I grew up playing soccer, and have always enjoyed watching soccer games and matches when I can. My brother got me into supporting Arsenal a bit, so I watch my fair share of English Premier League matches. Beyond some advertising (like SportsBet.io) during matches, I have not really seen much of a tie-in between domain names and football – until yesterday.

Did you know a domain name registrar is the kit (jersey) sponsor for a major professional football team in Europe? I was checking in on some matches on ESPN yesterday, when the German Super Cup match caught my attention. Bayern beat Dortmund 3-2, but it was the Borussia Dortmund jersey that was what stood out to me.

Andrew Rosener and his Domain Sherpa team published a video interview with Microstrategy CEO Michael Saylor. Microstrategy is the publicly traded company that sold Voice.com for $30 million last year – the largest all-cash domain name sale of all time. Michael is a big believer in the value of domain names, and he previously shared his opinion about how valuable domain names are.

Andrew has been talking about how great this interview is since he recorded it, and you don’t have to take his word (or mine) for it. Longtime domain investor (and all around nice guy) Brian Null wrote, “I’m only 16 minutes into the interview and it’s already one of the best domain name related interviews I’ve seen… absolute gold.“

According to many news outlets, Judge Amy Coney Barrett could become Donald Trump’s nominee to become a Justice on the United States Supreme Court following the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. As you might imagine, many Democrats are very upset at this prospect.

Jen Sale from Evergreen.com had a fun idea this evening that I haven’t seen before on Twitter:

It’s no secret…

I ❤️ #domains & #GIFs.

So, tweet me the best domain name that you own and I will match it to an EARTH-SHATTERING* GIF!

*Maybe.#mashup #MondayFunday pic.twitter.com/BYHdUdsEQY

— Jen Sale 🏝 (@jensale) August 31, 2020

Go ahead and tell her your best domain name, and she will find a fun or funny Twitter gif to match.

Yesterday afternoon, I wrote about the domain names used by YCombinator’s group of Summer 2020 startups. The majority (by a hair) of companies use .com domain names for their websites, although this figure is likely down from previous years as mentioned by Doron Vermaat. One startup on the list that has its brand match .com domain name is Roboflow, a company that was founded in 2019.

Roboflow founder Brad Dwyer replied to a tweet to mention that his company recently published an article about how it acquired its brand match .com domain name after initially launching on a matching .AI domain name:

@DInvesting saw your article about YC domains. Good stuff. We actually wrote about getting ours recently: https://t.co/CoInAxwUYX

— Brad Dwyer {🏗} (@braddwyer) August 28, 2020