Famous Domain Industry Media: News Sites, Sales Reports, and Podcasts Worth Following
A guide to the news outlets, sales-data sites, and podcasts that cover the domain name industry as journalism — DomainNameWire, DNJournal, TheDomains, NameBio, DomainSherpa, CircleID, and more.
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Originalsprache: English
If individual domainer blogs are personal voices, domain industry media are the outlets that operate more like newsrooms — sometimes one-person newsrooms, but with the editorial posture of journalism rather than a trader's diary. They cover deals, policy, registry/registrar moves, ICANN, and the occasional drama, and they are the sources other people quote.
This is the short list of media properties worth knowing in 2026.
The news outlets
DomainNameWire — domainnamewire.com
Founded by Andrew Allemann in 2005. The closest thing the domain industry has to a wire service: short, fact-first posts about deals, lawsuits, registry policy, and ICANN. If a story matters across the industry, DomainNameWire usually has it within a day. Also publishes the long-running DNW Podcast, which is one of the better interview shows in the space.
TheDomains — thedomains.com
Long-running blog originally founded by Mike Berkens (one of the largest domain portfolio holders in the industry) and now edited primarily by Raymond Hackney. Mix of news, analysis, and opinion. Strong on policy stories — UDRP cases, registry contract changes, ICANN moves.
DomainGang — domaingang.com
The industry's satire-and-news outlet. Edited by Theo, who has an irreverent style that you either love or hate. The news coverage is real even when the framing is sharp; DomainGang frequently breaks stories that the more polite outlets are slow to touch.
OnlineDomain.com and DomainInvesting.com (overlap)
Both OnlineDomain and DomainInvesting sit on the boundary between individual blog and industry media — see the famous-domainer-blogs post for context. Listed here too because they regularly break news that the formal outlets pick up later.
CircleID — circleid.com
Not strictly a domain investor publication — CircleID covers the broader DNS, ICANN, internet-governance, and infrastructure beat. But if you care about the policy layer (registry contracts, new gTLD rounds, WHOIS regulation, DNSSEC), CircleID is where the substantive writing happens, and the bylines include many of the same names that show up at ICANN meetings.
Sales data and reference sites
These are reference works rather than publications, but no media stack is complete without them.
DNJournal — dnjournal.com
Edited by Ron Jackson since 2003. Publishes the weekly Domain Sales Report every Monday — the canonical record of reported sales for the prior week. Every "top sales of the year" list in the industry derives from DNJournal data. Also runs The Lowdown, a long-form interview column.
NameBio — namebio.com
The industry's searchable sales archive. When you want to know "what has this kind of name sold for in the past?", NameBio is where you look. Not editorial — pure data — but absolutely essential.
Podcasts and video
DomainSherpa — domainsherpa.com
The longest-running domain interview show. Founded by Michael Cyger, later carried by Drew Rosener (MediaOptions). Long-form interviews with investors, brokers, and registry executives. The archive alone is a kind of oral history of the industry.
The DNW Podcast (DomainNameWire)
Andrew Allemann's interview show, attached to DomainNameWire. Shorter-format than DomainSherpa, more news-driven. Good background listening.
Forums and aggregators
These are not strictly media, but they are where most published stories land and get debated.
- NamePros — covered in detail in the forums post. The discussion threads on any major story are often more informative than the original article.
- Domaining.com — aggregator of domainer blogs. Useful as a single page that shows the day's headlines across most of the sources on this list.
How to read this list
A few things to keep in mind.
Some outlets are also businesses. Brokerages, marketplaces, and registries publish content too, and the line between "industry media" and "content marketing" is not always clean. The outlets on this list are independently owned and have been around long enough to have an editorial reputation; if you read content from a brokerage's blog, treat it as informed but interested.
News breaks on X first. Big stories — a major sale, a registry policy change, a lawsuit — almost always appear on X before they appear on any of these outlets. The outlets are where stories get recorded, not where they break. Pair the media list with the X hashtags in the forums post.
Sales numbers are reported, not audited. Public sale figures come from registrar/marketplace press releases or seller disclosures, not from any neutral clearinghouse. DNJournal and NameBio are the most disciplined about labeling unverified sales — but even there, the underlying data is self-reported.
Choosing a starting set
If you want a single recommendation: subscribe to DomainNameWire (RSS or newsletter), check DNJournal every Monday morning, and bookmark NameBio for lookups. That gives you news, weekly sales context, and a searchable history — enough to follow the industry without needing to refresh ten sites a day.
Add DomainSherpa's archive when you want depth on a specific investor, and CircleID when policy issues start affecting your portfolio.
Related reading:
- Famous Domainer Blogs, Substacks, and Newsletters — individual voices, vs. the outlets on this list.
- Top Domain Trader Forums in English — where stories get debated after they are published.
- Complete Domain Name Terminology Guide — vocabulary that shows up across all of these outlets.