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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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Reg Fee

Short for 'registration fee' - the cost to register a domain name for one year.

.DE

Germany's country code, one of the largest ccTLDs in the world. No expiration dates in WHOIS, and deleted names drop almost immediately.

Front-Running

When a registrar or lookup tool registers the domain you just searched for, then sells it back to you at a markup.

Dictionary Domain Name

A dictionary domain name is a domain name that uses a word or words that are found in the dictionary. These words can be in any language, but most commonly they are in English. For example, "apple...

.CO.UK

The commercial second-level extension under Britain's .uk, run by Nominet. Expired names are suspended for 90 days, then dropped without auction.

Churning

The unethical practice of repeatedly selling domains among a small group of investors to artificially inflate prices or create a false sales history.