Report: Crypto.com Was Sold

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According to a report on TechCrunch, the “Highly-prized domain name Crypto.com has been sold!” As you may recall, there was an article in The Verge back in March discussing how Matt Blaze, the owner of the domain name, received many offers to buy Crypto.com but was not interested in selling the domain name. Apparently something changed, and the domain name was acquired by a crypto company called Monaco.

At the time The Verge article was published, I asked readers what they think Crypto.com is worth. Over 1/3 of those who voted thought the domain name was worth $10 Million +. Well over 50% thought the domain name was worth at least $5 million.

Although the price was not shared in the TechCrunch article or shared elsewhere from what I can see, my guess

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Add LinkedIn Profile Link to Inquiry Page

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I want to share a suggestion I have not had the time to implement on my own but plan to put into place at some point in the near future. It might be a good idea to add a link to my LinkedIn profile on my domain name for sale inquiry and offer landing pages.

There are two reasons for why I think this is a good idea and why I want to test this out.

Tracking who is landing on your landing pages. There are many inquiries made covertly, and if you are able to see that a specific person at a specific company landed on the inquiry page and you receive an anonymous inquiry a short time later, it can help identify who wants to buy the domain name. Even if an inquiry is not made, you may be able to get a better idea about who is looking at one of your domain names.

People may trust you more when they inquire. The domain name business is notoriously opaque. People don’t necessarily know who they are dealing with when buying a domain name. Someone unfamiliar with the domain space may not trust doing a deal with someone anonymous. Putting a link to your LinkedIn profile can humanize you and help establish a level of trust and rapport when someone wants to know who owns the domain name.

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How % of .com Sales Has Changed

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Brad Mugford shared an interesting post on NamePros (mentioned on TheDomains.com) about the total volume of .com domain sales vs. other extensions recorded by NameBio. I believe the data Brad shared was all public sales recorded in NameBio’s database. The figure shared was $1.6 billion total sales, with $1.3 billion of that being .com sales. This means approximately 81.25% of all of NameBio’s sales are .com sales.

I wanted to take a closer look at more recent data to see how sales data has been shifting more recently. I also used NameBio and looked at all sales vs. .com sales for the last five years and for the last one year to see how things have changed. There were no other options in between so I couldn’t see the three year time period for example.

Here’s what I found when I searched NameBio: 

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Eagle Eye Networks Spends $300k to Upgrade to EEN.com

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In May of this year, the EEN.com domain name was reportedly sold for $300,000, as recorded by NameBio. The sale, which was brokered by Larry Fischer’s GetYourDomain.com, is tied with the sale of Signet.com for the tenth largest domain name sale of the year in the DNJournal year to date sale report. The EEN.com domain name was sold by Anything.com (for some reason, the current Whois record still shows Anything.com as the registrant).

According to a press release this morning, a company called Eagle Eye Network is going to be using EEN.com for its website. Here’s why the company said it made the change from EagleEyeNetwork.com to EEN.com:

“Eagle Eye chose to make this investment to improve efficiency of communications with its partners and customers. This domain change reflects Eagle Eye’s continued evolution and rapid growth as a global leader in cloud video surveillance. Eagle Eye has updated its email addresses to correspond with the new website domain

‘With the rapid growth we have experienced, Eagle Eye has reached a point in our business lifecycle where simplifying and shortening our domain makes good business sense,’ stated Dean Drako, CEO and founder of Eagle Eye Networks. ‘Eagle Eye continues to have a strong commitment to efficiency, speed, and customer service, and this change is a reflection of those principles.’”

Being able to upgrade

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Signet.com Sold for $300,000 via Afternic

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Earlier this month, Jamie Zoch reported that “Signet.com has been acquired by a currently unknown CSC Corporate Domains client.” The domain name was sold by Netincome Ventures, Garry Chernoff’s domain investment firm. From what I can see using DomainTools Whois History tool, Garry’s company owned Signet.com since at least 2004, the date of the earliest historical Whois record.

I have been given permission to share that Signet.com was sold for $300,000 in a deal brokered by Afternic. Garry told me the deal took three months to negotiate. The sale was confirmed by a representative from Afternic, but the company declined to provide further details about the deal.

I presume Ron Jackson will

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SEC Filings Can Have Good Contact Information

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Whether you are looking to privately acquire a domain name or sell a domain name you already own, it is essential to have the contact information for prospective buyers. With GDPR in place, finding good contact information for a company can be challenging.

I have found that many consumer facing websites do not make it easy to find executive contact information. I presume many executives do not want to receive consumer complaint emails – or perhaps even more accurately – companies have expensive customer management and customer support teams in place that are better equipped to deal with consumer issues. These teams are not necessarily well equipped to discuss company owned domain names or potential domain name acquisitions. Contact emails about domain names may go through, but many may never be seen by decision makers or even returned.

One place to find good contact information is within filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or similar oversight organizations in other countries. Oftentimes, these filings contain the names, email addresses, and phone numbers for corporate decision makers. These people

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