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This week in digital assets has mostly been about how much founders spent to acquire their domains, aka my domain is more premium than yours…
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📰 Digital Asset Industry News
Startup founder raises $2.5M and spends $1.8M to acquire friend•com, likely $50K/m over 36 month payment plan (Link)
Public•com was purchased for $900K, with $150K upfront, $4K/m over 36 months, and $606K lump sum at the end (Link)
Co-founder of loom•com reveals paid $150K for the domain in 2018 after closing Series A (Link)
Domainer AMA: don’t buy domains you have to explain, 1 or 2 word .coms rule, geodomains are easiest for outbound (Link)
Dotdash feeling the squeeze? Another brand has been taken down (Link)
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That’s it for this week, until next time, catch me in the community.
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