Company acquired domain after publicly discussing a rebrand.
Online business marketplace MicroAcquire paid $240,000 to acquire the acquire.com domain name, including the commissions it paid.
MicroAcquire founder Andrew Gazdecki said the purchase price was $2,000,000 in response to a question on Twitter today:
We paid $2,000,000 for https://t.co/Bm9dObnlkY.
— Andrew Gazdecki (@agazdecki) November 15, 2022
He later said it was actually $200,000. I guess it was some sort of joke. The actual price was about $240,000 including brokerage fees.
The company acquired the domain name after publicly disclosing plans to rebrand as Acquire. The company started as a platform for buying and selling very small businesses but has now expanded to handle larger deals, so the “micro” is misleading.
I interviewed Gazdecki on Domain Name Wire Podcast #387.
This story has been updated to reflect that the original tweet about paying $2 million for the domain was not correct. It was $240,000.
>>MicroAcquire paid $200,000 million<< …big congrats to the domain seller 😉
Gazdecki may be a smart startup founder, but he should retire hopes of a comedic career. This ‘joke’ was a hit and miss, and he undermined others in the process.
Those bloggers that posted an unconfirmed sale should have confirmed the actual sale with proof, not just tweets. The standard should be no reporting of unconfirmed sales without a disclaimer of: BUYER CLAIMS, SELLER TWEETED, etc.
Still, it’d be interesting to listen to a follow up discussion from Gazdecki detailing his acquisition of Acquire*com