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Braden Pollock Sold Temple.com for 7 Figures

Elliot Silver
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Deepinder Goyal, formerly the CEO of Zomato, recently announced the launch of a startup called Temple, a neurotechnology wearable. A few weeks ago, TechCrunch profiled the company as it announced a $54 million friends and family funding round that valued the company at $190 million.

Notably, Temple was wisely launched on its brand matching Temple.com domain name. Prior to the launch of Temple, the Temple.com domain name had been owned by domain investor Braden Pollock. Whois records show that Braden acquired the domain name in early 2021. It was previously owned by Georgia-Pacific.

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Track the Growth of “Prosumer” Domain Names

Elliot Silver
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Earlier this morning, Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X, declared it would be the year of the “prosumer” for people working at the “frontier of AI:”

Honestly, I had to do a quick search to learn the meaning of prosumer (Wikipedia states it is “an individual who both consumes and produces.”) It’s a mashup of the words producer and consumer.

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Domain Name Bought for $10: Closed 3 Deals

Elliot Silver
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I want to share an interesting story about a domain name I recently owned. The three word .com domain name was originally acquired in 2021 for $10 in a DropCatch Discount Club backorder. There is nothing that stands out about this particular domain name.

For a few years, it sat without any purchase interest. It was listed for $997 on Afternic with a 10 month LTO option. In 2024, someone purchased it via LTO. They paid four months before canceling the LTO. The total payout was $338.96.

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Claw.com Owned by Hasbro

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Claw.com is a domain name that has been long-owned by Hasbro. The domain name was originally created in 1996. Claw.com doesn’t resolve to any website at the moment. In looking back at Archive.org, Claw.com was used independently more than 20 years ago. At some points in time, it appears to have forwarded to the toy maker’s Hasbro.com website.

OpenClaw is an open-source, autonomous AI agent platform that people have been using to create and operate their own agents. OpenClaw was very recently acquired by OpenAI. Many developers have been using OpenClaw and building various products and services that integrate with OpenClaw or operate using OpenClaw. Some of these use OpenClaw or Claw within their branding.

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Green.com Sold by IAC in Deal Overseen by ATM Holdings

Elliot Silver
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This morning, I noticed a Whois change for the Green.com domain name courtesy of a Registrant Monitor alert at DomainTools. Green.com had been long owned by IAC and registered at MarkMonitor. The domain name is now registered to DNStination, Inc., the MarkMonitor Whois privacy service. In addition to this change, the nameservers also changed and there’s a new landing page with a logo for Splash.

When I clicked the hiring link on the landing page, I learned Splash is a neobank startup. Its LinkedIn page says the company is “building a consumer finance app for emerging markets, in partnership with extremely large distribution partners.” I also saw the company uses Splash.cash for its website. The landing page on Splash.cash and Green.com are now the same.

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WIPO: $100 to See Who Owns a Domain Name

Elliot Silver
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When a UDRP is filed and the registrar is served with the complaint, the registrar releases the registrant details to the complainant. This ostensibly allows the complainant to fully understand whether they should proceed with the dispute or withdraw it. If a single domain name UDRP is withdrawn before a panelist is appointed, WIPO would refund $1,000 of the $1,500 filing fee, retaining $500 as a processing fee.

For instance, if I believe ElliotSilver.com is infringing on my trademark and the Whois information is private, a UDRP filing might quickly show me the registrant is also named Elliot Silver, and I should withdraw my UDRP because it is not winnable. In this case, I would have paid WIPO $1,500 and would have lost $500 as a processing fee.

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