We have a list of 70 startup companies that raised $351,752,990 in funding last week . Exactly 70% of them is using a .com for their domain name with the ccTLD taking the second spot with just over 17% of the list. There are three startups on this list that chose one of the new domain names for their address on the web. Mom.life is a free mobile app that saves new moms from anxiety and aims to give them the parenting knowledge of the entire internet (what about Dads?), social introduction slash dating app Mae went with Mae.social and Wayman, a developer of ERP software for engineering and design firms went for a .software domain name.
The pickings for domain names I liked this week were slim but those that I think are not bad include those of Dublin-based energy-saving LED lighting firm Urban Volt which uses UrbanVolt.com, sales automation startup DialSource which accelerates, manages, and automates your sales or service cycle and uses DialSource.com and then there’s CollegeVine, a provider of one-on-one mentorship and college applications guidance that recently changed it’s name from Admissions Hero. The CollegeVine.com domain name was parked with Sedo until recently but I was not able to find a public sales price for the domain name.
Here’s this week list: (more…)