It was a BIG upgrade from its former domain. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, travel was one of the worst affected industries. Travel bans and lockdowns ground travel to a halt. More than 5.5 million people lost their jobs in travel and tourism in ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Divvy upgrades with Divvy.com
· Domain SalesProperty tech company beats out other companies with the same name. Proptech had a healthy 2021, with vast amounts of funding flooding into the industry. According to Crunchbase, venture-backed companies in the real estate and proptech space raised ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Owner of GoCaribou.com appears to have acquired Caribou.com
· Domain SalesCaribou.com is at the same registrar and has the same Cloudflare nameservers as GoCaribou.com. The Caribou.com domain name might be familiar to Domain Name Wire readers. In September 2021, Scott Dylan, a shareholder in the UK logistics company ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Wheel raises $150 million using Wheel.com
· Domain SalesWe rebranded and upgraded to the killer domain name wheel.com. Telemedicine is changing the healthcare landscape. From a global market value of $50 billion in 2019, Statista reports a projected value of $460 billion by 2030. The COVID-19 pandemic ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Bolt’s wisest move was buying Bolt.com when it did
· Domain SalesPayments company acquired bolt.com early in its life. According to statistics gathered by Statista, almost 80% of all online shopping orders in selected industries were abandoned in March 2021, a staggeringly high figure. While some shopping ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Dental brand Byte acquired Byte.com
· Domain SalesThe company forwards Byte.com it to its website at ByteMe.com. A Californian dental brand made the monumental decision to acquire one of the most desirable domain names on the Internet, Byte.com. Founded in 2017, Byte is one of many providers of ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Cal.com raises $7.4 million after rebrand
· Domain SalesGrowth takes off after domain upgrade. During a global pandemic that has seen travel restrictions and lockdowns affect vast swathes of the workforce, companies were forced to transition to online meetings. While spending most of the day in Zoom ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Voi acquired Voi.com prior to $115 million funding round
· Domain SalesScooter company upgrades its domain, which will allow it to expand beyond scooters. Micro-mobility may be a new term to you, but it describes a multi-billion dollar industry. Companies such as Bird, Lime, and Tier have created electric scooter ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Payment Rails rebrands to Trolley with Trolley.com
· Domain SalesCompany chooses a more generic name and gets the matching .com. Crunchbase's Joanna Glasner called 2020 "the year of the noun," after proclaiming that startup names were becoming "less silly." Glasner reviewed data that suggests that newly ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Panther Labs acquires Panther.com after $120 million funding round
· Domain SalesBig funding, big domain acquisition. Security analytics company Panther Labs has just performed a major domain name upgrade. Founded in 2018, Panther Labs has a mission to "make security monitoring fast," according to its website. The team ... Continue Reading1 Comment