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Holding Costs

The ongoing expenses associated with maintaining domain ownership, primarily annual renewal fees. Smart domain investors factor holding costs into their ROI calculations. A domain that costs $10/year to renew needs to generate or appreciate in value by at least that amount to remain worthwhile in a portfolio.

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Pigeon Domain

A misspelling or typo variation of a popular domain name designed to capture traffic from users who mistype the original URL.

Acronym

Acronym Names refer to domain names that are made up of the initial letters of multiple words. These types of domains are typically short, usually 2-4 characters long, and are highly valued due to ...

DR (Domain Rating)

A metric developed by Ahrefs that measures the strength of a domain's backlink profile on a scale from 0 to 100.

Domain Propagation

The time it takes for DNS changes to a domain to be recognized across all internet servers globally.

gTLD

Generic Top-Level Domain

GDPR

GDPR is an acronym that stands for General Data Protection Regulation. This is a law enforced by the European Union since May 2018, aimed at giving EU citizens control over their personal data and ...