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Stealth Acquisition

Purchasing a domain without revealing the true buyer's identity, often through a broker or shell company. Large companies use stealth acquisitions to avoid price inflation when sellers know who's buying.

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Io

.io is a top-level domain (TLD) that originally served as the country code for the British Indian Ocean Territory. However, in recent years, it has gained popularity in the tech and startup communi...

Fractional Domain Name Ownership

Fractional domain name ownership is a method of investing in domain names where multiple individuals or entities share ownership of a single domain by dividing it into fractional shares. Each owner...

DomainTools

A leading provider of domain name research and monitoring services including WHOIS history and reverse lookups.

Domain Flipping

Domain flipping is a key strategy in our industry. It's the practice of buying domain names at a low cost and then selling them for a profit. The process involves identifying domain names that h...

CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority)

The organization that manages the .ca country code top-level domain for Canada.

Generic Domain

A "generic domain" (also known as a generic top-level domain - gTLD) refers to a domain name that uses a common, general term as its second-level domain. They're called "generic" because they d...