Bhavin Turakhia has been very busy, after co-founding Directi in 1998 with his brother, Divyank Turakhia, the two exited the business in 2014 in a $160 million transaction with Endurance (now Newfold Digital). Turakhia then went on to start Radix, a leading new gTLD registry; Titan, a next-gen email suite for the small business customers of web hosts and domain registrars; and Zeta, the emerging … [Read more...]
Privacy.com rebranding to Lithic
Privacy.com is rebranding. The new name will be Lithic. The company was founded in 2014, the company’s focus was to let anyone generate virtual and disposable payment card numbers for free. TechCrunch details the rebranding and highlights the latest capital raise: As part of its new strategy, Privacy.com announced today that it has changed its name to Lithic and raised $43 million in Series … [Read more...]
The reason why Exclusive.com was the right choice for Robin Weesie
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...]
BI “NFT prices are worth less than half what they were in April, as the market has cooled”
Sophie Kiderlin published an article today at BusinessInsider.com that delves into the red hot NFT space. Sophie writes that,volumes in dollar terms have since fallen to below $28 million on average in the past week from around $78.62 million a month ago, according to data from nonfungible.com. The article mentions Mark Cuban of Shark Tank and NBA owner fame. A piece of NFT art shown in … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Balancer.fi
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and Balancer.Fi led the way at $55,000. Second was HTM.de at 23,800 Eur, ($29,093). Worknest.com was third at 20,000 GBP, ($28,372). Sedo does not convert currencies so they list names higher than they actually are. NFTdex.com was a one year old hand reg. I thought CryptoMetrics.com was a good buy for the price. 58 .com sales 22 cctld sales 7 … [Read more...]
Great.tv once owned by Mike Berkens and then GoDaddy changes hands
GREAT! is a new free-to-air entertainment network that will launch in the UK on 5/25/21. The domain name Great.tv was purchased by the new entity. Great.tv is redirecting to GreatTV.co.uk. The GREAT! channel portfolio consists of GREAT! movies, GREAT! movies action, GREAT! movies classic and GREAT! tv. All of the channels will be available on Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and Freesat. … [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...]