Famous Domainer Blogs, Substacks, and Newsletters: Who to Read in 2026

If forums are where the domain community argues, individual domainer blogs are where the community thinks out loud. Most of the long-running, considered analysis in the industry — sale post-mortems, registrar-policy critiques, market reads — happens on a small number of personal blogs that have been running for fifteen or twenty years.

This is the list worth bookmarking. It is opinionated, and it skews toward people who actually buy and sell domains (rather than to consultants or registries marketing their services).

The blogs that set the tone

Elliot Silver — DomainInvesting.com

The most consistently published blog in the industry. Elliot is a working domain investor who posts daily — sale highlights, broker chatter, registrar issues, sometimes longer think-pieces about the state of the market. If you only subscribe to one feed, this is it. DomainInvesting also functions as a de-facto industry news site: many of the "industry news" stories you will see on other outlets started as an Elliot post.

Konstantinos Zournas — OnlineDomain.com

Konstantinos posts frequently from a European, data-driven perspective. Strong on registry/registrar policy changes, ccTLD movements, and big public sales. Often the first to surface stories that the U.S.-centric blogs miss.

Rick Schwartz — RicksBlog.com

"The Domain King." Rick was one of the first investors to make a fortune from .com names in the 1990s, and his blog is part trader's diary, part industry commentary, part rant. Posts less often these days, but when he writes, the industry reads.

Morgan Linton — morganlinton.com

Morgan blends domain investing with broader tech-founder perspective. Useful when you want to read about domains from someone who also thinks like a buyer — what makes a name actually valuable to a startup, not just to a flipper.

Jamie Zoch — DotWeekly.com

Long-running blog focused on registration trends, new TLDs, and registry-level data. Good if you care about the plumbing of the namespace — who is registering what, where, and at what volume.

Shane Cultra — DomainShane.com

Shane's blog is one of the more entertaining reads in the space — domain investing seen through the lens of someone who is also a small-business owner. Reliably honest about what is and is not working in his portfolio.

Mike Mann — MikeMann.com

Mike runs DomainMarket and is one of the most aggressive sellers of premium one-word .com names in the industry. His blog is less a regular publication and more a mix of personal essays and business commentary, but the man behind it is worth knowing about either way.

Substacks and email newsletters

Substack has not produced a dominant domain-specific publication yet — most of the industry's long-form writers still publish on their own WordPress blogs. But several email newsletters are worth subscribing to:

• The DomainInvesting.com daily email — same content as the blog, delivered to your inbox. The most reliable single feed in the industry.
• DomainNameWire newsletter — see the companion post on domain industry media for context; the newsletter is the easiest way to follow DomainNameWire without checking the site.
• DNJournal's weekly sales report — published every Monday since 2003 at DNJournal. Not a personal newsletter, but it is the canonical weekly digest of reported domain sales, edited by Ron Jackson. Every other "top sales" list in the industry derives from this one.
• DomainShane's recap posts — Shane periodically does week-in-review pieces that are essentially newsletter-style summaries of the market.
• Saw.com blog — Saw.com (the brokerage co-founded by Amanda Waltz and Jeff Gabriel) publishes thoughtful pieces on the brokerage side of the business. More polished than the average personal blog.

X / Twitter as a "live newsletter"

Many of the people on this list — Elliot, Morgan, Shane, Andrew Rosener (MediaOptions), Page Howe, Bill Sweetman (Name Ninja), and others — are more active on X than on their blogs these days. If you only have time for one channel, follow them on X and let the long-form posts come to you. See the forums post for hashtags that surface this crowd: #domaining, #domaininvesting, #domainnames.

How to read this list

A few patterns are worth pointing out.

Personal blog vs. industry media. Some of these blogs (DomainInvesting, OnlineDomain) are essentially one-person media outlets — the line between "personal blog" and "industry publication" is blurry. The separate domain industry media post covers the outlets that operate more like newsrooms.

Activity ebbs and flows. Domain blogs have a tendency to go quiet for months and then surge back. RicksBlog, DomainShane, and MikeMann.com have all gone through long quiet stretches and then returned. Subscribe via RSS or email so you do not miss the comeback posts.

The comments are part of the content. On DomainInvesting and OnlineDomain especially, the comments sections regularly include other named investors weighing in. Read them — there is often more insight there than in the original post.

Choosing a starting set

If you want a single recommendation: subscribe to DomainInvesting.com (daily), DNJournal (weekly), and follow Elliot, Morgan Linton, and one or two brokers on X. That gives you the daily pulse, the weekly sales digest, and the live feed — without drowning.

You can add the rest of this list as you figure out which voices you trust.

Related reading:

• Top Domain Trader Forums in English — where the community talks, vs. where individuals write.
• Famous Domain Industry Media — the outlets that cover this market as journalism, not as one person's diary.
• Complete Domain Name Terminology Guide — vocabulary you will need to follow any of these writers.