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:

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:

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:

Last week, Tim Hargis shared with me Brett Farmiloe’s LinkedIn thread announcing that his company rebranded from Terkel to Featured. The company moved from the Terkel.io domain name to Featured.com. The upgrade was added to the list of companies that upgraded domain names, published on Embrace.com.

This morning, I was emailed a press release from Gerard Michael of DNPost.com. In it, he announced that he sold the Featured.com domain name. The sale price, which is subject to a non-disclosure agreement, is reportedly “in the mid six-figure range.” In addition, “an equity position in Terkel/Featured.com” was also reportedly included in the deal.

Although I did not seek to verify the veracity of this press release, because of the NDA, the sale price will not be recorded publicly on domain name sales charts.

The press release I received is below:

This morning, James Booth reported that he sold the Hero.io domain name for $125,000. James told me the domain name was sold via Squadhelp, and the payment was already made in full:

https://t.co/c9Cz3MQNwa sold for $125,000

— Domain (@domain) July 19, 2023