General Domain Information

Dharmesh Shah is most well-known for being a Co-Founder of HubSpot. Notably to domain investors, Dharmesh has been involved in a number of high value domain name acquisitions, including Chat.com, Connect.com, You.ai, Wordplay.com, and quite a few other domain names. Dharmesh has spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring valuable domain names.

Dharmesh recently launched Agent.ai, a website that allows people to create and use AI agents to accomplish various tasks. Over the weekend on LinkedIn, Dharmesh announced that he created a domain name appraisal agent within the Agent.ai platform:

Ten days ago, Elliots.com sold for $2,759 via GoDaddy Auctions. I was a bidder on the auction, but I maxed out just below $1k. I appreciate that many people reached out to make sure I was aware of the auction.

This morning, I received an email from someone who wants to buy the domain name:

I spent Father’s Day weekend at our son’s soccer tournament in the middle of New Jersey. It was a 6 hour drive, but it made more sense to do that than to fly and rent a car. New Jersey never disappoints when it comes to billboard content, and this trip was no different.

On the way to New Jersey, I took a photo of this billboard advertising a 5 word .com domain name – IGotHurtInJersey.com. This is a memorable domain name that is used as a forwarder to the Fredson Statmore Bitterman law firm’s website. Smartly, the firm also bought and uses the longer IGotHurtInNewJersey.com as well. I don’t think I have ever seen a longer domain name on a billboard before.

Escrow.com emailed its customers today to announce a change to its fees. The fee change will be implemented on Friday, May 31, 2024. The price change will take effect at a later date for customers using APIs to create transactions.

It looks like lower priced deals will see a slight decrease in fees, but the fee will increase on higher priced deals. The new and old fee schedules are posted below, but here are two examples of how the fee change will impact deals.

I was looking at a list of domain names coming up for auction soon on NameJet, and I noticed a domain name that sounded familiar. According to its Network Solutions landing page, SeanJohn.com expired. Strangely, the messaging on the landing page says the domain name expired on May 11, 2021.

When I read about domain names being involved in a political campaign, it is usually because one candidate bought a domain name related to an opponent. Sometimes it is because a campaign registered or acquired a provocative or creative domain name – like KeepAmericaGreat.com or Bidenomics.com.

That’s not the case in Tarrant County, Texas. A candidate running for the Texas House of Representatives is getting flack for some domain names he bought as investments, according to a report from the Dallas-Ft. Worth NBC affiliate. Apparently, the candidate owned some adult-related domain names more than 10 years ago, and he is being called out by his opponent.

Here’s what the NBC affiliate wrote: