According to a recent Whois update tracked by the DomainTools Registrant Monitor, Google has acquired the Streams.com domain name. Prior to this most recent Whois change, the domain name had been registered to DNStination Inc., the privacy proxy service operated by MarkMonitor.
Zoom, the popular video conferencing company, filed its S-1 paperwork for an IPO, according to this tweet from CNBC this afternoon:
Video-conferencing company Zoom files for IPO with over $300 million in sales and even a profit https://t.co/CVCzxGdHK9
— CNBC (@CNBC) March 22, 2019
Alan is a European “digital health insurance platform” that uses the Alan.EU domain name for its website. Founded three years ago, the startup that is known simply as Alan has raised $86.5 million in funding, according to Crunchbase. The company announced that it had raised €40,000,000 in its Series B round of funding in February of this year.
I received an interesting purchase inquiry for one of my domain names this week. The buyer made an offer, which was more than the typical $100 or $500 offers that I regularly receive, but it was not close to what I believe the domain name is worth. I gave a standard reply that the offer would need to be six figures to be considered serious.
In response, the prospect passed on submitting an offer and told me that he previously owned my domain name and his offer was based on what he paid to acquire it a couple of owners ago. Here’s how I responded to that:
When I see an announcement about a one word brand name receiving a significant round of funding, I like to check if they own their brand match .com domain name. This afternoon, TechCrunch reported that a startup called Sketch had “landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside round.” The startup has been using SketchApp.com for its website.
Sketch, maker of popular design tools, just landed $20 million in Series A funding from Benchmark in its first outside round https://t.co/KhJzEz6CsG by @cookie pic.twitter.com/UZNoFKB4CF
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) March 13, 2019
At the end of February of this year, James Iles of NamePros shared the news that the Gem.com domain name had been sold. Gem.com moved into the holding account of Escrow.com, likely indicating the domain name had been acquired with a payment plan. Citing an anonymous source, James wrote, “the sale of Gem.com has been agreed, and it is a seven-figure fee being paid in installments across several years.“
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