In its most recent Annual Report filed with the SEC on August 11, 2025, Mercury Systems reported that it sold the valuable two letter MC.com domain name. On page 33, the report stated the following about the domain name sale (bolded for easy reference):
“Other expense, net was $1.0 million during fiscal 2025, as compared to $7.7 million in fiscal 2024. Fiscal 2025 includes $5.3 million of financing costs, $2.3 million of securities class action expense, and $1.1 million of consulting costs, partially offset by other income primarily related to the gain associated with the sale of manufacturing operations to Cicor Group of $3.3 million and the sale of our mc.com domain name of $2.7 million, as well as $1.7 million of net foreign currency translation gains during fiscal 2025. There was $4.9 million of litigation and settlement costs, $3.4 million of financing costs and $0.4 million of net foreign currency translation losses, partially offset by other income of $1.3 million during fiscal 2024.”
I reached out to Mercury Systems’ Investor Relations to ask for clarification about the sale. Specifically, I am interested in understanding if the domain name sold for $2,700,000 or if there was any sales commission or fees that were taken out.
MC.com does not currently resolve to a functional website. The current registrant name is redacted for privacy, but the admin contact on the Whois record is listed as Mark-i Inc, a Tokyo, Japan-based intellectual property consulting firm.
I queried ChatGPT to see if could guess what company may have acquired this domain name. ChatGPT suggested the buyer of MC.com could potentially be Mitsubishi Corporation. Both MC.com and MitsubishiCorp.com share Akamai Technologies nameservers. In addition, both of those domain names have Mark-i Inc. listed as the admin contact. That seems like a good guess to me.
NameBio does not have a sale price listed for MC.com, and I don’t see it listed in DNJournal either, so I don’t think this sale has been reported elsewhere.
Update:
Shortly after publishing this article, Saw.com Founder Jeff Gabriel reached out to let me know Saw.com and Sedo co-brokered the sale of MC.com. Saw.com represented the seller and Sedo represented the buyer.
