Hilco Streambank Marketing Thomas Cook Domain Name Portfolio

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British travel company Thomas Cook Travel Group had a highly publicized bankruptcy that ended up stranding hundreds of thousands of customers who were abroad when the company became insolvent. I received an email from Hilco Streambank this morning announcing the company is tasked with marketing a portfolio of domain names owned by Thomas Cook Group Plc and some subsidiaries that are in liquidation. According to the email, “Offers will be entertained for the domain names by category groupings, for individual domain names or for the portfolio as a whole.”

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Democracy.com: Private Offer Accepted

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Democracy.com had been scheduled to be auctioned via Heritage Auctions, and the bid deadline was October 25. The auction got quite a bit of press, including articles in the New York Times and The Guardian, among other mainstream media publications that published articles. It appears the domain name is pending sale, but not via the planned auction.

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IJ.com Sold for $550,000

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According to a tweet earlier this morning from James Booth, IJ.com was sold for $550,000.

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Escrow.com: Q3 2019 Domain Investment Index

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This morning, Escrow.com released its Domain Investment Index report for the Third Quarter of 2019. Because Escrow.com facilitates a large percentage of private domain name sales, especially those that sell for the highest amounts of money, the company is in an excellent position to offer an overview of the health of the domain name aftermarket and provide a view of what types of domain names are selling and for how much.

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Prosper.com Was Purchased for $380,000

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The purchase price and terms of the Prosper .com domain name has been hiding in plain sight for almost 10 years.

Prosper is a privately held company that operates in the peer-to-peer lending industry. The company operates on the valuable brand match Prosper.com domain name. I was not aware, but according to an SEC document uncovered by Charley Chacko and shared with me this afternoon, the Prosper.com domain name was purchased for $380,000.

Here’s an excerpt from Proser’s SEC 10-K filing from 2010, which has information about the sale price and terms of the sale:

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Eko.com Sold for $1.5 Million via Uniregistry

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One of the largest domain name sales of the year was just reported by Uniregistry. The three letter Eko.com domain name was reportedly sold for $1,500,000 last week. Once this sale is archived by DNJournal and NameBio, it will rank as the third largest publicly reported domain name sale of the year. It is also the largest sale of the year via Uniregistry’s brokerage team, ahead of the $300,000 sale of Joyride.com earlier this year.

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