Matt Blaze owned Crypto.com for many years. In March, he reportedly told The Verge that the Crypto.com domain name was not for sale. Whether Blaze fully intended to keep the domain name or was stating that as a negotiating tactic, Crypto.com was sold to a company called Monaco, which quickly rebranded as Crypto.com.

When news of the deal broke, I do not believe Blaze offered a comment about selling the domain name. In a blog post published on MattBlaze.org, Blaze offered some commentary about why he sold Crypto.com. The full blog post is worth a read, but here is an excerpt that discusses why Blaze ultimately decided to sell the domain name:

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

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: 

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