James Iles

James Iles is a domain name industry writer and publisher of JamesNames.com. You can contact me here, or follow me on Twitter @jamesiles.

Top Domains Used by Startups Founded in 2020: Class.com, Cart.com, and More

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Here’s a collection of domain names used by companies founded in 2020. It’s relatively rare for such young companies to invest heavily in a premium domain name asset so early on, but these companies have done so.

 

Collective.com

Collective, a financial services platform for self-employed people, launched in September 2020 and has already raised a total of $28.7 million in funding, including a recent $20 million Series A funding round. …

Vue.io Sells for $35,000

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Exactly 7 years since the domain was registered, Vue.io has sold for $35,000 in a deal brokered by MrPremium.com.

MrPremium.com’s founder, Mark Ghoriafi, confirmed the sale to me, noting that the negotiation began with an $8,000 and slowly progressed to a $35,000 sales price, excluding Escrow.com’s…

GoDaddy Sales Roundup: Steam.com at $390,560, Symphonic.com at $115,000, and More

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On June 29th, 2021, GoDaddy released a slew of data disclosing 20 sales that GoDaddy facilitated in January 2021. The data released by GoDaddy is always delayed by several months, but it’s welcome nonetheless.

Here, in the first of three GoDaddy sales roundups I’m performing for the data that the company released in June, I look at 5 sales from GoDaddy’s list to see why they may have sold for the prices that they did.…