Domain name expert, domain consultant. Founder of DotWeekly, helper of many.

Wisconsin
Joined July 2008
I have analyzed @mikemanndotcom 200k domains with dnhub.io. Here is the insight. 1. Mike Mann has 202424 domain on his portfolio. i) 202378 Dictionary word domains. ii) 35 domains contain numbers. iii) And only 11 hyphenated domains.
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We spent $65k on a one word domain name, and it was a stupidly easy decision. Below is our thought process. In fact, we named the company around the domain name, and not the other way around. Why? 1. Instant credibility for the only audience that matters - ours 2. 80-90% cheaper than what we thought it was worth Here's what these domains cost: Reputation . com - $800k Acquisition . com - $350k Acquire . com - $240k Ours is cofounders . com. Not a bad get for $65k, in our opinion. We'd have paid much, much more. (A reminder that assets are worth vastly different prices to different buyers. For this reason, hold firm on your price.) The actual website itself is super bare bones and plain, because we feel that the name sends a stronger message than how the site looks. (Also, we're procrastinators 🤣, and our website is an afterthought for us. But the above sounded smart, didn't it?) So what is cofounders? What do @CoFoundersNik and I do? We start and buy companies with talented operators. Everything we do revolves around cofounding ideas with others. It's really not a pure venture studio, holdco or incubator. It's kind of it's own thing. A hybrid of all 3. On the startup side of things, we provide someone with - 3 business ideas to choose from - A salary - 100% of the capital And take majority equity. We have way, way more applicants than we can handle. Starting and scaling new companies is hard. We can't force an idea on them or it'll never work. Also, we can't (usually) take their idea for the same reason. No one loves an idea like it's originator. This is why I freely share so many idea here. Not enough of y'all steal them! The acquisition side of things is still a work in progress, but will have a different structure. We have more ideas than time, so cofounders is the perfect solution for us. We didn't even know what we'd name the company until we landed on that domain name! Before we saw that domain we were tossing around the dumbest name ideas: StartBuySell . com StartupLabs . co My namecheap account is a bad idea domain graveyard. All dumb. All generic. Nothing generational or credible. Cofounders was an instant yes. Lots of big things coming. Thanks for following along! @mhp_guy @CoFoundersNik Any questions? Happy to answer below.
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Here's the latest sale I hinted at. I sold battlepass.com for $40,000 via Dan. Purchase price was $3,363 in March 2021 from GoDaddy auctions. I noticed that I was charged an extra 1% commission because the buyer paid by wire (they got a 1% discount paying this way).
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It looks like Ten.com was sold via Afternic. The domain name is now registered to Afternic DNescrow.
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Jamie Zoch retweeted
How Fast Growing Saw.com Cuts Domain Sales & Acquisition Obstacles Down to Size (inside details on how many of their biggest deals got done): dnjournal.com/articles/2022/… #domains #sawsells
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Jamie Zoch retweeted
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@sawsells24 May 2022
Exact match domain Comet.com was recently sold with the help of our team. Read about the acquisition here. #sawsells #domain #domains #domainname #domainnames #selldomains #buydomains #domainbroker #domainappraisal #business #comet saw.com/comet-com-has-sold/
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Jamie Zoch retweeted
Liberty Lending Rebrands to Reach Financial and Reach.com jamesnames.com/2022/05/liber…
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Another elite 2-letter dot-com domain name has changed hands, as DC Comics @DCComics acquired DC[.]com from Deloitte!
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Modular.com may have been sold by Reflex. The domain name is now registered under Whois privacy at Namecheap. Modular.com is now forwarding to Modular.ai. Great upgrade, @Modular_AI.
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Tiny acquires Tiny.com and will no longer have to deal with people who think the brand name is Tiny Capital because of its off-brand domain name. Thanks to @awilkinson for sharing news about the acquisition: domaininvesting.com/tiny-upg…
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After being acquired by Alliance Data Systems, it looks like @BreadPayments is getting a big domain name upgrade: domaininvesting.com/bread-co…
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Jamie Zoch retweeted
In the third 7-figure sale reported so far in the new year, a $1 million plus deal for Stable.com has just been closed: dnjournal.com/archive/lowdow… #domains
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Major security breach impacts GoDaddy Managed WordPress customers domainnamewire.com/2021/11/2…
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Jamie Zoch retweeted
it’s timeee to Ape In 🔥🐵 Mint @ApeInProd’s OG Token apein.com/mint
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Jamie Zoch retweeted
I bought a few .eth domains earlier this year and used them for my wallets. Today I got airdropped 1300 $ENS (>$65k). what is going on lol
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