Braden Pollock Sells Gosh.com for $475k on Atom.com

Yesterday, Swetha Yenugula shared that she sold the Gosh.xyz domain name for $24,888 via Afternic in a buy it now sale.

https://t.co/zMwnchABF1 sold for $24888 via @afternic

Using NS1 BIN lander. Not sure whether it was sold via @godaddy reg path or Via BIN lander.#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #domains #domainnames #startup #startups #venturecapital #defi #technology #cryptocurrency #DAO… pic.twitter.com/XPn5w4Xydk

— Swetha.xyz (@DomainNameGear) August 5, 2024

In response to her post, Braden Pollock shared that he recently sold Gosh.com via Atom.com. I exchanged messages with Braden, and he told me the domain name sold for $475,000, and he gave me permission to write about it. The buyer paid for the domain name in full at the time of purchase.

This is the second large publicly reported domain name sale on Atom this month. James Booth recently reported the $1 million sale of KOKO.com. If there are no other large sales reported in DNJournal this week, Gosh.com will take the #6 spot in the year to date public domain name sales report once KOKO.com is added.

Interestingly, it appears that the domain name was sold with the help of a LinkedIn advertisement. According to this post from Atom CEO Darpan Munjal, the buyer did not have a specific domain name in mind to buy when a timely advertisement was displayed showcasing two domain names found in Atom’s Ultra-Premium Marketplace:

Many buyers don’t have a specific name in mind when they begin their search. Well-placed and timely ads can introduce them to names they hadn’t thought of before.

This LinkedIn ad is a good example that recently led to a sale of a showcased name. While LinkedIn ads cost about… pic.twitter.com/wAdOTjSMcn

— Darpan (@darpanmunjal) August 6, 2024

Gosh.com is currently registered under Whois privacy protection at GoDaddy and the nameservers have not changed. This makes it impossible to know who acquired the domain name or how it is going to be used.