When considering investing in a new niche or sector, or a new extension, it is important to look at sales, adoptions, the type and length of domain names that typically sell, etc. The NamePros Blog has a wealth of articles that can help, but even with advanced search, it can be difficult to find them, particularly if you don’t recall words from the title.

This article has two purposes:

1. Provide a guide to make it easy to find analysis articles published in the NamePros Blog.
2. Seek ideas about what articles should be written, in the analysis sphere, going forward.

This guide only covers articles from the NamePros Blog, not all discussions, and only articles published 2019-2024. Most extensions have their own showcase discussion thread as well.

By Domain Extension
Let’s start off looking at articles that have zeroed in on a particular extension. These vary a bit in what is covered, but tend to look at major sales, annual sales trends, type and length of names that sell, use patterns for the TLD (top level domain), and other aspects of investing in the extension.

Here is the list in alphabetical order (the date of publication is given in brackets):

• .AI .AI Domain Extension: Sales, Pricing, Auctions, Use (Feb. 2023)
• .APP Two Years Plus of .APP Domain Sales (Sept. 2020)
• .CC Close Look at .CC Extension (Feb. 2021)
• .CO Strong 2020 for .CO (Oct. 2020)
• .COM Single Dictionary Word .COM (Aug. 2021)
• .COM 2021 High Value .COM Domain Sales (Feb. 2022)
• .COM Two-Word .COM Sales of 2019 (Dec. 2019)
• .COM Sale of Three or Four Word .COM (Mar. 2020)
• .COM An Outsider Look at 4-Letter .COM Domain Names (Jun. 2021)
• .COM Price Breakdown of 2018 .COM sales (Aug. 2019)
• .COM 3+ Word .COM Domain Sales (Nov. 2023)
• .EU .EU Domain Extension (Sept. 2021)
• .EU Detailed Look at the .EU Extension (Jul. 2023)
• .INFO .INFO (Oct. 2024)
• .IO Why is .IO So Popular? (June 2020)
• .IO Type of .IO Names that Sell (June 2020)
• .IO .IO – Last 5 Years (Nov. 2024)
• .ME .ME Celebrates 15 Years (May 2023)
• .NET Analysis of Major .NET Sales (Aug. 2020)
• .NET Nine Things About .NET Domain Names (Mar. 2021)
• .NET 3-letter .NET (Aug. 2023)
• .ONE One is Not Loneliest Number Mainly about branding on idea of one or unity, but includes mention of .ONE extension (Aug. 2024)
• .ORG 2019 Premium .ORG Sales (Apr. 2020)
• .ORG Who Is Buying .ORG Domain Names? (Aug. 2021)
• .ORG 3-letter .ORG (Aug. 2023)
• .SI Artificial Intelligence, Superintelligence, Hybrid Intelligence, or Simply Intelligence Mainly on superintelligence and related topics, but covers .SI to some degree as well. (June 2024)
• .ST The Next Wave of an African Domain Extension: .ST (May 2023)
• .TV The .TV Extension: Sales, History, Pricing and More (Nov. 2022)
• .US .US Domain Name Extension (Apr. 2021)
• .XYZ A Look At What Sells in .XYZ (Jul. 2021)
• .XYZ Past 12 Months of .XYZ: A Look at the Data (Jan. 2022)

There are other articles that briefly mention an extension, such as the recent article on domains ending in ‘ing’ also mentions the .ING extension, and an article on trend investing and AI made mention of .BOT. Of course .COM gets mentioned in almost every article published on the NamePros Blog, and .AI has gotten frequent mention last few years as well.

Annual Reports
While the above section covers articles that concentrated on a single domain extension, early in January each year I publish an annual analysis of how the previous year went, at least as reflected in sales reported to NameBio. The annual analysis looks at the overall market, the major legacy extensions, .com, .org and .net, a variety of country codes like .co, .io, and .ai, as well as new extensions as a whole, and a few like .xyz separately. The annual report also does a brief overview of several dozen other domain extensions each year.

Here are links to those annual analysis articles:

I also started a series looking at the top sales of the year:
First-Half Year Reports
I also publish a series that looks at the first six months of the year, including comparison to the same period in previous years. This tends to mainly cover the important extensions, with some mention of trends in lesser-traded TLDs.
Other Domain Market Studies
From time to time, I wrote about market trends, including the following articles:
Name Structure
Now and then, I have looked at specific name structures, such as hyphenated names, names that start with a certain prefix, or domain hacks. These mainly cover .COM domain names, but occasionally others are mentioned, or are central, as in the domain hack articles.
Names Chosen By…
As a domain name investor, it is important to stay grounded by looking at analyses of names chosen by companies. Here is a partial list of articles related to that:
What Do You Want To See?
Please, in the comments section below, make the case for additional analyses that you would like to see in the NamePros Blog. This could be any of:

• An extension that we have not analyzed, or not in a long time.
• A look at a category of names, like new extensions or country codes as a whole.
• A specific structure such as use of certain prefix, suffix or combining terms, or alphanumeric or numeric names.
• Suggestions for company name analyses.
• Something else.

The NamePros Blog tries to provide a balance of analysis, information, tools and sites, news, sales, reviews, tips, interviews and more. Please for this, just make suggestions related to analysis. I have other guides in the works, and when I publish those will be seeking your suggestions for that kind of article.

Sincere thanks to NameBio. Without that data, most of these articles could not have been written.