Next Big Domain

27/10/2026

A few domain auctions caught my attention this week.

DroneFieldTech .com: £39 starting price
HounslowLife .com: £69 starting price
GreenSoilTech .com: £89 starting price

The auctions are scheduled to close on Friday and Saturday.

These are starting prices, not fixed selling prices, and bidding takes place on Dynadot.

You can find the full list under Domains at Auction on Next Big Domain.

26/10/2026

You've got £1,000 to spend on one domain.

Would you buy a short, made-up brand name that could become anything?

Or a longer name that tells you exactly what the business does?

I'm firmly in the "it depends" camp, but I'm curious what everyone else thinks.

No sitting on the fence. Which one gets your money?

You can explore the Domains at Auction section on Next Big Domain.

24/10/2026

Already auctioning a domain on Dynadot, Sedo or elsewhere? You can now promote it on Next Big Domain too. Another place to be discovered, with bids handled by your original marketplace. https://nextbigdomain.com/domain-auctions/

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24/10/2026

Already auctioning a domain on Dynadot, Sedo or elsewhere? You can now promote it on Next Big Domain too. Another place to be discovered, with bids handled by your original marketplace. https://nextbigdomain.com/domain-auctions/

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09/10/2026

Something I think gets overlooked in domain outbound:

A company that could theoretically use your domain is not necessarily a potential buyer.

If I own a cybersecurity domain, I could find thousands of cybersecurity businesses.

But that isn't really buyer research.

Before I approach a company, I want to understand why this particular domain could make sense for them.

I look at things such as:

Does it fit something they actually sell or build?

Could it work as a product, service or brand?

Are they launching something, expanding or rebranding?

Could they realistically afford the domain?

What domain are they currently using?

Can I explain in one or two sentences why I think there is a fit?

If I cannot answer those questions, I probably haven't found a proper prospect yet.

I'd rather research 10 companies with a genuine reason to care about a domain than send the same message to hundreds of vaguely related businesses.

Potential buyer research should be about relevance, not volume.

That principle is also part of why I built Next Big Domain.

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For the domain investors here, how do you decide whether a company is genuinely worth approaching?

07/10/2026

You bought the domain. You listed it for sale. Now what? Listing makes a name available, but it does not create a sales process. Here are the 7 steps I use to decide which domains deserve active effort and what to do next.

Listed your domain for sale but getting no enquiries? Learn what to do next: position it, research buyers, build a campaign, track results and follow up.

01/10/2026

Next Big Domain is officially live.

Domain selling shouldn’t stop at listing. NBD helps sellers move beyond Buy → List → Wait.

To mark the launch, I’ve opened 50 Founding Seller places with 50% off the first 3 months.

Next Big Domain is now live. Discover a more active approach to domain selling with positioning, buyer research, campaigns, tracking and follow-up.

28/09/2026

A domain can call itself “official”, “verified” or even “not-phishing”.

That still does not make the wording evidence.

A new research preprint tested whether short claims inside constructed brand-like domain names could change how AI systems judged them. It covered 622,080 judgements across five language models and 64 brands.

The effect varied.

In one setting, a group of risk-denial terms reduced alerts by 45.3 percentage points. In others, similar wording increased alerts or made little difference.

That inconsistency is the useful lesson. A model should judge the name, not accept the name’s own description of itself.

The research used constructed names rather than live attacks, so it does not show that a real scam would succeed. It does show why “official” inside a domain should never count as independent proof.

A domain can describe itself. It cannot verify itself.

Would the word “official” make you more suspicious or less?

Source checked: ClaimMirage research preprint, submitted to arXiv on 24 September 2026.

24/09/2026

Listing a domain for sale and selling a domain aren't quite the same thing.

The traditional process is often:

Buy → List → Wait

But the listing is really just the place where the transaction can happen.

There's still everything before that:

Position the name.
Work out who could use it.
Research potential buyers.
Get it in front of the right people.
Follow up.
Track what you've already done.

I've been thinking a lot about that difference while building Next Big Domain.

Domain selling shouldn't stop at listing.

If you invest in domains, are you mainly waiting for inbound buyers or actively marketing your names?

22/09/2026

Here's a simple domain test that costs nothing.

Tell somebody the name once without showing them how it's written.

Ask them to spell it.

Then ask them tomorrow if they still remember it.

If the name survives both tests, you've already learned something useful.

Domain metrics matter, but eventually a name has to work with real people.

What tends to make a domain memorable to you?