GoogleMeet.com Sells for $1,950 After Google Meet Rebrand


GoogleMeet.com appears to have expired at the end of January, and the domain name made it through the deletion process. The domain name was then caught by drop catching auction platform DropCatch.com, and GoogleMeet.com was sold for $1,950 on Friday. The sale was confirmed and archived in NameBio, and it was shared on Twitter:

GoogleMeet.com is registered under Whois privacy at NameBright, and the domain name has a standard “coming soon” page from the domain registrar. This makes it impossible to know who purchased the domain name, especially since I was not following the auction live and do not know the bidding handle that won the auction.

What is most interesting to me is that the GoogleMeet.com auction was held just after Google’s Hangouts Meet service was rebranded simply as Google Meet, as covered by The Verge. Google uses the Meet.Google.com subdomain for its Google Meet website.

I would be interested to see if Google acquired the domain name in auction. I can’t imagine this domain name was not on the company’s (or its domain name management team) radar. With the auction price of $1,950, there must have been multiple bidders participating. I would imagine Google is probably the only entity that could use the domain name without legal risk.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

1 COMMENT

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

Recent Posts

2024 Global Domain Report Released Today

0
The annual Global Domain Report, produced jointly by InterNetX and Sedo, has been released and is now available to download at no cost. The...

Grok Knows .com

5
Grok is a generative AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company, xAI. Grok has been promoted within the X / Twitter ecosystem, and X...

Dynadot Now Offering Cryptocurrency Payments

1
Dynadot just announced that it now offers customers the ability to make payments using cryptocurrency. The offering is made via Bitpay, which supports more...

Sedo to Host .AI Auction

0
.AI domain names have become a popular topic of late. Some of the most popular domain industry auctions these days are the monthly expiry...

Scaffolding Company Gets Industry Matching .com for Under $50k

0
Sedo’s Senior Broker Dave Evanson reported the sale of Scaffolding.com yesterday. The domain name sold for $46,666, and it was the largest domain name...