Communications app Slack paid $60,000 for the domain slack. The price was revealed by the founder himself on Quora a few years back. Slack which is an acronym for "Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge". Tip of the cap to Namepros member Crysis Slack.co was purchased for $680 on GoDaddy in 2015. Not owned by the company. Slacked.com sold twice on … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Closers.com
Sedo reported their weekly sales and Closers.com was the top sale at $50,000. The second highest sale was Live.Casino at 24,500 GBP, ($34,732). 44 .com sales 20 cctld sales 7 other gtld sales CryptoLabs.com sold for $10,000 I liked this name a lot, two popular keyword niches together. Chat.Chat sold for $20,000. Colors.org sold for $12,500. Already up and running, "Color" is a … [Read more...]
Mike Mann sells two names he held for 13 years for $73,500 total
Mike Mann tweeted out about two different sales that were both acquired in 2005. Mann actually purchased both of these name on the same day and for the same price. He held both for 13 years. BetterFuture.com was sold for $65,000 and ChooseLife.org for $8,500. BetterFuture.com has not updated whois with new buyer yet. Jason Reid looks to have purchased ChooseLife.org. Sold … [Read more...]
CQD.com owner should be following the playbook used by MLA.com
With all the discussion and things brought to light with the CQD.com case, I took a look back at some domain thefts that were covered by publications outside the domain industry. The Huffington Post took a rather bleak stance with the following headline, "When Hackers Steal A Web Address, Few Owners Ever Get It Back" Jonathan Askin, a technology law professor at Brooklyn Law School, was … [Read more...]
The continuing saga of CQD.com
A couple weeks ago I wrote a piece about the CQD.com ordeal, a post that has become one of the all time forum reads. Since then the thread has really heated up with a lot more evidence coming out and a lot of detective work provided by some members such as TheLegendaryJp, Grilled, Silentptnr, etc... The gist of the story is that James Booth paid $25,000 plus escrow for CQD.com, the domain … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly sales led by Handle.com
Sedo released their weekly sales and Handle.com led the way at 77,500 Euros, ($95,080). HawaiianIslands.com was number two at $15,000. 49 .com sales 15 cctld sales 5 other gtld sales A lot of brandables, some of the made up kind like Pilki.com at $7,700 and Katchi.com at $7,500. Those names both might have some non English meanings. FC.group sold for $10,000 and … [Read more...]
NameJet March sales led by Bey.com
NameJet reported their March sales and Bey.com led the list at $31,000. Optimization.com came in second at $27,700. 102 sales 2 three letter.com sales 17 numeric sales 7 three character .com sales ML.net was the highest non com sale at … [Read more...]
