Last week I wrote about the $75,000 sale of Speechify.com and this week we have Newsify.com closing at $45,944 at GoDaddy auctions. There are developed websites at Newsify.co and TheNewsify.com. TheNewsify.com has a page on Crunchbase and describes itself as: Newsify is a judicious assemblage of the latest updates about what’s happening around you. From gaming to fashion, we cover each and … [Read more...]
GetSpeechify.com paid $75K to upgrade to Speechify.com
The suffix ify is used to form verbs meaning to cause an increase in the stated quality; to become. It has been a popular naming category sought out and registered by those in the brandable domain name space. BrandBucket has 166 names ending in "ify" for sale. Of course two of the most well known companies on the Internet use this naming convention. Spotify and Shopify. There is an … [Read more...]
LiveChat has their act together when it comes to domain names
LiveChat Software S.A. is a global IT company operating in SaaS (Software as a Service) model and offering product that increases online sales, improves customer service and online conversions. The company is headquartered in Poland. The company had been operating on LiveChatInc.com, they made some acquisitions in January and sent out a note yesterday regarding their upgrade. We’ve … [Read more...]
Another company with two word .com moves to one word .co
Patch Homes is a home equity finance startup, that is now changing it's name to Noah. They are going to be doing business on Noah.co as another two word .com moves to .co. (source) A couple weeks ago I wrote about GradeSlam (.org) rebranding to Paper.co. A week after Paper.co, AgencyWithin.com moved to the shorter, one word domain name, Within.co. Noah.com is owned by a David Kroening. … [Read more...]
Pure Scooters rebranding to Pure Electric
Pure Scooters is an electric scooter retailer out of the U.K. They announced they are rebranding to Pure Electric. The domain name PureElectric.com was caught by DropCatch and sold at auction for $1,501 in 2016. The domain name was parked at Uniregistry after being caught and then moved to Efty. The registrant info has been under privacy. It moved from NameBright to Epik and now it … [Read more...]
GradeSlam raises $7.5 million rebrands to Paper.co
So Gradeslam.org put out a press release today and announced funding and a new name. They are moving from a .org to a .co. They are a Canadian company. MONTREAL, March 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- GradeSlam, the education company founded by McGill University graduates Philip Cutler and Roberto Cipriani, announced today that it has raised 7.5 million USD in funding. Along with the funding … [Read more...]
B-social dropping the hyphen and rebranding to a 4L.com
B-Social has secured £7.8m in funding and is now dropping the hyphen and getting a short new name. The company that is building a social bank is rebranding to Kroo.com. The domain was registered in 1996 and was purchased on NameJet for $2,555 in 2016. According to BusinessCloud.co.uk B-social has over 8,500 customers who have spent more than £1m with their B-Social cards and have shared … [Read more...]
