Standing out from the crowd as an insurance platform in 2022 can be difficult to do, thanks to the abundance of insurtech startups that have formed in recent years. A surefire way to get your business noticed while also conveying trust and legitimacy is to operate on an ultra-premium, single-word .com domain. We’ve seen the …
Despite rising inflation and economists warning of a deeper downturn, September continued to produce some important domain name deals, consisting of both domain upgrades and domain purchases for new brands. Static Media’s acquisition of Explore.com for a new travel site, for example, was agreed upon in September. Here, I profiled six domain upgrades that were …
On the MediaOptions blog, I’ve often focused on companies that have upgraded to a premium domain name sometime after their launch. The typical upgrade path focuses around businesses starting on a middling domain name that either contains a suffix or prefix or uses an alternative extension. The business then switches to its exact-match .com down …
There are relatively few entrepreneurs that really “get” premium domain names and the power they can bring to a company. Utah-based Wesley Eames is the founder of the genealogy service Trace, which operates on the ultra-premium Trace.com domain. Eames has also created a family storytelling brand at Tales.com and has raised millions of dollars in …
Elon Musk and the X.com domain name made headlines in September 2022 after the Tesla CEO revealed more about his plans for his proposed purchase of the social network Twitter. In a series of tweets, Musk revealed that “Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app,” and “Twitter is an accelerant to …
In the domain name industry, August is usually a time when everything slows down. With key decision makers on vacation for the summer and less focused on business in general, sales statistics suggest that August is one of the worst months for domain deals to close. Despite this, dozens of companies secured valuable domain name …