Brand Marketing

Can You Beat my Time on Pyramid.com?

Michael Cyger launched a fun solitaire game called Pyramid solitaire on the exceptional Pyramid.com domain name. I’ve played it many times and find it quite addictive. This morning, Michael shared that 5,000 Pyramid solitaire games were played last week.

My best Pyramid time was 56 seconds, which I shared with Michael:

I have been trying to beat that time for over a week and haven’t had any luck. If I can’t finish in a little over a minute, I reset the game to optimize my free time. I would love to see the game retain my stats with either an account login or cookie.

Have you been able to beat the one minute mark? What’s your best time so far?

OpenAI Now Using ChatGPT.com

Last year, OpenAI filed a UDRP against the ChatGPT.com domain name. The company had been using Chat.OpenAI.com for its Chat GPT platform. In September, I shared that there appeared to be a settlement in that dispute, and ChatGPT.com transferred to OpenAI. For some time, the domain name forwarded to the subdomain that served as the ChatGPT base.

The company has now migrated its Chat GPT platform to ChatGPT.com:

YouForm.com Deal Looks Like a Win Win

Davis Baer, Founder of Youform, shared that his company acquired the Youform.com domain name for $7,500:

There are a few things to unpack from this and from his subsequent tweets. Youform has been using Youform.io for its website. The .com domain name was acquired via Sedo following a negotiation. Davis shared how the negotiation went, and he was able to secure the domain name for $7,500. This seems like a great deal for his company, particularly considering its initial $25,000 asking price.

Reliance is “More than Metal” Following Upgrade

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Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. has existed as a business for more than 80 years and is publicly traded under the RS ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange. The company has a market capitalization of more than $19 billion USD. The company just announced a small but important rebrand. It is now known as Reliance.

In an earnings call covered by Investing.com, the company announced the rebrand along with a change to its website domain name. Reliance is now operating on its new brand matching Reliance.com domain name. The company had been operating its website under the RSAC.com acronym domain name.

Facebook Shows Brand Popularity

I have always used LinkedIn to get an idea of how widely a brand is used. Knowing this helps me justify a domain name acquisition cost by understanding how many potential buyers there might be for a particular domain name. I have been using Facebook lately to do the same thing, and it has some advantages.

In order to look at home many businesses there are with a specific brand name, I will look at Facebook “pages” results. I have found more businesses and companies use “pages” rather than standard pages. The results would be similar to LinkedIn companies.

Honeymoons.com: Domain Name Led to 10x Revenue

Jim Campbell, Founder of Honeymoons.com, published an article on Entrepreneur.com that discussed how a domain name acquisition “resulted in a 7x increase in traffic and a 10x increase in revenue.” For someone like myself, this article reinforces how an exceptional category defining domain name can be transformed into an authoritative brand name in its industry.

According to the article, the Honeymoons.com domain name was acquired in July of 2023 “for mid-six figures.” Prior to the acquisition, the company had been using the less-than-ideal HoneymoonGoals.com domain name. Some of the benefits of acquiring Honeymoons.com that were cited in the article include:

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