Ken Lin (@KenLin1985) / X

Ken Lin

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Ken Lin

@KenLin1985

LongTail.com - Entrepreneur, Domain Investor (PrimeAsset.com), Developer (GeoDev.com & XLand.com), Wanderlust → See My BucketLi.st

Joined August 2021

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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Jan 15, 2025
Excited to share my first public interview in over 20 years in the domain industry! 🙏 Huge thanks to Bob Hawks (@AGreatDomain) for the detailed article about my journey and the story behind dotDB. If you're curious, feel free to read and share!
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interviews - Interview with Ken Lin: Domainer and Developer of dotDB
When you want to know how many extensions a term is registered in, many investors turn to dotDB. This is a helfpful metric to gauge interest in a term. The dotDB site has been frequently mentioned...
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Aug 8, 2025
Exciting news — I can finally reveal the domain: NNET․com! 🎉 It’s short for Neural Network, a trending term in the AI world. Interestingly, when I bought it back in 2008, Neural Network wasn’t even on my mind — that meaning only became mainstream in recent years. At the time,
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Nov 1, 2025
💥 Sold WorkinBelgium․com for $6,000 This is my 2nd sale in the “Workin + Country” series — after selling WorkinPoland․com for $5,000 last year. What’s interesting is that WorkinBelgium․com was hand-registered this March at Dynadot for just $6.99 — held only 7 months. 😄 I
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Nov 21, 2024
Is anyone having issues with PayPal? I can't log in to my PayPal account right now. It keeps showing the message, 'Please check your entries and try again'.
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Feb 27, 2025
🔥 Sold AromaBottles․com for $3,100, making it my second domain sale of February. (The first one was a whopping $50K sale!) Someone asked me how I profit from hand-registered domain names like AromaBottles․com. Since I have some time today, I’d like to share my experience here
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Feb 19, 2025
My first domain sale in February! Had a BIN price set at $100,000, but after a long negotiation with the buyer, I finally agreed to $50,000. I will announce the domain after securing the payment. This year has been great for me—$120k in sales in January (including a $100k LTO)
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Mar 4, 2025
🚀 The $50,000 sale has finally gone through! I can now reveal that it's Satay․com. Huge thanks to the Afternic team for their fantastic help and negotiation. To celebrate, we had satay skewers for dinner tonight. 🔥 Short & meaningful .com domains are rare digital assets—like
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Sep 5, 2025
Thank you all for the birthday wishes! I can now reveal that the domain I sold for $22,000 is Kanav․com (KanAV․com). This domain has an unusual story. The word Kanav carries rich cultural and religious meaning in India—seen as a name tied to wisdom, beauty, or even Lord
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Aug 19, 2025
Sold OpendoorProperties․com for $3,000. 💵 But behind this domain is a bittersweet story… Back in 2020, I bought the name and discovered a U.S. real estate startup, Opendoor․com, that claimed to use AI to flip houses. Type in your address, and they’d give you an instant
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Apr 6, 2023
Never been to India, but love its culture, and my interest has led me to sell many domains for good amounts to Indian corporations. For example, I acquired BharatExpress.com for $10 and sold it for $15K in just a few months. It would be great for me to visit India someday.
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Mar 14, 2023
Sold WealthBasket(.)com for $7,600, which I acquired 9 years ago for $15 plus $90 in renewals, The keyword WealthBasket has 7 TLDs taken according to dotDB dotdb.com/search?keyword… Surprisingly, .com domains with < 10 TLDs taken can be sold for that high. Credit to @afternic
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Aug 22, 2024
After extended negotiations, the domain was finally sold today for $10,000. The term "Battle Barge" is commonly used in games and sci-fi movies. I discovered this domain on dotDB, where it is registered in 10+ extensions and has many longer versions taken in both .com and .games,
Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Aug 17, 2024
After nearly 3 weeks of engagement from Afternic's broker, the buyer's offer for the domain has been increased to $10,000. Hopefully, we can get this deal done by next week. 😏
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Nov 23, 2023
My first sale through Dan's Installment Plans has been completed, with the buyer being from India. (Namaste!) I began my career as a pharmacist in 2009 and transitioned into entrepreneurship 2 years later. To date, I have sold several 5-figure domains that were related to
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Ken Lin
@KenLin1985
Sep 9, 2025
Sold SriLankaETA․com for $5,000. I originally hand-registered this domain through Name․com in 2019, and after holding it for 6 years, I’m glad to finally pass it on to its new owner. This domain is exactly the kind of long-tail name I like—something that may seem meaningless
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