VPN.com put out a press release today and it details the sale of University.com. Registered in 1999 it was dropped previous to that. ATLANTA and SAN DIEGO and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- University.com was sold to Tsunami VR, Inc. for $1,111,555 on March 7, 2020. Tsunami VR is a subsidiary of Tsunami XR, Inc., a California technology company that has raised … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by Spectacle.com
Sedo released their last weekly domain name sales report of 2020. Spectacle.com led the way at $100,000. Sleepwave.com was second at $50,000 (great job by the seller). Heal.me was third at $43,000. 50 .com sales 43 cctld sales 9 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · prestige.io at 10,495 USD · 5qr.com at 7,988 USD · furniture.de at … [Read more...]
Voice.com seller buys $650 million in Bitcoin
In domain industry circles MicroStrategy (Stock price: MSTR (NASDAQ) $317.60 +16.40) is known for being the company that sold Voice.com for $30,000,000. While the company still owns a nice portfolio of domain names, they are a big believer and big holder in Bitcoin. They now hold more Bitcoin than the U.S. government. CoinTelegraph wrote: Business intelligence company MicroStrategy has added … [Read more...]
Selling early and leaving $1.3 billion on the table
Many early domain name investors sold a name way too early or knew of someone else who was not going to pay for a domain registration back in the day. Years ago I was talking to someone who was into domain names real early and he said a friend at one time was basically on a suicide watch. He owned some great domain names when they were free. When registration fees were introduced he balked … [Read more...]
Niue wants .nu redelegated
Niue wants it's country code back! This is not something new as I have written before about how countries view their country code as a natural resource and want to control their own digital identity. Back in February Wired wrote a piece on several small countries and their fight to be in control of their cctld. Ending what they deem a digital colonization. The Chagossians want .io back as I … [Read more...]
GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt
GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt for $320 million to boost ecommerce offerings. GoDaddy said, Poynt’s technology will let it offer businesses a “complete suite of commerce and payment services”; Poynt CEO Bedier will run a newly created commerce division. Poynt has raised $128 million in VC funding. GoDaddy (NYSE:GDDY) saw it's shares up a little under 1.5%. … [Read more...]
Sedo weekly domain name sales led by FV.de
Sedo released their weekly domain name sales and FV.de topped the list at 58,000 Euro, ($70,542). Weights.com was second at $52,000. OFTV.com was third at $32,000. 53 .com sales 18 cctld sales 3 other tld sales Top 3 highlights of public SedoMLS sales are: · clmlaw.com at 9,995 USD · palamo.com at 8,999 USD · vacid.com at 7,500 EUR Domain … [Read more...]
