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Detour.com was registered in 1994 and sold for $15,000 on Moniker in 2009. The domain name was then developed into a GPS based walking tours website. The company was self funded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason. The company was acquired by Bose. The domain name expired last …

STERICSSON was a joint venture between Ericsson and STMicroelectronics established on 3 February 2009 and dissolved 2 August 2013. The domain name STERICSSON.com sold for $22,500 in 2011 at Sedo and dropped a couple days ago. The name closed at DropCatch for $3,601. I see this as a waste of …

Darpan Munjal founder of Squadhelp, tweeted out some info on keywords and Google Trends. Good news for Darpan, business naming search volume is up in the 40 to 60 percent range post Covid. That’s kind of the sentiment Jason Calacanis shared in the podcast with the founder of Ritual. Some …

How Ritual.com got acquired Jason Calacanis spoke with Ritual CEO Kat Schneider on This Week in Startups. Kat talks about buying Ritual.com against the advice of investors. Interestingly Jason thinks the name is a 7 figure domain name. It’s an interesting story of how Kat got the name, I will …

Everyone who seriously invests in the new generation of domain names (also sometimes called “new gTLDs” – domain names ending in extensions like .life, .world, or .expert – for example, a domain like alien.life, paradise.world or wealth.expert) should pay attention to something very interesting. Some of the largest global companies and brands like Apple, Amazon, or T-Mobile are …

Earlier this month Tiger.io sold for $28,888 at Park.io. The buyer is now revealed to be Tiger Communications PLC out of Hampshire, England. What’s interesting is the company operates a website at TigerComms.com and looks like Tiger.io will be used for what I guess will be one division or specialized …

Upper is a European firm that looks to match companies with freelancers in the tech industry. They believe the future of employment is freelance and remote. They are backed by Cavalry Ventures, along with venture capitalist another.vc as well as business angels Vassil Terziev, co-founder of Telerik, and Christian Rebernik, …

Each domain investor should know the value of their domain names. Before 2014, we had 3 main domain extensions in internet space: .com, .net and .org. Domain names in those extensions have more-less the same yearly renewal fee (approximately $10), and as their sales were recorded in public sources for …

Looking at ConstitutionUS.com today, the expired domain name that closed at $103,000 at GoDaddy auctions on 9/12. The domain has updated in the whois and now shows the Registrant Country: IL for Israel. The site was owned by George W. Baltzell, a Missouri resident who sadly passed away at age …

Detour.com was registered in 1994 and sold for $15,000 on Moniker in 2009. The domain name was then developed into a GPS based audio talks website. The company was self funded by Groupon founder and former CEO Andrew Mason. They described themselves as: Detour is a brand new way to …

“Ouch, I just saw a really HORRIBLE website address!”, I complained to my friend after I recently saw an add on LinkedIn. The add, created by a large government organization, was graphically very nice, and apparently they tried their best to attract students to find more information on their website …

Oti.net is a domain name that has been around the block. Registered in 2003 after being dropped one time before. The domain name has been owned by a lot of heavy hitters in the domain industry. OTI.net was owned by Thunayan K. AL-Ghanin’s Future Media Architects, it moved along to …

Michael J. Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy the company that sold Voice.com for $30 million last year. CryptoNews.com published a story (hat tip to George Kirikos) today on how the negotiations went. They apparently started at $150,000 and Saylor would not get on the phone with the buyer until …

Last week I wrote about Mike Carson of Park.io selling Daring.com for $48,888. Daring.com sold on Flippa in 2015 for $3,500 a bargain price for Mike’s company Introvert.com LLC. The domain name was registered in 1998 and now the buyer is shown to be Daring Foods Inc. which was operating …

Darpan Munjal of Squadhelp tweeted out a graph that tested the correlation between domain length and STR. Darpan pointed out this was purely an STR comparison. Also, this analysis may not be valid outside Brandable marketplaces. For example, most 4Ls do not include real words & it can be relatively …

Being a domain name investor since 2014, so many people ask me daily how to start with the domain name investing, what skills one needs to have, and, of course … How Much Money One Can Make. Especially that “How Much Money One Can Make” is the most common question by …