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Back in 2002, Florida Atlantic University student Brent Oxley created a hosting company from his dorm room. This little company, HostGator, reached its first milestone of one-hundred users by February 2003 and quickly broke the one-thousand user mark. By 2008, the company had over one-hundred thousand users and a revenue of $34.2 million.
Brent lead the company until 2012 when he announced the sale of HostGator for a reported $225 million. After leaving HostGator, it seems that Brent started to build a portfolio full of premium .COM domain names. In an interview we conducted with Brent in 2015, he revealed that he had spent "millions" on domains such as ecig.com, give.com and create.com.
Here, we take a look at ten incredible domain names currently owned by Brent.
Bride.com
According to statistics from 2017, the wedding industry in the USA has a total revenue of $76 billion. The Bride.com is one of the best names possible for the wedding industry and it looks to have been a recent acquisition by Brent.
Up until the end of last year, the domain was owned by Exposites, a company that owns many wedding-related domains. As of writing, the domain is listed in the NameJet NamesCon extended auction with a bid of $500,000 and a reserve range at almost double that.
Broker.com
In 2015, @Dave Evanson of Sedo brokered the sale of Give.com for $500,000 to Brent. The next year, Brent acquired the Broker.com domain via Dave for a reported $375,000.
This versatile keyword domain, currently parked, has its uses in several affluent industries.
Curve.com
Domain brokers Monte Cahn (@mcahn) and @Joe Uddeme teamed up to sell this one-word .COM in November 2017. This former General Motors LLC domain was sold to Brent for an undisclosed amount.
A quick look at Crunchbase shows several potential buyers, should Brent ever wish to sell. These include a British financial app that raised $10 million in funding last July.
Pack.com
It looks as though short, one-word .COM's are popular with the HostGator founder. Another versatile domain, Pack.com, was acquired by Brent with the help of BQDN's James Booth (@BoothDomains) in October 2017. According to NameBio, the domain was acquired for $100,000.
Uno.com
Uno, the Spanish word for "one", is commonly used throughout the world, with LinkedIn displaying over thirty thousand companies with links to this keyword.
The Uno.com domain name was previously owned by United Online Inc, a subsidiary of investment bank B. Riley Financial. According to DomainIQ, this sale took place at the end of 2017. As of writing, the domain is still listed for sale on United Online's website.
Yen.com
Another three-letter domain owned by Brent is Yen.com. As well as being a pronounceable three-letter .COM, Yen is also the Japanese currency, often abbreviated to JP¥. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro.
Until December 2017, the domain was owned by Live Current Media Inc, an Internet commerce company based in Vancouver, Canada.
Help.com
Acquired in 2014, Help.com is a fully developed company producing live chat and helpdesk software. According to the company's website, Brent teamed up with former GoDaddy employee Ben Gabler to create Help.com LLC.
WHOIS for the domain shows Brent as the Administrative and Technical contact for this domain name.
Toll.com
Another four-letter word, and another acquisition brokered by BQDN's James Booth. Toll is commonly used in the transportation industry by several large logistics companies.
According to NameBio, the domain was acquired for $50,000 in December 2017.
Prize.com
This is a domain name with some history. In 2006, the name sold at Sedo for $70,000 and remained parked until 2010 when the name was acquired by another Sedo user for $100,000. Until 2016, the domain hosted an active site where users could win cash prizes.
Brent acquired Prize.com in August 2017 from Tom Grupa, former CEO of Prize.com.
Realty.com
We may have saved the best until last here. According to @DomainNameWire, Brent acquired Realty.com for a seven-figure fee in a deal that likely closed in 2015.
The domain now houses a service that allows visitors to search through thousands of properties listed on the site.
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Data from this article is courtesy of DomainIQ
Brent lead the company until 2012 when he announced the sale of HostGator for a reported $225 million. After leaving HostGator, it seems that Brent started to build a portfolio full of premium .COM domain names. In an interview we conducted with Brent in 2015, he revealed that he had spent "millions" on domains such as ecig.com, give.com and create.com.
Here, we take a look at ten incredible domain names currently owned by Brent.
Bride.com
According to statistics from 2017, the wedding industry in the USA has a total revenue of $76 billion. The Bride.com is one of the best names possible for the wedding industry and it looks to have been a recent acquisition by Brent.
Up until the end of last year, the domain was owned by Exposites, a company that owns many wedding-related domains. As of writing, the domain is listed in the NameJet NamesCon extended auction with a bid of $500,000 and a reserve range at almost double that.
In 2015, @Dave Evanson of Sedo brokered the sale of Give.com for $500,000 to Brent. The next year, Brent acquired the Broker.com domain via Dave for a reported $375,000.
This versatile keyword domain, currently parked, has its uses in several affluent industries.
Curve.com
Domain brokers Monte Cahn (@mcahn) and @Joe Uddeme teamed up to sell this one-word .COM in November 2017. This former General Motors LLC domain was sold to Brent for an undisclosed amount.
A quick look at Crunchbase shows several potential buyers, should Brent ever wish to sell. These include a British financial app that raised $10 million in funding last July.
Pack.com
It looks as though short, one-word .COM's are popular with the HostGator founder. Another versatile domain, Pack.com, was acquired by Brent with the help of BQDN's James Booth (@BoothDomains) in October 2017. According to NameBio, the domain was acquired for $100,000.
Uno.com
Uno, the Spanish word for "one", is commonly used throughout the world, with LinkedIn displaying over thirty thousand companies with links to this keyword.
The Uno.com domain name was previously owned by United Online Inc, a subsidiary of investment bank B. Riley Financial. According to DomainIQ, this sale took place at the end of 2017. As of writing, the domain is still listed for sale on United Online's website.
Yen.com
Another three-letter domain owned by Brent is Yen.com. As well as being a pronounceable three-letter .COM, Yen is also the Japanese currency, often abbreviated to JP¥. It is the third most traded currency in the foreign exchange market after the United States dollar and the euro.
Until December 2017, the domain was owned by Live Current Media Inc, an Internet commerce company based in Vancouver, Canada.
Help.com
Acquired in 2014, Help.com is a fully developed company producing live chat and helpdesk software. According to the company's website, Brent teamed up with former GoDaddy employee Ben Gabler to create Help.com LLC.
WHOIS for the domain shows Brent as the Administrative and Technical contact for this domain name.
Toll.com
Another four-letter word, and another acquisition brokered by BQDN's James Booth. Toll is commonly used in the transportation industry by several large logistics companies.
According to NameBio, the domain was acquired for $50,000 in December 2017.
Prize.com
This is a domain name with some history. In 2006, the name sold at Sedo for $70,000 and remained parked until 2010 when the name was acquired by another Sedo user for $100,000. Until 2016, the domain hosted an active site where users could win cash prizes.
Brent acquired Prize.com in August 2017 from Tom Grupa, former CEO of Prize.com.
Realty.com
We may have saved the best until last here. According to @DomainNameWire, Brent acquired Realty.com for a seven-figure fee in a deal that likely closed in 2015.
The domain now houses a service that allows visitors to search through thousands of properties listed on the site.
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Data from this article is courtesy of DomainIQ
