with founders, venture capital companies, billionaires...

Generic words put together can lead to some interesting combinations that infringe on existing trademarks. “Evergreen” is one such word, indicating the perpetuating green foliage of trees or pastures of land, through the year. For that use, the word is clearly generic. Despite all this, when...

Remember affiliate network Pepperjam? An Australian company wants one of its domain names. An Australian lender that uses the brand name “Pepper Money” has failed to get the domain name PepperMoney.com from an old division of eBay. Pepper Group Limited filed a cybersquatting claim against 1075...