Andrew Rosener Launches Ganjapreneur.com Domain Marketplace

I was reading a press release about a ย new domain name marketplace for marijuana domain names, and I unexpectedly saw a familiar name. ย Ganjapreneur.com is ย “a website dedicated to cannabis business news and culture,” and the company “announced the launch of their Cannabis Domain Name Market” in a morning press release. The founder of Ganjapreneur.com is Andrew Rosener, founder of Media Options domain brokerage.

I knew that Andrew had some marijuana domain names in his portfolio, but I did not recall hearing that he owns the Ganjapreneur.com domain name or that he had big plans for it. I’ve been watching a show on MSNBC called Pot Barons, which chronicles the lives of several people who own canabis companies in Colorado, where recreational marijuana recently became legal. This show is where I become aware of the “Ganjapreneur” term, and it is used to describe entrepreneurs in the marijuana (aka “ganja”) business.

Although I am not really tuned into the marijuana / cannabis domain market, I receive quite a few emails asking me to buy marijuana domain names. Most are names I have no interest in buying, but it looks like I will be able to refer these people to Ganjapreneur.com to list their domain names. I am not sure if the marketplace accepts outside submissions, but I presume they would because of their association with Media Options.

Ganjapreneur.com goes beyond domain name sales though. The website ย covers the business of marijuana and cannabis, and domain name sales is only a smart part of the website. There are interviews with marijuana business owners, articles about the marijuana business, and other aspects to the website.

The entire press release announcing the launch of Ganjapreneur.com is below:

Ganjapreneur, a website dedicated to cannabis business news and culture, has recently announced the launch of their Cannabis Domain Name Market. “Ganjapreneur is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs in legal cannabis space optimize and grow their business, and ultimately, a great domain name goes a long way to helping them achieve that through a highly visible online presence and strong brand. With our background in the domain space and understanding of the importance and value of a great domain name for any entrepreneur, a domain market was a clear next step and perfect fit for Ganjapreneur.com. We plan to launch many more business services in the near future for our audience as well,” said Andrew Rosener, Founder and CEO of Ganjapreneur.com.

The market consists of hundreds of marijuana keyword and brandable domain names available for immediate purchase, sorted by category, type, and price. The market is designed to be a resource for venture capital firms and start-ups looking to get involved in the cannabis industry, and it is launched in partnership with Escrow.com, the leading escrow service for domain name transactions in order to make transactions safe and easy.

Ganjapreneur is a joint venture of Media Options, Inc. and THC Media Group, Inc., which launched in the summer of 2014 and has steadily grown in scale. The website now offers a live feed of cannabis job board listings from around the web, a large body of original news articles, editorials, and interviews with business owners, as well as a dictionary of marijuana slang terms, a mobile app, and a business directory for B2B service providers in the cannabis industry.

The domain name market is the latest addition to Ganjapreneur’s array of features geared toward cannabis industry start-ups and investors. It includes premium domain names such as Oregano.com & MyCannabis.com with price tags over $25,000, although the majority are listed between $2,000 and $10,000. Available options include dot-com domains such as SourDiesel.com and MarijuanaButter.com, as well as alternative top-level extensions such as Cannabis.cruises and Grow.xyz.

Over the past six months, Ganjapreneur has published several interviews with prominent cannabis industry entrepreneurs, or “ganjapreneurs,” including a founding partner in a cannabis-focused investment firm, the owner of the first recreational cannabis day spa in Colorado, and the founder of a Seattle-based recruiting and staffing firm which connects cannabis industry employers and hopeful job seekers. The website also covered the first sales of edibles and concentrates in Washington state, and was the only media outlet to capture the moment on video.

The announcement of the domain market marks the site’s latest expansion of its services geared toward marijuana business owners and investors. “This is just one of many resources we are developing to help ganjapreneurs start or grow their business,” said Noel Abbott, Ganjapreneur’s CTO. “We are excited to announce our domain name market, and we have many more announcements coming in 2015.”

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
    • The general public is probably not the target audience.

      People who are familiar with the term are the audience.

      Based on my (limited) knowledge of the space, “ganjapreneur” is a common term used to describe people who are own marijuana businesses. I assume the term will become more known as more states allow legalized marijuana usage.

    • That’s exactly right. “Ganjapreneur” is frequently used by the mainstream media to describe business owners in the space, and our audience is not the general public or even the average cannabis consumer. We’re focused on the business audience who is already aware of the phrase, as it describes who they are and what they do.

    • Somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 or so of your names listed at marijuanadomain.com are really great, the rest are some shade of ok…

      Why not simply separate the lists and move the ok names at first opportunity, holding the aces for a few years…

      Most of them are decent enough that if you’re seriously considering just dropping, I’d offer to take a few of your hands directly for the price I’d pay to try and catch ’em ๐Ÿ™‚

  1. I know the word ganja, but had never heard the term “ganjapreneur”, but I still knew instantly what Ganjapreneur.com was about when I saw the domain name, so I think it is a good fit for the site.

  2. Exciting! Will check it out…

    ‘Ganjapreneur’ is totally well-known/non-weird as an industry term, and has been somewhat popularized by various business and trade magazines/blogs etc.

    Now is a great time to build one’s cannaportfolio if one is just coming to the space… it’ll be a very different market in 2-3 years, imho.

    Aloha ๐Ÿ™‚

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Recent Posts

MAD Comment from NTIA About “Wholesalers”

2
Andrew Allemann wrote about the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) statement about the .com registry extension agreed upon with Verisign. As a...

Beware When Using AI for Domain Name Descriptions

5
Artificial Intelligence can be a time saver. For domain investors, it can make it easier and quicker to create marketing copy to help promote...

Atom.com Promoting Black Friday Sale

0
Atom.com is promoting a Black Friday sale with a prominent header banner on its home page. Atom CEO Darpan Munjal shared some insight and...

Fluid.io Becomes 2nd Largest Publicly Reported .IO Sale

5
This afternoon, Joshua Schoen reported the $199,995 sale of Fluid.io. The domain name was sold at his BIN price via Afternic, according to a...

Employer.com Acquired for ~$450,000 via Afternic

1
Late last night, Jesse Tinsley, Founder of Recruiter.com, announced a large domain name acquisition. His company purchased the Employer.com domain name for $450,000 USD....