Doron Vermaat, Author at DNgeek

Brandable domain name sales week 46: GymMaster.com, Eyek.com, BitcoinCapital.com

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Doron Vermaat 1 Comment

Domain name investor AbdulBasit is leading the chart this week with the $15,000 sale of GymMaster.com. He shared the following details at his blog: “Got $13,500 opening offer via Afternic broker. The listed price was $19,888 BIN. After going back and forth several times with the broker, we finally closed the deal for $15,000”.

An interesting takeaway from his blog post is that he sells more domains via Afternic at the moment despite the fact that his entire portfolio is pointed to Uniregistry landing pages.

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Brandable domain name sales week 44 & 45: Saxx.com, Orius.com, Thinkster.com

November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 Doron Vermaat Leave a comment

We have a double dose of sales data for you as we list all reported brandable domain names sales from the last couple of weeks in this post. A whopping 18 of them reached five-figures showing that the market for this segment is smoking hot at the moment.

The top sale goes to GoDaddy Auctions where Aiting.com sold for $73,000. A quick lookup on Ahrefs shows you why. The domain name has close to 900k backlinks from over 3000 different websites.

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81 Newly Funded Companies and their Domain Names: Choco.com, Dash.co, Repeat.app

October 31, 2019October 31, 2019 Doron Vermaat Leave a comment

The only startup that launched with a premium .com this week is Choco, a young startup from Berlin with plenty of momentum that’s aiming to attract restaurants and suppliers. The company just raised a $33.5M funding round and aims to make ordering and communication with suppliers faster and simpler. A quick look at DomainIQ reveals that the Whois details of Choco.com last changed in July 2019, several months before the company secured it’s Series A investment.

Dash Living, a “Serviced Living Community” here in Hong Kong that raised $10M is operating from Dash.co. The company operates several serviced apartments, boutique hotels and co-living spaces around the city.

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Brandable domain name sales week 43: MailManager.com, Qiro.com, ChainTalk.com

October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 Doron Vermaat Leave a comment

Last week was a little slow for brandable domain name sales as we only charted two sales in the five-figure range. The top-grossing went to Sedo where MailManager.com sold for a cool $13,000. The domain name currently still resolves to a Uniregistry parked page but I believe the buyer is UK-based 28Hands, a software company that runs an email management tool called Mail Manager.

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97 Newly Funded Companies and their Domain Names: MadBox.io, Firedome.io, Foundries.io

October 24, 2019October 24, 2019 Doron Vermaat 2 Comments

Over 8% of newly funded companies in the last week is using a .io domain name. All of them are tech companies with a business-to-business focus except for Paris-based Mad Box which makes mobile games. Besides .io there’s a notable number of startups with a .ai domain name on the list, with Hawk.ai being the best domain of the bunch.

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Brandable domain name sales week 42: Loxo.com, Ohne.com, PowerHost.com

October 22, 2019October 29, 2019 Doron Vermaat Leave a comment

Boom. More than half of the sales on this week’s list are in the five-figure range. The top sale goes to NameJet where the expired domain Loxo.com went for a cool $18,000. Organic period products (aka tampons) creator ohne which is currently selling from ohne.co acquired the matching Ohne.com domain name for $15,000 via Uniregistry which for now, forwards to the .co domain. The femtech company previously raised an undisclosed amount of funding.

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111 Newly Funded Companies and their Domain Names: TheMeatEater.com, MeetMable.com, BankOnJuno.com

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 Doron Vermaat 1 Comment

Let’s say you’ve started a company and lovingly named it Mable. You raised a cool $3M in funding. Would you do like one of the startups on this week’s list and launch on MeetMable.com, fork out $275,000 to purchase the exact-match Mable.com domain or maybe you opt to save yourself some dough and spend $9,888 on Mable.co?

And what would you do if both those domains were already off the market?

Let the domain-splaining begin.

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Brandable domain name sales week 41: Salv.com, Bips.com, Wixi.com

October 15, 2019October 15, 2019 Doron Vermaat 1 Comment

Short sells. The top 3 brandable sales from last week are all 4-letters with Salv.com and Bips.com both bringing in $10,000. Salv.com was purchased by a financial services startup that cleverly rebranded from Dataminer and was using the dataminer.dev domain name.

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Brandable domain name sales week 40: Kura.com, HeyMoney.com, Varus.com

October 10, 2019October 10, 2019 Doron Vermaat Leave a comment

NameJet takes the top spot this week with the $68,495 sale of Kura.com. The domain name has been up for auction before if my memory serves me right but this is the first time it hit it’s reserve and changed hands. The Whois is under privacy so it isn’t clear who’s the new owner of the domain as of now.

Another notable sale was that of HeyMoney.com which sold for a cool $40,000 at Sedo. The buyer also acquired the new gTLD Hey.Money for $8,888 in the same week.

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86 Newly Funded Companies and their Domain Names: EverBody.com, Glamera.com, Workona.com

October 3, 2019October 3, 2019 Doron Vermaat 4 Comments

You don’t need a great domain name to raise money for a startup. As this week’s list shows, you don’t even need a decent or average domain name. You can raise millions and launch on a $10 domain name that was hand-registered the night before. It’s often only when a startup experiences significant traction and starts growing rapidly that they start to realize the importance of owning their exact-match brand .com domain name. The downside of this approach is that the price of their desired domain name has gone up significantly or worse, the domain name is off the market forever.

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