Why this company rebranded to Featured. Before Brett Farmiloe started his business that gets experts quoted in articles, he reached out to the owner of featured.com about buying the domain. It was clear Brett couldn’t afford the domain, so we went ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Rebranding to Going – DNW Podcast #421
· PodcastsWhy this company rebranded to Going and how it landed on the name. Scott’s Cheap Flights started as a way for people to find out about cheap flights. The business has grown a lot since it was founded as a simple newsletter and it was time for a ... Continue Reading1 Comment
PublishingLife Upgrades to Publishing.com
· Domain SalesOnline publishing course upgraded to a great domain name. Twins Christian and Rasmus Mikkelsen, two twenty-something entrepreneurs from New Jersey, have made thousands of dollars by publishing books on Amazon. They have turned that into a business ... Continue Reading1 Comment
After $100 million in funding, DoiT International secures doit.com
· Domain SalesThis large company upgraded from a hyphenated domain name. Cloud computing is commonplace today, with on-demand, distributed systems used by most of the top firms around the world. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure lead an ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Distributed acquired Distributed.com before £8 million funding round
· Domain SalesCompany moved from matching .co domain name. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the popularity of global workforces and remote employment. That shift has brought about a change in the way that some companies operate, including challenging the ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Courier upgraded to Courier.com. It just raised $35M
· Domain SalesIt acquired Courier.com for $200,000 two years ago. There is a well-trodden path that startups can take regarding their domain name. That path involves picking the best available domain you can afford as a brand new venture and then upgrading to ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Kin raises $82 million using Kin.com
· Domain SalesCompany rebranded to a .us and then upgraded to the matching .com. InsurTech startups seem to be prime candidates for securing domain name upgrades. In 2019, homeowners insurance provider Hippo paid $3.3 million to acquire Hippo.com, while more ... Continue ReadingLeave a 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
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
