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…
GoDaddy’s Afternic marketplace has long been a popular destination for domain sellers and is responsible for thousands of sales per year. While the marketplace is a go-to for domainers, the design of the marketplace is in need of some renovation.
Behind the scenes, GoDaddy has been reinvigorating the Afternic platform and has offered a public beta program for some time, allowing Afternic members to use the latest beta features.…
Last year, domain investor Braden Pollock reported the sale of WorldClass.com for $400,000, ranking number 34 on DNJournal’s list of top 100 sales for 2021.
Scrolling down DNJournal’s chart 20 places shows the $269,000 sale of Canadian.com, which sold via GoDaddy’s Uniregistry brand using Afternic’s escrow service.…
Dune Analytics, a Web 3 data platform, has undergone both a name and a domain change.
In February 2022, Jamie Zoch discovered that Dune.com was on the move, with the domain landing in the hands of Dune Analytics, a Norwegian company founded in 2018.…