Vanity Fair Reveals Cost of Uber.com Domain Name

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Vanity Fair published an interesting article about Uber and Travis Kalanick, the company’s CEO and founder. If you enjoy reading about startups, you are going to enjoy Kara Swisher’s article, especially if you have used  Uber before. The company was first called UberCab, and it later became known as Uber.

As someone who is active in the domain space, one of the most interesting tidbits from the article was regarding the deal the company made to buy the Uber.com domain name, as well as how much it actually cost the company. The acquisition came shortly after the company received a C&D order from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the California Public Utilities Commission, which cited the company’s usage of the term “cab” in its name, among other issues.

Here is the deal the company made to acquire the Uber.com domain name, as written by Swisher:

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PR: Coin.org Sold for $75,000

Elliot Silver
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While I was traveling last week, I received a press release announcing the sale of Coin.org for $75,000. Based on DNJournal’s year to date domain name sales report, this is the largest .org domain name sale of the year so far. The deal was brokered by Domain Guardians, the company that issued the press release below. As you may know, Domain Guardians also brokered the million dollar BTC.com deal earlier this year.

In November of 2013, Mike Berkens reported that the Coin.org domain name sold for $4,000 via Godaddy/Afternic. At the time, Berkens opined that the sale “could be the bargain of the week at $4K especially with the popularity of BitCoin.”

The press release from Domain Guardians is below, and it has more information about the sale of Coin.org:

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Find a Buyer By Checking Toll Free Numbers

Elliot Silver
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Recently, I was contacted by a prospective buyer who wants to purchase one of my domain names. During the course of our discussion, I learned that he owns a toll-free 800 phone number with my keyword, and he would like to own my keyword .com domain name to go along with his phone number. This gave me an idea.

If you own a short keyword domain name, perhaps you can find a buyer by seeing who owns the corresponding toll free phone numbers. You can search 800, 877, 888…etc phone numbers online or simply by calling those companies directly and getting contact information for the respective companies. You may even find some local companies who bought keyword phone numbers in their area code.

Some of the phone numbers

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Find a Domain Buyer via Google ccTLD

Elliot Silver
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I like to do my own research to find prospective buyers for some of my domain names, and I thought of a way that might be useful to find new leads. Typically, I use Google.com to search for companies that use the keywords of the domain name I am selling. I thought perhaps using a ccTLD where Google operates could bring additional prospective buyer leads.

Google operates many localized search engines using its ccTLD domain names. Google.co.uk, Google.com.do, Google.ca, and Google.ie are all examples of Google’s search engines that  are geared towards local searches in those particular regions.  For instance, if you look up London dog walkers  on Google.co.uk, you are likely to find more local results than if you would do the same search on Google.com.

I’ll give you an example of how this might work using

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Flippa to Host “Exclusive One Day Masterclass”

Elliot Silver
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I want to share the content of an email I just received from Flippa announcing “an Exclusive One Day Masterclass.” The class promises to give students “access to never-before-seen data, tips and insights into how you can make more money from the web in 2015!” The class will be held at Flippa’s San Francisco office on Saturday, November 22, 2014 from 8:30 – 6:00pm.

Flippa currently has a limited time “early bird” offer price of $99 per ticket, and the EventBrite listing says there will only be 30 tickets sold at this price. The regular rate is listed at $499 for this class, which sounds a bit expensive to me.

According to the email, here are some of the topics that will be taught in this class:

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Ebola.com Domain Name Sold for Over $200k

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A week ago, many mainstream news articles were quite critical of Blue String Ventures and its owners for trying to sell the Ebola.com domain name.  According to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, a company called Weed Growth Fund, Inc. (formerly Ovation Research, Inc.) has acquired the Ebola.com domain name “for $50,000 cash and 19,192 shares of Cannabis Sativa, Inc. common stock owned by the Company.”

Cannabis Sativa, Inc. trades under the CBDS ticker symbol, and at the time of publication, it currently trades at $8.50/share. Based on the price of $8.50/share, the total value of the stock right now is $163,132, making this deal valued at over $200,000. According to the sale agreement  also filed with the SEC, the seller needs to hold on to the shares of CBDS stock for a minimum of 6 months per SEC rules.

Assuming a deal for the domain name is worth

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