Liner is a AI-driven search engine for students and researchers. The company operates on the off-brand GetLiner.com domain name. Last week on X, the company announced a $29 million Series B funding round:

🚀 We’re thrilled to share ‘s $29M Series B funding round, led by InterVest and Atinum Investment, with support from Samsung Ventures, LB Investment, and existing investors Capstone Partners and SL Investment.@liner_app is an AI search engine for students and researchers. It… https://t.co/SVgtbkXZu5

— Liner (@liner_app) October 10, 2024

This morning, Ariyas noted the post about the funding round and wondered if Ammar Kubba had sold the brand matching Liner.com domain name. As of today, Liner.com forwards to a Notion website featuring the Liner logo.

Slice is a company that helps independent pizzerias with technology, marketing, and operations solutions. In fact, I have used Slice when ordering from our local pizza shop. Since 2016, the company has operated on the (less than ideal) SliceLife.Partners domain name. Slice.com was the ideal domain name that the company has coveted, but it was owned and used by a major corporation.

Within the last week or so, Slice acquired Slice.com. The domain name transferred from MarkMonitor to GoDaddy under Whois privacy. Slice.com now forwards to SliceLife.Partners.

Ilir Sela, Founder and CEO of Slice, wrote about the acquisition on LinkedIn yesterday afternoon. He also posted about it briefly on X:

It took us 8 years to acquire the domain, and we’ll now focus it on creating value for family run pizza shops around the world 🍕🎉 https://t.co/jrsQWjHl98

— Ilir (@IlirSela) October 9, 2024

Last night, I reached out to Ilir to see if he could share the acquisition price of Slice.com, but I did not hear back from him. In the meantime, I added Slice to the Embrace.com list of companies that upgraded its domain name.

In 2021, the Candy.com domain name was sold for an undisclosed sum in a deal brokered by Andrew Miller of Hilco Digital and Amanda Waltz, then of Saw.com. At that time, the domain name was acquired by a company that specializes in the sale of digital collectibles. It had previously been sold to a candy company by Rick Schwartz, and that company used it to catapult its business, as noted in DNJournal.

Last week, the company operating on Candy.com announced it would be migrating its business to the Candy.io domain name: