Given the prevalence of parasitic copycat blogging in the domain name industry, I have deliberately held back over the past few years from sharing numerous previously unreported transactions that I uncovered through exhaustive searches of public financial records.
When original research is routinely repackaged by others with minimal attribution or added value, the incentive to publish that research publicly is greatly diminished.
With platforms such as X and Instagram beginning to take a firmer stance against accounts that profit from the work of others by redirecting attention and page views to themselves, perhaps the incentives are finally starting to change. Some may come to regret those practices, or at least think twice before repeating them. But any future restraint does not erase the prior conduct. The past appropriation of others’ work remains a serious problem, and one that has imposed real costs on those who actually did the original research.
As a test to see where things stand, I’ve decided to share a recent discovery (I still have many others that I’ve not yet shared). In particular, the Green.com domain name changed hands in the first quarter of 2026 for USD $7.5 million.
This came to light in a recent SEC filing by IAC, where they noted on page 3:
In Q1, IAC sold an unutilized domain name for $7.5M
To identify which of IAC’s domain names sold for the USD $7.5 million, I consulted old lists of domain names owned by large companies, and through the process of elimination, and cross-checking with the WHOIS history of DomainTools.com, saw that it must be the Green.com domain name. This was confirmed via a LinkedIn post by Andrew Miller.
If you see this transaction reported by others, ask yourself, did they repost/retweet the original post/tweet made by me on X/Twitter? Or did they instead create a new post to gain attention for themselves, at the expense of the original author? Did they write a blog post simply regurgitating this news with minimal work on their part, to gain attention for themselves? When you see parasitic behaviour, you’re complicit if you don’t call it out!
If you appreciate this original content, be sure to engage with my “GeorgeKirikos” account on X, and perhaps I will share more unreported domain name transactions in the future. If I see continued parasitic behaviour, I will refrain for sharing again.
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