Domain investing course/Est. 1999
DNBlackBook is the working notebook of an investor who bought his first domain in 1999 and never stopped. Rebuilt as DNBlackBook 2.0 — Domaining in the Era of AI — launching June 2027 in English and Arabic. The original 2016 course goes free on YouTube; the waitlist hears first.
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Publicly reported, domain-only cash sales, from DNJournal's all-time list. These are the outliers — most domain names never sell. The full list, and what counts as a sale
Track record
NamePros is the largest domain investing community in the world, established 2003. Within it sits the PRO Network — a vetted tier carrying its own badge. Membership is by application, vouching, and verifiable track record. Below is the public footprint that backs the course.
NamePros forum dashboard. Public member counter, updated continuously.
namepros.com — public homepage.
PRO Network applicants must verifiably meet at least three of fifteen criteria — including $50,000+ in domain-related sales, multiple domains liquid at five figures, or comparable monetization revenue paired with trusted standing in the industry. Approval also requires being vouched for by an existing PRO member. There is no paid path in.
Public eligibility page, namepros.com.
PRO badge. VIP. ★15★ — fifteen years of continuous standing. Top Member rank 48 across more than a million users. Member since January 23, 2007. 100% positive feedback across 434 reviews.
namepros.com/members/steitieh.107015 — private to logged-in NamePros members.
Nineteen years on the record — public, attributed, signed off by 273 unique buyers across 434 reviews. That body of work is what the course distills.
The course distills that record. Everyone on the list gets the email the day it opens.
Join the waitlistThirty years on the web
Five marks on a long line — the years that turned a hobby into a discipline.
June 2027 is the next mark on that line. The list hears of it first.
Join the waitlistWhat domain investing is, in 2026
Domain investing is the trade of buying, holding, and selling internet addresses as appreciating digital assets. Names are assets. Every asset has an acquisition cost, a renewal carry, and an exit price — the same shape as any other asset class, with one difference: a domain is a single unit, and there is exactly one of each.
AI shifted which names matter. Verb-form .ai domains, agentic two-word stems, and category authority on .com all repriced upward between 2023 and 2025, while long-tail keyword stacks and exact-match SEO assets quietly lost their bid. The names that travel in 2026 are the ones a buyer can describe in a sentence — a product, a category, a verb — not the ones that game a search algorithm.
The repricing is on the record. AI.com was reported sold for $70 million in February 2026, the largest publicly reported domain sale (TechCrunch; DNJournal). The .ai extension passed one million registered names in January 2026, and the average price paid for a traded .ai name reached about $11,000 in 2025 (sources). The work cycle is one sentence: acquire signal, position deliberately, exit when buyer awareness is high.
Every chapter of the course is one of the rules behind that sentence, written down.
Each chapter is one of those rules. The list gets the email the day the course opens.
Join the waitlistAbout the course
Most domain courses teach the surface — what a domain is, where to register, how to list it. DNBlackBook starts where those end. It's the patterns, judgments, and tradeoffs you only see after a long time spent buying, holding, and selling names.
Three decades of decisions, organized into one complete, teachable system. Written for working investors and serious newcomers — not for the audience that needs to be told what a TLD is.
It starts where most courses end. Word of the launch reaches the list first.
Join the waitlistWhat's inside
How to find undervalued names before the market does. The filters, signals, and auction patterns that separate serious investors from tourists.
Signal vs noise. Eighty percent of what surfaces in handreg drops, aftermarket listings, and expired auctions is junk. The work is the filter — pattern recognition that AI tooling can sharpen but cannot replace.
A consistent mental model for pricing names across the full market spectrum — and knowing when to hold, sell, or walk away.
The price ladder. Comparables, lease-to-own terms, and AI-readable name patterns each set a different floor. A single-word .com prices differently from a verb-form .ai or a three-letter brandable — and the buyers in each tier rarely overlap.
Outbound sales, broker relationships, marketplace positioning, and how to structure deals that actually close.
Leverage. When to send outbound, how to triage inbound, how escrow protects both sides, and when to hold the line on a number you can defend with comparables. Walking away is a position.
AI is reshaping which names get bought, which get dropped, and which quietly become worth ten times what they were last year. How to read the shift before the crowd catches on.
The 2024 inflection. .ai became liquid in a way no new TLD had since .com. Agentic verbs and two-word stems started pricing by buyer intent, not keyword volume — and the patterns that travel now are different from the patterns that traveled in 2019.
Acquisition, valuation, exit, and AI. The list hears first when the course opens.
Join the waitlistThe work
A domain investor doesn't just register names and wait. The work is a continuous loop — find, judge, hold, position, negotiate, close. The course covers each stage in depth. Here's the shape of it.
Most courses teach the first two stages and skip the rest. The middle three — hold, position, negotiate — are where the money actually lives. That's where most of DNBlackBook's pages are spent.
All six stages, acquire to exit. The list gets word the day the course opens.
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Who's writing this
I bought my first domain in 1999. I've been buying, selling, and watching the market every year since — through the post-bubble drought, the .com renaissance, the new-TLD experiments, the rise of the aftermarket, and now the AI shift that's rewriting what a name is worth.
DNBlackBook is the course I wish had existed when I started. It doesn't talk down to beginners. It doesn't waste a working investor's time. It's the reference I've been writing in my head for two decades, finally on paper.
DNBlackBook doesn't waste a working investor's time. Neither does the list: no newsletter.
Join the waitlistBuyers
A few of them, in their own words.
That makes around 30-40 domains total that I have bought from this person. He is a class act and a knowledgeable domainer.
As always, dealing with Rami is an absolute pleasure. All round excellent person to do business with. Look forward to doing many more deals with him.
Rami is first class, one of the best to do business with.
This seller is a pro. Highly recommended for any buyer's experience.
Great guy and domainer. Just hit the follow button. He is beyond professional. Thanks!
Always an excellent trader.
Awesome person, and a professional. Second time dealing with him, and hope to do so again in the future.
Great seller. Smooth transaction. Highly recommended.
Great seller — fast transfer, reliable, highly recommend.
Excellent seller. Very friendly. 100% recommend.
Real quick and smooth. Thanks again, Rami!
Instant domain push. Great seller.
Quick, smooth transaction. Thanks.
Great seller, fast transfer. Highly recommended.
Great domain and fast transfer.
Excellent seller. Super fast push.
Great seller. Fast response. Recommended. Thanks!
As always, great seller. Great communication.
Another smooth transaction, great seller.
Great seller. Fast push.
Excellent transaction.
Very good seller.
Great seller. Smooth transfer. Thanks.
Great guy.
From verified NamePros transactions, 2007–2017. Twenty-four selected here; the full 434 are documented in the profile screenshot above.
Domain buyers had their say. The list hears first when the original 2016 course goes free on YouTube.
Join the waitlistBefore you join the waitlist
The course is for people who want to learn the domain trade end to end — sourcing, valuation, negotiation, exit — with a 2026 perspective on what AI changed and what it didn't. It assumes you can spend $50 to $500 a month on names and treat losses as tuition. It is not a get-rich path, a side hustle promise, or a tool for buying lottery-ticket TLDs. If you want a system you can run for years, you'll find one. If you want a hack, you won't.
If that reads like you, the list hears the moment reservations open.
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The open notebook
The reference side of DNBlackBook is open: every domain investing term defined, the long questions answered properly, and the market numbers with their sources.
Domain investing terms, one page each — from aftermarket and backorder to UDRP and zone file.
Open the glossary 11Is it still worth it, how to value a name, how to sell one, .ai, expired domains, and the law.
Read the guides 71Short, direct answers to what people actually ask about domain investing and domain flipping.
See the answers 17Domain market statistics for 2026, each with its source and date — written to be cited.
View the numbersFree to read, no signup. The list is for news of the course itself.
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June 2027. Everyone on the list gets the email the day it opens — and first notice when the original 2016 course goes free on YouTube.
A paid reservation tier is being prepared and will activate shortly. It will lock in 50% off the launch price, plus 24-hour priority access before public opening and entry to the founders-only Q&A. For now, the free waitlist is the only signup — join it and we'll notify you the moment reservations open.
Self-paced. Roughly 8 to 10 hours of structured lessons, plus a reference section you'll come back to.
It works as an entry point, but it's denser than most beginner material. New investors will skip three years of mistakes. Experienced investors will find patterns they haven't seen written down before.
Yes — founding members get access to a private group at no extra cost.
One form, one confirmation link, and you are on the list.
Join the waitlistSignal, not noise. An email the day the course opens.
When the original 2016 course goes free on YouTube, and when DNBlackBook 2.0 opens in June 2027.
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