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Sold via Sedo, NPC.ai is Largest Public .AI Sale

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This morning, Sedo emailed its weekly sales report, and the top reported sale was NPC.ai. The NPC.ai domain name sold via Sedo for $250,000 USD. Notably, this sale transacted via SedoMLS, meaning the domain name was purchased through a partner domain registrar.

According to NameBio, the $250,000 sale of NPC.ai is the largest publicly reported .AI domain name sale of all time. Previously, the largest .AI sale was Service.ai, which sold in late July for $127,500. Also according to NameBio, this is the fifth largest publicly reported domain name sale of the year at Sedo.

Retention.com Reportedly Acquired for $800,000

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Adam Robinson is the CEO of Retention.com, a company that aims to help businesses increase revenue by offering a variety of customer retention tools. When the business was founded, it was known as GetEmails and used GetEmails.com. The company upgraded its domain name to Retention.com in 2020, as noted by DomainGang.

Yesterday, Adam tweeted about acquiring a domain name for $800,000, and I saw it after George Kirikos reposted the tweet:

SimilarWeb Illustrates the .com Effect with Threads

Much has been said about Meta’s launch of its Threads app on the Threads.net domain name. For many years, much has also been said about the impact of not using a brand match .com domain name when launching a product or a service. SimilarWeb, a web analytics company, illustrates the .com effect using Threads as an example.

James Iles highlighted this report today:

Riding for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge is one of the most important things I do each year. All funds raised via the PMC go directly to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. DFCI is an important organization that is at the forefront of cancer research and treatment.

This year, the PMC is hitting closer to home for me. One of my family members is being treated by DFCI oncologists, having been diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. We all probably know someone who has cancer or had cancer. It impacts everyone.

When I started my fundraising campaign for the Pan-Mass Challenge, I was anticipating that I would be riding and fundraising on my own. I hit my initial fundraising goal and am closing in on my stretch goal.

A month ago, attorney John Berryhill was able to change his schedule, and he will be riding with me for the fourth year. It will be John’s fifth time participating in the Pan-Mass Challenge. John got a late start on his fundraising, and I know your support would mean a great deal to him and to me.

Squadhelp Email About Ultra Premium Inclusion

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I started using Squadhelp to list domain names for sale at the end of April. As documented in a series of tweets on Twitter, I completed one domain name sale so far. I also had a second domain name on a 12 month lease to own payment plan, but the buyer canceled after paying two monthly installments. I currently have 116 domain names listed for sale on the platform.

A couple of days ago, I received an email from Squadhelp notifying me that one of the domain names I have listed on the platform was selected to be listed in its forthcoming “Ultra Premium Marketplace.”

Squadhelp is partnering with Hilco Digital Assets to operate the marketplace. Hilco invested $10 million in Squadhelp in March of this year. Although the high end domain sales marketplace hasn’t launched yet, there is a splash page describing its vision. According to Squadhelp CEO Darpan Munjal, the marketplace won’t be live for another week or two.

Here’s the email I received with my domain name redacted:

Paula Deen Ventures Let PDN.com Expire

According to NameBio, PDN.com was last sold for $27,900 via Sedo in July of 2014. Whois records show the buyer was Paula Deen Ventures. Paula Deen is a chef, cookbook author, and is perhaps most well-known for her Food Network television shows.

I don’t believe Paula Deen or her company ever used PDN.com as a standalone website. Archive.org records show that PDN.com was used as a forwarder to Deen’s website, PaulaDeen.com for quite some time until it expired.