Media Options “completed well into the 8-figures in domain name sales in August”

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How has the Summer been in terms of domain name sales for you? If you’re Andrew Rosener or on the Media Options team, it sounds like it has been a pretty hot Summer. The company “completed well into the 8-figures in domain name sales in August,” according to its CEO Andrew Rosener:

Andrew did not share any of the sales his domain brokerage closed, but I am pretty sure one was recently discovered by George Kirikos last week:

Rich from Dan.com Brokered My Last Deal

I recently received a $5k offer for one of my domain names listed for sale via Dan.com. I had it listed for a little less than $10k on Dan, and I countered at $9k. I asked the buyer a question, but I did not hear back.

If this offer was made on one of my own landing pages and a phone number was provided, I would have called the buyer on the phone. I would have tried to get him to improve his offer, but I probably would have taken the $5k offer had we chatted and I understood this to be a “best” offer. My total investment for this domain name is less than $100, and my hold time is less than two years.

Plans.com Sold for $275k via Squadhelp

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Squadhelp announced that Plans.com was sold for $275,000 via its recently launched Ultra Premium Domain Marketplace. It was the first sale closed on Squadhelp’s high end domain name marketplace. Some details about the sale were shared on Twitter/X by the company:

Squadhelp CEO Darpan Munjal commented to me on the sale:

“The Ultra premium marketplace is still in a private Beta, and the domains can be currently searched via the discovery tools on Squadhelp.com. I believe there is a massive potential for an exclusive destination of top tier domains and we are already seeing quite a bit of inbound interest for higher end domains. We plan to amplify the marketing exposure after our public launch in the coming weeks.”

Once the sale is added to DNJournal’s year to date sales report, it will rank as a top 10 public domain name sale YTD. I added it to the Embrace.com list of recent one word .com domain name sales.

Squadhelp recently announced it would begin accepting listing submissions for its premium marketplace.

Squadhelp: Submit Names for Ultra Premium Domain Marketplace

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Squadhelp will soon roll out with its Ultra Premium Domain Marketplace in partnership with Hilco Digital Assets. The sales and branding platform recently began selecting domain names for its high-end marketplace.

Yesterday afternoon, Squadhelp announced it would begin accepting domain name submissions from domain registrants for inclusion on its premium marketplace. I do not believe the domain names need to be previously approved on Squadhelp in order to be considered:

Retention.com Reportedly Acquired for $800,000

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Adam Robinson is the CEO of Retention.com, a company that aims to help businesses increase revenue by offering a variety of customer retention tools. When the business was founded, it was known as GetEmails and used GetEmails.com. The company upgraded its domain name to Retention.com in 2020, as noted by DomainGang.

Yesterday, Adam tweeted about acquiring a domain name for $800,000, and I saw it after George Kirikos reposted the tweet:

Squadhelp Email About Ultra Premium Inclusion

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I started using Squadhelp to list domain names for sale at the end of April. As documented in a series of tweets on Twitter, I completed one domain name sale so far. I also had a second domain name on a 12 month lease to own payment plan, but the buyer canceled after paying two monthly installments. I currently have 116 domain names listed for sale on the platform.

A couple of days ago, I received an email from Squadhelp notifying me that one of the domain names I have listed on the platform was selected to be listed in its forthcoming “Ultra Premium Marketplace.”

Squadhelp is partnering with Hilco Digital Assets to operate the marketplace. Hilco invested $10 million in Squadhelp in March of this year. Although the high end domain sales marketplace hasn’t launched yet, there is a splash page describing its vision. According to Squadhelp CEO Darpan Munjal, the marketplace won’t be live for another week or two.

Here’s the email I received with my domain name redacted: