Give.com Sells via Sedo (Updated)

It appears that Give.com has sold via Sedo. According to Whois records, the current domain registrant of Give.com is Sedo LLC Transfer Service, which is generally the account domain names are placed in during the sales escrow process. Update:  According to a tweet from Sedo broker Dave Evanson, he brokered Give.com in a $500,000 deal.

I looked through my email, and I saw that Dave Evanson was recently brokering Give.com. In fact, Dave listed Give.com for sale for $800,000 via the Weekly Brokerage Listings article in June.

I reached out to Dave to see if he could share any information about the sale, and he confirmed that the domain name has been sold. Dave told me, “At this point I am able only to confirm I have been brokering give.com and the domain is currently in the process of being transferred. I will provide updates as appropriate. Thanks.”

Prior to Give.com moving to the Sedo escrow account, the domain name was

Good to See Brokers Working Together

I don’t think it happens frequently, but it’s nice to see domain brokers working together to get deals closed. I wrote about an example of this a little over a week ago when I reported about the QE.com sale, which was co-brokered by Media Options and eNaming.com. Heritage Auctions and Right of the Dot are also working together to auction the .Versicherung extension.

Many of the top domain brokers and domain brokerages have loyal clients who look to them when they are buying or selling a domain name. Much like people have favorite real estate agents, domain owners and domain buyers often establish a relationship with a domain broker, and that broker receives their business.

The domain aftermarket is quite

TPO.com Acquired for “Charitable Social Network”

Wired published an article announcing that “Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and mobile network The People’s Operator are launching a new charitable social network called TPO.com.” According to historical Whois records, TPO.com was acquired earlier this year from Telepathy, the domain investment company owned by Nat Cohen. TPO.com had been owned by Telepathy as recently as January 2015.

I reached out to Nat for a comment about the sale of TPO.com, but he did not share the sale price. Nat said, “I can confirm that the sale occurred at the end of January.” It looks like Nat’s company had owned TPO.com since 2008. Another domain investor was listed as registrant prior to Telepathy’s ownership, and I presume Nat bought it privately in 2008.

I think it would be very interesting to

IJ.com Brokered by Domain Holdings

Another two letter .com domain names has changed hands. When I received my daily DomainTools monitor email yesterday morning, I saw that a Whois change had occurred on the IJ.com domain name. The new Whois registrant is listed as Media Group of America LLC, which is the parent company of the Independent Journal Review.

After searching my email records for IJ.com, I saw that it had been brokered by Domain Holdings. I reached out to the company to see if the company brokered the sale of IJ.com, and Hobi Michalec confirmed that he was the broker of record.

Commenting on the transaction, Hobi told me,

QE.com Co-Brokered by eNaming.com & Media Options

When I received my daily DomainTools alerts, I was alerted to a Whois record change for QE.com. Knowing that Media Options‘ Andrew Rosener is always apprised of the LL.com domain market, I reached out to him to see if he knows anything about it. Not surprisingly, Media Options was involved in the transaction.

According to Andrew, QE.com was recently sold. The domain name was co-brokered by Media Options and eNaming.com, the domain brokerage founded earlier this year by Tracy Fogarty.  I am told the sale price for QE.com was just over half a million dollars at $554,000. The domain name is now registered under privacy, so I am unsure of who bought it.

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Media Options Confirms Sale of EG.com

In a tweet this morning, George Kirikos mentioned that the two letter EG.com domain name had changed status. The domain name status had changed to unlocked, which could be a prelude to a domain transfer, possibly indicating that a sale had taken place.

EG.com is owned by Media Options, and it has been owned by the Panama-based company for several months. I reached out to Media Options CEO Andrew Rosener, and he