This afternoon, Joshua Schoen reported the $199,995 sale of Fluid.io. The domain name was sold at his BIN price via Afternic, according to a screenshot of the sale email he shared on X:
I woke up to a great email this morning stating that https://t.co/hunpBobiWv sold at my BIN price of $199,995. I’ve had many big .io sales but this one tops them all! 🙌 pic.twitter.com/eHzgQG9WYx
— Joshua Schoen (@jstenn13) November 26, 2024
In looking at NameBio, this is the second largest .IO domain name sale reported publicly. Mint.io is the largest sale at $230,000. That domain name sold in 2021 via Park.io. There are several other .IO domain names that were sold in the low six figure range, according to NameBio. Once Ron Jackson records the sale in DNJournal, it will be just outside of the top 25 publicly reported domain name sales year to date.
Since the domain name was just sold, it is unclear who acquired it.
Congratulations to Josh on an exceptional sale. It’s nice to close a deal like this on a holiday week in the US that tends to be pretty quiet.
Notably, Josh also appears to own Fluid.com, as that domain name forwards to his LinkedIn profile.
Wow! Not that I actually think it will happen but with the thought it could happen (dot io being discontinued) investing that type of money into a dot io is insane to me.
Just insane.
Congrats, take that money to the bank.
afternic bug, it is still listed for sale on godaddy auctions
It was likely sold to the Singapore based startup using gofluid io.
Great for the seller, bad for the buyer.
IO is not the extension to build a startup on moving forward.
Highly doubt any investor would approve such a purchase knowing IO could be deleted.
Yet, the seller owning Fluid .com is the greatest type of upsell to the same buyer. Win-win.
No – it is now being used by an entity called Fluid DEX. Based on the privacy policy, they may have been using instadapp.io. I am not sure if it’s a rebrand or an additional brand.
It does not look like it is at all related to GoFluid.io though.
Fluid DEX is a blockchain/crypto exchange of sorts.
When BTC prices are increasing, crypto related domains start selling.
I see an upsell/upgrade to Fluid .com in the future.