In a post on LinkedIn today Icon CEO Kennan Davison revealed that his company paid $12 million to acquire the exact match domain for their artificial intelligence based startup. The sale was made by Andrew Miller (ATM Holdings and Managing Director for Hilco Digital Assets) with Lumis.com representing the buyer. This is the 6th highest publicly reported domain sale since we began tracking the market in 2003 and just the latest of...
Last week, the premium domain, Hurt.com acquired for $1.5 Million in a private sale. Details surrounding the sale have been scarce as is often the case for premium domains acquired through private sales. The sale price of $1,500,000 represents the third-largest sale of 2023, after help.com ($3 Mil) and HBO's acquisition of "Max.com" for $1,800,000-which was recorded just one week prior to the Hurt.com transaction. The two account for over $3.25...
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