Six weeks ago I published an article on the sale of GolfBet.com for $100,000. Pierluigi Buccioli announced the sale on LinkedIn. At the time he had mentioned that he did not sign an NDA. He also mentioned that he had reason to believe that the PGA Tour was the buyer. Variety is out today with an article that confirms that suspicion. The domain currently forwards to … [Read more...]
Sell your shorties 1-3 characters max.
Short names only 1 to 3 characters any extension. If it's any extension other than com/net/org LIST THE RENEWAL PRICE, premium or non premium. This is a new one, we have never tried this with 1 to 3 characters max and a $15,000 max budget. If everyone just prices everything at $15,000 it will just be a dud unless everyone has 3L.coms to move. So this post is for the best name you are willing … [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...]
AskMe.com closed in 2016, laid off 4,000 people, domain closes today at $95,000 on NameJet
AskMe.com closed at $95,000 on NameJet on Wednesday. The domain was owned by Getit Infoservices Private Ltd. A company with an interesting backstory. The company based out of India closed up and laid off 4,000 people. LiveMint.com wrote: AskMe.com logs off operations, 4,000 employees lose their jobs. AskMe accuses its investor, Astro Entertainment Networks Ltd that owns 99% stake in the … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by BettingTips.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and BettingTips.com led the way at $150,000. Yugo.com was second at $50,000 and Modena.com was third at 34,000 Euro, ($37,004). 44 .com sales 13 cctld sales 9 other tld sales A few new gtld sales this week, H.energy was high sale at $15,000. First .mba sale I remember seeing, realestate.mba $2,700. Domain … [Read more...]
Motley Fool contributor looking for Tucows to bounce back
Tucows (TSX:TC)(NASDAQ:TCX) got a write up on Motley Fool by Joey Frenette. While calling the domain business "boring" Frenette mentioned that he liked Tucows to bounce back. The stock was down 5.2% today 52-wk high90.2152-wk low45.01 From the article: Consider Tucows (TSX:TC)(NASDAQ:TCX), a Canadian IT services and telecom company that’s a cash cow of a business with encouraging … [Read more...]
After selling for $7,500 in 2013 5G.org left to expire
5G.ORG closed at $6,150 on GoDaddy yesterday. The domain was previously sold for $7,500 in 2013. The domain name was under privacy at GoDaddy and parked at Sedo up until expiration. Historical Sales 7,500 USD on 2013-06-26 at Sedo In 2013 5G was a future standard, today all the buzz is about 5G. 5G - Wikipedia 5G is the fifth generation wireless technology for digital … [Read more...]