Domain investing tips, strategies, and industry insights

Listing

Adding a domain to a marketplace or sales platform to make it available for purchase. Listings typically include asking prices, descriptions, and category information.

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Organic search, from a domain name investor's perspective, refers to the unpaid search results that are generated by search engines like Google or Bing. These results are ranked based on their rele...

Broker

A professional intermediary who facilitates domain name transactions between buyers and sellers, typically earning a 10-20% commission.

Category Killer

The single generic domain that names an entire industry, like Hotels.com, Cars.com or Insurance.com.

Auto-Renew

A registrar setting that renews a domain automatically before it expires. Whether it works depends on the card on file.

Google Trends

Google Trends is a valuable tool provided by Google that shows how often a particular search term is entered into the search engine relative to its total search volume over a given period of time. ...