This week, Sedo closed one of the largest .DE sales of all time. According to NameBio, the sale ranks as the fourteenth-largest .DE sale of all time, and the second-largest .DE sale from the past five years.
Who acquired the domain? As of writing, the name hosts a default “coming soon” hosting page, but I believe that I have identified the buyer based on some research that I’ve performed.… Read more →
Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that has been responsible for the early-stage investments in thousands of companies, many of which have gone on to become household names. Since 2005, Y Combinator has helped Stripe, Airbnb, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox, Twitch, Reddit, and many more to develop into the valuable brands we know today.… Read more →
Another two-letter .COM domain name may have changed hands, according to the latest WHOIS information.
The domain name in question is ET.com, a name that was pointing to Venture.com nameservers until earlier this week when the name switched.
ET.com now shows a landing page for Exceptional Therapy, with very little else known about this potential new project.… Read more →
Over the weekend, I revealed that Facebook acquired the domain Bulletin.com as the hub for a brand new project that’s due to be released this month. The acquisition of Bulletin.com actually took place in May, but Facebook has only just been revealed as the buyer.… Read more →
Facebook has acquired another premium domain name to add to its portfolio that includes FB.com, i.org, and F8.com. An updated WHOIS listing shows that the social media giant has now become the registrant for Bulletin.com.
News of Facebook’s possible purchase of Bulletin.com broke at the end of May, when Jamie Zoch noticed that the Bulletin.com… Read more →
The fourth publicly-disclosed .IO sale is here, courtesy of a LinkedIn post revealing that Ledger.io sold for $120,000.
If verified by DNJournal, this will rank as the second-largest .IO sale of all time, behind the $175,000 sale of Metaverse.io.
Investor Jay Paudyal revealed his sale of Ledger.io… Read more →