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There are many publicly traded companies that own the .com domain name that match their stock symbol. One example, of course, is Facebook, which acquired FB.com last year and now trades under the FB symbol on the NASDAQ stock exchange. I thought it would be interesting to do an analysis of the 30 companies that [...]

Here are some sales from NameJet.com from this past week:

DomainLoan.com $8,200

StyleMaker.com $6,756

AdultWebsites.com $4,655

RainDance.com $4,402

3dWorld.com $4,311

Ktec.com $4,200

DraftingTable.com $3,800

foreclosedrealestate.com $3,800

7833.com $3,600

LandscapeCompany.com $3,121

washingtongolf.com $2,988

BeachLiving.com $2,300

PCNN.com $1,710

ThePosse.com $1,211

ideaology.com $1,112

iRow.com $1,010…

G.me now registered to brand protection company. The whois record for the domain name G.me recently changed to DNStination Inc., which is the proxy service for brand protection company Mark Monitor: The change was just triggered on DomainTools yesterday, although the record shows it was altered on April 20. The domain name was previously a [...]

Morning Folks!! A distinction has to be made between investment quality domains and those domains folks buy to flip as fast as possible. Those are 2 separate and distinct business models even tho they coexist together and benefit each other in many ways. As I stated before "First of all anything can be sold. Any extension has an aftermarket. So there is always money to be made. So let's be clear on that." I compare it to the waiter making $500/night at a top restaurant and a waiter making $50 a night at a restaurant that is 3X as busy but the prices are lower. The guy making $50 a night has to work 3x as hard as the guy...

Here's an app every domain investor will want to have on their smartphone. Simply called "Domain Sales" the app provides access to more than 72,000 historical domain & website sales dating back over 10 years. It covers multiple extensions including .com, .org and .net as well as ccTLDs and filters let you refine search results.