I was perusing my Facebook feed last night, when I saw that domain investor Sean Stafford announced that his childrens book, Gypsies in the Kitchen, is doing well on Amazon. I didn’t know that Sean was a children’s book author until I clicked the link and saw that he wasn’t kidding around.

Gypsies in the Kitchen currently ranks #39 in Amazon’s Limericks & Humorous Verse book category. The ranking is based on the number of books that have sold. In addition to the high ranking in its category, the book also has a 4.6 star rating.  Sean is also the author of Domain Graduate, an e-book about domain investing.

This childrens book was co-authored by another domain investor, Dan Kimball, and it was published in October of 2013. The book costs $2.99 for the Kindle version or $8.99 for the paperback version. You can probably reach out to Sean to get an autographed copy if you’d like.

I have not read (nor do I own) the book, so I can’t provide you with any type of feedback or a book review.

According to an article in The New York Times’ Deal Book  that appeared this morning, Internet Brands is being acquired by private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in a deal that is reportedly worth $1.1 billion. The deal was  announced by Internet Brands in a pdf, although it does not appear that they are reporting the price or any terms of the deal.

This is a major deal, and there are domain investment implications because of the Internet Brands portfolio of domain name assets.

If you’ve done more than a few Whois searches for great keyword domain names, chances are very good that you’ve seen Internet Brands in some of your Whois lookups. Just a few examples of exact match .com domain names in their portfolio include:

There has been quite a bit of activity in the domain name resale market related to Bitcoin domain names. Because of that, I have been tracking some of the better Bitcoin domain names, and I learned that BTC.com changed hands recently.

The Whois registrant information is now set to privacy at Fabulous (domain name registrar), and a message on the landing page says “Something amazing is coming soon.  If you would like to be notified when it launches, please submit your email below.” Previously, the domain name was registered to a Japanese entity that did not shield its registrant information, and there was an active website on the domain name.

I reached out to the registrant via the privacy email address to ask about the domain  name, and I actually know the registrant personally. He asked that I keep his name  and company information  private, and he mentioned that more information about BTC.com will be  made public in the near future.

“BTC” is widely recognized as

Some of you in the domain investment community know Sol Orwell. I’ve known him for several years and have had the opportunity to get together with him a couple of times. Among other things, Orwell is the founder of Examine.com, “an online independent research guide about supplements and nutrition.” I think you’ll enjoy this interview he did with Andrew Warner of Mixergy.

In the interview, Orwell discusses a number of things, including the acquisition cost for the Examine.com domain name, revenue numbers, website objectives, and background information. The video interview is about an hour-long, and it’s well worth a watch when you have time. You can watch the video I embedded below, but if you have any questions for Orwell or Warner, you should visit Mixergy and post your questions there.

If you haven’t heard about Mixergy before, I think you’ll appreciate that you now know about it. Andrew Warner is the founder of Mixergy, and there are many, many interviews with successful entrepreneurs and business people. Warner is able to get these people to open up and share insight about their business, and I have never been disappointed after spending time watching one of his interviews.

When it first launched in 2011, I wrote about Examine.com, and it’s nice to see that the website took off and has been doing so well.