James Iles Brent Oxley, the founder of HostGator, has been accruing a portfolio of ultra-premium domain names since he sold his hosting company for close to $300 million in 2013.
With purchases such as Give.com for $500,000, Broker.com for $375,000, and Texas.com…
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MrPremium.com, the brokerage brand created by broker Mark Ghoriafi, has made a name for itself in the .IO space by recently selling names such as Bank.io for $80,000, and Domain.io for $50,000, with tens more highly valuable .IO names listed for sale on Mark’s website.…
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In 2020, British supplements brand Bulk Powders acquired the domain name Bulk.com in anticipation of a complete overhaul of the company’s identity.
The brand’s switch from BulkPowders.co.uk to Bulk.com happened in late 2020, as I documented.
Founded in 2006, Bulk Powders was a brand created by two university students who borrowed £6,000 (around $8,300) to launch the sports nutrition company, operating on BulkPowders.co.uk. …
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In December 2020, Koober Investments Ltd made headlines in the domain name industry by acquiring the domain Engage.com for $803,025. In the days after that acquisition, it was revealed that the mysterious company also acquired Invest.com for an undisclosed fee.
It turns out that Koober Investments Ltd, based in the British Virgin Islands, owns a portfolio packed with some of the best domains in existence.…
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In this edition of the Sales Roundup, I’m taking a look at a handful of domain sales facilitated by the Sedo marketplace in February. Sedo closed some significant sales this month, with three six-figure sales disclosed and countless five-figure deals.
Below, I look at five Sedo sales and explore who bought them, and why.…
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If you’re a consumer, you’ll see a .COM address multiple times per day. If you’re a domain investor, you’ll likely see .COM names hundreds or perhaps thousands of times per day.
The .COM extension is synonymous with the Internet as a whole and has been the world’s most popular TLD since its inception.…
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