Domain Sales

We’ve all been there before. Your asking price out of the gate is much higher than a buyer is willing to spend. Maybe you’re on point with your price, and maybe you’re out of your mind. Whatever the case is, the domain name doesn’t get sold and remains in your portfolio for a long time.

Tony shared the YouTube Short video below we can all relate to. A prospective buyer offers too little for a domain name while the asking price is sky high. Needless to say, the two parties go separate ways and the domain name is still for sale, with an asking price below the original offer:

Francois Carrillo is best known for his Domaining.com industry news aggregator. He also owns Catchy.com, a platform for selling domain names.

Francois emailed me to let me know about a domain name financing calculator he recently added to Catchy.com that might be of interest to domain investors and domain name buyers. The tool is free to use, and it can be of assistance to investors who want to offer a customized financing deal to acquire a domain name.

Pepe is a popular meme coin ($PEPE) that has been using the Pepe.vip domain name for its website. According to Binance, Pepe is trading against the USD at approximately $0.000006/coin, and its total market cap is in the ballpark of $2.5 Billion USD.

A short time ago, Pepe made a major domain name upgrade, securing Pepe.com, which had been brokered by Media Options. The acquisition of Pepe.com was announced on X yesterday:

It looks like FedEx has acquired a valuable 3 letter .com domain name. Whois records show FedEx is now the owner of FDX.com. The domain name transferred to CSC, and the Whois registrant is now listed as FedEx Corporate Services, Inc. FedEx stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the FDX ticker symbol.

Prior to the acquisition, FDX.com was owned by domain investor James Booth, who acquired the asset in November of 2022. Last week, James noted the deal was overseen by Andrew Miller from Hilco Digital: