My wife and I read to our kids every night before bed. They have their favorite books that change on a regular basis, and they are always adding books to their collections. We read everything from princess adventures, race car stories, animal books, and everything in between.

When I am reading in the evening, I often think about different words and phrases as domain names. I’ll see a couple of words or phrases and note them in my head for when I get a chance to do a Whois lookup later on that evening or the next day. I think childrens’ books are a great source of inspiration for domain name ideas.

Kids’ books generally have

Push.com is a valuable domain name, which I would be happy to own. The Whois record for Push.com is private, and the domain name forwards to the sparsely populated @push_dot_com Twitter page. It looks like that Twitter handle has only posted one tweet since it was created in October 2016.

I thought it would be interesting to see if anyone tried to buy the domain name via Twitter, and of course there were many attempts. So far, it doesn’t look like any of these efforts have been successful:

It’s been a while since I shared a list of domain names I recently acquired, so I thought I would kick off the week by doing that. Listed below are 30 domain names I bought since the beginning of 2018.

Instead of just sharing what I consider to be the “blue chip” domain names I bought so far this year, I am sharing a list of names that include some of the best names plus domain names I would consider to be sellable inventory.

It should be easy for investors to identify the top names, but I also want to give readers an idea of the types of domain names I think are worth picking up for the right price. The purchases I listed below are either private acquisitions or auction buys. I did not include any domain names I bought in 2018 and already sold.

Here are 30 of my domain name purchases so far in 2018:

I’ve posted a few domain name “wanted” articles and forum threads over the years with mixed success. I can’t recall ever buying a domain name that was submitted in response to one of these call to actions, but I may have. More often than not though, it ends up with a whole bunch of submissions that don’t come close to matching the posted requirements.

Last week on a bit of a whim, I posted a domain name wanted tweet:

Looking to buy excellent one word .com domain names at an investment price. Must be an English word, .com, with all major extensions registered, and likely registered prior to 2000. Budget $15-50k range with some flexibility.

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) September 2, 2018

As I have come to expect, the first few replies totally missed the mark. It seems clear to me, but I have no interest in buying new gTLD domain names, nor am I looking for two word .com domain names or anything else. I thought my post was pretty clear. One word .com domain names.

The following day,