Seth Rogen was a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show last night, and I thought the conversation about a recent domain name acquisition was funny. Seth Rogen is involved in a cannabis brand called Houseplant. The company owns the matching HousePlant.com domain name.

During the segment last night, Kimmel asked Rogen about the domain name. In particular, he asked if the company had the domain name prior to the launch of the business. From a domain investor perspective, it’s pretty obvious a domain name like HousePlant.com was registered long before the company was established. In fact, the domain name was created in June of 1997.

Compass, a real estate brokerage firm, filed its S-1 Form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Compass operates its business on the valuable, brand-match Compass.com domain name.

Compass, which runs an online marketplace for buying, selling, and renting real estate, files for S-1, reveals loss of $270M in 2020 on revenue of $3.7B (@mattpennyblake / HousingWire)https://t.co/vii3sb1BGqhttps://t.co/wDSTVrtgl2

— Techmeme (@Techmeme) March 2, 2021

There were a couple of domain name mentions within the S-1, which could possibly reveal the price the company paid to acquire its Compass.com domain name.

On page 126 under the Intellectual Property heading, the company wrote:

Two weeks ago, I reported that Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation acquired Fairway.com in a deal that was put together by Andrew Miller. The seller in that deal was NBCUniversal. The Fairway.com acquisition came shortly after Fairway acquired Home.com.

Yesterday morning, Jamie Zoch reported that NBCUniversal acquired the Betcast.com domain name to go along with its Betcast brand. Andrew Miller replied to the tweet to confirm the acquisition since he was involved in that deal as well. While these two domain name acquisitions are unrelated, it is because of Andrew Miller’s dealmaking that they both came together serendipitously.

I reached out to Andrew to see if he could share some background about these deals without sharing confidential details, and here’s what he shared with me: