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Forge Global, a private securities marketplace, revealed in a recent SEC filing that it had acquired the forge.com domain name in the third quarter of 2021 for USD $2,202,000. This was documented on pages F-96 and F-97 of the filing.
Forge Global announced in September its intention to go public in a $2 billion SPAC deal.
According to a Canadian securities filing, the NFT.com domain name was acquired for USD $2 million.
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Careful analysis of recent SEC filings allow us to conclude that the Hippo.com domain name was acquired for USD $3.3 million in the first quarter of 2021.
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A recent SEC filing has revealed that the Better.com domain name was acquired in April 2015 for USD $1,820,000.
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A recent SEC filing by ironSource has revealed that the elite 2-letter .com domain name IS.com changed hands in February 2021 for USD $1,950,000.
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It has been previously reported by others that the money transfer service TransferWise rebranded to Wise, and acquired the Wise.com domain name in 2020. The transaction price for the domain name had not been made public at the time. However, a recent prospectus by Wise can shed some light on the deal.
According to a new SEC filing, the Sports.com domain name is to be acquired for USD $6 million.
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Today I was able to uncover a $2 million transaction in 2010 for the Chatter.com domain name, using a combination of the SEC’s EDGAR database and the historical WHOIS data at DomainTools.com.
On page FF-10 of a SEC filing by Quepasa Corporation in 2011, they disclosed that:
The Company sold a domain name in 2010 for $2,000,000, resulting in a gain of $1,895,000 that is presented as a component of other income on the statement of operations.
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Exodus Movement, a company involved in the crypto field, has disclosed that they purchased the Exodus.com domain name for USD $1,945,000. This was revealed in a recent SEC filing (page 21):
The Company purchased the exodus.com domain name in the first quarter of 2021 for $1.9 million. The Company considers the domain name to be an indefinite-lived asset so no amortization will be recognized.
While page 21 of the SEC filing mentions the $1.9 million figure, the more precise figure of $1,945,000 can be found on page 9, where the “Indefinite-lived asset” is listed directly on the balance sheet.
As I’ve pointed out previously, the EDGAR system operated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has a wealth of data. If more researchers searched it regularly, more of these kinds of transactions would be uncovered.
According to page F-38 of a recently published SEC filing, there was a domain name with a book value of $1.5 million, which is being amortized at $100,000 per year. As of December 31, 2020, it had accumulated $533,000 worth of amortization (5.33 years). While the domain name wasn’t identified on that page of the SEC filing, page 218 does mention Enjoy.com.
Some additional digging via the WHOIS history at DomainTools indicates that the nameservers of Enjoy.com changed from DreamHost to AWS in the period between August 29, 2015 and September 11, 2015. This timing is entirely consistent with the above amortization, since 5.33 years before December 31, 2020 is early September 2015. Furthermore, Archive.org shows a change in the website around that time.
If accepted by DNJournal, this would rank #3 for publicly reported domain name transactions in 2015.
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