Kristuna Misic over at SmartBranding.com interviewed Robin Weesie, founder and CEO of Exclusive. Robin discusses the business and why he chose Exclusive.com for the project. He made mention of how so many individual influencers and YouTubers fail when they try to go with a personal website or app. Exclusive is a platform that is looking to provide Exclusive content from the world's best … [Read more...]
Detailed story on a domain name sale from $125 to $17,500
When hearing about sales it's always great when you can get the full story. To go from opening offer to negotiations to a successful closing. Namepros member Uzver wrote a detailed account of a sale of a two word .co that brought home a great price. The name was bought in May 2019.Listed it for sale at $9,888. They go on to explain that On July 21st, 2020 they reduced the price to … [Read more...]
Bullish.com featured on Bloomberg – Details on development of the $1m domain name
BULLISH.COM sold for $1,080,000 last November at Best Web. Today Bloomberg published a piece on how the million dollar domain name will be used. It will be a crypto exchange. Bullish will offer institutional and retail investors market making, lending and portfolio management services without use of intermediaries like banks. From the article: Bullish, as the exchange will be known, is … [Read more...]
investing.com (the business) sold for $500m – domain sold in 2012
Investing.com was sold for $2,450,000 in 2012. Well now according to Globes.co.il the business that was built on that domain name sold for $500 million. An international investment fund based in East Asia has acquired Investing.com for $500 million. From the article: Dror Efrat and three others founded the company in 2007. Efrat, who grew up on Kibbutz Urim in southern Israel, served as CEO … [Read more...]
How Lottery.com became Lottery.com
Two weeks ago Lottery.com announced the acquisition of Sports.com. In an interview conducted last week the CEO of Lottery.com Tony DiMatteo discusses how they got the domain name Lottery.com back in the day. They were AutoLotto.com. Turns out the owner who DiMatteo says acquired Lottery.com for 8 figures, contributed the domain along with cash when investing in the Series A round Lottery.com … [Read more...]
Did Boxing.com sell for $1.15m?
George Kirikos put his research hat on and tweeted out that Live Current Media sold a domain name on March 22, 2021 for USD $1,150,000. See page F-13 of their SEC filing at: sec.gov/Archives/edgar… From what I can tell, it appears to be the Boxing(.)com domain name. [2/2] Boxing(.)com nameservers changed in March (from Digital Ocean to the current registrar-based ones). Also, p. F-13 notes that … [Read more...]
A no holds barred interview with Rick Schwartz
Rick Schwartz answers a multitude of questions on topics such as new gtlds, the future of domaining, valuation and a host of other things. I hope you enjoy the interview and thanks to Rick for taking the time. Q1) You have been doing this a long time, are you still excited by domain investing and if so why? I would say I’m more excited than ever. I’ve seen domains since they were basically … [Read more...]