Mark Cuban’s Company Acquires Valuable.com

Elliot Silver
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It looks like Mark Cuban’s company has acquired the valuable domain name, Valuable.com, according to a recent Whois update. The domain name had been listed for sale by NameExperts.com, the domain brokerage operated by Joe Uddeme. The purchase price for Valuable.com is not being publicly disclosed, so it won’t be listed in DNJournal’s sale report or NameBio.

Joe told me he did a considerable amount of outreach to sell this domain name to both end user buyers and domain name investors. “Ultimately, Mark Cuban Companies was the appropriate acquisition partner for this asset.” Joe has a testimonial from Mark Cuban on his website, so it is safe to assume he has done other deals with Mark and his company.

As you should know, Mark is a successful entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for  $5.7 billion, and he is the owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks and is also one of the investors on Shark Tank. Mark’s company owns quite a few stellar domain names.

I am not sure if Mark Cuban has

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TS.com Sold by GoDaddy / NameFind

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namefind-logoBased on a Whois record change I saw this morning, it looks like the TS.com domain name has changed hands. It appears that the new registrant of the domain name is based in China, although the Whois information for TS.com is now private. The domain name was previously owned by GoDaddy’s NameFind.

Unfortunately for curious people like myself, GoDaddy doesn’t generally report sale prices. If I were to guess, I would say TS.com sold for low 7 figures or possibly high 6 figures.  TS.com currently forwards to MXXZ.com, which is a fairly basic landing page with a QR code on it and a few domain names listed below the QR code.

I believe TS.com was originally acquired in a portfolio acquisition last year. According to Jamie Zoch, the company had “23 confirmed 2 letter .com domain names acquired in the portfolio with the potential for that number to climb to 26.” I am not sure if Jamie

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Color .com Domain Name Sale Prices (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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I regularly receive offers and inquiries for Lilac.com. As you probably know, lilac is a color in the purple family in addition to being a shrub / flower.

Just like every other type of domain name, most offers I receive for this domain name aren’t even close to being in the ballpark of value or previous offers. To avoid annoying back and forth discussions with buyers who don’t know much about domain names, I regularly share the reported sale prices of other color related domain names. I thought I would share this list here to give people an idea of how color-related domain names sell, but perhaps selfishly, to also see if readers know about other documented color .com sales.

Here is a compiled list of color .com domain names that I found that have been sold and reported publicly. If you know of any other color .com domain name sales, please share them in the comment section along with the source of the sale information and I will add them to the list.

Note: This color .com sale list is regularly updated.

Publicly reported color .com domain name sales:

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George Kirikos Finds 7 Figure Sale of Vivo.com (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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When it comes to researching “hidden” or hard to find domain name sales, nobody finds them as well as George Kirikos. According to his Twitter feed, George is getting ready to report another 7 figure domain name sale:

George is waiting until 15 retweets are achieved, and then he intends to publicly share the sale he found. Since it is a Sunday afternoon and getting to 15 RTs might prove to be a difficult task, I am sharing this information to help get to that goal. Once George shares information about the sale, I will post it here.

George shared a few hints about the domain name that was sold, although it is not quite enough to know what sold. Here’s what George has shared so far:

  • 4 letter .com domain name
  • All 4 letters are non “CHIPS” meaning the letters are either A, E, I, O, U, or V.
  • The domain name is a word
  • The seller is based in the US
  • The buyer is based in China

I searched a Scrabble dictionary with those parameters, and I only found 6 words (only one in the English dictionary and George said that wasn’t it). It doesn’t look like any of those 6 words in .com that I found has moved recently, so we shall see. On second thought, it didn’t count words that had a repeating letter.

Update: I think I found it… Vivo.com. The domain name was owned by RealNetworks, Inc and is now owned by vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd in China. George has confirmed that this is the sale he was referencing.

An Amusing Offer

Elliot Silver
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I regularly receive uneducated offers that some might consider “lowball” offers. I don’t take them personally, and I don’t respond rudely (if I respond at all) because I don’t generally find that to be productive. Most of the time when I respond, I simply tell the person their offer is far too low.

I recently received an offer for Lilac.com that I thought was amusing enough to share. The prospective buyer offered to pay me $1.99/year for Lilac.com. I assume the buyer was interested in leasing the name for that price.

Nevermind that I turned down

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Good Domain Names on the Market Right Now

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Over the past couple of weeks, I have received several emails from domain brokers offering some excellent domain names for sale. In addition, I have seen some press releases announcing valuable domain names for sale. It’s good to see domain marketing in action.

Since I don’t do the weekly brokerage listings any longer, I thought  I would highlight  a few of these domain names that I noticed that are being offered for sale or up for auction.

Texas.com – eNaming (Tracy Fogarty) – I would say Texas is probably one of the 5 most well known “brand” locations in the United States. The population of Texas is quite large, and there are several tourist destinations in the state.

Bride.com – Name Experts (Joe Uddeme) –

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