A Quick Guide to Artificial Intelligence Domains

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Successful domain name investors buy domain names that other people want. – Michael Cyger

One of the biggest, current and future, trends in technology is artificial intelligence (AI).  Whether you realize it or not AI is already embedded in your daily life and it’s increasing all the time. 

Each time you contact Amazon customer service, make a banking transaction, use your smartphone, your Echo virtual assistant or a late model car, some type of artificial intelligence is at work.  Already some 47% of all companies have embedded some type of AI into their business model.

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Brandable domain name sales week 12 & 13: CBDClub.com, Rezy.com, ConnectNow.com

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CBD domain names are 🔥🔥

CBD which is the acronym for cannabidiol is a chemical compound in marijuana with a variety of uses and with the recent legalization of marijuana use in many American states the potential market for CBD oil alone is estimated to be worth $1.2 billion by 2020. Last week, a Las Vegas CBD oil company acquired the exact match domain name CBDOil.com for $500,240 and it’s a brandable CBD related domain name that is topping the brandable list as well.

CBDClub.com sold for a cool $30,000 at PotDomains – a specialized domain name marketplace for, you guessed it, marijuana domain names.

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What Kind of Domainer Are You? Part One: Domain Flipping

Keith deBoer 8 Comments

After being shot down numerous times, I humbled myself and came to the stark realization that this is a much more intricate process.

— Ali Zandi

Before we buy a domain we should have a concrete plan for selling it. For veteran domainers this is an almost instantaneous calculation when they consider a domain purchase.  Beginners, on the other hand, may need to write down and think through their plan before hand.  In either case a practical plan should include both a buy and sell price, a list of potential customers and preferred methods for transactions (sales venue, payment process, commission and escrow fees etc).

Without a plan we might acquire a domain with little to no marketability or overpay and lose potential profit. 

This process will be different for different types of domainers including what I call flippers, trend riders and investors.

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Brandpa turns two and shares some numbers

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Brandable domain name marketplace Brandpa recently turned two years old and shared some interesting stats such as the number of domain names on the marketplace, average sale price, and the overall sell-through-rate.

Brandpa is a similar marketplace to BrandBucket or Brandroot in the sense that they curate their marketplace, charge a listing fee and then design a logo and write descriptions for each domain name. What differentiates Brandpa is a lower commission and listing fee and sellers do not have to pay a $100 fee for the logo when one of their names sell. Although each domain name is listed with a Buy-It-Now price, buyers on Brandpa can also submit offers and negotiate on price depending on the seller’s settings.

An example of a Branda For-Sale landing page.

Personally, I listed a small portfolio of 26 domain names on Brandpa in March 2018 and so far have sold 3 domain names for an average of $2,398 per domain name (after 25% commission).

The numbers below are copied directly from their newsletter.

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Brandable domain name sales week 11: BitcoinPlus.com, Wope.com, Cannabees.com

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The top grossing sale of last week was Vivlio.com which sold for a cool $25,000 at Sedo. The buyer is a French distribution platform for ebooks called TEA which stands for The Ebook Alternative. It was a bit of a mystery for me why they forked out $25k for this domain name until I saw they operate a site on Vivlio.fr

BitcoinPlus.com also sold via Sedo, showing that altough significantly less, there’s still some money going around in crypto-related domain names

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Brandable domain name sales week 10: Ribi.com, Msngr.com, Clonezilla.com

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The top grossing sale of the week is for a domain name that would go mostly ignored if it would end up on a pending delete list: Fivelements.com

It sold for a cool $19,000 at Sedo and was purchased by Fitness First Asia, one of the largest fitness brands in the world, and the largest in Southeast Asia. They also operate an eco-wellness brand called Fivelements which currently uses the Fivelements.org domain name.

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Eight Ways to Fail at Domaining

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“A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.” — Henry Kissinger

Profitable domainers fail 97% of the time on the way to selling 3% of their inventory each year.  Domaining is a highly speculative endeavor.  To be profitable means walking a virtual tightrope of income, expenses and probabilities.  On top of that we have to compete with thousands of other domainers from around the globe. So if we want to exceed – we have to excel.  On the other hand, if we want to fail, there’s at least eight ways to do it:

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Brandable domain name sales week 8 & 9: FiveNines.com, Arcus.com, DigitalFactory.com

Doron Vermaat 4 Comments

I just finished filming a review panel for DomainSherpa with Andrew Rosener and Jeff Gabriel from Uniregistry. I stopped sharing regular updates about my acquisitions and sales here on the blog a couple of years ago but I share all the details of a recent brandable domain name sale on the show as well as some sales data across my entire portfolio. There was a good discussion about wholesale and retail pricing for brandable domains as well so make sure to tune into the next DomainSherpa Review if you’re interested in that kind of stuff.

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Brandable domain name sales week 6 & 7: WealthCare.com, AntFarm.com, MakeOrBreak.com

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Sedo tops the chart with the $30,000 sale of WealthCare.com – a clever play on Healthcare, a hot industry with many startups aiming to disrupt and plenty of venture capital to support. The domain name currently forwards to Alegeus.com which is a market leader in consumer-directed healthcare solutions. They operate some sort of account administration platform at WealthCareAdmin.com so this domain purchase will most likely be used as an upgrade.

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Cashing In on the eSports Craze

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“[The] booming eSports space….. I think that is going to be the next ‘crypto wave’ for domains. I’m seeing so much action in that area.”  – Drew Rosener on Domain Sherpa, Oct 2018


One of the fastest growing industries of our day is eSports. Startups in this space are spawning faster than Fortnite warriors and, more importantly, established corporations like Google, Sony, Microsoft, Doritos and Coca-Cola are investing at an increasingly rapid pace.  Money is on the move. Just this week Epic Games announced it’s putting up $100 million dollars in prize money for competitions in 2019. The July, World Cup alone, will include $30 million in total prizes.  But it gets better…..

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