Leading domain registrar GoDaddy has released twenty sales facilitated by the company in February 2021. The sales figures are lead by Ava.com at $792,000.
Ava.com was acquired by a company called Ava, but not much is known about it so far, other than the fact that the company is due to fully launch in 2022.… Read more →
In 2020, Bullish.com was acquired for $1,080,000 in a deal brokered by GoDaddy.
For several months, the domain laid dormant in a generic MarkMonitor account with few clues as to who owned the name. Some combined detective work from myself and Jamie Zoch revealed that Block.one,… Read more →
Last week, I published details about investment platform Nvstr’s rebrand to Tornado, with the company acquiring Tornado.com from domain investor and entrepreneur Brent Oxley.
Famous for founding HostGator, Oxley has more recently built a sizable portfolio of domain names that includes names such as Broker.com,… Read more →
Red.com
Primary color red has long been associated with a number of sentiments and emotions. In Europe, it’s associated with heat, passion, and anger, while in China and much of Asia, red is the color of good fortune.
Red.com is owned and operated by Red Digital Cinema, a camera company based in Irvine, California.… Read more →
With a tag line of “teach your money how to make money,” Nvstr’s product offering has always been intriguing, but from a branding perspective, its name was perhaps missing something.
While Nvstr could be considered a clever brand name that is a nod to a past trend of dropping one or more vowels from a name, such as Flickr or Tumblr, it isn’t the clearest name and might not pass the radio test.… Read more →
One of my favorite domain name investors is AbdulBasit Makrani, the founder of AbdulBasit.com who owns a portfolio of several thousand domain names. I last featured AbdulBasit on my blog in December 2020 when he broke $500,000 in sales for the year. Now, he’s back to discuss how he’s faring in 2021.… Read more →