Spirit Airlines is shutting down, and the discount airline will no longer operate. As a domain investor, one of the first things I thought about as the news came out yesterday was the Spirit.com domain name.

Spirit.com is an exceptional domain name, and it’s possible that it will go on the market in the wake of the shutdown. I am not sure what the next stages will be, but I assume the business is going to sell its assets. I don’t have any idea if the IP will be bundled together or possibly sold separately. If sold separately, I presume Spirit.com would become available for sale at some point.

NBA basketball player Joel Embiid, who plays for the Philadelphia 76ers, filed a UDRP at the World Intellectual Property Organization to secure the JoelEmbiid.com domain name. The UDRP was recently filed, and it is WIPO Case D2026-1817.

Domain investors aren’t well liked. Beyond typical social situations, the only time someone may meet a domain investor is when they want to purchase a domain name that is owned by an investor. The vitriol aimed towards domain investors can be quite alarming. Case in point, this “domain hoarder” comment I received a while ago.

Over the weekend, Mike Carson wrote about his Friendster.com acquisition in a blog post that was widely shared on Hacker News. At one point, it was the top post of the day garnering hundreds of comments. The comment that rose to the top had little to do with Friendster and a great deal to do with Mike’s background in the domain investment space: