Packet Raises $25m Series B; Buys Packet.com

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A company called Packet has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The news was shared this morning in a tweet from Techmeme:

A quick Google search showed that this startup is using the Packet.net domain name for its business.

A Whois search reveals that the company likely acquired the Packet.com domain name within the last week or so. On September 6, the domain name was registered to domain investor

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Mastermind.com Sold for $275,000

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Domain broker Darryl Lopes shared a YouTube video that was uploaded in July that reveals the Mastermind.com domain name was purchased for $275,000. Because the Escrow.com invoice looked a bit funky to me (the domain name was covered up), I did a bit of investigating to confirm the veracity of the report.

In doing a Whois search via DomainTools, I saw a screenshot that showed the Mastermind.com domain name forwarded to a eNaming landing page. eNaming is the domain brokerage founded by Tracy Fogarty. I reached out to Tracy, and she confirmed the sale to me. “Generally I do not disclose any sales or sale prices however since the buyer has I can confirm I was the broker at the price he mentions,” Tracy told me via email.

Assuming that Ron Jackson is able to chart this sale in DNJournal, it will become the 21st largest publicly reported sale of 2018.

Here’s the video Darryl sent me. In it, the buyer explains why his company bought Mastermind.com for $275,000:

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Rain.com and Rain.net Sold for $500,000 (Updated)

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While reviewing my Domain Monitor email from DomainTools last week, I saw that the Rain.com domain name had transferred to a different registrar under privacy. This could mean the domain name was sold, so I investigated further.

A search of my email history showed that Rain.com had been offered for sale a couple of years ago by at least two different domain brokers. I reached out to both brokers, and I learned that Rain.com had indeed been sold in a deal brokered by Joe Uddeme of NameExperts.com. Joe publicly announced the sale in a tweet earlier this morning:

I exchanged emails with Joe, and here’s what he told me about the deal:

The combined purchase price of these two domain names was $500,000. From what I can see, it looks like Rain.com was valued at $450,000 and Rain.net was valued at $50,000. I was told the buyer is using a three year payment plan, so Ron Jackson will likely track the sale on DNJournal once the final payment is made.

The buyer of these two domain names is a company called Rain Autonomics. If you visit Rain.com, you can see what looks to be a temporary landing page. Here’s what Rain Autonomics does, according to its LinkedIn profile:

“Rain enables enterprises to build and operate superior technology infrastructure. Rain’s autonomous bots free operators and transform their existing infrastructure to being easy, secure, and economical.”

The company was founded in 2013. I am not sure what domain name the company used prior to acquiring Rain.com because I could only see its LinkedIn profile, but the company got a great domain name asset in Rain.com.

February 27, 2019 Update:

It looks like Rain.com was listed for sale via Media Options for $750,000:

Salesforce.com Acquires Equality.com

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In one of my morning DomainTools monitor emails this morning, I saw that Salesforce.com acquired the Equality.com domain name.

When I visited the domain name this morning to see how it is being used, I was forwarded to a NameCorp contact landing page. NameCorp is a domain name brokerage and consulting firm that was founded by Alan Dunn. Although Alan told me he could not comment on this deal, he did share some insight about the state of the domain name market and private acquisitions:

“We can’t comment on individual deals but big brands continue to purchase the worlds best domain names in private transactions. My estimate is over 90 percent of brand acquisitions are never reported and many of those acquisitions would rank in, and exceed, the top sales published by DNJournal every year. Premium domain name sales are not slowing down, only the available inventory is.”

I did a Google search for Salesforce.com and equality, and I found a section on the company’s website discussing the importance of equality and the company’s Equality initiative. From what I can see, Salesforce seems to be a

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NameFind Premiums Forwarding to Afternic Inquiry Form

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Every once in a while, I check out the landing pages for various high value domain names owned by GoDaddy via its NameFind portfolio company. Because GoDaddy has one of the largest domain name portfolios and probably sells more aftermarket domain names than anyone else, I visit their landing pages to see if I can learn anything valuable to help me sell my domain names.

In June of last year, I noticed quite a few of their valuable one word .com domain names had a different domain for sale landing page. The company appeared to take many of them off of a parking PPC landing page and used a different style of landing page to make it clear that the domain name was for sale.

This morning, I noticed the landing page for some of the premium names changed again. The company is no longer using the landing page that had been used before, but is now forward the domain names to what I believe is the longstanding Afternic inquiry form:

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Hybrid.com Sold for $190,000

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Another large domain name sale closed this week. Hybrid.com was sold in a deal brokered by Joe Uddeme of NameExperts.com, which he shared via Twitter:

Although Joe did not share the sale price via Twitter, I can exclusively report that the price was $190,000 (plus escrow fees). The domain name was acquired by Brent Oxley, the founder of HostGator, who also owns a stellar portfolio of one word .com domain names. I am not sure what Brent’s plan is for Hybrid.com, or if the domain name was purchased as an investment.

This sale currently ranks

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