A LinkedIn post about a domain name acquisition came across my feed this afternoon that caught my attention. John Hu, Founder and CEO of Stan, announced that his company spent $750,000 to acquire the Stan.com domain name. Stan is a platform that helps content creators monetize their audience and grow their business.

Using the DomainTools Whois History tool, I can see the domain name appears to have changed hands about a week ago, when it transferred from Tucows to GoDaddy under Whois privacy. Prior to that, the domain name was owned by the company formerly known as Anything.com.

As John mentioned in his LinkedIn post, the company started out on StanWith.me and later migrated to Stan.Store. Following some incredible growth, as indicated in this article written about on HubSpot for Startups, the company was able to afford and justify the $750,000 acquisition of its brand matching .com domain name.

Following this acquisition, Stan has been added to the list of companies that upgraded its domain name. Well done.

Update:

According to a post on LinkedIn, the buyer was represented by Lumis:

Stan․com is now in the hands of @stanforcreators!

Exact-match .COM secured.

Congratulations to the entire team! This is the kind of domain that compounds brand value for years.

Exceptional work by Pri and the Lumis team guiding our client through the acquisition and making it… pic.twitter.com/IrTU8RnfmK

— Lumis (@lumis_com) August 20, 2026

In February, I discovered the contact form on my corporate website wasn’t working. I’m not exactly sure what happened, but my WordPress developer made a fix that solved the deliverability issue. However, the contact form receives a fair amount of spam emails now that it is working. This issue needs to be addressed at some point soon, but it is more of an annoyance than a problem.

My email provider has been doing a good job of marking these spam messages correctly. I check the spam folder on a regular basis to try to ensure I am not missing anything, but if a contact form email is marked as spam and isn’t quickly identifiable as something other than spam, I’ll just trash it and all other spam emails.

Runway.com has been acquired in a deal overseen by Andrew Miller of ATM Holdings. The domain name recently transferred from Tucows to Namecheap under Whois privacy. Runway.com had been listed for sale on the ATM Holdings website, and it was recently moved to the section on the homepage showcasing completed deals.

I reached out to Andrew to see if he could share any details about the transaction. “I can confirm that we (Andrew Miller and ATM Holdings) oversaw an amazing win-win transaction for the buyer and seller,” Andrew told me via email. He was unable to disclose the acquisition price.

Atom.com recently introduced domain name rentals. The idea is that a company might rent a domain name to start using a domain name with a lower upfront financial commitment. I have that option disabled because of the low risk/reward profile.

I have been in a fairly long negotiation for a one word .com domain name I own. I have been going back and forth with various purchase options with the prospective buyer, who uses a non .com domain. A few months ago, we both agreed that a lease to own deal would make the most sense for his startup. Finding terms that work for both of us has been the challenge.

I proposed an escalating lease to own deal. It would be something along the lines of this: