Across the various blogs dedicated to domain names, you’ll often see reports of highly valuable domain names being sold to startups, established companies, or newly formed ventures. Just how do companies afford such domain names? In 2022, we’ve seen Connect.com sell for $10 million, plus the closing of multiple seven-figure deals such as IT.com…
Entrepreneur Nathan Lands launched a new AI brand in October 2022 called Lore. Lands, who has a history of building businesses in the art, cryptocurrency, and gaming industries, has created Lore as a multipronged project focusing on artificial intelligence.
Lore provides a weekly newsletter highlighting AI art news, which has hundreds of subscribers already, according to Lands’s Twitter account.…
Web3 fintech company Coingaming rebranded to Yolo Group in September 2021, with the rebrand better reflecting “its status as disruptors across a diverse range of sectors including gaming and fintech,” according to a press release.
The company now operates dozens of brands across fintech, gaming, and blockchain, including Slots.io,…
Entrepreneur turned domain investor Brent Oxley has built one of the most highly sought-after domain portfolios in existence, spending millions of dollars to secure some of the Internet’s best names.
Recently, Oxley has added to his portfolio by securing these five domain names.…
In October, I wrote a DomainNameWire article about Ocho, the newest startup from entrepreneur Ankur Nagpal, who previously sold his online course platform Teachable for $250 million.
Ocho, which operates on the Ocho.com domain name, is a new brand that helps business owners to build wealth through financial products, plus some educational resources.…
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Smartie, a company that used to be known as Explore.com until it rebranded to Smartie, picking up Smartie.com in the process.
After acquiring Explore.com in 2017, The Tiki Tour Group developed a brand around the domain name, stating in a press release at the time, “Explore.com…