In this week's Top Topics, we feature the news of this year's second eight-figure sale, a domainer shares some analysis of domain names used by Y Combinator startups and do .ORG and .CO perform well for you?
Connect.com Acquired for $10 Million
The major news in the domain industry this week has been the revelation of Connect.com’s sales price. The ultra-premium domain changed hands earlier this year in a deal brokered by Louis Pickthall of Brandforce. The domain’s new owner is HubSpot, a publicly traded CRM software creator.
Thanks to its status as a publicly traded company, HubSpot has an obligation to file financial reports with the SEC. In a recent filing, investor George Kirikos discovered that the company disclosed its purchase price for Connect.com. The price paid was $10 million, one of the largest publicly disclosed sums ever reported for a domain name.
Topic by: @GeorgeK
Y Combinator Analysis
Leading startup accelerator Y Combinator has been involved in the early days of some of this generation’s most influential and iconic companies. From Stripe to Reddit, Y Combinator has helped fund and guide thousands of startups.
Every year, Y Combinator accepts two new batches of startups to its incubator program. From a domain perspective, the choice of domain used by startups in Y Combinator can help investors understand the type of domains and extensions that are currently popular. With that in mind, an investor has compiled a whole host of domain data from Y Combinator’s two most recent batches. Useful data for domainers.
Topic by: @narbuq
Call.com Sells for $1.6 Million
The top end of the domain market has been highly active in recent months, and this latest one-word .com sale is representative of that. Marketplace Sedo is responsible for the sale of Call.com, with broker Frank Tillmans reporting that the name sold for $1.6 million.
Call.com previously sold for $1.1 million in 2009. This time around, the domain was acquired by a currently unknown entity in Oslo, Norway. In this discussion, domain investors are reacting to the news of this sale.
Topic by: @silentg
What Happened With .ORG and .CO?
Sales of alternative domain extensions often have peaks and troughs, with some extensions favored by end users for a while before being replaced with another trending extension. The .XYZ extension, for example, is currently popular among Web3 companies in particular, but those sales may dip at some point.
Have sales of .CO and .ORG already dropped? In this investor's experience, these two extensions have performed poorly over the past couple of years. Have you found that your .ORG and .CO names have been sitting on the shelf for years?
Topic by: @twiki
Top Topics of the Week is a blog series featuring the most popular discussions and content within the domain community. Tune in weekly to see what's trending
Connect.com Acquired for $10 Million
The major news in the domain industry this week has been the revelation of Connect.com’s sales price. The ultra-premium domain changed hands earlier this year in a deal brokered by Louis Pickthall of Brandforce. The domain’s new owner is HubSpot, a publicly traded CRM software creator.
Thanks to its status as a publicly traded company, HubSpot has an obligation to file financial reports with the SEC. In a recent filing, investor George Kirikos discovered that the company disclosed its purchase price for Connect.com. The price paid was $10 million, one of the largest publicly disclosed sums ever reported for a domain name.
Topic by: @GeorgeK
Y Combinator Analysis
Leading startup accelerator Y Combinator has been involved in the early days of some of this generation’s most influential and iconic companies. From Stripe to Reddit, Y Combinator has helped fund and guide thousands of startups.
Every year, Y Combinator accepts two new batches of startups to its incubator program. From a domain perspective, the choice of domain used by startups in Y Combinator can help investors understand the type of domains and extensions that are currently popular. With that in mind, an investor has compiled a whole host of domain data from Y Combinator’s two most recent batches. Useful data for domainers.
Topic by: @narbuq
Call.com Sells for $1.6 Million
The top end of the domain market has been highly active in recent months, and this latest one-word .com sale is representative of that. Marketplace Sedo is responsible for the sale of Call.com, with broker Frank Tillmans reporting that the name sold for $1.6 million.
Call.com previously sold for $1.1 million in 2009. This time around, the domain was acquired by a currently unknown entity in Oslo, Norway. In this discussion, domain investors are reacting to the news of this sale.
Topic by: @silentg
What Happened With .ORG and .CO?
Sales of alternative domain extensions often have peaks and troughs, with some extensions favored by end users for a while before being replaced with another trending extension. The .XYZ extension, for example, is currently popular among Web3 companies in particular, but those sales may dip at some point.
Have sales of .CO and .ORG already dropped? In this investor's experience, these two extensions have performed poorly over the past couple of years. Have you found that your .ORG and .CO names have been sitting on the shelf for years?
Topic by: @twiki
Top Topics of the Week is a blog series featuring the most popular discussions and content within the domain community. Tune in weekly to see what's trending