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Domain Insights

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What Types of Domain Names Actually Sell on NotRenewing?
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What Types of Domain Names Actually Sell on NotRenewing?

NotRenewing recently crossed 500 sales, which gave me enough data to answer a question I have been curious about since launching the site. What types of domain names are people actually buying? Not what we think should sell. Not what gets the most comments on a domain forum. Not what looks good in a portfolio. What are buyers actually willing to pull out a credit card and pay $99 for? As of August 6, NotRenewing had recorded 523 paid transactions involving 520 different domain names.

I want to meet you at NamesCon
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I want to meet you at NamesCon

NamesCon Global is getting closer, and the first look at the agenda is now available. This year's event takes place November 11-12 in Miami at Ice Palace Studios, and the agenda gives a pretty good indication of where the conversations in the domain industry are heading. There are sessions covering domains, hosting, digital assets, artificial intelligence, digital identity, new top-level domains, changing search behavior, and the broader Internet economy. Those are all areas worth watching right now.

Apparently I've Been Sending Spam
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Apparently I've Been Sending Spam

A subscriber emailed me to say the NotRenewing daily was landing in his spam folder. That's a good email to get, by the way. Most people don't bother. They just stop seeing your newsletter and eventually forget it existed, and you never find out because your open rate drifts down a point a month and you tell yourself it's summer. My first reaction was defensive, and I want to be honest about that.

How to Decide Which Domains Shouldn't Get Renewed
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How to Decide Which Domains Shouldn't Get Renewed

I've renewed names I knew were dead. Not by accident, either. The invoice showed up, I skimmed the list, and I clicked renew because clicking renew was easier than admitting I'd wasted the money two years earlier. That's most of the problem right there. Everybody already knows the theory. Cut the weak names, keep the good ones, stop paying rent on assets that will never produce. Nobody argues with that. Then renewal season hits and somehow the portfolio got bigger again.

Domain Portfolios Get Messy Faster Than You Think
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Domain Portfolios Get Messy Faster Than You Think

Most domain portfolios don't fall apart overnight. It happens slow enough that you never notice the exact moment it started. You buy a name, point it to a lander, list it on a marketplace, set a price, and move on with your life. A few years later the domain's still sitting in your account, except almost everything around it has quietly changed. The price doesn't make sense anymore. The lander's broken. The domain's still listed on a marketplace you stopped using two years ago.

The Domain Sale Attribution Problem
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The Domain Sale Attribution Problem

Every domain sale gets credit for happening in the one place we can actually see: wherever the money changed hands. Sells on Afternic, it's an Afternic sale. Sells on Sedo, it's a Sedo sale. The commission came out there, the transfer happened there, the dashboard says so. Case closed, right? Not exactly. The buyer probably didn't start there. They might've stumbled on the name through Google, seen it mentioned somewhere online, gotten an email from you, browsed your portfolio, or run into it on a completely different marketplace first.

Domain Glossary

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.AI

The country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Anguilla that has become extremely popular for artificial intelligence companies and projects.

.APP

A generic top-level domain (gTLD) operated by Google, designed for mobile applications and app developers.

.CLUB

A generic top-level domain for communities, organizations, and membership-based groups.

.ONLINE

A generic top-level domain suitable for any internet-based business or presence.

.STORE

A generic top-level domain designed for e-commerce and retail businesses.

.TECH

A generic top-level domain targeting the technology sector.