When a company cannot get their exact brand name in .com some go with a .co or .io and others look for a common prefix like, get, try or buy + their name.com.
Blume is a women’s personal care company based out of Vancouver that is using the prefix “Meet” so meetblume.com is where their website resides.
It looks like another company by the name of Blume Construction out of Peoria, IL closed up shop and put the name Blume.com up for sale.
The name sold for $22,000 on Sedo. Smart move by the Vancouver company, many companies use the name Blume in their domain name and they own the best one now.
Snoopy says
March 5, 2019 at 5:57 amStill it is a very problematic name in terms of the spelling, needs to be spelt out to tell people the address.
Mark Thorpe says
March 5, 2019 at 8:25 amWon’t pass the radio test.
John says
March 5, 2019 at 8:55 amLike calm.com. 😉
NAEEM AHMED RANA says
March 5, 2019 at 12:21 pmBLUME IS GOOD NAME, BUT THEY NEED TO CHANGE THEIR WEBSITE & PRODUCT LINE. YOLA.COM’S WEBSITES ARE BETTER THAN THEIRS.
VR says
March 5, 2019 at 3:11 pmAlways funny when domainers tell people running real businesses what’s wrong.
Blume is a very common word, flower in German. Several companies and websites use blume.
steve says
March 5, 2019 at 3:37 pmI believe the radio test is not as important as in the past.
If it’s on the web, it’s all visual. No audio required unless you’re using voice assistants like Alexa and Siri to conduct business.
John says
March 7, 2019 at 11:36 amIndustry News Alert:
In a big major slap in the face to the entire domain name industry and all domain investors everywhere, Estibot has REDUCED its magical “appraisal” of crypto.com from $48,000 to $31,000 after it sold in July for $12,000,000:
https://imgur.com/gallery/4INYuNF
Doubtless many noticed the many times I pointed out the $48,000 “appraisal” previously and long after the $12m sale, including Estibot itself, whose rep in the blogs has certainly noticed some of my comments before.
The bizarre reduction is certainly curiouser and curiouser indeed; has anyone ever *not* seen Estibot “fix” their appraisals to reflect the higher price of a sale afterward? I’ve certainly never seen such a strange departure from that. I suppose, however, that perhaps in some twisted fashion they felt doubling down and making it worse was better than doing the “fix” to reflect the sale price, since the latter might tend to greatly compound and highlight the extreme embarrassment of the original $48k figure to begin with.