Buying Domain Names

The Product Hunt Twitter account posed a question yesterday that garnered a ton of replies: “What is the last domain you bought?”

What is the last domain you bought? 🤭

— Product Hunt (@ProductHunt) September 17, 2019

I took a quick look through the responses, and there were lots of domain names mentioned by Product Hunt followers. Interestingly to me, there were a whole lot of new gTLD domain names purchased and mentioned. I saw the following extensions mentioned by people who replied (and I am sure I missed some):

The CEO and Co-Founder of Basecamp, a privately held company reportedly worth over $100 billion (see Bill’s comment below, as that article referenced is apparently satirical), is looking to buy a great domain name. On Saturday afternoon, Jason Fried posted his buy request via Twitter:

Anyone out there with 3, 4, or 5 letter .com domains interested in selling? If so, please DM me. Must be 3-5 letters, must be pronounceable, must be a .com. Thanks!

— Jason Fried (@jasonfried) August 30, 2019

One of my favorite domain names I own is Sleuth.com. I have received numerous inquiries to buy the domain name, and several have come from private investigators and operators of investigation-based businesses. I received an inquiry to buy Sleuth.com this morning, and it got me thinking about the business of private investigations and domain names.