First, I’m going on record to say the industry is in a soft market at the moment but by no means a bear market. Domains continue to sell every day and every week for good prices. Buyers are still looking for high quality keyword names that have (a) development value (b) traffic and/or (c) investment [...]

The last few posts I’ve made have been related to domain sales and topics other people started so its time to give more information to those of you looking for end users. We have our own black book of buyers and only a few people actually know how much business we do (yes, the numbers [...]

At some point every business owner (not just domainers) look to sell or “exit” the business. In this industry it seems many people are building and building portfolios so someday they will “exit” by selling the entire portfolio to a buyer. Is this really a valid exit strategy? It certainly sounds great but it’s also the [...]

We consistently receive offers to purchase “generic” domain names and its surprising by what some perceive to be generic names.  Everybody has their own definition (to a certain extent) but ours is rather specific. A generic domain name should be one that defines an industry, product, social event, profession, name or procedure. I’m sure there are more [...]

I always find it interesting to view how private domain sale transactions often start with the same question… How much traffic does the name get? From my experience (and we own some names with very good traffic) this question is one to avoid if you are a seller and your asking price is fairly low [...]