sales Voice.com sold by Microstrategy for $30 million

Essentially a freeroll for the buyers, likely cost them $0 of their own capital, as they probably premined the token. Either way - Token holders paid for a nice EMD. One would not even have to look to see if the company is profitable yet

Kudos to the EOS token holders on the acquisition. Good-time charlie again for the "crypto" domainers strike whilst the iron is hot

I own the


domain; already received some offers. Still waiting for the suitable one

It should be noted that they already owned Voice.io so yes they could have launched with an alternative domain. But their vision is to take this project mainstream. So it will take a few years to determine whether this domain acquisition was a sound choice. EOS has a billion tokens and currently an approximate $7 billion market cap.

Bob Hawkes said:

I see the sale is listed on NameBio now. So far in 2019 this one sale is $30M while the other 42,100 .com domain name sales on NameBio so far in 2019 combine for another $38.4M! A beautiful name, but this was certainly a fantastic price obtained for it.

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More Money than Sense? Not knowing any of the specifics or details....could be money laundering? I'd assume the FBI is all over this

That is indeed a great sale! We sold the same buyer voice.io at about the same time. 25K. Had no idea who was on the other end as it was a GoDaddy broker request (inbound).

Interesting how MicroStrategy puts forth their domains. Very smart of them. I've seen so many big companies with hundreds, if not thousands, of domains - just parked doing nothing. These folks are smart.

Adam Strong was the guest on the DNW.com podcast this week, with coverage of the Voice.com transaction:

https://domainnamewire.com/2019/06/24/adam-strong-voice-com-dnw-podcast-241/

I can see voices.com advertising massively.

was the sale made from any form of cryptocurrency ? i wonder how much worth telecom industry names would be in different languages

You can read Mike Mann's reaction over this on twitter.

According to him, his Phone.com has become more valuable now.

$30m is about 2420 bitcoins

Jevsim said:

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domain; already received some offers. Still waiting for the suitable one

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Sure you did.

WOW!!! that is a massive amount of money for a domain. Imagine the renewal price would only cost less than 0.001% of that purchase price.

exa-Edward said:

WOW!!! that is a massive amount of money for a domain. Imagine the renewal price would only cost less than 0.001% of that purchase price.

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The buyer could afford a high price:
"block.one is a company registered in the Cayman Islands, which began offering EOS tokens in June 2017 to the public, raising over $4 billion (a record for an ICO)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOS.IO

An interesting article that gave more details on the negotiations for voice.com:

https://cryptonews.com/news/from-usd-150k-to-30m-how-microstrategy-ceo-sold-voice-com-to-7742.htm

They didn't hop on the phone until the offer was up to $22 million!

GeorgeK said:

An interesting article that gave more details on the negotiations for voice.com:

https://cryptonews.com/news/from-usd-150k-to-30m-how-microstrategy-ceo-sold-voice-com-to-7742.htm

They didn't hop on the phone until the offer was up to $22 million!

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Thanks for the update and the link! Very interesting to read.

"...So if you guys really value this, then give me the 30 million otherwise I’m keeping it”