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The Sales Roundup is a weekly blog post that looks into the backstory to any domain name sale. We constantly have domain sales data presented to us, but what is the story behind the sale? Why did a name sell for a specific amount? In this week's Sales Roundup, I'm looking at 5 sales from the...

The Sales Roundup is a weekly blog post that looks into the backstory to any domain name sale. We constantly have domain sales data presented to us, but what is the story behind the sale? Why did a name sell for a specific amount? In this week's Sales Roundup, I'm looking at 5 sales from the...

Paul Graham is, in short, one of the great innovators of the Internet era. Seven years after selling his company Viaweb to Yahoo! in 1998 for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, Paul co-created Y Combinator to provide seed funding to startups with a bias towards tech and online ventures. Y...

Paul Graham is, in short, one of the great innovators of the Internet era. Seven years after selling his company Viaweb to Yahoo! in 1998 for 455,000 shares of Yahoo! stock, Paul co-created Y Combinator to provide seed funding to startups with a bias towards tech and online ventures. Y...

Yesterday, I wrote a little article picking out some of my favorite previous sales to see what has happened to the domains since I sold them. There's no real merit in doing this, but is any ever curious enough to look back at domains you've sold to see what they're used for now? If you are...

Yesterday, I wrote a little article picking out some of my favorite previous sales to see what has happened to the domains since I sold them. There's no real merit in doing this, but is any ever curious enough to look back at domains you've sold to see what they're used for now? If you are...

I just published my latest Sales Roundup, looking at the stories behind the sales. In this week’s Sales Roundup, I’m looking at five sales from the DNJournal chart published on April 1st, 2020. I’ll be looking into the stories behind these sales, to decipher exactly why each of the domains...

I just published my latest Sales Roundup, looking at the stories behind the sales. In this week’s Sales Roundup, I’m looking at five sales from the DNJournal chart published on April 1st, 2020. I’ll be looking into the stories behind these sales, to decipher exactly why each of the domains...

A trillion-dollar stock market crash occurs, and planes are grounded. Sounds familiar? This may somewhat mirror current happenings around the world, but this is what happened in May 2010. A trillion-dollar stock market crash occurred over 36 minutes and things were slowly returning to normal...

A trillion-dollar stock market crash occurs, and planes are grounded. Sounds familiar? This may somewhat mirror current happenings around the world, but this is what happened in May 2010. A trillion-dollar stock market crash occurred over 36 minutes and things were slowly returning to normal...

Browsing through Crunchbase can have some unexpected results. While doing some research for another article, I was looking through a list of recently funded companies when I saw “Aesthetic (formerly Plato Design). What stood out to me was the fact that the company had managed to secure the use...

Browsing through Crunchbase can have some unexpected results. While doing some research for another article, I was looking through a list of recently funded companies when I saw “Aesthetic (formerly Plato Design). What stood out to me was the fact that the company had managed to secure the use...