James Iles In the fourth quarter of 2021, running from October 1 to December 31, 802 companies and solopreneurs added projects to Crunchbase, one of the largest databases for startup and established company data. Fortunately for this article, Crunchbase data includes domain names, which meant I was able to take a look at the type of domain names startups used in Q4 of 2021.…
In May 2006, Diamond.com changed hands in a deal worth $7.5 million. Since then, this iconic domain has hosted several iterations of a jewelry store, with owners looking to capitalize on the prestige of Diamond.com.
By 2015, Diamond.com was put up for sale, and in 2018 the domain changed hands, with the name displaying a landing page promoting a cryptocurrency exchange.…
Cryptocurrency companies are likely buyers of one-word .com domains. Since the beginning of 2021, Swan.com, Exodus.com, and Tent.com have all been acquired by crypto wallet providers. Now, another one-word domain has moved into the hands of a cryptocurrency company.
Ballet, a Las Vegas-based company, was founded in 2019 by Bobby Lee, an entrepreneur that founded Bitcoin exchange BTCC in 2011 before selling it in 2018.…
It’s not just funded startups acquiring one-word .com domains, it’s the funders, too.
A new venture capital fund called Blank Ventures has secured the one-word .com domain, Blank.com. The fund looks to have been formally set up in early 2022 under the name Blank Ventures Fund.…
Domain marketplace Sedo facilitated thousands of sales in Q1 of 2022. While many of those are undisclosed, NameBio lists an impressive set of sales closed at Sedo between January 1 and March 31, 2022.
Here, I’m taking a look at the top 10 sales from Q1 2022 to see who bought each domain, and possibly why.…
Domain investors Andy Booth and James Booth have partnered together to produce many domain sales and acquisitions over the years, including the purchase and sale of Extend.com in 2019.
The brothers, who spend much of their time in the NFT space now, have once again teamed up to sell GBet.com…