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Closing a Deal in Person

Elliot Silver
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A couple of years ago, I made an offer to buy a domain name. My email went unanswered for nearly two years before receiving a reply early this year. The longtime registrant and I exchanged a few emails, and I learned he and his wife lived less than an hour from me. He seemed apprehensive to close a deal, having been burned in the past when a prospective buyer flaked on him.

After agreeing on a price and discussing details about closing a deal, he asked if we could meet in person. I was not inclined to do this, but I quickly concluded that this would be the only way the seller would be comfortable moving forward on a deal. I suggested a coffee shop about 20 minutes from my home and about 10 minutes from his home.

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GoDaddy Now Offering Custom Checkout Link

Elliot Silver
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I’ve sold a few lower-valued domain names using GoDaddy as the intermediary at 5% commission. These are generally deals I want to close quickly, and I am willing to give up $xx or $xxx for the sake of expedience.

The one issue I have had with using GoDaddy and its custom checkout link is that the deals utilized a Dan.com url instead of GoDaddy. This would be confusing for a buyer who is told the deal will be transacted via GoDaddy but then had to click through to Dan.com. I explained it by saying “We can use Dan.com (owned by GoDaddy) to transact.”

I wrote about this issue a couple of months ago:

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Grok.com Acquired by xAI

Elliot Silver
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Another leading AI company acquired its brand matching .com domain name. This time, it is Grok.com, which was acquired by xAI for its Grok chatbot. The acquisition was first reported and shared on X late in the day yesterday:

Whois records are currently “redacted for privacy.” However, an historic Whois record from DomainTools show the domain name was briefly registered to xAI at GoDaddy in early December:

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Anthropic Appears to Have Acquired Claude.com

Elliot Silver
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A month ago, I noticed the Claude.com domain name transferred from Network Solutions to corporate domain registrar MarkMonitor. The domain name had been registered under Whois privacy, and it is currently registered to DNStination Inc., Mark Monitor’s privacy service. The domain name transfer was brought to my attention with the help of DomainTools’ Registrant Monitor tool.

In my post about the domain name transfer, I mentioned that Anthropic AI chat platform is called Claude. The company uses the Claude.ai domain name for this platform.

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Green.Earth Sets .Earth Sales Record

Elliot Silver
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I’ve known Phil Harris for many years. He was one of the first people I know who invested heavily in the new gTLD domain names. Phil still owns a portfolio of about 2,000 one word and one letter domain names in these alternative extensions, and he told me he is approaching seven figures in sales over the years.

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DomainTools Warning About “Possible Deprecation of Whois Services”

Elliot Silver
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I use DomainTools on a daily basis for domain name research. From learning about domain names that changed hands to tracking the history of domain name Whois records, DomainTools offers some of the most comprehensive records dating back 30+ years.

This morning while researching a domain name, I saw a message on the top of a DomainTools Whois lookup page warning about a “possible deprecation of Whois services” that would impact the services DomainTools offers. Clicking the banner gave the following message:

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