Domain Sales

In March, HubSpot co-Founder Dharmesh Shah announced the acquisition of OS.ai for $150,000. In response to his post on X, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas replied to Dharmesh to tell him he wanted to buy OS.ai. It looks like that happened.

Yesterday evening, Srinivas posted about OS.ai, and Dharmesh re-posted his comment:

And so it begins. https://t.co/3oAzQvO1uI

— dharmesh (@dharmesh) July 14, 2025

The OS.ai domain name has been registered at GoDaddy under Whois privacy, so an ownership change wouldn’t have been noticed via Whois records.

Monarch.com was recently acquired by Andy Booth in a deal brokered by Sedo’s Dave Evanson. Andy mentioned this acquisition on X a little over a week and a half ago. The acquisition price for Monarch.com was not shared by Andy or by Sedo.

When I visited Monarch.com today, I noticed the domain name is now forwarding to MonarchMoney.com. Monarch is a personal finance and expense tracking app that recently announced its $75 million Series B funding round. The company reportedly has a valuation of $850 million.

One of the multitude of ways to use AI tools to sell domain names is for lead generation. A tool like ChatGPT can help find targeted prospective buyers for domain names, and I will share an example.

I want to proactively sell a domain name I think will become a good marketing tool for a real estate agent. A Google search of real estate agents in the town brings back many results, but all of the top results are for the largest real estate brokerages and platforms like Zillow and Realtor.com. Clicking through to listings is time consuming, and it brings me to contact forms on these same platforms.

Instead of using Google to find prospective real estate agent buyers, I plugged a prompt into ChatGPT to identify who might be the best prospects:

According to a post on X linking to a press release on CoinDesk, the 45.com domain name has been reportedly acquired for $1.8 million.

Lucky45 Acquires Premium Domain https://t.co/c0YMp3G227 for $1.8M, Ushering in a New Era for On-Chain Web3 Gaming Protocols https://t.co/k8h56OTJrL via @coindesk

— Lucky45 (@Lucky45Protocol) June 11, 2025

Serial entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis announced the recent acquisition of Begin.com. Jason didn’t share the acquisition price, but he did mention this is a “$1m+ domain name.”

Acquired an awesome, $1m+ domain name — need a startup to use it: https://t.co/afw0RvWl6i!

Shall we… begin?

— @jason (@Jason) June 8, 2025