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Zoom Moving from Zoom.us to Zoom.com (for Email)

Elliot Silver
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During the early days of the pandemic in 2020, Zoom became a household brand name. People were able to communicate across the world via the Zoom platform. One notable thing about Zoom was the company used a ccTLD domain name – Zoom.us – for its website.

Smartly, in 2018, Zoom was able to acquire its brand match Zoom.com domain name. The acquisition price for Zoom.com was reportedly $2 million, as recorded by Namebio. Andrew Rosener sold Zoom.com to the platform. This turned out to be a prescient acquisition given the hockey stick-like growth seen by Zoom as quarantines spread across the world and working from home became the norm.

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15 Domain Investing Tips from Squadhelp CEO

Elliot Silver
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In case you missed it over the Thanksgiving holiday, Squadhelp CEO Darpan Munjal posted a long thread on X to share some domain investing tips. These tips are not specific to the Squadhelp platform, and they can be implemented by domain investors on other platforms or across their owns dales listings.

One suggestion I wouldn’t say I disagree with but don’t ascribe to is the one regarding Make Offer option with a BIN price. I agree on lower priced names but have it on many higher priced names. I tend to price my better inventory quite high, and I would rather give the option to make an offer in case my BIN price was set far too high. Sellers can always say “no,” stick to their BIN price and warn of a price increase if they wish. That’s just my opinion though.

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Namecheap Black Friday & Cyber Monday Domain Name Sales

Elliot Silver
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In a press release I received yesterday morning, Namecheap announced its upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Of particular interest to domain investors are the sales on domain name registrations, including newly registered .com domain names.

Here are the domain name registration deals announced by Namecheap:

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Precise.ai Reportedly Sold for $110k

Elliot Silver
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This morning on X, Andy Booth reported the sale of Precise.ai for $110,000. He reportedly acquired the domain name for less than $10,000 a few months ago. It appears the domain name was sold via the Squadhelp platform:

The Whois information for Precise.ai does not show a registrant name. In addition, the domain name still resolves to a Squadhelp landing page. As a result, at the time of publication, the buyer is not yet known.

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Namecheap CEO Previews Thunderbolt

Elliot Silver
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Namecheap CEO Richard Kirkendall shared a preview of something his company currently has under development. It is called Thunderbolt, and you can visit Spaceship.com/thunderbolt to see what the company intends to bring to the market with Thunderbolt.

Richard shared a high-level vision for Thunderbolt, with the idea being the possibility of not needing an ISP or phone service:

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Google Redirecting Type-In Traffic on Safari

Elliot Silver
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A few months ago, I sold a domain name via Squadhelp. Based on how the sale was made, I was pretty sure the domain name was not acquired by an existing brand. When I went to check to see if the domain name was being used using Safari, I was forwarded to another website. I was surprised to see that it forwarded me to an existing website.

A Whois search did not reveal any additional information, so I explored further. I visited the domain name on a Chrome browser, and I was taken to a default GoDaddy landing page. This perplexed me. A bit of additional researched showed me what happened.

The other day, Adam Strong shared a similar story about being redirected on Safari:

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