In October of last year, I turned down a $100,000 offer for one of my one word .com domain names. It may or may not have been a good decision, but I passed on the offer and what’s done is done.
I receive quite a few offers to buy this particular domain name, and most of them are silly. For instance, this morning I received a $10 offer to buy the domain name. I told the buyer I had previously turned down $100k for the name, and his reply was a simple “wow.”
I noticed something interesting over the weekend that I thought I would share with you. I typed in OutOfTheWorld.com to see if it was registered, and I was forwarded to a GoDaddy search results page. As is typical for a domain name listed for sale via Afternic with a buy it now price, the purchase option was what showed up after being forwarded:
According to a report on ESPN this afternoon, the Alliance of American Football (AAF) filed a petition for bankruptcy in Texas. The AAF was a professional football league in the US that played its games during the NFL’s off-season. Unfortunately for its players and fans, the AAF did not make it a full season before filing for bankruptcy.
A Chinese Agri-tech company called XAG announced that it acquired the XA.com domain name and has rebranded its website. From what I can tell, the company had previously used the ccTLD domain name, XAG.cn. The news was announced this morning in a tweet:
We are excited to announce that XAG has claimed a new domain https://t.co/q7wDA379tz WORTH MILLIONS for its upcoming journey of sustainable agriculture. 😁https://t.co/q7wDA379tz is one of the only 676 top level two-letter #domains existed in the world.https://t.co/Fop9oiF7Vm pic.twitter.com/w6LdDetsqy
— XAG (@XAG_official) April 17, 2019
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
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