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...]
Angel.com sold for $2m Dave Evanson does it again
It was just on March 30 that Dave Evanson tweeted out that Angel.com was under exclusive brokerage. Registered in 1993 owned by Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc. Now it's sold Congrats to seller and Dave … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by six figure sale of Link.co
Sedo released their weekly domain names sales and Link.co led the way at 135,000 Euro, ($161,383). grundsteuerwert.de was second at 40,000 Euro, ( $47,814). Containerhomes.com was third at $32,000. 45 .com sales 16 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · jdi.org at 18,000 USD · countrycannabis.com at 10,000 … [Read more...]
Peter Askew on the Practical Ecommerce podcast
Peter Askew (VidaliaOnions.com) was on a podcast by Practical Ecommerce, Peter discusses how he acquired VidaliaOnions.com back in the day. The host Eric Bandholz Bio then goes into domain names and how and where to buy them with Peter. Since the majority of the audience is interested in ecommerce and starting online businesses I think getting some info from Peter proved helpful. Here is the … [Read more...]
NameJet/Snapnames March sales led by ManagedCareMag.com
NameJet/Snapnames sales for March were released today. At NameJet Mutation.com was the top sale at $26,555. Neway.com was second at $14,500 and Enak.com took third at $10,500. At Snapnames ManagedCareMag.com was the top sale at $28,000. iWager.com was my favorite name from the list at $9,995. Top NameJet Sale: mutation.com - $26,555Top SnapNames Sale: managedcaremag.com - … [Read more...]
On the heels of a huge IPO here is how Coinbase chose Coinbase.com
A member of Namepros showed a leaked email about the early days of Coinbase. There is a leaked email from 2012 that shows what the founders were thinking of when it came to naming their company. Founded in 2012 by Brian Armstrong and Fred Ehrsam they are currently looking to go public. The Coinbase IPO is scheduled to trade on April 14. The Coinbase IPO will be a Direct Listing. Back in … [Read more...]
GoDaddy making moves on the registry side acquiring .club and others
Big news on the registry side of the business. GoDaddy is acquiring .Club, .design and 28 extensions from Minds + Machines Group Limited (MMX). .Club has seen a lot of press lately due to Clubhouse and people registering .club domain names for their club on the app. Full release here GoDaddy Registry, one of the world's largest domain registry providers, today announced that it is acquiring … [Read more...]