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Sedo to Host .AI Auction

.AI domain names have become a popular topic of late. Some of the most popular domain industry auctions these days are the monthly expiry auctions operated by the .AI ccTLD registry.

Sedo just announced it will be hosting its own auction featuring .AI domain names:

Scaffolding Company Gets Industry Matching .com for Under $50k

Sedo’s Senior Broker Dave Evanson reported the sale of Scaffolding.com yesterday. The domain name sold for $46,666, and it was the largest domain name of the week publicly reported at Sedo.

Notably, the domain name is already being used by the buyer.

Cognition AI Acquires Its .AI After Raising $21M

Yesterday, I saw a headline that an AI company called Cognition AI had raised $21 million in funding:

Gold.com Acquired by JM Bullion

According to a press release that was published this morning, the Gold.com domain name was acquired by JM Bullion, a subsidiary of publicly traded A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc. Gold.com was brokered by Andrew Miller of ATM Holdings, Inc., in conjunction with Hilco Digital Assets. Gold.com had been registered under Whois privacy, so I am unsure about who sold the domain name. Following the acquisition, JM Bullion now owns Gold.com and Silver.com.

In the press release, the CEO of JM Bullion shared the company’s rationale for acquiring this valuable domain name asset:

No Reply on a Follow-Up? Check LinkedIn

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Some deals take a very long time to finalize. I have had acquisition and sale negotiations that have gone on for years. Some deals get done and others die on the vine. If you don’t receive a response to an email you sent to a contact at a company, it is a good idea to check LinkedIn to see if they still work there.

I have been involved in many long term negotiations to buy domain names. Oftentimes, the domain name is not being used, so I follow-up every year or so to inquire if anything has changed. If the person with whom I am communicating has left the company, usually there will be some sort of email deliverability notice indicating an email address doesn’t function. This is not always the case. Here’s one such example.

Bodis “Unable to Monetize Adult Classified Domain Traffic”

If you have adult-related domain names monetized with pay per click links at Bodis, you may consider changing where you point them. According to an email from the parking service, the company’s upstream advertising provider will no longer allow the monetization of domain names classified as adult. I suspect this may impact other parking services as well.

Here’s the email I received from Bodis with more information about the situation:

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Sedo to Host .AI Auction

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.AI domain names have become a popular topic of late. Some of the most popular domain industry auctions these days are the monthly expiry...

Scaffolding Company Gets Industry Matching .com for Under $50k

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Sedo’s Senior Broker Dave Evanson reported the sale of Scaffolding.com yesterday. The domain name sold for $46,666, and it was the largest domain name...

Cognition AI Acquires Its .AI After Raising $21M

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Yesterday, I saw a headline that an AI company called Cognition AI had raised $21 million in funding: Cognition AI, which offers a Copilot-like coding...

Gold.com Acquired by JM Bullion

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According to a press release that was published this morning, the Gold.com domain name was acquired by JM Bullion, a subsidiary of publicly traded...

No Reply on a Follow-Up? Check LinkedIn

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Some deals take a very long time to finalize. I have had acquisition and sale negotiations that have gone on for years. Some deals...