Bear Grylls, a popular outdoor adventurer, writer, and television personality announced that he and partners have acquired Outdoors.com and relaunched the website with Grylls-related branding:
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
We’ve purchased and relaunched the inspirational @outdoors_dotcom
I believe we have never needed the wild more, and our goal at OUTDOORS is to bring it to you in a way that is fun, accessible and ripped full of adventure! pic.twitter.com/gFPQhSvamx
— Bear Grylls (@BearGrylls) November 30, 2022
This wasn’t simply a great domain name purchase. In looking at Archive.org, it looks like Outdoors.com was already an established outdoors-focused brand. With Grylls’ background, it is a perfect opportunity for him to grow the brand and expand his own personal reach. It looks like articles from the original Outdoors.com website have been ported over to the new website, and the design has been modernized and updated with Grylls’ personal branding.
Using the Whois History tool at DomainTools, it appears that the domain name changed hands in September when it transferred from Namecheap to GoDaddy under Whois privacy. Outdoors.com utilized Whois privacy for quite a long time – since 2015, so the exact date the domain name sold is unclear.
Terms of the deal do not appear to have been announced. Because it looks like the entire business was acquired, this wouldn’t be considered a domain name-only transaction.
Me myself an outdoor guy,I really like his show and he is great…..great personality and learned a lot from his shows.He is very knowledgeable because he is well trained.
Love the gears and stuffs that he recommended.
“It is not bad weather,it is bad dressing”
Outdoors.com was acquired by a buddy of mine. His portfolio of sites can be found here: https://savage.ventures/