What Was the Better Deal, Clever.com or Duo.com?

Last week, Ankur Nagpal shared how much he paid to buy the Ocho.com ($45,000) and Teachable.com ($25,000) domain names. I thought he got a great deal on each of these acquisitions. In his tweet, Ankur asked others what they paid for “a dope domain“:

Quite a few entrepreneurs and founders replied to share the acquisition prices for their domain names. The Twitter thread is worth a read.

Two domain names that were shared in the thread stood out to me. Dan Carroll, Co-Founder of Clever, shared that he acquired Clever.com for $200,000 in 2013:

Jon Oberheide, Co-Founder & CTO at Duo Security, shared that his company paid $250,000 to buy Duo.com in 2015:

Both of these acquisitions were made more than five years ago. The domain name aftermarket has changed a bit over that time, but those two acquisitions seem like great deals right now. I’m having a tough time deciding which company got the better acquisition deal. What do you think?

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

5 COMMENTS

  1. Anyone who picks Duo is clueless.

    Anyone who picks Duo and thinks the length has anything *at all* to with it – in this specific case – is doubly clueless.

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