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TP.com Acquired by Teleperformance for 7 Figures

I just learned the valuable TP.com domain name was sold in February of this year. TP.com was listed for sale via Afternic with an asking price of $1.4 million. The domain name was sold for $1,200,000 via Afternic. The sale was reported to me by the seller, an industry colleague I have known for many years who wishes to not be named.

Although the Whois record for TP.com is private, the buyer of TP.com appears to be a company called Teleperformance. This company is publicly traded on the Paris Stock Exchange under the TEP ticker symbol. Teleperformance has a market capitalization approaching 5.7 Billion EUR. At the time of publication, TP.com is forwarding to the Teleperformance.com website.

EclipseGlasses.com: Strong Descriptive Domain Name Brand

This Monday, we are expected to witness a total solar eclipse – the last eclipse until 2044 that will be visible from the continental United States. I am headed up to Maine with friends for a day of skiing and an eclipse watch party at Sunday River.

To safely view the eclipse, I am going to buy a pair of eclipse glasses. I took a quick look at Amazon, and there are a ton of brands I’d never heard of, including a couple I couldn’t even pronounce (YDKOJGW, for example). In addition to the plethora of brands, it isn’t easy to know if the glasses are going to be protective. If I buy a pair of glasses that doesn’t protect my eyes, what is the point of even buying them?

Video: Grit Brokerage Discusses Recent Sales

In a video podcast shared with me by Jag, Grit Brokerage discussed some of its recent domain name sales. With the help of DomainTools, I previously detected the sale of Analysis.com:

GoDaddy Makes Another Payout Change

Now that April Fool’s Day has passed, I will skip to the end – this was an April Fool’s Day joke.

Following its payout policy change involving LTO deals at Dan.com and Afternic, GoDaddy is making another change to LTO payments.

First, some background. From inception at Dan.com, if a lease to own deal was started on the 2nd of the month, subsequent payouts would be made to sellers on the 2nd or 3rd of each month during the lease term. Once the money from the buyer was received, it was sent to the seller like clockwork. Following the payout change, payment plan distributions were moved to the 7th, 14th, 21st, or 28th of each month. If a payment plan was started on the 2nd of the month, subsequent payments would be sent days later on the 7th. If made on the 7th, payment would be sent on the 14th.

YouForm.com Deal Looks Like a Win Win

Davis Baer, Founder of Youform, shared that his company acquired the Youform.com domain name for $7,500:

There are a few things to unpack from this and from his subsequent tweets. Youform has been using Youform.io for its website. The .com domain name was acquired via Sedo following a negotiation. Davis shared how the negotiation went, and he was able to secure the domain name for $7,500. This seems like a great deal for his company, particularly considering its initial $25,000 asking price.

Squadhelp Adds Escrow.com as a Payment Option

Squadhelp has added Escrow.com as a payment option for buyers. The addition of the Escrow.com option was shared by ARIYAS on X this morning:

I visited some of my Squadhelp listings, and the domain names all had the option for buyers to select Escrow.com for payment.

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