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Traffic

Visitors to a domain name or website. Domains with existing traffic from type-ins, backlinks, or search are more valuable than those with no visitors.

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Edu

".edu" is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from 'education', indicating that it's primarily used by educational institutions, specifically a...

Reserve Price

The minimum price a seller will accept at auction; if bidding doesn't reach the reserve, the domain isn't sold.

\nDDNS, or Dynamic Domain Name System, is a service that maps internet domain names to IP addresses as those IP addresses change. Traditional DNS servers provide a fixed IP address for a domain nam...

Appraisal

A professional or automated assessment of a domain name's market value based on factors like length, keywords, and comparable sales.

Comps (Comparables)

Historical sales data for similar domain names used to estimate a domain's value.

Domaining

"Domaining" is the business practice of buying, selling, and monetizing domain names for profit. It's essentially the real estate of the internet, where domains are the virtual properties. Dom...