Horizon Dairy Upgrades to Horizon.com

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HorizonI am somewhat familiar with the Horizon brand since my kids take Horizon milk boxes to daycare a couple of times a week. During the course of some acquisition research, I noticed that a company called Science Horizons began forwarding Horizon.com to ScienceHorizons.net. When I saw this, I added the Horizon.com domain name to my DomainTools Whois monitor and kept an eye on it to see if any Whois changes transpired.

Within the last week or so, I noticed that Horizon.com is now the dairy’s website. A Google search shows that the company previously used HorizonDairy.com for its website, which now forwards to Horizon.com. The current registrant of Horizon.com is

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YK.com Brokered by Larry Fischer

Elliot Silver
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Last week, I saw a Tweet from Jamie Zoch who mentioned that YK.com has been sold:

Larry FischerThis afternoon, Larry Fischer from GetYourDomain.com confirmed that the domain name was sold and that his company brokered the deal. I was told that Larry’s company represented the former owner of the domain name and a China-based domain broker represented the buyer.

As I have come to expect from Larry, the purchase price will not be shared publicly. The only intel I was able to get from Larry is that YK.com “sold for slightly less than 7 figures to a Chinese group.” Unfortunately, this means the deal will not be listed among the year’s highest sales.

YK.com is not currently resolving, although some legacy subdomains within YK.com are still resolving for the time being. I am not sure if the domain name will be developed or if the acquisition was made purely as an investment. Whatever the case, this is another two letter .com domain name in the hands of a Chinese domain owner.

How Do You Confirm Financial Fitness?

Elliot Silver
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For many of us, getting a high 6 or 7 figure deal on a domain name is exciting and helpful to our business. Unfortunately, just because a prospective buyer agrees to pay a high price for a domain name does not mean he or she will be able to follow through with that deal and fund escrow.

Let’s say you are negotiating with a prospective buyer. After negotiating for a period of time, the prospective buyer offers $800,000 for a domain name, and you’re willing to sell your domain name for that price. How do you qualify the buyer to:

1) Ensure that payment will be made promptly.
2) Not permit the prospect to try and find a buyer at a higher price.

During the course of a negotiation, I try to

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PokemonGo.Net Sells for $20,950 at DropCatch.com

Elliot Silver
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DropCatch.com LogoPokemon Go has been  all over  the news the last week or two. Although I have not played Pokemon Go, it seems like almost everybody else has! People have also been registering lots of Pokemon-related domain names. Last week, I wrote an article about nearly 4,000 .com and .net domain names being registered with the word Pokemon in them.

According to this tweet from NameBio, PokemonGo.net sold for $20,950 at DropCatch.com yesterday:

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Sedo Brokers ADA.com for $200,000

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ADA.com Sale SedoEarlier today, Sedo reported the sale of ADA.com for $200,000. The sale was reported on Sedo’s market activity page, and it was brought to my attention today by Jag Singh. I reached out to Sedo’s Dave Evanson, and he confirmed that the domain name sold, although he was not the broker.

It looks like the buyers of ADA.com were quick to act, as the website is already operational. Here’s an excerpt from the ADA.com about us page:

“Meet ada, a virtual health companion available on the go. Designed by a dedicated team of doctors and computer scientists, ada gives you the best symptom assessment available. Building up a detailed picture of your health over time, ada provides you with an accurate understanding of what is going on and helps you decide on next steps to take.”

Prior to the domain name sale, it looks like the

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GoDaddy / NameFind Sells Delaware.com

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In my morning DomainTools Registrant Alert email, I noticed that GoDaddy’s NameFind likely sold Delaware.com. A current Whois record  shows that the new registrant of Delaware.com is The Delaware Company House LLC. The Delaware.com domain name is not yet resolving.

Knowing that GoDaddy does not tend to report sale prices from its NameFind portfolio, my assumption is that the purchase price of Delaware.com will remain private. If I were to guess, I would say this was a 6 or potentially a 7 figure acquisition, again, assuming the domain name was sold.

Back in April,

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