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Yesterday, GoDaddy released its first domain sales list in five years. It’s a significant moment for a publicly listed company to willingly disclose data like this, and it’s only going to help the domain industry in the long term.

This Saturday, I’m going to do a special edition of the Sales Roundup analyzing some of the domain sales from that GoDaddy list, but there’s one piece of information that deserved an article of its own.…

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The legal cannabis business is now a multi billion dollar machine. Since the legalization of cannabis in many US states, businesses have popped up to take advantage of interest and demand.

Domain sales based around cannabis have also been rife with names such as Kush.com selling for $500,000, and Extract.com selling for a reported $300,000.…

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Branded Holding Group is a company that you may have come across if you’ve ever done any research into two-letter, or one-word .COM’s. Founded by Roland Chemtob, Branded Holding Group is notable for owning some of the best names on the planet. The group looks to have sold some domains including Chief.com…

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In the past, I’ve featured Paul Graham and Jason Calacanis on this blog. Two famous venture capitalists who recognize the part that domain names play in the success of a startup.

Jason has even acquired his fair share of top domain names. After selling 20.com a couple of years ago, Jason still owns and operates Inside.com…

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I think a lot of lessons can be learned from the past, which is why I’m having a sporadic look back at the same period of time, ten years ago. This time, I’m looking back at a few of the big sales from August 2010.

 

Lottery.net – $220,000

Sold by Sedo in late August 2010, Lottery.net…

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In April 2020, GoDaddy announced that they would be removing public WHOIS information. In a statement given to Elliot Silver of DomainInvesting.com, GoDaddy said that

“Due to changing privacy regulations in the U.S. and around the world, GoDaddy is in the process of making some changes to align our offerings similar to what we did in GDPR regions.”…

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