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Josh Kopelman find his receipt for Half.com paying just $35

July 18, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Half.com

Josh Kopelman is a venture capitalist at First Round Capital, he is considered one of the top venture capitalists around.

I know of Josh because he is from my area. One of the companies Josh co-founded was Half.com. But before Half.com he co-founded a Wayne, Pa based company called Infonautics. I remember trading the stock back in the day.

Infonautics has a bit of a tie to the domain industry in it’s how Tucows went public through a reverse merger.

Josh tweeted out on Saturday his receipt of purchasing Half.com back in 1999. The domain had dropped and Josh lucked out getting it for $35.

After selling Half.com to eBay, Josh remained with eBay for three years. In 2004, Josh co-founded TurnTide an anti-spam technology company that was acquired by Symantec.

Just found this old receipt from 1999. Best $35 I've ever spent… pic.twitter.com/ocf538DlqH

— Josh Kopelman (@joshk) July 18, 2020

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About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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Comments

  1. AbdulBasit Makrani says

    July 19, 2020 at 12:45 am

    Great!

  2. Raj says

    July 19, 2020 at 1:30 am

    Just before those years, NS would force you to reg for 2 years at a time squeezing 70 USD if I remember right. What a flashback anyways!

  3. david says

    July 19, 2020 at 6:19 am

    for how much did he endup selling the domain to ebay?

  4. Gregg says

    July 19, 2020 at 8:18 am

    This was an expired domain likely picked by a script. These names weren’t freely available in December 1999.

    http://web.archive.org/web/19991012110207/http://half.com/Press/press.html

  5. Gregg says

    July 19, 2020 at 8:23 am

    That makes no sense. Archive.org he had the name long before dec 3rd 1999 and got funded as well. This must have been a renewal invoice, not a registration invoice.

    October 4, 1999: Half.com gets $2.5M in funding
    https://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/1999/10/04/daily9.html

    • Adam says

      July 19, 2020 at 6:46 pm

      I just posted my receipt from same time period. It was a renewal receipt. Just like his

  6. Gregg says

    July 19, 2020 at 8:29 am

    https://firstround.com/person/josh-kopelman/#mystory

    ” I then had this crazy idea to allow anyone to buy and sell used books, music and DVDs online and launched Half.com in July of 1999″

    • Alpha says

      July 19, 2020 at 7:29 pm

      Good find Gregg, it’s odd he did not tweet like it was a renewal. Even people like Snoopy were replying on how he might have acquired it in 1999. Not sure why he did it that way without further clarification.

      • Snoopy says

        July 20, 2020 at 7:40 am

        Was registered in April 1999. The renewal period (Dec 1999 to Dec 2000) on the invoice is a mystery. My guess is that he bought if off the previous registrant/domainer and didn’t get credit from Netsol for the partial year remaining on the registration.

        • Naeem Ahmed Rana says

          July 20, 2020 at 9:55 pm

          YES. I SOLD HUNDREDS OF NAMES DURING 1998, 1999, 2000.

  7. Jamie says

    July 19, 2020 at 9:29 am

    I watched way too much MTV, especially MTV’s TRL in 1999. If I only knew about domaining back then. Frank Schilling wouldn’t had bought as many domains around that time, well my newspaper job probably would had afforded me one, but nevertheless.

  8. JZ says

    July 19, 2020 at 1:06 pm

    He must of been watching for the domain to drop. if not, talk about luck of just happening to check for it when its available. i was checking many domains in 99 and never had such luck.

  9. Wes Watson says

    July 19, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    how much did he sell it to ebay for?

  10. steve says

    July 19, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    I registered my first domain 2001 – way too late for registering premiums – but no complaints


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