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Looks like Clarity.com sold for $3.5m! Love seeing founders who understand the value of domains 🔥
@DInvesting @DomainNameWire @DNJournal
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Built a quick tool that helps you look at all the new GTLD applicants by TLD, applicants, backups, etc
toyroom.ai/research/new-gtld…
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The new gTLD list drops October 7th. Join us the next day for the post-game show! Reveal Day: The Day After is this Thursday, October 8th at noon EDT with @jintlaw, @joealagna, and Vivek Goyal, moderated by @abcproductions. Surprise guests possible. Open to all, registration link in the comments. #domains #newgTLDs #ICANNrevealday
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I'm seeing a lot of FOMO right now, and some people are saying they miss the days when .com was the only thing to chase.
Personally, I think chasing new extensions can be very profitable if you have the understanding, capital, and conviction to do it right. These opportunities have created an entirely new class of successful domainers, and I love it.
A lot of my profits as a domain investor came from getting early into .co, .io and, more recently, .ai.
But I’ve always done the same thing with those profits: I reinvested a large part of them into domains I consider much more timeless.
Mostly premium and also strong .orgs.
Because trends change.
I started to compound because of .co profits; .io had a huge run. .ai is having one now. And another extension will come next, without a doubt.
But I don’t want my entire business to depend on correctly predicting which extension will be hot next year.
So by all means, ride the trends if you can spot them early.
Just don’t forget to ride the wave; move some of the profits into assets you’d still be happy owning if the momentum dies.
For me, that’s mostly .com and .org.
If your market is local, that can just as easily be .nl, .de or another strong ccTLD.
Ride the waves and make sure a large part of your portfolio sits in assets where you can sleep through the next hype cycle.
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The ICA recently wrapped up our Board elections, seeing great participation by our members. Each of our candidates received overwhelming support from our membership and we're happy to announce that Nikul Sanghvi has been elected to the ICA Board, while Jay Chapman, Tessa Holcomb, and Braden Pollock, have all been re-elected. Please join us in welcoming Nikul and congratulating our returning directors. You can read more about each of them directors here: internetcommerce.org/?p=8424…
Very grateful for this opportunity! 🙏
For those of you that don't know the ICA - it is THE primary advocacy group for the domain industry.
Think of it as a unified voice that defends the rights and interests of the domain name community: registrars, registries, brokers and importantly, us investors too. A lot of work goes on behind the scenes to do that: policy work, building relationships, stakeholder management, ICANN working groups etc - and most of us don't have time (or expertise!) to get involved in all of that ourselves. So the ICA is an opportunity to pool our resources as an industry and work collectively.
If you're not a member of the ICA - feel free to reach out. It's also a great community too - the meet-ups are second-to-none in terms of networking, knowledge sharing and getting to know others in the industry.
And if you're already a member - thank you for your support! 🙌
The ICA is pleased to welcome Nikul Sanghvi to the ICA Board of Directors! Nikul is a full-time domain investor and the founder of @hypernames. We are thrilled to have his energy on the board as we build an even stronger presence for our membership moving forward.
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New domain investors should start by flipping domains.
I've emphasized this since the @DNAcademy Investor Challenge, and Yoni Belousov's @DNJournal recent cover story illustrates why.
Repeatable, smaller profits do more than grow your capital. They teach you what sells.
When you sell to more experienced investors, you're getting feedback from people putting their own money behind their judgment.
You learn what they buy, what they pass on, and at what price. That helps you develop your eye for value before accumulating hundreds of domains that businesses may never want.
An investor purchase doesn't guarantee an eventual end-user sale, but it's stronger validation than your own conviction.
Look at Yoni's progression:
1. Build cash flow.
Affiliate marketing and parking funded his early acquisitions. A beginner today needs another funding source, whether a job, services, or a business.
2. Learn a defined market.
He focused on comparable, relatively liquid domains where pricing was easier to understand and mistakes were less costly.
3. Flip and reinvest.
He prioritized sales velocity. Repeated transactions built his capital, market knowledge, and buyer relationships.
4. Move into buy and hold.
Once better capitalized and more experienced, he could acquire less liquid domains and wait for larger end-user sales.
5. Expand from that foundation.
The capital, expertise, and relationships he accumulated positioned him to buy portfolios and eventually operate registries.
The sequence matters.
Buying and holding requires both the judgment to choose well and the capital to wait. Flipping helps you develop both.
Full story in the next post. 🧵
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New to domains?
Follow these people and drown out the noise.
@MichaelCyger “The Educator”
@andrewrosener “The Goat”
@BradenPollock “The Godfather”
@TonyNames “Gen Alpha 1.0”
@MexicanGreek “Gen Alpha 2.0”
@Darcymason “The Data Collector”
Bonus:
@jstenn13 “The Prodigy”
@domain “The Virtuoso”
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I bought 10~ .si names this week BUT don't forget that it's super important to look outwards.
Quote from my friend @hypernames in the @dnx discord:
"I'm seeing way more investors tying their whole persona and conviction to their own existing bags. Don't do this - I've been there before and it blinds you because everything becomes confirmation bias. To stay in the game for an extended period of time, you have to be open to feedback and constantly be looking for angles where you could be wrong."
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TODAY at 1:30pm EDT! Join us for an AMA with @hypernames Nikul Sanghvi, founder of Hypernames and candidate for the ICA Board.
Nikul will share his background, how he got into domain investing, and his vision for representing junior members on the board. There will be plenty of time for questions, so come ready to ask! This is also your chance to get to know Nikul before casting your vote.
We'll also reserve the end of the call to hear from our members based in Europe about how the ICA can get more involved in issues that matter to them.
Members: Check your email for the Zoom link.
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The magic of @DomainSherpa is making the invisible visible.
Taking what's inside someone's head, their experience, instincts and thinking, and making it evident to everyone else.
@J10enbaum is exceptionally good at this through his moderation.
If you're a new or intermediate domain investor and you’re not watching every episode, you’re making it harder on yourself than it needs to be.
There's an incredible amount of hard-won knowledge being shared for free. Not paying attention is almost like choosing to fail.
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Some thoughts on eating my own dog food.
I’m a co-founder of Efty but also a domain investor with around 1,600 domains.
For years, I used Efty mostly for my higher-value names. The ones I anchor high, often negotiate, and aim to extract max value from.
But for the bread-and-butter stuff? The $2K–$5K BIN names?
I often pointed those somewhere else.
Yep, a founder using the competition. Cancel me lol
I just wanted the “Congratulations, your domain sold” email. Transfer it. Get paid and repeat.
Efty's custom landers are amazing for control and extracting max value from each deal, but I felt they lacked the buyer trust and brand recognition needed for frictionless BIN sales in the bread-and-butter range.
Efty Pay started changing that.
Then we launched the new Efty.com marketplace.
A killer marketplace with a safe, secure, and above all frictionless checkout and superb buyer support.
Founder testimonials. Brand recognition and the right trust signals.
And all that for still just 5% commission.
So this year I pointed all 1,600 domains to the new Efty marketplace. I kept Afternic and Spaceship for distribution directly into the reg path.
Here’s what happened:
All of 2025:
38 domains sold
$358,563 revenue
2026 year to date:
26 domains sold
$508,811.70 revenue
That’s 42% more revenue with 12 fewer sales and still plenty of the year left!
In August alone:
Wabu.com — $25,000
Sifu.ai — $22,000
Opsis.io — $3,000
VitalIntellect.com — $2,995
Vulkan.io — $2,995
Sqft.xyz — $2,000
All sold through Efty.
Total: $57,990
Total commission: $2,899.50
I also sold Bite.gg for $6,494 through Afternic last month. Commission: $1,623.50.
One $6,494 Afternic sale cost more than half the commission of six Efty sales totaling almost $58K.
Anyway.
TLDR: The guy telling everyone to use Efty is using Efty 😆
I keep coming back to this post by Leanne. It's probably the most under-rated banger I've read on X, especially for beginners...
The game is inconsistent. You can end up blaming the landing pages, the marketplaces, the brokers, the competition, the appraisals, the market conditions... the list is endless.
Or you can take action.
When things are on the quieter side you can either cry about it or put that time to good use. Below is days/weeks worth of work that will make you feel productive, proactive and also increase your chances of a sale or two. Bookmark it, print it, TAKE ACTION.
Here's the boo-hoo it's quiet checklist:
✅ Check all your domains resolve to where they're supposed to.
✅ Check all names are priced (if you price names that is, most of you should).
✅ Check all your names are in the GD reg path (use the bulk search tool).
✅ Check your pricing tiers, remember those names you moonshot 2 years ago? Maybe it's time to bring them down to $1988.
✅ Check any Fast Transfer eligible names are opted in (including names you moved to another registrar more than 60 days ago).
✅ Check all your names are listed on Afternic and Sedo.
✅ Got names regged at Dynadot? List on their marketplace too.
✅ Need liquidity for renewals? Take any names you're dropping in the next 30-45 days, add to DNWE, reprice on all marketplaces and post them on NamePros (WHOLESALE pricing! If you hand regged it's likely only $20-$50). If you list on Atom add a wholesale price there too.
✅ Split your portfolio into buckets to see which buckets have been performing best, this will help direct new funds. Looking at your portfolio as a whole isn't very useful.
✅ Clean your portfolio database- check all names are added, expiry dates and renewal costs are correct.
✅ Make a dashboard of your portfolio key points so you have a birds eye view: renewal costs by month, sales by month/quarter- volume and $ (calendar), sales by month/quarter- volume and $ (historic), rolling 30/90 day sales (so you don't fixate on calendar months), yearly profitability.
✅ Add more metrics to your portfolio database: TLDs taken, cpc, sv, linkedin company count, open corporates company count, crunchbase company count.
✅ If you haven't yet, take DNAcademy.
✅ Listen to Domain Sherpa, The Breakfast Club, Domain Name Wire, Ten With Jen, Godaddy Academy Podcast, Kickstart Commerce, Brandable Insider, Digital Fortune, Josh․co Podcast, The Uncomfortable Podcast.
✅ Listen to domain centric Twitter Spaces (xitter.cf/i/communities/18828166…).
✅ Dive into NameBio, specifically studying names sold at afternic, sedo, private, atom, daaz and domain market.
✅ Read Domain Name Wire, Domain Investing, DN Journal, Domain Incite, NamePros, Crunch․id
✅ Sign up to and read: Domain Smoke, Cyger Says, The GGRG Newsletter, Week in Domaining
🥵 get to work
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🔔 Product Hunt TLD data will now be posted on this site so trends can be better tracked. I've added the historical data I have to date, there are some gaps but it's enough to be useful. Today's list has been added so go and check it out 🙏
phtlds.com?x=1
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One minute explainer video for @NotifyDomains.
Domains you want.
Domains you already own.
One watch.
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Ticket prices increase THIS Friday, Aug 21!
Heading to @NamesCon Global in Miami (Nov 11–12?) The agenda preview is now live on the website!
ICA Members: Don't forget you get 20% OFF registration. Grab your pass before prices jump!
namescon.com/agenda/
#NamesCon #ICA #DomainIndustry #Doma
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Huge congratulations and MASSIVE THANK YOU to Andrew Allemann for reaching podcast episode # 600 of @DomainNameWire.
One of the best and most reliable sources of information in the Domain industry.
Thanks for making us all better at what we do Andrew! :)
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You have to get uncomfortable to get comfortable.
I was reminded of this while hiking the mountains with my youngest daughter this summer.
Halfway up: “I NEVER want to go hiking again.”
Back at the pool that afternoon: “Hiking was the BEST part of the day!”
Funny how that works.
Getting sober was hell. Now I get a natural high every day.
While my friends were partying, I spent nights and weekends hunting for domain names and poored every spare dollar into building my portfolio. Now that portfolio buys me freedom while most of my friends of that time are lockd into corporate life.
The struggle comes first.
The rewardd almost always comes later.
Get uncomfortable.