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When an Expired Domain Is Worth More for Its History Than Its Name

When I look at an expired domain, I usually start with the name. Is it easy to remember? Can you say it out loud without spelling it? Could I picture a real company using it? But sometimes the name is only half the story. KnowYourStuff.org sold for $30,600 at NameJet in October 2019. That's a lot of money for a three-word .org. It's a decent name, but if it had never been developed, I doubt it would've pulled anywhere close to that. The difference was the history.

July 22, 2026

Domains

The Domain Scam That Tries to Scare You Into "Protecting" Your Brand

Last week an email showed up for NotRenewing.com . Subject line: "notrenewing." Nothing else. It landed straight in spam, which turned out to be exactly where it belonged. The message claimed to come from a domain registration center in Shanghai. A company called Baoming Ltd, they said, had applied to register "notrenewing" as an internet keyword, plus a stack of Chinese domains: NotRenewing.cn, .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn. These registrations "conflicted" with my company name. Was Baoming Ltd an authorized distributor or business partner of mine? Sounds official, right? It's a scam.

July 20, 2026

Domains

Some Domains Can Never Be Transferred

Most of us assume that owning a domain means we can sell it to whoever shows up with money. Unlock it, grab the auth code, push it to the buyer's registrar, done. That's how it works with .com, .net, and .org. It's how I operated for years without thinking about it much. But not every extension plays by those rules. Some domains carry restrictions for their entire lives. Some can only change hands if the buyer meets requirements you have no control over.

July 17, 2026

Domains

How to Get Your Own Top Level Domain by Joe Alagna and Andrey Insarov

I'll admit something up front. In almost twenty years of buying and selling domains, I've never seriously thought about owning the other side of the dot. Registries always felt like a different universe. Verisign and the big infrastructure players. Not something a guy flipping names out of Chicago needed to understand beyond renewal pricing. Joe Alagna and Andrey Insarov wrote a book that made me question that a little.

July 14, 2026

Domains

Why Answering "What's Your Budget?" First Almost Always Costs You Money

"What's your budget?" That one can burn you. It sounds harmless. Sometimes it even sounds reasonable. The other side just wants to know if you're both in the same universe before anyone wastes time, right? Except that's not really what's being asked. The budget question is a request for the most valuable piece of information in the entire negotiation, and people hand it over in the first email because refusing feels rude.

July 13, 2026

Domains

When Does a Domain Name Really Expire?

A few years back I had a four-letter .com on my watch list. Decent name, nothing spectacular, but exactly the kind of thing I'd flip for a few hundred bucks. Expiration date came and went. I checked Whois like clockwork for about three weeks, convinced I was about to snipe it the second it opened up. I wasn't. I just didn't understand yet that "expired" and "available" are two completely different states, separated by a process I hadn't bothered to learn.

July 10, 2026

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Domain Insights

When an Expired Domain Is Worth More for Its History Than Its Name

The Domain Scam That Tries to Scare You Into "Protecting" Your Brand

Some Domains Can Never Be Transferred

How to Get Your Own Top Level Domain by Joe Alagna and Andrey Insarov

Why Answering "What's Your Budget?" First Almost Always Costs You Money

When Does a Domain Name Really Expire?

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