TechCrunch published an article about a startup called Cove.Tool that just raised $5.7 million in funding. When you have a look at the tweet linking to the article, see if you can spot what really caught my attention:
Pitching tech to optimize building design for sustainability, Atlanta-based Cove.tool raises $5.7 million https://t.co/mzpHyN20Sn by @jshieber
— TechCrunch (@TechCrunch) October 14, 2020
In September of 2014, Ingles.com was sold in auction at NameJet for $49,899. The auction caught my attention because I had just returned from a trip to the mountains in North Carolina, and there is a popular supermarket chain called Ingles. Unfortunately, I was an underbidder in the auction because GoDaddy just reported that Ingles.com was re-sold for $400,000 in June of this year.
If you visit Ingles.com, you can see the domain name forwards to the SpanishDict.com, which is a Spanish to English translation tool. The word Inglés in Spanish translates to “English,” so this is a pretty solid domain name acquisition.
In early September, I saw that Sedo domain broker Derick Clegg was brokering the sale of Confirm.com. When I inquired about buying the domain name, he told me they were in the agreement stage of a deal and couldn’t tell me the asking price as a result. Derick later reported that domain name was sold:
CONFIRM .COM SOLD! One or two of you picked up on it pretty quick 😉Congratulations to buyer and seller. @Sedo #domains #domain #sedo #domainnames pic.twitter.com/07YWfGPjhz
— Derick_Clegg @SEDO (@Derick_Sedo) October 5, 2020
If you have domain names listed for sale in your Uniregistry Market account, they may have been added to Afternic. This is notable and important to follow because sellers need to ensure their Uniregistry Market names and prices are updated to current market prices and availability.
This morning, I was tracking down a domain name I owned and sold on a payment plan via Escrow.com. When I was checking the Whois record, I noticed the DomainTools message stating, “This domain is listed for sale at one of our partner sites.” I clicked the link and was taken to a for sale page at Afternic indicating the domain name was actively listed for sale on the Afternic platform.
A startup branded as Flip, which has been using the Flip.Lease domain name for its website, recently acquired Caretaker.com and rebranded itself as Caretaker. Caretaker.com had been owned by NetIncome Ventures, the domain investment company founded by Garry Chernoff.
I learned that the purchase price of Caretaker.com was $112,000. Garry’s company had owned this domain name since 2003 after acquiring the domain name in a private transaction.
These days, pretty much everyone seems to receive too many spam phone calls. It seems like I receive many more than my wife, and I always assumed it was related to my domain name registrations. I receive quite a few spam text messages, too, and those are almost always related to web development, SEO, or logo design, which I assume is the result of harvesting phone number information from the Whois records on my domain names.
